The record-union., 1896-10-16
REPUBLICANS OF PLYMOUTH.
4 RouSing Meeting There on Tuesday
Evening.
Speeches by Hon. K. B. Carpenter,
S. J. HOIzinger and william
BennettS.
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bennettS.
Correspondence "Record-Union."
The Republicans of Plymouth, ANA
dor County, held big meeting at Ran
0olph Hall on Tuesday evening. They
We're addressed by Hon. R. B. Carpenter
OF Los Angeles, S. J. Holsinger OF Forest
Home and William Bennetts Of lone.
candidate for Assemblyman from Anna
dor County.
Excellent music was furnished by B.
A. Downey's string band, which added
much to the success Of the occasion.
E. 8. Potter presided as Chairman
and introduced to the audience Mr.. Ben
netts, the Republican candidate for the
Assembly. Mr.. Bennetts briefly called
attention to his candidacy. He did not
propose to handle the political issues Of
the day, but would leave that in the able
hands of Judge Carpenter. He pledged
himself should he be elected to work
in season and out of season for the in
terests Of the people of the county. He
would conscientiously and faithfully
work for the greatest good and vote on
the right side of measures directed to
that end.
Chairman Potter introduced Senator
Carpenter, the speaker of the evening,
who held his audience for two hours with
wrapt attention. Judge Carpenter pre-
faced his remarks by stating that he
was speaking for the good he might do
and for naught which he might obtain.
Notoriety and office were alike to him,
things of the past. The glamor of poll
tics was gone. He neither expected nor
wanted office. His interest was centered
in whatever was for the general welfare
of the people of the United States. He
found those interests conserved in the
principles of the Republican party and
discussed those principles from a deep
sense Of duty.
Eight years ago." said the speaker,
Il urged the people Of this little city to
vote for Harrison. I asked you to vote
for protection of American industries.
I told you that policy would keep the
fires Of the forges bright, the spindles
going and the mines running. I did not
know how prophetic my words would
then be. You elected Harrison. You en-
5oyed that prosperity, but at the end of
his administration you sought and OBJ
tanned a change and it brought you all
] had predicted. Eight years ago this
was a prosperous village Your mines
Were disbursed each month among your
citizens. To-day these mines are all
closed. The clanking machinery is silent
and you are waiting for what? For the
realization of prosperity under Repub
lican rule or the disappointment of Dem
ocratic promises? (Applause.)
Every country is prosperous in the
same proportion as its citizens are pros
porous. The family which protects it
self and throws around it barriers for
self preservation bring to itself content
lnent and peace and Is prosperous The
United States Is only an aggregation of
families. No country on earth has so
well clothed and fed its people as ours.
There Is no place where the stream of
happiness runs with such broad sweep
as in America 1t could only be con-
tinued under a protective system. This
had been thoroughly demonstrated by
three short years of Democratic rule and
free trade.
THE Democrats were raising the
usual cry against the dominant party
which managed Government affairs
since 1861. They were charged with al
most every crime on the statute books
and yet from 1861, when the population
of the United States was 30. 100000, to
the close Of Harrison's administration
it had increased to $1,000, 900 and the
wealth Of the country had increased
from twenty thousand millions of dol
lars to sixty-five thousand millions of
dollars. (Applause)
The Republican party was arraigned
for being an enemy of silver, and yet
the only legislation ever passed favoring
It was by a Republican Congress. Under
the Sherman law the United States was
empowered to purchase each year 49,
600 ounces of silver at the market price
and coin it into silver dollars. The diff
ference between the cost Of the silver
and the face value of the coins went into
the United States Treasury for the bene-
fit of the 10000 900 people of the Union.
Now the Democrats want to have this
same silver coined and the difference
between the market value and the coin
value they want to place not in the
United States Treasury. but in the
pockets Of the mine owners. We want
the people to have the profits and not
rich corporations. applause and cries
OF That's SOD
who stopped the free coinage Of sill
yer in the United States? 1t was Thomas
Jefferson, and not dollar was coined
from 1906 to 1886. How could there
have been a decentralization Of silver in
1873 when there was no silver in circu-
1ation. That Act only fixed the fineness
of the gold dollar and simply dropped
the word silver because there was no
silver circulating. No legislative body
on earth can fix the value of a coin. They
can declare the value as determined by
the supreme law Of supply and demand,
but they can never add one mill to its
value.
The very term 16 to / gives away the
question. If one thing is worth sixteen
times as much as another ii naturally
follows that the former is the most de-
sirable and measures the value of the
sixteen parts of the other. If one horse
IS worth sixteen of another class of
horses no one would prefer the sixteen.
Why? Because the one horse IS worth
all Of the other lot put together" Cap
plause.)
Judge Carpenter closed with an earn
est appeal for the Republican ticket. He
felt confident of success The people OF
the United States We're not, neither