Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-10-22
FRYE ON CAMPAIGN ISSUES
His Address at the Auditorium
Saturday Evening.
SPOKE UNDER ADDICKS AUSPICES
About Twenty-Five Hundred
People Present.


Tuesday-Silver Democrats Scored.
Senator Frye of Maine addressed a
meeting under the auspices of the Union
Republican party at the Auditorium on
Saturday night. About $500 people
were present, and S. j. Wiley. chair
man of the Union Republican State
Central Committee, presided. Mr..
Frye, on being introduced by Mr.
Wiley. spoke, in part, as follows:
The honor Of the country, the welfare
of its people, and the revival of it's
prosperity are all involved in the elet-l
tion which will be held one week from,
next Tuesday. The Republican party
has told you what'you may expect Il
you put it in power. II has nominated
Mckinley and Hobart, two of the best
types Of American manhood. Their
platform is simple. 1t is that IL you
elect them to power every dollar that
is issued by this government will be as
good as every other dollar, and all OF
them will be as good as those issued
by any other government on earth.
And you will have a tariff. One which
will furnish you with sufficient revenue
to make all the necessary internal i'm
piovements, including the improve
ments to Wilmington barbor and the
completion of the Wilmington post
Office. Another thing. You know that
American shipping is nil. You are
a shipbuilding community, and 1t is a
disgrace that the American flag is never
seen in any foreign harbor. Arthur
Sewall, one of the candidates for Vice
President, weht to Chicago to have a
discriminating duty put on all exports
and imports not carried in American
bottoms. They laughed him out of the
committee on resolutions al the Chicago
convention. Years ago, when but 15
per cent of the commerce of the country
was carried in American ships our
fathers saw the need Of a discriminating
duty, and levied one,of 10 per cent on
all imports and exports. In 10 years
tho percentage of the'commerce carried
in American ships rose to 80 per cent.
The Republican party's platform con-
tains plank demanding discriminat-
ing duty in favor OF American ships.
IL 1T is successful it would give Will
fmington such boom as was never
before seen anywhere. Mr.. Bayard
can't make up his mind to vote for Mr..
Mckinley, but thank God, there are
thousands Of other Democrats who can
put country above partysin such time
as this. Why that convention even
turned down the only man who has led
the Democratic party to victory since
1868. Why? For stopping numbering,
pillaging, blood-thirsty, lawless mob
from destroying the city of Chicago.
Its platform provides that hereafter he
must first go to whom? Why to Altgelu,
or the Governor of Idaho, or the Cover
nor OF Alabama. thought the question
OF State sovereignty had been settled
years ago, and this was a nation. But
this platform snys no. 1t is simply q
collection of sovereign States. Tho
same platform advocates the reconstruo-
tion of the Supreme Court, whenever
it is deemed necessary to have it change
its decision on any question. Will
mington has been suffering for three
years past. Capital has not made
money. Employers have cut down
their forces and thousands are out of
employment. 1t is estimated that there
arc now in the country LOCO, 600 men
who want employment and are unable
to get it. There is no profit in any
ing any new Investments. Why2 Be-
part of every one. WHAT'S the troublef
The boy orator of the Platte knows all
about it. Tie says it was due to a
crime committed by the Republicans 90
years ago-the decentralization of silver.
He forgets that since 1879, when we
resumed specie payments, until 1903,
the prosperity of this country was un-
paralleled in the history of the world.
He forgets that from 1873 TO 1893 the
wealth of the country increased one
fifth, and in the same time we paid
81, 200, 600, 900 of the national debt and
saved $7e, 600, 900 interest annually. He
forgets that the mileage OF the United
States Increased 100 per cent or more
than all the rest of the world put
together. We didn't demonetize silver.
We simply declared that we wouldn't
open our mints to the free coinage Of
the silver of the world. Now if Mr..
Bryan is 30 mistaken about the cause
OF our present sickness, had we not
better look out for his remedy? His
prescription ia the free and unlimited
coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to |.
What is free and unlimited coinage of
silver? There are lots of men in
America who think they can get all the
silver they want. But they wont.
They'll have to work hard for 1t and it
wont bo any good when they get IT,
Nobody in Wilmington is going to
make 100 per cent on the free coinage
of silver. Unlimited means that any
country on earth may bring it's silver
here, have So cents worth of it stamped
a dollar, and carry 1t away again.
That ratio OF Ii to l means that 16
ounces of silver are equal in value to
one ounce of gold. It's a lie. 1t takes
32 ounces of silver to be equal to one.
ounce of gold. Suppose Bryan is
elected. Wha; will happen? The next
day after he is elected there will be a
panic such as no man here ever saw.
Here Mr.. Frye went on to describe the
terrible effects of the panic Of 1893, re-
citing the bank and mercantile failures,
and giving the amounts Of loss in wages
and values, and continued: "What
caused the panic of 1892 Ii was simply
lack of confidence. At present wish
to say on the authority OF John q. Car
Isle, that every silver dollar is redeem
able in gold. Ask Mr.. Bryan il his
dollars are redeemable in gold. No,
he says, . / hate gold. Gold is daugh-
tor of Wall and Lombard streets.
What will you redeem your dollars ib, 1
Mr.. BryanY Nothing. he says. Now
if your dollar has no redeelner where
will it goY CONTINUED applause
But Mr.. Bryan and his followers say
the government stamp makes the dollar
worth 100 cents. That is fiat money,
and the government cannot make a go
cont dollar worth 100 cents any more