The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1896-09-29

minister the government OF any terri
tory, together with the District of Co
lumbia and Alaska, should be boni
fide residents of the territory or dis
trict In which the duties are to be per
formed" (Applause.)
desire to emphasize these words
"The Democratic party believes In
home rule" (Applause.) ! believe ir
that platform and in that plank of the
platform and that portion OF the plank
which have emphasized, and when
say believe In home rule, do not
mean that there shall be home in the
district or in the territories after the
rulers commence to rule, but that they
shall live there before they gre ap-
pointed. (Applause.)
Let me read another plank: I'VE
are opposed to life tenure In the public
service. (Applause.) We favor ap-
pointments based upon merit, fixed
tion of the civil service laws as will
afford equal opportunities to ali citizens
OF ascertained fitness except as other
wise provided by the constitution OF
the United States"
We are in favor of q civil service re-
form that means something and not a
civil service reform that permits a
President to suspend the civil service
until he can get his friends into office
and sustain the service just as he is
going out so as to keep his friends in.
(Applause.) We believe In appoint
ments based upon merit and such q
method of appointment as will open
the offices to men of ascertained fitness.
We are in favor Of fixed terms of Office
In the several departments of the
government. We want 1T 30 that when
a man goes in we will know how long
he is going to stay and when he is
going out. We don't want to build up
an Office holding class and fill the
Offices for life, 30 that when a man gets
an office he viii have no more con-
Germ about his country than to draw
his salary. (Cheers.) We believe
that the life tenure which relieves a
man from all further care Ia destruc-
tive of the highest forms OF citizenship
and Is not to be tolerated in country
like ours.
Our opponents are doing as much for
us in this campaign as we are able to
do for ourselves. Uaughter.) or all
the public documents recently issued,
the most important one is the letter
just given to the public, written by the
secretary of the treasury, from which
desire to quote one sentences: ut
Is the duty of the secretary Of the
treasury and of all other public officials
to execute in good faith the policy de-
clared by Congress-" and, mark these
words, land whenever he shall be
satisfied that the silver dollar cannot
be kept equal in purchasing power
with the gold dollar except by receiv-
ing 1T in exchange for the gold dollar
when such exchange Is demanded, it
will be his duty to adopt that course"
want You to mark these words, be-
cause in those words the secretary of
the treasury tells you that whenever
the secretary is satisfied that it is
necessary that he will commence re-
deelning silver dollars in gold. Laugh
ter.) | now call your attention to it
because L want to- emphasize the de-
ceptions wh 'ch have been practiced by
this administration on the money ques-
tion. (Applause.) When this ad-
advised the repeal of the
sherman law, you were told the repeal
Of the Sherman law would remove the
difficulty, and yet as soon as the Sher-
thority which promised relief as soon as
that was repealed came to Congress
with the demand that the greenbacks
and treasury notes must be retired by an
issue OF gold bonds in order to stop the
drain on the treasury gold.
The secretary of the treasury in
forms you that If the greenbacks and
the treasury notes were all retired,
30 that there wo Ild not be dollar of
paper money to be presented for gold,
yet 1T would be his duty to commence
to redeem the silver dollars in gold and
to start another endless chain that
would drain the treasury. According
to the doctrine laid down by Mr.. Car
Isle, you cannot stop the drain upon
the treasury until you retire all the
silver dollars and leave nothing but
gold in the treasury vaults. | am
glad that our opponents are thus COM
pelled to expose to the public eye, their
heartless, merciless and criminal policy.
| am glad that th. y have told the pub
lie we must have gold alone and thus
have confessed that we are in the hands
of two banking syndicates and must
pay them what they want. Talk about
and trusts and here they
propose to establish the most gigantic
trust-a money trust-and to let the
men who own the gold dole outfit to the
other Z 200, 900 of American citizens. |
denounce that policy as more cruel and
heartless than would be the domina-
tion of any foreign power. 1 would
rather, as has been said, put our army
in the hands Of a foreign general or
our navy in command OF foreign ad-
miral than put the treasury Depart
ment in the hands. of secretary who
would barter it away to syndicate.
(Cheers.) l would resist such finan-
cial policy with as much earnestness
as would the aggressive and invading
army. (Cheers.)
Once when Mr.. Lincoln was candi-
datedor Office, some one said to him :
" hope the Lord is on your side," and
he replied that he was more anxious
to be on the Lords side. daughter and
applause.) l am glad that in this cam
paign we have so many evidences that
an Overruling Providence is on our side
and In no one instance that know Of
is that overruling Providence so dis
tinctly and clearly manifested as In the
recent letter of the secretary OF the
treasury. Let me ask you question
Did the administration when 1t recon-