The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-08-29


II rti"n has demanded sacriilcIal victims,
flesh and blood have gone to- the front,
while money sought coward's safety
in flight or Il lniser's portion IN usury
Neil her is the laburcr blind He
knows the fires will not be lit at Il c
forge while the fields lie fallow. He
knows the best market for the factory
iuust bc found on the fam. Ana in a
country Ike ours, based on agriculture,
you can not have prosperity while
agriculture is depressed. Little need 20
tell the lrborer what dollar buys until
you provide employment to procure
the dollar Under proper financial
system, with the price of commodities
iirm-nOt borne down by dollar IN
creaSing in value-with the demand
continuous, with tie market WIDEN
ing, the productive energy of tit
reople will find constan. employment.
Then both laborer and employment
will seek each other and fairly divide
the profits of industry, while each flour
lsh under continual growth. But who
is this iInancier who is preaching the
gospel of laborerP The iinancier is an
anomalous combination born of anoma-
lous times. He tolls not, but he spins
wondrous stories of great power that,
like the music of the Pied Piper of
Hamlin town, charm the dollars from
their hiding places and set them rolling
after his footsteps The financier of
today is noted, not for his ability TO
pay, but to borrow. What we need is
financial system that will permit us
to discharge debts as well as to make
them-a system that will increase.
"We believe that this year every
patriot Will be found voting for his
country. We believe that the restora-
ton of silver to its place by the side of
gold, where they may dwell together
again in happy matrImony, means the
will light again the fires at the fac
tory and seed down the fields to re-
munerative harvest. 1t will spread the
table of content at the hearth of want,
and bid the children of poverty rejoice
at plenty. To this end 1 pledge my
best efforts, not only during this cam
paign, but after the campaign is over,
until the will of the people shall have
been crystalized into legislative enact
ment and received the presidential ap-
proval of William J. Bryan.
"These are the principles upon which
[ shall stand during thus 1 a npaign, and
shall die in the last ditch on November
B, or plant the banner you commit 10
my hands today upon the ramparts {
success" -"
YOUNG AND FARR IN LINE.
After Mr.. Cowherd's address both
Judge Young and Finis C. Farr ad-
dressed the convention, and kept up
the reputation of the district for ora
tory, by making fine speeches. Both
heartily indorsed the nomination.
Judge Young said: al have been mis-
informed of the record of your nomi-
nee, and accept his declarations and
your own. l heartily indorSe the NOM
ination"
George Holmes was elected chsir-
man of the congressional committee
without opposition. The new COM
mittee is as follows: George Holmes,
chairman; j. Q. Plattenburg, NJ. v.
l.. McClelland, j. j. Fulkerson and c.
r. Greasy, of Lafayette county; First
district, Jackson county, e. II. Noel; {;
Second district, Il. j. Ingraham; Third
district, c. L. Shannon; Fourth dis
trict, z. II. Shepherd; Fifth district,
Frank Phillips; Sixth district, q. p.
Gross.
THE PLATFORM.
"The democrats of the Fifth con-
gressional district, in convention assem-
bled, heartily Indorse the declaration
of principles adopted by the national
damnnratia convention hold in Cb;oan,O
in July last, and the nomination of
William j. Bryan and Arthur Sewall
for president and vice-president of the
United States. We also heartily in
dorse the democratic platform adopted
and the candidates nominated at the
Jefferson City convention.
''By the decentralization of silver III
1873 the republican party has degraded
lacor, reduced the wage earners' COM
pensation, destroyed the price of agrI-
cultural products and has produced
universal business depression and dis
content. 1t now remains for the DEM
ocraticic party to restore silver to its
former position as primary money
metal, set the unemployed to work at
living wages and again bring prosper
business classes of our country. We
therefore demand the immediate free
and unlimited coinage of both gold and
silver at the present ratio of 16 to 1,
independent of the action, consent or
concurrence of any other nation, and
that the standard silver dollar shall be
IA full legal tender, equally with gold,
for all debts, both public and private.
We are in all respects free and lnde-
pendent people, and we maintain that
our country, with its 70,000,000 OF
patriotic people, is large enough and
strong enough to adopt and enforce its
own laws for the government of our
people, regardless of the action of
other nations. To admit that this
country is unable independently to
maintain true bimetallism, as contem-
plated by our constitution, Is q confess
sion of national weakness or servility
that the democrats can not and will
not make. Such an admission would
be un-democralic and humiliating to
true American patriotism.
awe hereby pledge the best efforts of
the nominee of this convention to en-
deavor to have every declaration of
said national democratic platform
enacted into law, and we invite the aid
and active support of all citizens of the
Fifth congressional district who ap-
prove the platform and desire to see 1t
made effective by Legislation"
PRESIDING ELDERS APPOINTMENTS
QUARTERLY MEETINGS.
Odessa and Marvin (at Odessa), August
22-23.
Herndon and Houstonia (at Rose VAL