The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1896-09-04
TRIUMPH OF FREE SILVER.

Rising Sun. The day was one OF the best
for public meeting and people gathered
in hundreds by O'Clock p. m, coming
into town from every point of the COM
pass. The speaking was held in Messrs.
Pogue's large carriage factory and a
speech of two and three-quarter hours
was delivered by Mr.. Whitehead that car
ried conviction to every one who heard it
except those who have steeled themselves
against facts, reason, logic, their own and
the public welfare.
No such clear, convincing, powerful
political speech was ever before heard in
| this part of the State.
Mr.. A. L. Crothers was made chairman
of the meeting and introduced the speaker
In his Introductory remarks he stated to
the meeting that the Bryan-Sewall club
had challenged the Mckinley club OF
Rising Sun to joint discussion in the
evening, which club had engaged VIM.
M. Marine, of Hartford county, to address
it that evening Mr.. H. H. Haines re-
piled that the McKinley-Hobart club &C
cepted the challenge and that their club
stood ready any day of the week Sunday
perhaps is excepted) and any hour in the
day or night to accept any and all chal-
lenges to discuss the burning question or
: questions at present in issue stand
had been erected in front of the hall for
the purpose of holding meetings and it
was there permanently for the campaign.
These were brave words. Mr.. Theodore
Bye, from Lewisville, Pa, arose and chal-
lenged the Mckinley club to meet their
club in joint discussion; they had a stand
for such purpose, but Mr.. Haines respect
fully declined to go so far in search of
political knight errents, and said their
club intended to stay in Rising Sun and
there meet all corners.
The posters which the Mckinley club
use to advertise their meetings is deco
rated with an array of epithets taken from
the goldbug papers and speeches-such
as sound money, 53-cent dollars, repudia-
ton, anarchist, and such rot as the gold
bugs use in default of argument and facts,
these two essentials being very scarce. In
the course of Mr.. Whitehead's speech he
would take up these goldbug epittets and
hold them up to public scorn which was
so whitening that the authors, if present,
must have wished for hole to crawl into,
these foolish epithets are so ridiculous
when the search light of truth is turned
upon them. Mr.. Whitehead's speech
was great eye-opener to multitudes who
heard it and had been cropping in the
dark, misled, confused and deceived by
the subsidized daily press, and universal
was the commentator of it, many de-
claring it was the most powerful and
unanswerable they had ever heard.
Preliminary arrangements had been
made for the joint discussion in the eve
ming by committees for the two clubs,
and the agreement was that the debate
should take place on the stand erected by
the Mckinley club, Mr.. Whitehead to
open in forty-fve minute speech, fol-
lowed by Mr.. Marine, occupying the same
length of time, each speaker to have
twenty minutes in rebuttal. Mr.. White
head did not use more than half an hour
in his opening, but his speech was like a
shell from rifled gun and scattered
things in the enemy's camp. By the time
speaking was under way large crowd of
people lined the streets, porches and every
available spot that afforded standing
room. The speakers as they were an
nounced were greeted with rounds OF
applause.
Mr.. Marine in his reply delivered such
speech as was never heard in Rising
Sun before Saturday evening. 1t was a
Sonnd-money speech. There was no
installing the sound 1t could easily be
heard half mile. But the argument
That's another matter. He must have
forgotten that and left it in his grip-sack.
But it was powerful speech-in volume
and tone. No pen can describe it. The
Irishman said, when listening to singer,
he could hear the song but he couldn't
hear the tune. Everybody within half a
mile heard Mr.. Marines speech, but no
person in the audience heard the argu-
ment in reply to Mr.. Whitehead. But
that was no fault of Mr.. Marines. He is
considered crack stump speaker. There
is no honest argument in the goldbug
cause. 1t is pawn broker. Jew contriv-
ance to cheat the public and victimize
honest people. You may read Mr..
McKinley's speeches, and letter of accept
ance, Mr.. ex-President Harrison's, Mr..
Tom Reeds, Mr.. Cochran's, Mr. John
Sherman's speeches ON the money ques-
ton, and there is not one honest sentence
in them which will bear close scrutiny.
When the X rays of truth are thrown OH
them their rottenness to the core is
revealed.
The Saturday evening debate was a
most humiliating defeat for goldbugism.
In place of resting on gold, it is face OF
brass resting OH feet of clay.