The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-10-23

break up the meeting. There was
disorderiy element present in the rear
OF the hall, who Kissed loudly as Mr..
Carlisle appeared on the stage. The
majority of the audience, however. We're
in sympathy with the speaker and
drowned the Kisses in vociferous cheer
ing. The disturberS compelled the Sec
retary to stop several times during the
early part of his speech but were fin
ally quieted by Mayor Rhinock and
with the execution of Il few isolated
yells for Bryan no further trouble oc-
CURED. \ counter demonstration was
held by the SilVeriteS in the street in
front of the building, but ii in no way
interfered with the meeting inside the
hail.
During the interruption in the earlier
part OF the meeting the secretary re-
quested those who did not care TO hear
him speak TO leave the hall
SECRETARY CARLISLE'S REMARK
Secretary Carlisle began his address
by saying:
! have come here 10 speak in behalf Of
Democratic candidates pledged to the
principles of u Democratic platform. and
my purpose Is to discuss some Of the
pending political questions from purely
Democratic standpoint. We are not Re
puplicans, OF Populsts, or fusonists; We
ar" simply plain. old-fash hioned Democrats.
without any modern authorizations in our
doctrines. or any Populstic OF communist
L. appendagcs TO our organization.
Then he proceeded to analytic what
the principles of Democracy were
meaning American Democracy not
that wild. turbulent. and destructive
form of Democracy. which has been
imported from abroad and which is SO
nearly allied to anarchy that it is al
4.
the other"
OF the candidates of the national
Democracy he said:
John NJ. Palmer and Simon Il. Buckncr
are not strangers TO the American people
they We're not discovered yesterday by
the bewildered delegates to political con-
ventton, and they will not be forgotten
when the sound and fury of this remark
able campaign have subsidized. They are
soldiers and statesmen, ripe with the CX-
perience derived from long public SER
vie" at crucial periods in our history. and
they stand conspcuously in this contest
for law and order, for the inviolability If
contracts. for the Independence and man
hood of all classes of our people, for just
and equal taxation for public purposes
only, for sound and stable currency and
for the maintenance of the national au-
thority and national honor under all cir
Cumstances.
REGARDING THE NOMINATION.
In regard to the question of the reg
ularily of their nomination he said:
Let us inquire for momeN how fur
considerations of regularity are iniluenc
inG the actions of our critics in this cam-
raign. The nominations made at Chicago
have been partially repudatcd by the very
men who made them in a majority of the
states in the union. The national and
state committees appointed to carry on the
campaign and pledged to the support of
to the support of one just as much as to
the support of the other-have in 26 or q
states deliberately entered into arrange
mcnts and combination, 10 deprive one Of
the nominees of n large number of elect
oral votes and give them TO another can
didote not nominated by that convention,
nor by any other convention even pretend
irg to be Democratic: and yet these gen.
tlemen have the assurance to call us
traitors. and the presidential candidate
himself, VINO has countenanced and en-
courag ged the sacrifice of his associate on
his ticket whose nomination was as regu-
lar as his own, tells us that We cannot
"get back into the Democratic party un-
less we come in sackcloth and ashes.'
Gentlemen, we are not out of the DEM
ocratic party. and we do not intend to so
out or be put out
THE PAST PLATFORMS.
Then he discussed what past Demo-
cratic platforms had been in the finan-
the Chicago declaration in favor of the
free coinage Of silver at 16 to 1. He
continued:
Notwithstanding all that has been said,
or may be hereafter said to the contrary.
we have now a distinct monetary system
of our own, freely adopted By our own
legislation without dictat!on from, or con-
| suitation with, any other nation in the
world: and we have the right and the
power to change it, or abolish II altogether
| whenever we choose. The excited orators
| who are traversing the land in every di-
| rection veX!ng the ears of the people with
! a reiteration Of the statement that there
| is some party or some body of men in
ltthis country denying the right or author
| ity of the United States to change its
! monetary system without the consent of
| some other nation. are simply evading the
real questions at issue and misrepresent-
| ing the position of their opponents, for the
| purpose of making unworthy appeals to
| the passions and prejudices Of their allies.
| The question is not whether the United
| States alone have the power to adopt
| free coinage and silver monometallism,
| but whe ther, in view of our own domestic
conditions and interests. and of our eX-
| tensive commercial and financial relations
with the other great civilized nations of
the world, it would be good policy and
| good faith to make such a radical change
| i'm our currency and such q wholesale le-
pudation of our obligations. 1t is not a
| question of power; IL Is not a question of
| national independence; but 1t Is q question
| of national prosperity and national honor.
EFFECTS OF FREE COINAGE.
Secretary Carlisle proceeded to dis
cuss at length the economic effects of
| free silver coinage.
In opposition to any such policy as
| that proposed by the Chicago and Pom