Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-10-23

his eloquence and his we'll rounded
periods, and patriotic sentiments were
accompanied by enthusiastic demon
strations of approval.
At the close of Mr.. Niles address
a solo by Sam Odell, entitled "Pros-
perity, Protection and Mckinley" with
a mixed chorus, was announced by the
chairman. This was the signal for
another round of applause, not only on
account of Mr.. Odell's personal popu-
larity and his we'll known ability as a
singer, but by reason of the fact that
MIR. Odell, who is a democrat but was
now adorned with a Mckinley button
and yellow badge which delighted ,e.
publicans and detected the demopops
for he was secretary of the demopor
county central committee. Mr.. Odell's
solo and the chorus fairly set the
audience off their feet with applause
1t was great.
The people were then adjourned to
meet in the opera house to listen to
the speaker of the day, Hon. John L.
Webster of Omaha. This was made nee.
essary by the rising of the wind which
would have made it difficult for the
speaker to have been heard without a
strain upon his voice, the saving OF
which is made imperative by the mum.
Der of speeches he has yet to make
during this campaign. Reassembled
in the opera house Major A. r. Ander.
son introduced Mr. Webster, in his
happiest wien, to the largest political
gathering of the people assembled dur
ing the campaign, a great many of
whom were from the country and sur
rounding towns.
Mr.. Webster entered Immediately
upon his popocracy-a y-annihilating mis-
sion. He began with an eulogy upon
Mr.. Bryan as a man and citizen and
said that because of his being so good
a citizen the people of Nebraska arc
working as hard as they can to keep
him at home. Basing his opinion upon
reports from reliable sources Mr.. W eb
ster said he had great hopes for South
Dakota and that he came to the people
of Hot Springs with the assurance that
Nebraska was in line for Mckinley.
There are two principal propositions
in the issues of this campaign which
are paramount, first, the tariff; and
second, the money question, land it
will be my endeavor," said the speaker
ito weave them together, using one to
Illustrate and enforce the other. The
silver proposition want to put as
see it. not as the silver man secs it
They seek to convey the idea that any
body can have silver under free and
unlimited coinage. l want to say to
you that the Chicago platform is sim.
ply Il declaration that those who
have silver, or can buy THE silver
mine owner not only the United States
Peru, Bolivia. Russia. and all other sill
YER producing countries of the world
can bring it to orr mints and have il
coined into dollars without cost-fifty
cent dollars with a debt paying, wage
paying capacity of one dollar.
1.-The republican party says: 'Dc
not do away with silver; do not dc
away with paper; do ncS do away
with gold. but make every dollar
as good as every other dollar What
tho ram, III ion y, m, ,.t =, .,+,,,l,
ing new, but what we have had. since
the resumption of specie payments
recalling to the American people the
fact that we shall continue to have the
same system we have had during the
most prosperous days of our republic
"lf were free silver man and
wanted to study the question OH it.
merits in order to arrive at a correct
solution of the problem, would, first
turn back the pages of history and see
what had been the result of free silye,
i'll the past; and then 1 would hold uI
a map of the world and pick out the
free silver coinage countries with their
fifty three-ce dollars, and study the
habits Of the people and their civiliza.
tion. China, where the masses exist
principally on rice; Mexico, where a
man would rather look at bull fight
than attend divine services.
"Then would look at the gold stand
ard countries whose people have been
lifted out of barbarism and are enjoy.
ing to a large extent the fruits of the
advanced civilization of the century:
Germany, France, England, Switzer.
land, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Austria
Hungary, Norway, Sweden, the Neither
lands, Denmark, Canada, Australia
and the greatest of them all, the United
States, with it's free educational insti
tutions dotting the hillsides and val
leys, its arts. its sciences, varied manu-.
featuring interests, and q free and lib
erty loving people.
at makes no difference to the aver
age free silver man what history
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