Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1896-10-15
discuss these issues. (Great ap-

plause.)
They tell us that the gold stand
ard is good for the laboring man
[ ask the laboring man to take the
names of those who are prominent
in the gold standard crusade and
find out what the men in the past
have ever done to improve the con-
dition of the laboring men. (Cries
of Hanna, Hanna, Pullman, Car
negie.) Show me an enemy Of
labor and l will show you man,
who in this campaign, is shedding
crocodile tears over the condition
Of the laboring man. (Great ap-
plause, cheering for some time. }
Show me the man! (Cries Of
Hanna, Hanna.) My friends do
not speak slightingly of that great
man, the distinguished chairman
of the republican campaign COM
mittee, the advance agent of that
peculiar prosperity that comes
just before the election to those
who make enough during the cleo
ton to run them until the next
campaign. Show me man who
has tried to destroy labor organi-
cations, show me man who has
tried to cripple the laboring men
in the efforts which they have
made for self protection and I will
show YOU a man that is in this
campaign, knowing that his logic
does not influence the laboring
man, attempting SO far as intim-
idation is concerned to make the
laboring man subservient to his
wishes.
My friends, some Of the railroad
presidents seem to be much afraid
Of the free coinage of silver
(Cries Of Hill) It is not so much
the free coinage Of silver they are
afraid Of. The clause in the Chi
cago platform that arouses the ire
and excites the opposition Of some
Of these railroad presidents is an
arbitration of differences between
railroads and their employees. We
are in favor of it, we believe in it.
We believe that society has a right
to demand that these differences
shall be submitted to arbitration
and that they shall not be settled
by force from year to year. Gre
mendous applause.)
And the injunction is another
thing they do not like. You don't
hear the presidents of the railroads
criticising that plank in that be-
half. Why F? Because, my friends
the bill which that platform en-
dorses passed the senate by so
strong vote that the opposition
did not ask for roll call. Giving
the right of trial by jury is SO pop
ular in this country, my friends,
that the railroad presidents do not
dare to oppose it openly; they seek
to compel their men to oppose it
at the ballot boxes. My friends,
I have talked longer than in
tended, (cries of no, no, 60 on)
and longer than I ought to (some
more cries.) My friends, no peo-
pie who will stand out in the cold
from mere idle curiosity ought to
have their curiosity satisfied any
longer. (Laughter.) And if you
take away the idle curiosity argu-
ment what is there left to the re-
publican campaign? Voices: moth
ing) There are three weeks yet of
the campaign and they must have
something to do. Therefore we
must leave idle curiosity argu-
ments to them, and if you stood
here any longer there would be
something Of idle curiosity. Now,
my friends, I am not here to tell
you how to vote. l believe in the
platform upon which I stand. I
come merely to tell you that if you
believe those policies are right,
that you can depend upon it that
if [ am elected | will carry them
out to the letter, no matter what
may occur. Great applause; vo-
ciferous cheering.) My friends, |
don't want any advocate Of free
silver who employs laboring men
to attempt to interfere with their
right to vote as they please. |
have such confidence in the JUS
tice of the cause we represent that
l am willing to submit to the con-
sciencious judgment of the Ameri-
can people. And I don't want vote
unless it is a voluntary vote and
has back of it the heart of the man
who casts it. If I am elected l
want to know that l have a major
ity of the people behind me, and
strengthened by their hands and
by their hearts, my friends. it
shall be my earnest endeavor to
carry this government back and
place it on it's old foundation, where