The record-union., 1896-08-06
Hot Fight Over the Selection of a
President.
Hon. Roswell p. Horr Opens the Re-
publican Campaign in Speech on
the Money Question, Predicting
Financial Disaster Should Free
Coinage of Silver be Adopted.

coin. That Lincoln realized the i'm
portance of the occasion was clearly
shown, and political discussion has
waged fast and furious, despite the tor
rid heat, from Mr.. Bryan's home on d
street to Postoffice square in the busi-
ness center. Mr.. Bentley, the National
candidate for the Silver Prohibition
lists, is, like Mr.. Bryan, a resident of the
prospect of another Nebraskan, j.
Sterling Morton, heading second
little capital city, and with the rumored
Democratic ticket, the cup of Lincoln s
political happiness is in that condition
where it should secure mate.
Delegates to the convention of the
State League of Republican Clubs met
here to-day and held lively session,
and in the evening Hon. Roswell P.
Horr of New York, formerly Michigan
Congressman and a well-known politi-
cal writer, opened up the campaign in
behalf of the Republican National
Committee in speech at M-street
Park
The convention developed a hot fight
without delay over the selection of a
President for the State League Omaha,
Lincoln and Hastings had candidates,
and the Hastings man won, much to the
disgust of the Omaha contingent, who
left the hall as soon as the result was
announced. The officers elected are as
follows:
President, William P. McCreary,
Hastings, Adams County; ViceP Presi-
dent, John r. Hays, Madison County;
Secretary, f. J. Mock, Harlan County;
Treasurer, P. J. Hill, Saunders County.
Delegates at large to the National Con-
vention of the league at Milwaukee:
William P. McCreary, z. J. Mock and
John L. Webster Of Omaha, and Beman
r. Dawes of Lincoln.
While the Republican leaguers We're
engaged in hot discussion, candidate
Bryan was trying to keep cool at his
house on D street. Mr.. Bryan spent a
quiet day. In the evening he drove
down to the railroad station afsd met
Governor and Mrs. Altgeld, who passed
through Lincoln to-day Mr.. Bryan and
the Governor had talk over campaign
affairs. Governor Altgeld's only answer
to a question as to whether Mr.. Bryan
had said anything about appointing
him Attorney General in the e>event OF
Democratic success was smile Hon.
Richard P. Bland is not going to visit
Mr. Bryan in Lincoln. He writes that
1t is too hot to travel
Mr.. Horr opened his speech in the
evening with a tribute to the protec-
ton policy of the Republican party
and a denunciation of Democratic free
trade He discussed the history of
money, sketching the progress of its
use from early days, and in conclusion
made some references to Mr.. Bryan as
I,,ff, ir-iI
picture of financial disaster which he
predicted would follow the adoption of
free coinage of silver, he said:
Gold would cease to be used as the
currency of the country. 1t would
simply be bought and sold as a COM
modify. The silver men generally ad-
init that such would be the result, but
they insist that a nation can be blessed
ny degrading its currency in that way.
Nothing but ruin can follow any ma
tion which attempts to bless its people
by degrading it's circulating medium.
To-day we have seven or eight kinds
Of money. and under the Republican
party every dollar of that money is of
equal value. Adopt this system in the
United States and you would diminish
the currency over 5000 000.0 900. You
would destroy the confidence of the
world, the business integrity of our
people. and bring nothing but ruin on
the business interests of the Nation.
This whole idea is based on the idea
that the world can be blessed by per-
mitting people to pay their debts with
money less valuable than the money in
which these loans We're contracted, and
they utterly ignore the fact that this
great American people who earn money
would be ruined by such a process.
The wage-earners will never agree to
such a policy. If these financiers are
correct. wisdom has recently. for the
first time. struck this planet. These
theories are entirely at variance with
the doctrines held by all the wise men
of the past.
This is a serious question. No Won
der the Democratic party are repudiat-
ing the nominations made at Chicago.
The doctrine of the Chicago platform
not only advocates free trade and free
silver but it largely smacks of social
ism and tastes of anarchy. 1t would
have the country governed by mob law,
and it would strike down the most sa-
cred safeguards of the Nation, the Su-
pIElllc 1OUFI OF IIe CItlcu sPttAeNt7'
In conclusion, / want to call the at
tention Of the people of this vicinity
TO one fact. Did 1t ever occur to you.
gentlemen. that we are about to elect
a man to fill the office of President of
the United States? DO you know that
the man elected is to occupy the chair
once held by Washington, Jefferson.
Jackson, by Lincoln and by Grant
The seat was aspired TO by such men as
Clay. Webster and T.iden. The people
of this Nation are going to be little
particular about who occupies that
seat, and in November next they VIII
say to your good townsman Mr.. Bryan:
Pub, don't attempt to fill that chair.
You are a nice little boy; you make
nice little speeches. sonny: but the
people of this country propose that that
chair should be occupied by a man OF
more mature age. chaiac and expe-
rience; a man who is well known as an
embodiment of good aad great prinei-
pies here throughout this country.