The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-22
TRUE TO THE FAITH
HON. o. Nj. HALL ExHORTS BENUINE
DEMOCRATS TO STAND BY
THEIR TICKET.
SPARES NEITHER PARTY.
AS VIGOROUS IN DENUNCIATION OF
MKINLEYIsM AS OF BRYAN
ISM.
FREE COINAGE IS ROBBERY.
SPARES NEITHER PARTY,
FREE COINAGE IS ROBBERY
Dangers to the Country shown Up
His Tariff and Income Tax
Ideas.
Special to the Globe.

Hall, of Red Wing, tonight delivered
his first speech of the campaign and
paved the road for Palmer and Buck
her, who speak in ST. Cloud tomorrow
night. The meeting took place in the
/ big Republican tent. The ST. Cloud
union band and a drum corps lent their
music and voice to the occasion. P. B.
| German introduced Mr.. Hall in a short
speech, in which he said that the Chi
cago platform encouraged the senti-
ment of Populism, socialism and anar-
chism He denounced 1T for assailing
| the supreme court. On the stage were
Henry Keller and D. Calhoun, prom
inent local Democrats who are support
ing the indianapolis ticket Mr.. Halls
speech was as follows:
MR. HALLS ADDRESS.
| Mr.. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: This
| is magnificent night; the stars bright
and brilliant, and the air is clear and keen
and crisp and wholesome. 1t is good night
| for good Democrats to gather and consider
the matters which may affect their temporal
| salvation. 1t is as a Democrat that l ad-
| dress you tonight, ladies and gentlemen-a
Democrat untarnished by Populism; unsus-
pected OF Republicanism. Naughter.) Since
1876, when the Democratic party nominated
and elected Samuel ]. Tilden president of
these United States / have actively participat-
/ ed in every political campaign in this state,
! doing my level best for the cause of De-
mocracy for the Democracy that has some
thing more than mere political partisan
| organization. II was living principle, a
| creed OF faith pregnant with important issues,
! and with happiness and prosperity of the
American people. That creed was summarized
! in the single simple sentence of equal rights
for all men and special privileges felt for
none The Democratic party did not seek to
equalize men, however; it did not seek to
make them equal in wealth, in health in
stature in strength, in intellect or in morals.
| 1t simply proposed to make them equal before
the law, and give to every man an equal
! opportunity of profting by the development
of those faculties and qualities which the
Almighty had given him. 1t was a national
party; it recognized sectionalism, no sub
divi~ions of common country; it was
peoples party. It gathered its recruits from
the educated and refined and from the lowly
and illterate; it brought the millionaire
I from his mansion and the poor man from his
hut, and it placed them alp together the
common plane of American citizenship. Now
! this was Democracy. For this fought and
the generous Democrats of the Third dis
trict, in recognition of my enthusiasm rather
| than of my merits honOred me by asking me
| to assume a place of greater responsibility.
AS their representative had the honor and
exquisite pleasure of participating in that long
/ and tedious exasperating debate on the twin
monstrosities of protection, the Mckinley tar
iff law and the Sherman BILL You can
! judge, then, of my astonishment you can
! judge with what heart-breaking 1 watched
! the proceedings Of the Chicago convention.
| When i saw
POPULISM RAMPANT THERE.
When I saw Democratic administration
hissed and cursed by an assembled so-called
Democracy; when 1 saw the flag of tariff
reform hauled down and the red banner Of
| deprecated currency pulled up, 1 turned
away from it IN sorrow and sadness and dis,
! gust. l know that whom the gods would
destroy they first make mad, and l believed
! that the men who there had usurped the
name and the organization of Democracy
! would find q WhOlQSnnn W for hoir
! ease when November came, without my as
! sstance. (Applause) But I found that by
remaining silent at home, "sulking in my
| tent perhaps, was misunderstood, mis-
! judged, and have been perhaps misrepresent-
! ed, therefore, when your committee honored
me with an invitation to address you to-
| night, | accepted it with alacrity, and the
only condition which they imposed upon me
| was that neither they nor any other COM
mittee, nor any other organization. nor any
| other living being except myself, should
be held responsible for the sentiments 1
uttered
Two men, the notorious Thad Stevens, Of
Pennsylvania, now Dead and the obviously
| famous John Sherman. of Ohio, still liv-
ing, are responsible for the most incoher-
ens, ent, cha9tis stnis and dangerous system Of
for thirty-six consecutive years. We for
give, aye, forget, the blunders, the mistakes
and the follies which were committed during
the time of the war, when statesmen in
desperation grasped at anything which prom
ised assistance and support, but cannot
forget, and we ought not to forgive, the
criminal folly which maintains such fnan-
cial system for thirty years after the war
closed.
The issue of the greenback, the manu-
facture CT paper money, by the government
which the government could not redeem.
and which it refused to receive in payment
of debts due to it, was in my judgment the
most colossal blunder of the civil peri
cd. We went at once to a deprecated mon
ey basis Gold and silver alike depressed
from the channels of commerce. ALI bust
ness was done upon the basis of guesswork
speculation and gambling mad, bonds
were issued and sold at par In greenbacks,
but the greenbacks were so deprecated in
value that the
BONDS SOLD FOR A SONG.
The soldiers at the front received s13 per
month in currency which sometimes was
| not worth 35 cents on the dollar. But we
| look with charity all these things, for
they were the instrumentalities which were
used during the war. and we are perfectly
willing to condone every fault, every folly
/ every mistake which was honestly made in
bringing that great struggle to its successful
issue.
But when the war closed, when the armies
disbanded and the battle ships were dis
4 mantled. the war money ought to have been
at once retired from circulation, and they
| ought to have called out and put into cir
| culation good money, the worlds money, the
money which commerce creates, the money
which no government manufactures, but
| which passes current everywhere in every
| port wherever civilized treads with
his fellow. They did not do this. 1t is true
that If that had been done prices might
! have fallen, for we were IN period of great
imitation. Some suffering might have resulted.
but in the end we would have been placed
| upon the firm and unalterable basis of sound
money, and the business of this people would
have remained permanent and unaffected by
panics and such depressions we have had
We prospered. indeed but it was fitful
and spasmodic prosperity, the result rather
of our enormous and undeveloped resources
than of anything else. The Republican party
411,- t. se
retention in our circulation. The hands of
| the Democratic party are spctless. They have
nothing to do with that iniquity.
Shortly after the war, the supreme court
of the United States, with Chief Justice
Chase at it's head, declared the greenbacks
to be unconstitutional. 1t declared that the
government of the United States had no
power to manufacture money; had no power
| to attempt by legal tender acts to give a
| fictitious value to anything called money.
This was the decision of the supreme court,
but the millionaires had prospered upon the
greenbacks, they had waxed fat and strong
and insolent and dangerous 1t was said that
| great interests were imperiled by that de-
cisicn, and that 1t was necessary it should
| be reversed. Therefore the Republican con-
| gress reorganized the supreme court of the
that court Bradley and Strong. and the de-
| cision of unconstitutionality was reversed
and the greenback was held to be constitu-
| tional.
| This was their work The supreme court
was packed for that purpose, and by a
packed court that purpose accomplished
i Now, it is a tradition of the barnyards that
the poet says that "evil inventions return
L TO Dlaeue the inventor In 1675 the Renl,h