The record-union., 1896-10-23
The Hall Not a Tenth Large Enough to
Hold the Mass Of People
Who Wished to Hear the Secretary of
the Treasury

Their Kisses Were Drowned by
the VOciferous Cheering of the
Audience, Who Sympathized With
the Speaker.
COVINGTON Ry.), Oct. 22.-John G.
Carlisle, Secretary of the Treasury,
spoke this evening at Odd Fellows Hail
iE the interest of the Sound Money De-
mocracy. The hall is not a large one,
| but had it been ten times as large it
would not have held those who came to
hear the Secretary.
RumOrS had been circulated that an
attempt would be made to break up the
meeting. There was a disorderly ele-
ment present in the rear Of the hall who
Kissed loudly as Mr. Carlisle appeared
on the stage. The majority of the audi
ence, 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 earlier part of his
speech, but We're finally quieted by
Mayor Rhinock, and with the exception
of a few isolated yells for Bryan no
further trouble occurred.
A counter demonstration was held by
the silverites in the street in front of
the building, but it in no way interfered
with the meeting inside.
During the interruption in the early
part of the meeting the Secretary re-
quested those who did not care to hear
him speak to leave the hall.
a,licIa baoop Jo;c
by saying: Il have come here to speak
in behalf of Democratic candidates
pledged to the principles Of a Demo-
cratic platform, and my purpose is to
discuss some of the pending political
questions from a purely Democratic
standpoint. We are not Republicans
or Populists or fusionists; we are sim
ply plain. old-fashioned Democrats,
without any modern adulterarions in
cur doctrines, or any Populistic or
communistic appendages to our or
ganization."
or the candidates of the National
Democracy, he said: John NJ. Palmer
and Simon Bolivar Buckner are not
strangers to the American people;
they were not discovered yesterday by
the bewildered delegates to a political
convention and they will not be for
gotten when the sound and fury of this
markable campaign have subsided.
They are soldiers and sta tesmen, ripe
with the experience derived from long
public service at critical periods in our
history and they stand conspicuOusy
in this contest for law and order, for
the inviolability of contracts, for the
independence and manhood Of all
classes Of our people, for just and equal
taxation for public purposes only, for
a sound and stable currency, and for
the maintenance of the national au-
thority and national honor under all
circumstances"
In regard to the question of the reg
ularity of their nomination, he said:
Let US inquire for a moment how far
mere consideration of regularity are
influencing the actions of our critics in
this campaign. The nominations made
in Chicago have been partially repudi-
ated by the very men who made them
in majority of the States. The Ma
! tional and State Committees appointed
to carry on the campaign and pledges
to the support of both the nominees of
the Chicago Convention-to the sup
port of one just as much as to the
support Of the other-have in twenty
six or seven States deliberately en-
tered into arrangements and combina-
tions to deprive one Of the nominees
of a large number of electoral votes
and give them to another candidate
not nominated by that convention, nor
ty any other convention even pretend
ing to be Democratic, and yet these
gentlemen have the assurance to call
Us bolters, and the Presidential can
dsdate himself, who has countenanced
and encouraged the sacrifice of his as
scciate on the ticket whose nomination
was as regular as his own, tells US that
we cannot get back into the Demo-
cratic party unless we come in sack
cloth and ashes Gentlemen, we are
not out of the Democratic party, and
we do not intend to go out or be put
out
Then he discussed what past Demo
cratic platforms had been on the fran
cial question, contrasting them with the
Chicago declaration II favor Of the free
coinage of silver at Is to l. lie contin-
ued: Notwithstanding all that has
heen said or may be here after said to
the contrary, we have new distinct
monetary system of our own, freely
! aCOpteu Dy our own legislation, WIFI
out dictation from or consultation with
any other nation in the world and we
have the right and power 20 change it
or abolish it altogether, whenever wa
choose. The question is not whether
the United States alone have the power
to adopt free coinage and silver memo
metallism, but whether, in view Of our
own democratic conditions and inter-
eSts, and of our extensive commercial
relations with the other great civilized
nations of the world it would be good
policy and good faith 10 mdke such a
radical change in our currency and
such wholesale rep epddlation of cur OBJ
legations. 1t is not a question Of power
i. is not question of natl nal inde-
pendence, but it is a question of ma
tional prosperity anG national honor. :
Secretary Carlisle proc aedld to dis
cuss at length the effects Of free silver
coinage. It's advocates advanced three
distinct and wholly inconsistent propo-
sitions. Their first proposition, said
he. lis that free coinage at the ratio OF
IL to l will give the people cheap
money: that it will reduce the value OF
the dollar about one-half, SO that it will
lrequire about twice as many dollars to