The herald., 1896-10-29
THE CITIZENS OF STOCKTON
Excited Over the Visit of Tom
Reed
A CROWD OF TEN THOUSAND
Seems Tremendous Gathering to Coun.
a try Residents
Reed Advocates a National Prosperity
Based on Universal Borrowing.
Which Is Good Goldbug Doctrine
Associated Press Special Wire

STOCkION, OCL. Z6.-StOcKtOnS ag-
ricultural pavilion was crowded to-
night as 1t has not been crowded before
for years. The people from all Central
California flocked to the Mill City to
hear Thomas B. Reed talk on Repub-
licanism. There were fully 10000 people
in the pavilion and Mr.. Reed felt COM
PEELED to cut his talk short on account
OF not being able to make the entire
company hear him.
Speaker Reed and his party had left
Los Angeles on special car as soon as
he had finished speaking on Tuesday
evening and came in a little after
o'clock with his car attached to the reg
ular northbound passenger train.
The arrival was earlier than the peo-
pie expected and the reception commit
tee, composed of members of the State
of Maine club, was not informed of the
| change of time until late, and the club
had to move to the depot without Or
ganization.
A number of gentlemen, members of
the county committee. went to Latrop
to meet the speaker. Among them were
Judge Ansel Smith Arthur H. Ashley
Frank H. Smith, Milton Kingsbury, p
A. Buell., w. II. Woodbridge, Andrew
Simpson and others Congressman
johnson had gone through on the noon
train from Sacramento and was Of the
returning party.
An impromptu procession was formed
In the firAl carriage were Speaker Reed
Judge Smith and Chairman Nelson of
the county committee, and the second
nr,.sa ,tofr I,A
Misses Welsh and Miss Cunningham,
| whose guest the visiting lady is while
in the city. The escort was composed of
sixty or eighty Maine men and the party
was soon landed at the Imperial hotel,
where dinner was served.
| At 2 o'clock the carriages were again
| at the door of the hotel and the entire
| party was taken to the steamer landing,
| where the Clara Crow was in waiting
| to take Mr.. Reed on a trip on Stockton
| channel in order that he might be shown
| the necessities of river Improvement.
! The run was short. P. A. Buell. and II.
J. Corcoran did the honors of the trip.
| explaining to the 'czar of the house,
| the improvements the people of Stockton
would be apt to ask for at a coming ses-
| sion of congress and he seemed pleased
| to note that the improvement would be
effective. A short drive through the city
| followed the steamer ride.
There were 10000 persons in the pa
vilion when Mr.. Reed was introduced
by Judge Ansel Smith, who was called
| as chairman of the meeting. The con-
gressman saw at once that he could not
| talk to that vast throng and he had to
open with an apology for his inability
| to make himself heard. He said he had
| found great audiences everywhere this
| year and his voice was not big enough
| The speaker went into an explanation
| of the money question and devoted his
| time to that issue, talking three-Quar-
| terS of an hour, in which he stoutly
maintained the gold standard. He de-
clared that silver was demonetized way
back in 1884, but this country had seen
much prosperity since then and would
see more of it. What the west wants, he
| said, is capital and not more money
| We want capital to develop the wonder
| full resources of this great empire. The
business of the country is done on the
confidence of the people. Mr.. Reed said
| confidence in themselves and conf
dence in the government.
| He used his old illustration of the sale
of a house for $4,000 to show the stability
of gold. Ir one sells house for that
sum and gets the pay in gold, govern
| ments may rise and fall but so long as
| the seller keeps his money he has the
| full value of his house at all times. But
that $4,000 is bulky and substitute for it
is found in checks which can be used
to the extent of confidence Of the COM
munity. That confidence vraies. In
| 1892, before the Republicans made a lit
| tie mistake, his check drawn in Maine
| on a San Francisco bank would be paid
in Maine, but after the panic came it
had to be sent out to San Francisco be-
| fore the money would be paid. So the
whole business of the country rests on
| confidence.
We should be a country of borrowers
and then we would be prosperous. Times
are good when people borrow money
for they have confidence in the stability
| of things and there is activity all around.
| The borrowing power depends on the
| confidence and honesty of the people.
| pie.
Referring to the claim that we can get
| along without considera ton of the
monetary systems of the world and all
| the talk about foreign influences, he
said it was not more than $50 years
since all of us were imported. He talk
ed for the upbuilding of this great coun-
| try and the peopling of the vast sections
between the east and the west which
| would make the market the farmer
wants. A few months ago the country
demanded the return of the Republican
| party to power for prosperity and these
opponents raised a new issue to win on
| They could fool the American Dnople
| once but they could not fool then wee.
He. urged the people to stand up he
sound money principles represented by
Mckinley and Hobart and said their
election was sure. But it was as i'm
portant to elect Republican congress
| and he urged Republicans to stand up
for their nominee. Mr.. johnson, and
send him back to represent them. This
section has wants to be looked after and
It was essential to have an active and