The record-union., 1896-10-12
THE JOHNSON MEETING At STOCKTON.

" is not afraid to discuss the causes
which have brought about this lament
able state in a land of plenty. We are
willing to review the histories Of the
parties, and in this respect we are un-
like the others The Democracy is
ever looking at the future and never at
the past. They want to lock the door
of the past and throw the keys away.
These conditions, brought about by
the late Democracy, confront US. l say
late Democracy because the present
affair is a mongrel party which after
lection will not not be dead, put
damned. These conditions SO appar-
ent to all are due to the Wilson Bryan
oil, which struck down our industries,
reduced the output, threw out labor
and reduced wages 45 per cent. Mr.
Bryan voted for this bill and declared
that it did not go far enough. The
Nation has been placed in a position
where it could not pay its running eX-
penses, and we all know that not only
the Nation but the individual mas suf-
fered
For twenty-eight years we lived SO
We'll and spent SO much money on pub
lie works that the Democrats called US
prodigals. We built magnificent Gov
ernment buildings, established new de-
partments, improved the rivers and
harbOrS, and maintained the honor and
integrity of the Government at home
and abroad and wiped out over bill
lion dollars of the national debt IN
the time since, the Democracy has fall
ed to meet the running expenses of the
Government and there is now a deficit
Of S262 1000, 900 in a time of peace. |
submit to you as shareholders in this
great corporation, which party is en-
! titled to your suffrages?
You who have mortgages hanging
over your property can appreciate the
position of this great Nation brought
to such straits by the Democratic par
ty. Your servants, instead of render
ing faithful service and promoting your
interests, have plunged you deeper in
debt. If in private life you would dis
charge such servants, in public life you
should not vote for them.
The Democracy comes to us this
year with the same old plea to be
trusted again. They admit the fail
ure Of free trade and that they have
fooled us and themselves by its oper-
alton, but they now have something
new in which they promise balm for
the nations troubles They ignore the
tarlH and have something new in the
way of a remedy, which, from the way
they talk, you would think they intend
ed to patent. To hear them shout you
would think that they had made some
great discovery. They have balm,
which like wizard oil, they claim will
heal all Of Uncle Sans troubles; verify,
they claim that there are millions in
it.
Il am a friend of silver. In the last
Congress voted and worked for it,
and at the same time some who are
now shouting SO loud for silver sneaked
out, among them Jimmy Mcguire Of
San Francisco. But with all that, then
as now, | want a gold dollar as good
as a silver dollar, and a silver dollar
as good as a gold dollar. 1 believe in
bimetallism. Every law on the statutes
favorable to silver was placed there by
the Republican party, and every law re-
pealed aginst the Interests of silver has
been voted out of existence by the Re
publican party. 1t is the worst hy
pocrisy for the Democratic party to
parade as the friend of silver.
The Republican party did not de-
clare against silver, but against the
unlimited coinage at this time with
cut an understanding with other ma
tiOnS / was in the convention and
know and bring a message from East
ern leaders that the intentions of the
rarty toward silver are most friendly
If after a time we cannot secure inter-
national agreement it will then be time
to try it alone. The promises of the
Republican party are good. The party
promised TO free the slave. 1t did it,
1t promised TO put down the rebellion.
It did it. 1t promised to make the
abused greenback as good as gold. 1t
did it, The promises Of the Republican
rarty are kept.
I'm connection with silver it is we'll
to consider that we owe il various kinds
of debts 81 200 00O, 900. Are we strong
enough to found a new financial sys-
tenn 1t is a question: We can only
surmise; only guess. Mr.. Bryan's guess
is no better than yours, and yours is no
better than Mr.. Brayns We cannot look
into the future results Of experiments
While at all times friendly to silver, it's
workings under free coinage is to me a
matter of doubt. If this Pavilion was
full of silver dollars you or | would
iOl get one QOlIdI ullltSS we ItnutTeu
some consideration for it, We must
either work for or steal the money You
will not steal it. and / submit to you
all, is it not just as well TO work for
gold as silver? If everything we touch
cd turned to silver we would soon die
of silver gOut and food starvation Some
say that free silver would start the
mills Now men do not go into bust
ness unless to make money and 1t is
only under protection that they can
| make money, and this forces the pro-
lection issue to the front. With pro-
lection there is hope for silver.
You never heard the cry for free
silver under Republican rule. 1t was
only when Demo cratic misrule brought
on hard times that the cry was raised.
A silver leg without the protection
limb makes the owner a cripple. l be
lieve that protection is necessary to
silver, and when returned to Congress
as | expect to be, | shall vote for
those measures, and every measure
recommended To Congress for protec-
ton by that statesman. soldier and
Christian gentleman-W William McKin-
Icy.
And believe in another kind Of pro
lection / believe in protecting the man
as well as his productions. | shall if
elected, work to protect them against
the unfair competition which comes
through Castle Garden. We protect
the factory and must in justice pro
tect the man. The man is the basic
principle OF our Government and is en-
titled 10 that protection. To afford that
| would cast off the gang-plank at
Castle Garden.
Il snail also vote to sustain the