The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-08-08
JOINT

Debate-The Question Logically and
LoarRcdly Discussed by the Speakers &C
Both Sides.
MADISON, Wis, Aug. Ex-senator
Thurston, of Nebraska, for the repub-
lican party, and Clarence S. Darrow, q
Chicago lawyer, for the democrats and
populists, contested with oratory and
argument for presidential votes yes
terday afternoon at Lakeside, the
grounds OF the Monona Lake assem-
bly, near this city.
Mr.. Thurston said that it was among
Wisconsin people that he grew to man
hood and that in the first regiment OF
Its cavalry he went out to fight n
die, if necessary for his country. The
senator continued:
We are here especially to discuss GER
tain financial theories andviews which
are disturbing our people. This money
question is a new one in this cam
paign. l was brought up to believe
that the Judgment of the man who
had succeeded in life was better tc
follow than that OF the mar who had
failed; hat the word of the man who
had ever broken his promise was bet
ter to believe than that of the mar
who had broken his word. There.
fore, I think it is safer fol
me to keep away from the lead
ership of such men as Altgeld
and Tillman and Lleweiyn and Waite.
and follow the lead of Allison anG
Reed, and hat greatest of all Amer.
leans, William Mckinley, of Ohio.
Four years ago the issue before the
people made. for the most part, by the
men who are low presenting another
issue, was not the issue which they
would have you believe should be the
n on which to go to the polls in 1896.
William j. Bryan made no other argu'
ment and advocated no other ISSUE
four years ago than the tariff. He anc
his associates had no intention OF
bringing forth this new issue until
they realized they were everlastingly
defeated by the people on the issue OF
free trade on which they secured a
majority of votes four years ago.
Don't you think, in view of the
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default to psy, hat it would be best
to ask for a little collateral security
on which to back up this new promise:
l am an American. The American
travelling in foreign lands finds that
his silver dollar is taken without one
cent of discount. You can buy with
it twice as much as you can with the
silver dollar of any country which
opens its minis to the free coinage OF
silver. l do not want to Mexicanize
our American dollar or apologize for
its cheapness.
Gold means free coinage. Did yor
stop to think that if free coinage o:
silver will increase the value of bull
lion, hat it will not bring to the PEG
pie higher wages Or give them better
prices for their product? Free coin.
age will either lower the standard o;
our dollar to the 5O-cent Mexican dol
lar or else it will double the value OF
our neighbours dollar without expense
to them.
The senator mentioned that July II
the Chicago Chronicle had charged
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of the Bonanza silver kings,
who had really made the silver issue,
and that he had not met the charge.
He closed by arguing that cheap
money would not help the poor man.
Mr.. Barrow was then introduced.
He did not think the settlement of the
free coinage question would ever give
to labor that which labor never had
under a democrat or epublican admin.
istration, a full share of the product OF
his toll, nor lift from the farmer the
great burden of debt and distress under
he lived. But it would do some.
He repudiated the senator's
gold cure administered by Mckinley
of Cleveland. He accused
Cleveland democrats of work
ing for Mckinley, and asked the
to support what was
Maj. Mckinley's policy until he be-
,ame a candidate for the presidency.
1t was the first time that a national
party in the United States asked hat
money be stricken down and
gold alone used by our people. The
proposition vas so outrageous and un-
heard of that the men who framed it
1t st. Louis were afraid to openly ad-
it, and added the international
agreement clause as a sop which they
md the people knew to be a trick and
l lie. He sternly resented the senator's
to being an American when he
defended the proposition to become
he bond slave of Lombard street and
Wall street. The great creditor class
lad been the blighting curse on the
for ages.
He created a sensational scene when
lie declared hat if a dollars worth of
wheat continued to be sold
or so ZEN the Englishman will collect
lis interest from America, as he does
rom the Egyptians with amor and
With sword. The speaker was vigor-
Missed and several men arose
nd shook their fists and cried,
Never" The chairman appealed for
and a fair hearing.
Senator Thurston, in closing, de-
Iounced the attempt to array class
gainst class, and section against sec
ion. There was no such issue under
he Stars and Stripes. A party was
eeded to build up, not tear down.
he said:
"The man who holds the key to the
is the officer who held the