Evening journal., 1896-10-06
M'KINLEY AND HOBART
Republican Meeting at the Au-
ditorium Last Night.
SILVER STRONGLY DENOUNCED.

w. C. SPRUANCE PREsIDED-THE
STAGE A REGULAR POLITICAL
KINDERGARTEN, THE SPEAKER
ILLUSTRATING THE ISSUES
WITH SMALL MINIATURE MINTs.
The Mckinley and Hobart Business
Mems Club held a rOueing meeting in
the Auditorium last evening. The au-
dience was a large one, and a
number of women were present In
the centre OF the building a stage was
erected. draped in American flags with
a picture of Mckinley hanging in the
centre. The stage resembled a flnan-
cial kindergarten. On the right and
left stood small miniatures OF the
United States Mint and Treasury. Near
the front of the platform were tables
filled with imitation silver bar metal,
lust as it is taken from the mine.
II. f. Pickles arose and asked the
audience to join in singing a campaign
song, entitled "McKinley's Marching
On"
w. c. Spruance presided, and after
a brief address, introduced the speaker
of the evening, Arthur e. Stillwell,
president of the Kansas city, Pitts
and Gulf Railway Company. The
speaker said in part;
A MAN FROM THE WEST.
Il have been introduced to you as
a man from the West, and men from
that section of the country are looked
upon as dangerous men. Well, such
a person is Mr. Bryan, and you all
!, fr ~, m
ent great question which confronts us
to-day is, will the 10000, 900 people of
this country allow the silver mine-own-
ers to become rich while the other half
starve. What we want is William Nc
Kinley in the White House, (applause)
so he can open up the mills OF the
country and not the silver mines. Are
they going to turn our country into a
brothel, a chaos? No, they must not.
-Four years ago, Senators Stewart
and Teller stood on the same platform
as do tonight. and in a speech Stew
art then said: II a working man earns
a gold dollar for his daily work, are
you going to pay him of in 53-cent dol
lars?' What difference now. He
finds that under free coinage Of silver
he can start his mills and mines, and
with silver at 63 cents, he can make
more than If it we're at $1.33. Why
Because labor is cheaper, Transports
tion is cheaper, and, of course, it pays
him, and well at that But the ques-
tiOn is, where do you come in2
Mr.. Bryan says If he is elected ht
will choke the sugar trust, and every
other kind of trust. But what abOu
the silver trusts? They are all right
= because they are favorable to his elec
tion. Mr.. Bryan was asked by a maj
in Massachusetts whether it we're tru
that anyone could take silver spoon
TO the mints and have them coined
Bryan said he could. Think of it, pay
ing debt with old spoons. The soone
this question is settled the better fo
the country and the people
ONLY MAN HE RESPECTS.
Grover Cleveland, the only man il
the Democratic party whom / respect
never did a better thing in his career
as president until he signed those
bonds and saved the confidence OF th'
country abroad. What are the results
Mills are running and the country il
once more becoming prosperous. Coo
bless him for that
There are in this country to-da,
longs to England. Why should we en-
rich her and drain ourselves?
Mr.. Bryans says he hates England
and everything English, and that W.
should not copy her form of finance
Suppose we should adopt anothe
form OF finance, such as the silve
champion would have us do; would w
not forsake a policy for a rotten one
We must have support from England
because we are young country, ant
our money is not sought smuch as Eng
lands. Without her we could not eX
ist. but Mr.. Bryan says we can
The speaker then turned TO the para
. phernaliaon the stage and gaveanillus
tration of the coinage under free silve
, and its profits to the government.
There is only one way to settle thi
= question" f" Mr. Stillwell concluded, "an
2 that is for everybody to vote for Nc
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