The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-23
HANLY'S STIRRING TALK
UNCLE SAM is SICK, But DOESN'T
NEED THE SILVER CURE.
Quotes from Lii Hung Chang to Show
the FaIIacy of Following the Ex-
ample of the Eastern Empire.

agreeab BILE weather was not enough TO sup
press Republican enthusiasm which seems
to seek every opportunity to bubble over
this year. Several hundred people gathered
there to hear j. f. Hanly of Williamsport,
Congressman from the Tenth district, fay
the Boy Orator" Mr.. Hanly was escorted
to Wildwood Park by a delegation of the
Marion Club. The party marched out
Meridian street It's progress was lighted
by flaming flambeaus of various colors, ana
all along the line of march people were
lured from comfortable gas fires by the
rhythmic roll of the drums of the drum corps
and the brilliant lights carried by the
marchers. The club did not reach the park
until S:25 and a good many people who
shiVered in the big pavalion went away, al
though about four hundred were there
when the Marion Club arrived and the
speaking began. On the street cars going
home several members of the Marion Club
| discussed the meeting. One man declared
that he had almost been prevented from
marching to the park by the cold weather.
But am glad L came,'' said he Il would
not have missed Hanly's speech for S..
would march five miles to hear it re-
peated."
Much regret was expressed because the
meeting had not been held in a comfortable
hall. But the presence of so many people
in the tent had the effect of warming the
atmosphere somewhat. and but few people
left, although half the audience had
to stand, as there were not enough seats
to go round. The Marion Glee Club made
quite a hit with a topical political song. to
the air, Where am at and the audience
was not satisfied until the glee club, led
by Harry Tuteweiler, responded TO several
encoreS.
Jesse Overstreet, candidate for Congress
from this district, was introduced by Will
o19.a Of tha 1eant-
ing. Mr.. Overstreet's appearance was the
signal for loud cheers. but he confined his
in introducing Mr.. Hanly the speaker of
the evening. Mr.. Hanly's speech re-
ceived with enthusiastic approval He was
frequently interrupted by cheers and
laughter.
Il take it that you here tonight be-
cause you love your country" began Mr.
HanIy, and are concerned about its future,
and l am here for a similar purpose. am
not here as a candidate for Office or a
Suppliant for your votes. There is no Of
flee in the gift of my countrymen to which
1 aspire l wish to speak to YOU from
platform of reason and patriotism rather
than that of the agitator and demagogue.
to appeal to your judgment and love Of
country-not to your passion and preju-
dice"
Mr.. Hanly said that the Republican party
recognizes no classes, no masses, no East,
no West no North, no South but in
dissolube union of States, with one flag
and one destiny.
There are in this campaign" he said,
those who have sought to make of the
| great issue a sectional issue, to divide the
people into classes and then array those
| classes against each other. The man who
would separate the people into classes and
make them antagonistic is indeed some
! thing more than dema gogue, he is an en-
| envy of social order and free government"
He said that 1t Is not true that the en-
eeyn rs ehe yn Of the eaa have
employer only as my benefactor, not as
| my enemy
/ He said that industry and frugality are
| not crimes, but virtues, and the fact that
| they enable a man to live in comfort and
| happiness encourages him to strive to gain
| a competency THE fact that men are sure
| in property bids me hope too may be sure
in the property may win
UNCLE SANS ILLNESS.
| He reviewed the prosperous conditions
| into which the country grew under thirty
years of Republican administration, re-
! ferring to the great growth in the manu-
factories of the Union, the increase of the
railroads and the reduction of debts, State
| municipal and county. And yet, he said
/ two physicians came to Uncle Sam four
years ago and told him that he was i'll
| that he had had too much protection. Uncle
| Sam was not sick then, Mr.. Hanly declared
but was well and happy, enjoying pros
perity. Here he lies tonight, my coun-
trymen. There is no question about the
| condition of his health" Mr.. Hanly was in
| terrupted by loud cheers and prolonged
! laughter. There is no difference between
| physicians as to his Sickness
Mechanics. the temporary chairman of
the convention at Chicago described the
| when he referred to the fact that stocks
/ everywhere We're declining and that three
| fourths of the railroads of the United
! States were in the hands of receivers.
We only differ on the cause Uncle
| Sans Illness and the reme0, to pre-
scribe said the speaker. And now, he
| said, the same physician, possibly in
different livery, is at the bedside with a
| ing to his diagnosis the crime of 70 has
appreciated gold and caused a correspond
| ing fall in the price of all products. AS a
prescription he proposes the free coinage
of silver at the ratio of 16 to J..
! I'm what way Will free coinage give
market to the farmer for his wheat. give
| labor to those who toll and safe invest
ae sd0fe any feSr 70
| have taken your treatment, he con-
tin1ed and have grown d hourly an WORSE ro7;
! to doctor in our family again" Laugh-
teri
| Mr.. Hanly showed that in 1916 Thomas
| H. Benton spoke of the hard times and
passing, that twenty years later Daniel
| Webster told in dramatic words of similar
suffering end that In 1892 a great t,hrong
| of New York and asked for work-not for
| aims, and free soup, and cast off clothing,
| but for work. All of those conditions and
! panics existed under free coinage, said Mr..
| Hany.
were made at the beginning of Washing
| tons administration to determine what the
| ratio between gold and silver should be-
! and showed how under one period gold was
| underva1ued and went out of circulation,
while under another period the undervalu-
| alton and results were reversed The fiat
! of Congress, he said, never gave intrinsic
| value to anything. He said that he had
! heard of but two instances when fiat
! overcame natural law: First. when Christ
! changed waite to wine. and again when
| he multiplied The loaves and fish so that
| multitudes were filled. But 1 am not
| ready to place a Democracy, presided over
! by Boy Orator of the Platte alongside
! of Jesus Christi he exclaimed. The SEN
| timent was loudly applauded.
History, he said. afforded no spectacle
! that could match that of the monetary
! system established by the Republican
! party in the last decade, which sent
| paper dollar marching through the world
| with a gold dollar on one side and d silver
| dollar the other. each worth 100 cents
and each interchangeable for the other.
Mr.. Hany made a number of good hits
| at the silly nonsense of the Populsts who
| pirate of the crime of 1873 and with
| master hand contrasted the difference that
| exists in the monetary condition of Eng
! land France Germany, Switzerland and
| other nations which are on gold basis
| with Mexico. China and Japan. which are
| free-silver countries. and which have no
| tries have, in many instances even more
| gold than silver in circulation
| CHINA A SHINING EXAMPLE.
Can it be that only Chinaman Mexi-
| can or Popocrat 8 right on the sollIfioY, oe