The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-11-07
SOUND MONEY CLUB WORK.
President FIandrau Reports What
.at . the Organization Did

THE laborfng element was with us all
the time and the claims Of the free
coinage leaders that the Workingmen
were in favor Of a dishonest money
have been proven false is the way
President Charles E. Flandrau, Of the
st. Paul Sound Money club, comments
on the result of the election. In an ad-
dress to the business men Of the city
Judge Flandra,u relates the causes
which led to the formation of the club
and tells how it was equipped with
an efficient working force adapted to
reach all classes and nationalities
The following is the address in full:
The election being over your Sound Money
club desires to advise you of the work it has
done in the progress Of the campaign.
st. Paul is essentially a commercial city.
but also possesses a large manufacturing III
terest, and is the great center of transporta-
ton and commercial distribution in all the
Northwest When the news reached your
CITY, that by the action of the Chicago con-
vention, the financial system of our country
was called In question, and threat made
to degrade our currency and reduce our COM
mercial standing to the level of second
class nation the business sagacity which has
always characterized your actions, instantly
comprehending the danger of the situation
1mpelled you ito decisive action. and on the
21st day Of July last, you assembled at the
rooms OF the chamber Of commerce to devise
means to avert the impending calamity, and
the result oflyour deliberations was the or
OI
upon non-partisan basis. and the election
of its officers s5,
The club at once installed itself in central
and commodious. quarters in the Gernlania
Life Insurance building, and conspicuously
displayed It's banner to the public 1t was
the first organization Of the kind in Mime
sofa in the campaign. and its example was
speedily followed by the establishment Of
numerous other clubs of a similar character
throughout the county and state 1t imraedi-
ately equipped itself with q large and eff
cient working corps, adapted to reach all
classes and nationalities embraced in our
population, and directed Its efforts more espe-
claily to those of our citizens who are en-
gagged In mechanical, manufacturing and
other similar pursuits, and who may be desig-
mated as the wage-earnerS; we pushed our
labors into every workshop. railroad shop,
labor organization, commercial and manufact-
ur1ng establishment In the city and county,
and impressed upon the people there en-
ployed, the fact that they were more inter-
ested IN the maintenance Of sound money
than any other class of our citizens; and we
are proud and glad to report to you that we
were invariably met by these our fellow
citizens, with the most marked consideration
and that the deepest interest was displayed
by them to master the financial question gen
orally, and especially in its bearings on their
particular interest 1t is matter Of su-
preme qualification to the officers Of your
cluo, and should be to the citizens of st.
Paul generally, that the. result of the election
has proven this branch of our fellow citizens
to be absolutely reliable whenever called
sustain the orderly and law respecting repu-
tation Of our city. #
All our work has been done on a strictly
non-partisan basis, as our force consisted
OF representatives of all parties except the
Populist.
We kept. the city and county night and day
during the entire campaign, vocal with the
oratory of. our speakers, and distributed
quite I'VE hundred thousand documents treat
Ing of the necessity of sound money to the
prosperity sofDou country and people, all of
which were, so prepared as to reach every
plane of intellect and every grade of edu-
In the entire administration Of the trust
confded to Us VIE find nothing to regret
and in the generous and liberal support that
we have WITHOUT exception received from the
well disposed citizens of st. Paul, everything
to commend. Our work is DONE and we re-
turn to you the powers which you entrusted
to us representatives Of your commercial
interests, leaving you and the public at large
to be the judges of our stewardship.
ss-Ghas.o E. Flandrau, President,
NORMAN Fetter, Secretary,
OF ther Ste Paul Sound Money Club.