Evening star., 1896-11-04
CONGRESSMAN DINGLEY SPEAKS.
COnErntuIntcs the Country on the De-
feat of Free Silver.

COnsratuIatcs the Country on the De-
feat of Free Silver.
Special Dispatch to The Evening Star.
LEWISTON, Me, November 4-Congress
nan Nelson Dingley, jr., chairman of the
ways and means committee, lays. editorial
ly. in his paper, the Evening Journal:
The country breathes freer; the business
and industries of the country feel that a
crushing burden has been removed. The
dark cloud which has hung over the coun-
try so many months shows drifts through
which the golden sunlight is streaming.
THE disgust which has SO long paralyzed
business and industries already promises
10 gradually give place to rising confidence.
The Sravest peril with which the country
has been threater ed since the close of the
evil war has been overcome. The peril III
yolved in Brya:ism. if it had been success
fui, was not aloIe the depreciation and de
nloralization of the currency; that would
have been an ir.eparable disaster.
1t would have been the triumph of ele-
ments antason:stic to law and order, OF
sacialistic tenderc:es at war with the con
ditions of progress. Of class preJudices ani
Latred ana OF reckless ireXperience ara
dangerous emotional experiments in gov
ornment That the people of this country
nave 1epuu-dlttl lHe tsttItlul oHti VI IA
creased wealth through "A depreciation OF
their currency shows their capacity fol
seif-goVernmeLt.
This great victory for sound principle.
has not been won by republican vot,~
alone. III every pivotal state the votes o
tens of thousands CT sound money demo
Gratis have been added to the republics
column. and have probably saved severa
states to the sound money cause, and in
creased the majority of the victory every
where.
The example set iii New York, the ire
ncndous sweep in Chicago ard Illinois
the triumph in Kentucky and the sranG
result in many other states are due in Il
conspicuous manner to the aid of business
democrats who have put country abov.
party.
The republicans and sound money me-
awe not only won the presidency and III,
Gational house. but there is reason to hop
hat they have captured the legislatures OF
.uough states which are to elect United
States Senators to give them control o.
he Senat" on the 4th of March next. l
chc Senate is secured then victory
complete and the way opened for sue
legislation is required to restore tn
country to the prosperity which it enjoy@,
from 1879 10 1873"
"Gath' pom the Situation.
George Alfred Townsend-''Gath- said t;
a Star reporter: AT no time did l fear tn.
result. l predicted, in the Chicago Record
for which l sketched the Bryan convention
:hat as by d military movement and to the
blast of bugle. the north and we,l would
rush to the polls. Soft money. includn:
soft silver. took one head and cut il
off. The candidate was as shallow and as
Sumptious the issue His cenched lips
he stood before his convention. SHOVE.
that opnionat eiEeSs with him was Alpha
and Omega. / can commend his imperson-
llity on the stump. but little knowled2.
would have made him more attract tive. II,
is one of those born invective-f1insers t.
whom every good public intention takes
the shape of conspiracy.
Our expert stewards We're trying to make
cur money nvuncrIble. and he thought
the dross they threw away, not the good
money. was the issue. Can all not see tina
the men who in 1913 anticipated the fall OF
silver by tWenty-three years We're the peo-
pies statesmen. Henry NJ Teller | think
10 have been the arch-Catalne of the sill
Yer emeute. He got into Arthur's cahinet
as soon as possible after the breath wa
out of Gar!ie!d's body. and used the contro,
of the Interior Department to return to ,he
Senate. and there laid his presidential egg
expecting by the destruction of his party
to SCI a bad example to the future An
Otner renegade to his party in this tipht
am Informed paid S,;.nno to be a governor
Teller has been the most suftly designing
ana dangerous man in this country His
associate in Arthur's cabinet started the
yell OF lat trying. | also heartily GLAD
that those two old political tramys Nevada
Jones and Nevada Stewart are left out
side the drop curtain before the audience
as clown ard pantaloon.
ne repetition of NIarvIan.i's rcoiIIli-,r
victory shows that the miii!,. states have
a complete autonomy. BY natural read
Justinent. the old feIaral state. of MaryIa 1d
reappears in public life with all her depart
ments NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. Senator. deiep
ton; city. country.
Alas for Virginia which fractured tn,
feieral district for fears of slavery AMI
remained herself the only fracture of the
war. She writes and reads no books tn1t
come down later than the resolutions of rs
For her chance she is the most backward
state in the Union
The west has repulse1 the southern in
SinUatorS VINO started grangerism incen-
d.arism and silver The election will dism,y
the dismal planters who have for seven
years been trying to decoy the western
farmers. Let Jones of Arkansas pull hi=
nightcap over his head and wake up with
Rip Van Wrinkle.
Some of the southern men We're noble
fellows-,ike Col. Belo Of Texas and Rob
ert Moore of Memphis and Walker of Vir-
S1nIa- The Bryan congressman left ough.
70 he provided with Ounce caps out of tn.
stationery fund so that they may be known
Political science and elementary fnalc.
have in every way profited by the Bryan
convention. The raked proposition to ROT
the train as preparatory TO Keeping school
in it was at least frankness. Alteeld viii!
be as obscure scme day John Most.
Mckinley'S Celtic name divided the Gel
tie sympathies which Bryan might have re-
ceived McKiniey's good temper is neetle &
in the White House. His power to max.
men love him is great.
washington city would have been in
iUred in every way by Bryan's election.
That set hates a beautiful and growing
capital.
TEXAS CLAIMED FOR MCKINLEY