Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-07-22
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W. TRANTHAM, ESQ.,,
expressed pleasure at being permitted
to address the voters of York. There
are times, he said, when the people,
under great excitement, are disposed
to fly from one extreme to the other.
But it had been his observation that
the best thing was to let them alone.
He had unlimited confidence in the
Justice and integrity of the people, and
he felt sure that they would not make
any serious mistakes. He was in ia
yor of an honest dollar-a dollar that
was as honest to the seller as to the
buyer. He was one of the first men
in the state to make speech in favor
of the free coinage of silver. This was
more than 10 years ago. Then they
called the silver dollar the 80 cents
dollar now it is the so cents dollar.
He gave the history of demonstration
and explained the causes that led to
the decline in the price of silver. AS
silver was practically demonetized,
money became scarce and the price OF
cotton and other farm products went
down. Down in his country men who
a few years ago were still the owners
of the ancestral acres, are now livin 6
on them as tenants, and in some in
stances as laborers. This, more than
anything else is due to the ruinous
financial system that has cast its blight
all over the south. In contrast of this
he had read sometime ago of dinner
at Delmonico's that had cost 800
plate. While money was being squan-
dered in this way by few, poor wo-
men were making shirts in the same
city at a cent piece, and out of this
they had not only to buy food and
clothes and medicine, but also pay rent
and doctors bills, etc. He drew this
picture only to show that with pre-
vailing conditions there is something
wrong. He thought that the remedy
laid in Federal legislation. He wanted
the position that DR.. Strait had held
for four years. He would not promise to
accomplish wonders; but he would do
the best he could. He wanted the po.
sitioh only on his merits, and if he did
not get it that way, he did not want it
st all. Applause
D. E. FINLEY, ESQ.
Senator Finley was received with
the most enthusiastic demonstration
that occurred during the meeting, and
during the 25 minutes that was allot-
ted him, he made spirited speech
that was we'll received. "There could
not be collected" he commenced, "in
any county in the state, an audience
before which would not be more at
home than before a gathering in the
county of York. This is a rather
unusual statement for a public man to
make; but the reason is not difficult
to explain. I came here first in 1865
but not an alien. My ancestors had
lived here for five generations; they
had fought for their country in its
wars, and when I returned here with.
out parents and without property,
came among my own people. There
fore, all that 1 am, all that have ac-
complished, and all that I expect to
accomplish, owe to the whole people
of York county; and when I come
before you on an occasion like this it
is necessarily with feelings of the deep.
est gratitude. [Cheers.] I have had
the honor to represent you in both
houses of the general assembly.
have always tried to give you the very
best sevice that lay in my power, and
while I do not mean to say that 1 have
at all times been correct, 1 have always
done that which I honestly believed
was for your best interest, and that,
fellow citizens, I shall continue to do
in whatever position you may see fit
to place me, whether you confer upon
me the highest Office within your gift
for which I am now asking, or whether
you retire me to the life of a private
citizen. [Applause.] I have no time
to dwell on state politics. I would
like to talk to you on that subject if
could be permitted but I must hurry
on. stand here today on every plank
of the Democratic platform; a repre-
sentative of principles laid down by
Jefferson, taught by Jackson, Monroe
and Calhoun, and now held aloft by
that magnificent exponent of Christian
manhood, VIM. J. Bryan of Nebraska.
Loud applause.] My friends who
have preceded me, have already dis
cussed the financial question ably and
we'll, and I shall not try your patience
by going over it again in detail. But,
fellow citizens, if the disease is con-
traction, surely it follows then that the
remedy is expansion. For a few years
after the war, up to 1873, the circula-
ton of this country was $52 per capi-
ia, and the measure of our prosperity
was greater than we had ever known
prior to that time. Then England
did not fix the price of our cotton. 1t
was fixed on the basis of our own
circulation. But in 1873, with the
demonstration of silver, there came
a gradual change. Money became
scarcer and scarcer, until today I do
not believe our circulation exceeds IS
per capita. The entire circulation of
the country is within the control of a
few financial centres, and the amount
we are to receive each year for our
products is apportioned out to us not
IN tho hasis of the values we are eX-