The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-24
KNEW NOT WHAT HE DID
CHARLES VI. COOPER ADMITS !
STRONG REPUBLICAN POINT.
Declares that American Money Is Not
Received i'm England Until After 1t
Has Been Carefully Weighed.

Charles NJ Cooper, Popocratic candidate
for Congress from this district. and other
speakers billed to address the open-air
meeting in the commons at Seventh street
and Capitol avenue found it too cold to
talk out doors last night, and after some
little delay secured permission to move the
meeting to the drill hall of the Indianap-
oils Light Artillery Armory. A dozen lusty
Popocrats laid hold of the speakers stand
and it was carried across the commons to
the drill hall, where Mr. Cooper spoke for
an hour. He was followed by w. ]. Oft,
president of the Indiana Farmers Congress-
The meeting was presided over by Thomas
Stundon, timid young man who seemed
to be quite miserable he introduced the
lions of the evening The drill hall proved
quite a comfortable meeting place, but it
was not taxed to its utmost capacity"
There was a slight difference of opinion as
to the size of the crowd. While one man
declared that there was 140 people present
including some curious Republicans who
could not restrain the desire to hear Char
lie" Cooper talk and a large aggregation of
small boys, another man declared that
there were only 139 there by actual count.
A few chairs to the speakers right were
occupied. Perched on the timber cases and
dismounted field pieces were several other
persons, while dozen or SO sat on a bench
twenty feet away from the stdlI. I he rest
of the crowd stood in front of the speaker
with the exception of few ladies' wno
timidly hung about the broad doorway.
Mr.. Cooper contrasted the difference he
tween the Popocratic convention held at
Chicago and that of the true Democracy al
Tomlinson Hall. He magnanmously DIS
claimed any intention of using any hard
names, but said that he desired to call at
tention to the character of the Iie,i attend .
ing the convention here in Indianapolis,
who refused to indorse the candidates and
platforms chosen at Chicago.
First" he said, there is the Chairman
of the State committee, Mr.. S. o. Pickens
Mr.. S. o. Pickens has been a Dem ocrat all
his life. He is the attorney of the great
Pennsylvania railroad, a corporation owned
in England by Lord Rosebery aud the dukes
and earls of England" Mr.. Cooper de-
clared that the president of the railroad
visited England after the Chicago conven-
ton and then returned home from a con-
ference with Lord Rosebery an the En-
glish dukes and earls and gave orders to
all his superintendent and Subsuperin-
tendents, who are trying to intiml late ami
coerce employees into voting for II .kinley."
John T. Dye, of this city, Mr.. Cooper said,
represents the Big -Four, a railroad owned
half by the Vanderblts and half W En-
glish capital. John p. Frenzel, he said, is
a national banker who has had the temerity
to openly declare that he intends to vote
for Mckinley, and is authority for the
statement that Palmer and Buckner were
nominated to afford a refuge COR Demo-
Gratis TOO cowardly to support the Repub-
lican candidates openly. The rest If the
delegates to the convention, he sail. were
either corporation attorneys, millionaices or
politicians who had been repudiated by
their State organizations.
He had few words to say about the st.
Louis convention and declared that it was
generally conceded that Mckinley wrote
the free-silyer plank in the Onio State plat
form before the st. Louis convention. Mo
kinley, said Mr.. Cooper, has been in ia
vor OF free silver all his life. lie did not
touch upon what Mckinley himself haa to
say about his position on the money ques-
ton when he wrote his letter OF accept
ance.
Considerable of his talk was devoted to
what he termed the Inconsistency OF the
Republicans in declaring themse YES in ia.
vor of bimetallism under an Inter national
agreement
desire to call your ate 1tlon to some IF
the arguments made by our opponents
They tell us that the restoration of silver
will drive all gold out of the country. My
answer is that the gold has already been
practically driven out. OF the gold of this
$500, 900, 900 has been taken to foreign
countries, $100, 900 600 is stored in the vaults
of the United States treasury and $3.50 600, 900
IS in the vaults OF the banks and safety de-
posts, where it is being boarded by de-
positors."
Mr.. Cooper ''got q hand" from two of his
hearers when he declared that while there
was but 10 cents worth of copper in 100
copper cents, those cents We're worth a
dollar because the United States govern
ment says that they are worth a dollar"
The enthusiasm was not catching and the
two men dropped from sight when they
found they We're alone in applauding. Mr..
Cooper declared that there is no such thing
as international money and that there is
no money in this world that will travel
the nations. In great glee Mr..
Cooper informed his audience that he had
been abroad at one time in his life and
that he knew by personal experience that
English banks would not exchange English
money for American money without first
the latter.
Mr.. Cooper told how the ''shylocks"
raided the treasury of the United States
and were aided in their nefarous purpose
by President Cleveland, who issued 1852 000,-
900 of bonds in time of peace. On the last
bers bought 500 100000 at Ill and sold them
the next day for 1922 making enormous
profits. William Jennings Bryan, he de-
cIared, is the man to put an end to such
abominable robberies of the treasury.
w. j. Offit was confronted by a large
empty space in the drill hall when he be-
gan speaking, as the audience had dwindled
until scarcely more than q corporal's guard
was left. He devoted his remarks to inter-
national bimetallsm and declared that the
farmers congress was the handspring in
silver, which resulted in the Chicago con-
yentiOn