Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-10-24
WILLIAM c. roMERoY.
OF Chicago. Addressed Bridgeport Repub-
licans, Last Evening.

OF Chicago. Addressed Bridgeport Repub-
Leans, Last Evening.
VIM. C. Pomeroy, of Chicago, gen
eraI organizer of the American Fedora
zion of Labor, addressed the Republicans
Of Bridg por, and vicinity last evening,
at the Union Opera House.
The intended big demonstration and
parade was abandoned on account Of the
Indictment weather, and they had to con-
tent themselves by receiving Mr. Pom
er0y in plain, common manner.
The Opera House was comfortably
filed at eight o'clock, and the audience,
becoming impatient waiting on the
speaker. who. for some reason, was late,
were entertained by the AeJnayille Glee
Cub with several campaign songs.
Mr.. POmeroy arrived about $50. and
h was introduced to the audience by
The chairman Of the meeting, George
Summers. Mr.. POmeT0y then entered
on what could no, be- exactly termed a
speech. for IL was more in the form of
a announcement of the advocates Of free
silver. in the most abusive terms he
could make use of. What political ar
gumeu,s he made use of, leaving OUT
abuse and jokes, are sketched as fol-
lows:
Money has fixed and unchange-
able value. which. ne said. gold possess
ed. Tha 54-cent silver dOii-r which is
mesquerading as 100 cents, is only do
ing so through a mutual agreement be-
.waen this and other countries that the
owner can receive its value in sold by
Inc United States.
Silver. said ne. was an understudy for
gold. and was subsidiary money, and
the people of this country, | think, are
no. ready to give up to putting such
kind of money up 10 the front when even
nature had made it subsidiary metal.
He lef. the impression that silver was
to be measured by gold and not gold
by silver.
Why is IL there can be two standards?
A dollar worth 100 cents will be slowed
away and the 53-cent dollar will be out
in circulation. The rich man will stow
away the gold dollar and the poor man
will get the cheap dollar. He failed.
however. to tell how the gold is in the
hands Of the rich now and very IjtJle
if any of the cheap money was in the
hands of the poor.
The Republican platform goes furtho~
than the Democratic platform 60eA
with silver. for they propose &c make J.
a standard all over the world backed by
gold. while The Democracy intend only
to coin silver with no backing a all
The decline of silver. he said. was caused
by The increased output Of silver. At
one time il was worth 81 % an ounce,
but it could not De had then
There was no crime in IS, he said.
because there was no silver in circula-
tiOn Just imagine cutting ont silver
when IL was not in circulation
Here the .erm "syndicate' was de-
fined, and this he applied 10 The western
silver mine owner. but not a word was
mentioned about the syndicljes of the
East. who were not mine owners. but
had the gold under their command.
H=re the speaker dwe.t for q short time
pic.uring how the silver trust. as he
termed it.. could put silver up by hold
ing it cut of circulation and making the
people pay wha, they saw fit 10 ask for
it. Al the present time there is a hola
in the industrial beat OF this nation,
caused by an improper tariff bill. put in
force instead of The Mckinley bill. and
they now propose. said he. to bore an
other hole in the boat TO let it out
That honorable man. William Jen-
nings Bryan was alluded 10 as a fanatic.
who favored a thing as long as nobody
agreed with him. but soon as some one
agreed with him ne changed his mind.
He is thirty-seven years Old. and has not
lost his schooi-bOy nonsense We. and
am only thir-y-twO and have.
You people must not think That these
hard times are caused BY a lack OF mon
ey:- ii is a lack of confidence Restore
the confidence of the business men Of
this country and there Will be a general
wave of prosperity star, over this count
try. To balance this he pictured the
darkest hue Of ruination Imaginable
Should William Jennings Bryan be~
elected.
A BUSINESS MANS METHODS.
To the Editor of the Register.
Sir:-To show the 5amnable methods
being pursued by certain merchants OF