The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-10-22

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VIII buy In the market you will haveto
ind out In the market. IN the merchant
says he Will give you two yards OF calicn
Tor q gold dollar and one yard for a SILL
yer dollar, that establishes the relative
value OF your two metals. no matter
what YOU have in your law books.
We arc using silver now. but the gov-
ernment Ia buying the silver at the mar
kct price, TITS conlng II on It's own ac-
count: Is taking whatever profit there
- IN u for tho people; II Is putting be-
hind this silver dollar the pledge OF this
government that II will maintain Its
equality With the gold dollar. We limit
the amount that we coin and by limit
Ing the amount, BY PUTTING THE
COVESRMENT'S PLEDGE BEHIND
IT. WE CAN MAINTAIN A CERTAIN
AMOUNT OF SILVER EAT,A PARITY
WITH GOLD: AMI. WE ARE DoINCi
IT NOW. Their proposition Is tina. We
shall turn. this all over to the mine
owners: that the government shall build
It's costly m!nts, equip them with costly
machinery. pay high. salaries TO their
assayers and mlntersia and colners, and
that we shall put all this freely at the
service OF the men who own these silver
mines. A dollar like that. unsupported
by the government. unlimited as to the
amount of coinage, cannot be maintain
ed at par.
It is proposed that this great govern
ment, with Its bonds outstanding. held
by trust companies, held by savings
banks as security and investment for
the small earnings OF the widow and the
orphan and the prudent workingman
who has made his deposit shall, instead
Of paying In 100-cent dollars as prom
ised, discharge all these obligations In
b0-cent dollars. =
The people OF this country love Il: they
love Its honor. II they had not loved It,
II they had not held Its honor In price
less esteem, they would not liave sent
out these great armies In the civil war
that Its flag might not be stained. They
loved It so that men died for 1t, with the
light OF glory In their faces, as the light
of life went out. They loved its honor
and they Kept It whole. They loved Its
honor commercially and they VIII not
have this government put In position
Of rcpudiating one half OF Its Just obl!-
cations. (Cheers).
Whom Did lie Mean!
We were tempted to do that In the old
fiat money times. They told YOU that
the redemption OF our greenbacks in
gold would bring destruction to the
country. But in the war times we wrote
on the face OF that note "the United
States will pay 10 bearer one. dollar"
and COME WHAT WILL WE WILL
NOT SuLLY THE ACHIEVEMENTS
OF OUR ARMS BY FINANCIAL RE-,
PUDIATION."
You heard my voice In that campaign
appealing for national honor. You
heard my voice then saying to you that
resumption would not hurt, but would
help you; and call you to witness now
whether what said then was not true.
(Great applause.)
There IS another proposition want
TO say q word about. Mr.. Bryan has
spoken with some contempt ofthese peo-
pie who he says have been for thirty
years, saving this country every year at
These veterans that escorted me to this
stand? That band ofdunion veterans
which has recently been travelling over
the country speakingst to the people. and
especially to their comrades on these
great Issues? Did he mean that gallant
man, that heroic patriot, that man Of
God. General Howard, who gave an arm
to his country in the war? Did he mean
gallant old General Sickles, who gave
leg to his country in the war? Or did
he mean Corporal Tanner, who gave
both legs to his country In the war. Did
he mean these men by that term OF re-
proach-men who have been saving the
country every year for thirty years at
so much a save? Those men. their sons,
their fathers, their mothers. are all in
.terested that the honor. and dignity and
just constitutional powers Of this gov
ernment shall be preserved. They may
be sncered at by the young man from
Nebraska, but they will not be friGhten-
ed by sneers. men who faced the belch-
ing mouths OF cannon that the country
might live.
LET me say in conclusion that spent
I some time this summer in the east. and
bring you the assurance that there will
he no Democratic states east OF the AL
leglieny mountains. (Chccrs.) The
great empire state will roll up ma
iority'f for Mckinley that will take them
until Christmas to count. Connecticut,
that has almost invariably been Demo-
cratic. will have majority for Mckin-.
ley. New Jersey, always Democratic,
VIII give .u.VuV llluJoTlty lor Slchinley-
Pennsylvanla-Id don't know, unless they
introduce some shorthand method OF
computation. how they are going 10
count the majority in Pennsylvania.
(Cheers.) But Bryan has hopes OF Indi-
ana. Z.
Avoicc HE will never get IT,"
Mr. iHarrison--No o, the people OF Inll-
aua love the fug and the constitution.
They sent out as many brave men In
proportion to their number as any state
TO maintain Llncoln's view OF the con-
stItution and they are not going TO sur
render to the Boy Orator OF the Platte.
INDIANA HAS PAID HER DEBTS
HONESTLY AND INSISTS THAT
THE UNITED STATES SHALL SHE,
INSISTS THAT AS THERE HAS
BEEN NO STAIN ON THE FLAG,
THERE SHALL BE NO STAIN ON
OUR FINANCIAL RECORD. .(Ap-
plausc.) 52
At the college towns of. Bloomington
and Green Castle. General 1iarrigon
covered much the same ground that he
had in his other speeches. - r. q.
ONLY TRUE DEMOCRATS.