Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-10-16
PATIENT SICK, BUT NO REMEDY TO
OFFER

Several days ago the State Herald adj
vised the supporters of the democratic
candidate for president and congress to
turn out and hear Messrs. Palmer and
Buckner speak. Those gentlemen have
come, spoken and gone and the free COIN
age people turned out and heard them.
We are sure that they made no votes
for Mckinley or themselves.
The speeches were calculated to, and
we honestly believe did, strengthen the
cause of bimetallism in Birmingham.
Being the nominees of the gold stand
ard party for the very high offices of pres
ident and vice-president of the United
States, those who heard Messrs. Palmer
and Buckner speak have a perfect right
and should consider their speeches the
very ablest that can be made on that side
of the question, in the proper settlement
of which every citizen, not only of the
United States, but of the civilized world,
is vitality interested. If anybody is able
to demonstrate to the people that the sim
gle gold standard is best for the country,
the nominees of the gold standard party
for president and vice-president should
be able tc do So
If the gentlemen who spoke in the
opera house yesterday succeeded in con-
vincing their hearers that the gold stand
ard is best and that the free coinage of
silver means ruin and destruction some
convert should have bobbed up before
this hour.
Senator Palmer, in the opening of his
speech. admitted that times were hard,
business unsatisfactory and prosperity
absent He assumed as all speakers and
writer's on that side of the question do,
that the supply of gold is amply sufficient
to meet the demands of the world for
standard money, and finished his speech
without single time touching on the
question of the volume of the money of
special redemption and the volume of the
circulating medium. He confessed that
he did not know Of his own knowledge
whether the gold standard was best or
not; he thought it was best. He con-
fessed that he did not know of his own
knowledge whether or not it would be
best to have the free and unlimited coin
age of silver; he thought it would not be
best
Boiled down, the speech of the candf-
date put out at Indianapolis for the presi-
dency of the United States amounted
simply to this: l know times are hard:
know business is tagging; I know the
country is not prosperous; have no rem
edy to offer, but think the remedy Of
fered by the people supporting Mr. Bryan
is an unsound remedy.
what would any gentleman who heard
senator Palmer speak yesterday do in
case member of his family were to take
SICK and in his eagerness to get medical
aid he should send a runner for two
physicians and when they arrived both of
them should diagnose the case and pro-
nounce it a bad case and one of them
should say think certain line of treat
ment will give relief and the other should
say | don't KNOW what to do to bring
relief, but THINK the line of treatment
suggested will not have the desired
effect? Would you stand by the ply
slcian who offered no remedy, condemned
the only remedy offered, thereby insist
ing that you await the return of health
in some mysterious way, about which he
knew nothing.
That is all the comfort that Senator
Palmer offered yesterday. He admitted
that the patient was sick-bad sick-but
feared Mr. Bryan's remedy would make
1t worse He offered no remedy of his
own and said absolutely nothing about
the probable effects of the prescription
1hat Mark Hanna has prepared and is
hoping to get DR.. Mckinley to apply.
The audience had been lead to believe
that General BuclSner would talk on some
other subject than that of finance, as
General Palmer stated in the outset that
he would handle that question and leave
the others for his running mate, but
when introduced General Bucl<ner march
ed into the financial question too.
When he concluded the patient was still
sick--bad sick-hut no remedy had been
offered. He too thought Mr.. Bryan's
remedy dangerous one but had none of
his own to offer, and took particular
pains to say nothing about the one Mark
Hanna is attempting to force on the
patient.