The San Francisco call., 1896-10-23
CHEERS AND Kisses
GREET CARLISLE.
Bryan Advocates Try to
Prevent the Secre-
tary's Speech.
But Order Finally Prevails and
the Silverites Hear Some
Unpleasant Words.
FAvoRs THE GOLD STANDARD.
The Guardian of the Public Treasury
Obi cts to Debasemant of Ma
tional Money.

COVINGTON, KY, Oct. 22-John G.
Carlisle, Secretary of the Treasury, spoke
this evening at Odd Fellows Hall in the
interest of sound-money Democracy. The
hall is not large one, but had it been ten
times as large it would not have held those
who came 10 hear the Secretary.
Rumors had been circulated that an
attempt would be made to break up the
meeting. There was disorderly element
present in the rear of the hall, who Missed
loudly as Carlisle appeared on the stage.
The majority of the audience, however,
was in sympathy with the speaker, and
drowned the Kisses in vociferous cheering.
The disturbers compelled the Secretary to
stop several times during the, early part
OF his speech, but were finally quieted by
Mayor Rhinock, and with the exception
of few yells for Bryan no further trouble
occurred.
a counter demonstration was held by
the silverites III the street in front of the
building, but it no way interfered with
the meeting inside the hall.
During the interruption in the earlier
part of the meeting the secretary re-
quested those who did not care to hear
him speak to leave the hall.
Mr.. Carlisle spoke as follows:
have come here to speak in behalf of DEM
ocratic candidates pledged to the principles
OF Democratic platform, and my purpose is
TO discuss some of the pending political ques-
tions from purely Democratic standpoint.
We are not Republicans or Populists or fu-
sionists; we simply plain, old-fashioned
Democrats without any modern adulterations
in our doctrines, or any Populistic or COM
munist appendages to our organization.
He referred to the fact that here in this
county, when less than 20 years old, he
had begun his career as a public speaker
by opposing the doctrines of the know
Nothing party" and since that time he
challenged his critics to show that he had
ever uttered an undemocratic sentiment
or cast an undemocratlc vote. Then he
proceeded to analyze what the principles
OF Democracy were-meaning American
Democracy, not "that wild, turbulent and
destructive form of Democracy which has
been imported from abroad and which is
so nearly allied TO anarchy that it is al
most impossb bic to distinguish one from
-.e other" OF the candidates of the Ma
tional Democracy he said:
John NJ. Palmer and Simon Bolivar Buckner
are not strangers to the American people;
they were not discovered yesterday by the be-
wildered delegates to 8 political convention,
and they will not be forgotten when the sound
and fury of this remarka BILE campaign have
subsided. They are soldiers and statesmen,
ripe with the experience derived from long
public service at the critical periods in our
history, and they stand conspicuously in this
con test for law and order. for the inviolability
OF contracts for the independence and man
hood OF all classes OF our people, for just and
equal taxation for public purposes only, for
sound and stable currency, and for the
maintenance OF the National authority and
National honor under all circums tances.
In regard to the question of the regu-
larity OF their nomination he said:
Let US inquire for a moment how far mere
considerations of regularity are influencing the
actions OF our critics in this campaign. The
nominations made at Chicago have been par
TALLY repudiated by the very men who made
them in a majority of the States. The Ma
tional ana State committees appointed to
carry on the campaign and pledges 10 the sup
port of both the nominees of the Chicago con-
vention-to the support of one just as much
as the support of the other-haYe in twenty
six or twenty-seven States deliberately en-
tered into arrangements and combinations
a large number of electoral votes and
give them to another candidate not
nominated by that convention, nor by any
other convention even pretending TO be Demo-
cratic, and yet these gentlemen have the
assurance to cali US boIters, and the Presiden-
tial candidate himself, who has countenanced
and encouraged the sacrifice of mis- associate
on the ticket, whose nomination was regular
as his own, tells US that we cannot get back
into the Democratic party unless we come in
sackcloth and ashes" Gentlemen, we are not
out OF the Democratic party, and do not in.
tend to go out or be put out.
Then he discussed what past Democratic
platforms had been on the financial ques-
tion, contrasting them with the Chicago
declaration in favor of the free coinage of
silver at 16 to L He continued:
Notwithstanding all that has been said or
may be hereafter said to the contrary, we have
freely adopted by our own legislation, with
out dictatlon from or consultation with any,
other nation in the world, and we have the
right and power to change it or abolish it al
together whenever we choose. The question
is not whether the United States alone has
the power to adopt free coinage and silver
recommendation, but whether, in view of our
own democratic conditions and interests and
OF our extensive commercial relations with
other civilized nations of the world, it would
be good policy and good faith to make sucn
radical change in our currency ana such
wholesale reputation of our obligations. II is
not question OF power, 1t is not question of
National independence, but 1t is a question of
National prosperity and National honor.
Secretary Carlisle proceeded to discuss
at length the effects of free silver coinage.
It's advocates advanced three distinct ard
wholly inconsistent propositions. Their
first proposition. he said, is that free coin
age al the ratio of 16 TO l will give the
people cheap money, that it will reduce
the value of the dollar about one-haIf SO
that it will require about twice as many
dollars to procure a given quantity of
commodities as are required now. This is
the high price argument and is addressed
to the farmers and so-called debtor class.
Their second proposition is that free coin
age viii not make cheap or deprecated
money, but will raise the value of the
silver dollar to an equality with the pres
ent value of the gold dollar, and. OF course,
it requires no argument to convince an
intelligent audience that, if this is true,
prices will be no higher than they are
now, and producers and debtors will get
no more dollars than they get now.
This is the argument addressed to the
more conservative classes who do not be-
heye IN deprecated currency, but who
have been persuaded that there is not
sufficient amount OF money in the coun-
try. Their third proposition, which ap-
pears to be a compromise between the
other two, is that free coinage will not in
crease the value of the silver dollar to an
equality with the present value of the
gold dollar, but that it will raise the value
of silver up and bring the value of gold
down so that the two metals will meet at