Birmingham state herald., 1896-10-29
He Was Here, There and Everywhere
 on the Batt1eground Yesterday.
HE IS NO CHoosER OF PERSONS
He Talked to the Business Men Gin His Wide Accepta- tion) He Talked to the Women and He Talk el to
 the Stock Yard Folk-Al Heard Him Gladly.

1 read you few editorials. I am going to | speak of distinguished citizen of your 1 cfty, for whom as an individual I have 1 the highest respect, and believe that he 1 entertains for me the same kindly feeling l that I entertain for him; but he believes l that my election would be dangerous to 1 the country, and I believe that his action
 on the money question has been hostile to l the best interests of the people. And, | therefore, I shall cite him as an evidence Of an attempt to deceive the party. If you will see the Times-Herald you will | find these words in the dispatch from St. | Louis:
 Ut is only matter of simple justice to l MT Kohlsaat for me to report what every l one in St. Louis familiar with the facts is 1 saying tonight, that the credit for hav- 1 ing secured the adoption of this straight l out and unmistakable money plank by l the republican national convention is due f more to him than to anyone else. | Then in his own paper is published 1 the statement, from his own correspon- | dent, that he more than anyone else is
 responsible for the money plank adopted | at the St. Louis convention. Now, what does that plank say? We are, therefore, l opposed to the free coinage of silver ex- | cept by international agreement with the | leading commercial nations of the world, which we pledge ourselves to promote, | and until such an agreement can be ob- | tained, the existing gold standard must | be preserved
 Now, note the words That platform | declared that until the leading commer- | cial nations of the world would join in | bimetallism, the
 GOLD STANDARD MUST BE PRE- SERVED.
 Now, what else do you find in that pa- per?
 "The qualifying words used by the committee nlpdPinp inc nartV n nn6na | or to promote an international agreement are believed to strengthen the platform from political point of view, without in any way weakening it as a frank and fearless declaration for the gold standard. InaSmuch as it is and has been the re- publican policy to promote international bimetallism, and such bimetallism is earnestly desired by almost every one in the country, of both parties, nothing is lost and possibly something gained by giving the western republicans ray of hope in the future.'
 Now, my friends, if you will look in that same paper of the 9th of June, only few days before, you will find this edi- torial:
 "'Every reference to an international agreement is shifty and futile It deceives nobody, because every one knows, first,
 that there is not the slightest possibility
 of an international agreement at any ratio. and, secondly, that if such an agree uieHt were JofIudIly entered Into, no gov ernment could be bound to abide by it day longer than its own industry or com
 mercial interests would appear to war rant
 There, you find, in the paper owned and edited by the man who wrote the piatform--you find in there declaration, only ten days before that every refer ence to interna tional agreement is shifty and futile. It deceives nobody, because every one knows, first that there is not the slightest possibility of an interna- tional agreement at any ratio.' (Cheers). And yet within ten days after that edi- torial appears in the mes-Herald, that editor writes a plank which pledges the republican party to use every effort to promote international bimetallism, and then that paper reports in it's dispatches
 that that is put in here to give ray of hope republicans in the vest (Cheer- ing)
 T want you to remember that that phrase, pledging the republican party to promote bimetallism was offered as a
 solace tot he republicans of the west,
 with no idea that the republican party would ever use any effort to change the gold standard. fGreat cheering).
 'I notice that some of our critics are very much excited because the Chicago platform says that we pledge ourselves to secure such legislation as will in the fu- ture, prevent contracts for particular kind of money. Why, they say, that we are not going to
 LIEF THE PEOPLE CONTRACT
 We are not going to let them make contracts that are against public policy. We do not intend that they shall demon etize by private contract what this na- tion makes money by universal law (Cheers.) Do you say that we have no right to interfere with private contracts? I ask one of you to enter into a contract to collect 20 per cent interest and see whether the government has any right to interfere. Upon what theory is usury law based? It is based upon the theory that the mar who borrows money needs to be protected from the avarce of the man who loans him money. When a man tells me that we have not right to pro- tect the money of the United States against the conspiracy of those who would degrade it, tell you that we have more right to prevent gold contracts or silver contracts than you have to pre- vent one individual from agreeing to pay another more than certain rate of in- terest. Great cheering) I want to say to you that we who believe in enforcing the laws against all classes of society are better friends of the government than those who would make scapegoats of lit- tie criminals and then let big ones run at large and run the government itself. (Ap- plause.) The very men who would suffer most from the enforcement of law are the ones who seem to be most terribly alarmed for fear there will be lax en- forcep.ent of the law. They are not . afraid that will encourage lawless . ass, but they know that If I am elected the trusts will not select the attorney-general who will administer the law. Wild make a good attorney generally