The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1896-07-30
Unanimously rendered Renom-
nation From His Old
District.
He Accepts the Honor in a Brief
Speech Good Advice
Needed.
The Convention Made the Occa-
sion of an Interstate
Demonstration.

ALFRED, Me-, July 30.-This quaint
country seat was the scene of the OPEN
ing of the Republican national cam
paign. People from all the country
round came to town to listen to speech
by the Hon. Thomas b. Reed, on the
occasion of his denomination for repre-
sentative in congress by the First dis
trict Republican convention. There
were people present from many near by
sections in New Hampshire and Massa-
chusetts, giving the occasion something
Of the character of an interstate demon
stration. In accepting the nomination
to congress, which was unanimously
given, Mr.. Reed said:
Good Time for Good Advice.
''If were going to give good advice to
the people of the whole United States,
should take this time to do it. just now
there is IA great deal of froth and foam in
the air, and some time Is really needful to
disclose clearly to every eye how much OF
1T is the result of the temporary breeze
which stills ut nightfall and how little
there Is of that heavy ground swell which
. shows that great elementary forces are at
work. How very suddenly all this rush
y and stir has set itself into action. Two
months ago, no man Of any standing
would have risked his reputation as q
prophet by limiting the slightest doubt Of
Republican success. Four years of actual
trial of the opposition under the guidance
of it's best and twice trusted leader, has
left no shadow of question as to public
duty. However far the Republican party
might have fallen short of perfection,
nevertheless all men felt that it was the
best party just now to draw nigh to, for
whatever is to be left to us of sound gov
ernment, commercial success and business
prosperity. On that we were all
agreed, some of us, who were
Democrats, regretfully; for we all hate to
be classed with the unsuccessful, whose
condemnation 10 at hand, even IL we gain
= by the change; Others OF us who were Re
publicans, cheerfully, but without exulta-
ton; for we know how hard the task
must be to rebuild out of the ruins of the
last four years the stately mansions of
national happiness, prosperity and self
respect. Two months have slipped away
hardly time to ripen strawberry, much
less a syster, of finannce-and there are
those who tell us that all things have
changed; that these very men who we've
being arrayed for decent burial, had
Burst the Cerements of the Grave
and transfigued by some new arrange
ment of crowns of thorns, and crosses Of
gold, were to lead us to new happiness,
and even repair all the damage they them
selves had wrought. Now this may be SO,
but to me 1t does not seem probable.
Human experience In every walk of life
teaches us that those who have blunderesl
will blunder again, and that the wisest
course Ia not to employ ship captain
who has not yet emerged from his last
shipwreck, but the safe sailor who has
never lost ship passenger or letter
but who has sailed safe through every
sea. He may have lost masts and sails
and even been rudderless for hours, but II
he has ever time come safe to shore
better have him than all the landsmer
who are forever shouting what they car
do, and never dare to tell Of what they
have done. 3oasters are worth nothing
Deeds are facts, and are forever and ever
Talk dies on the empty air. Better
pound Of performance than a ship load O
language.
Two months ago. as have already said
everybody conceded the election of tn,
Republican ticket What has happenes
since then? Have the four years of histor,
been blotted out2 Not one scrap Of them
Is our cond ton better? Rather worse
We are all in a bad way; something mus
be done. Let us see what is proposed b,
those gentlemen who, in the last tw,
months have discovered new cure for al
the ills flesh is heir to and who proclaim
as they did four years ago, that they alon
hold prosperity in their grasp.
Their remedy is the coinage Of silver,
to1. What does 1t mean?
\ Heretofore whenever gold and silve
. have stood together it has been at tn
market value. When we tried to max
gold and silver circulate together, we hav
always married them according to thei
market value. Today we find them, no
16 to l, but 81 to l, and are going, the
saw. to lift silver to twice the value not b
universal sense of mankind, which alon
makes value but by the statute of tn
United States, single handed against tn
civilized world Why should the Unite
States try to do this alone? won't di
cuss the question whether the free coinag
Of silver will raise it to par or not .
very few people claim that it will, but
cannot believe them.
Have Money, But Not Capital.
was told in 1890 by two Of the mo.
sincere, as well as the ablest silver mer
that purchases Of 4, 500 900 ounces mont
would raise silver to par, and when we di
buy it silver went down like lead Silvt
men have not been good prophets in til
past. What we want Is not more none,
4 but more capital-money always come
with capital. We have money now MOI
than we can use lying idle. We have ju.
exported lot Of it, Money Is the tran
ferrer of capital, as hayrack and hors'
Ia a transfcrrer of hay. More hayracI
will never make more hay, but tmorc ha
will require more hayracks, and is sure |
get them.
Our capital is great, but the Unit
States Is very much greater. There a.