The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1896-10-24
Tuesday and Observation-Disclosures
REPUBLICAN RALLY.
Meeting in the Court House Wed.
nesday Evening.
Speeches by Mr.. kenn- dy and Others.

| Speeches by Mr.. kenn dy and Others.
! Owing to the number of attractions on
! Wednesday night elsewhere in the city
! there was not a large audience at the
! Republican rally in the court house,
! but those who were there had the pleas
ure of listening to three good speeches,
not to mention the harangue Of " POP u
1 list John" which brought the meeting
to a close. r. J. Nye acted as chairman
I of the evening.
". c. Owen was the first speaker, and
asked those present when theywent into
/ the polling booths on the Bird of Novem-
Der to remember the broken promises
of the Democratic party, and vote for
The restoration Of the Republican party
to power.
The speech of the evening was made
by eX-Mayor Kennedy, who said, in
part:
1t is a serious thing to one who was
born Democrat, who was reared up a
Democrat, who was taught to believe
that the cardinal principles OF that party
were the safeguards of the nation; 1t Is
| a serious thing, | say, for him TO break
from that party. There have been many
planks in the Democratic party hereto
fore that | did not believe IN, but 50
firmly did | believe in the fundamental
principles Of that party that | adhered
to 1t. But there is nothing III the Chi
Cago platform that would make me be-
lieye that it is built upon the principles
that were taught me. | believe that the
Ill -.,l.
nearer fulfilling those principles. Mr.
Bryan said when here that all Demo
Gratis who bolted the party now would,
if they wished to return, have to come
back in sack cloth and ashes. Thank
God | am not one of the kind that will
have to do it. | do not care to return
to the party of Iillman, Altgeld and
Bryan. The Democratic party told you
that the free trade which they told you
about four Years ago, was merely a tar
rift for revenue only and not for free
trade in its full sense. The colleges all
teach free trade-it's q beautiful theory
and the student when he leaves the
college is imbued with the beautiful
theory, but when it is put into practice
1t IS dropped. The attempt to cure the
ills OF free trade by resorting to free
silver reminded him of the Irishman
who swallowed a potato bug and upon
recommendation took a dose of paris
green to kill the bug. You may guess
the effect. Now the Democratic tariff
is the potato bug and free silver is the
paris green. Are you going to take it ?
(Applause.)
Mr., Bryan tells you that free silver
will increase the demand for labor. |
will tell Won what kind of labor Will be
increased. If you give the creditors in
this country notice of the adoption of a
free silver policy, as you viii if you
elect Bryan on November ,, they will
have notice from that time until March
/, and every man who has an obliga-
ton outstanding will try by every hook
or crook to collect it before the free
silver policy goes into effect. The
lawyers will be the only laboring men
who Will get employment.
Here the speaker was interrupted by
John Pauison, who wished to know why
it was that the men who have been
expressing the laboring man were she'd
ding their hearts blood for fear that he
would be paid ms wages in 53c dollars =?
Mr.. Kennedy said that they whom
the questioner termed the Oppressors
OF the labOrlng man were trett!ng about
the impending danger because the la
boring man is the sinew and backbone
OF the country, ana When lheE are pros
porous the whole country is prosperous.
Mr.. Bryan was going up and down the
country trying to array labour against
capital, while all knew the one was use
less without the other. Without labor
capitalist might as well throw their
money into hades and let it melt, and
without capital labor would be in a
state of paralysis. He closed by para
phrasn@ Mr.. Bryan's closing sentence
in his Chicago speech: You shall not
force upon this country this yoke of dis
honor; You shall not sacrifice American
industries upon the altar of free silver"
| (Applause.)
Scion L. Perrin next spoke for few
minutes, giving reasons why those pres
ent should vote for Mr.. Mckinley.