The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-09-11
Tom Settle at Last Meets His
Match in Game Kitchin.
PRETTY TILT AT OXFORD
The Whole Town Jubilant Over
Settles Discontinue.
HE THOUGHT He HAD A ClNcH
kitchin Met Settles "Has- -Reens'' With
Present Issues--Settie. Tried His
Strut But Got Tnipped--
Kitchin Roasted Him on
the Last Round.
the Last Round.

the Last Hound.
Oxford, n. c., Sept, tO.--(SpeciaL) -
Mr.. w. W. Kitehin and Mr.. Thomas
Settle opened their joint canvass here
to-day for Congress.
Mr.. Settle was introduced by the
Republican county chairman. He was
received with round of cheers, espe-
cially from the negroes.
Mr.. Settle said with velvet suayity,
after rhetorical pause, that it was
his pleasure to appear before this au-
dience to speak as a Republican. He
paid a deserving compliment to his
opponent, but a moment later he said,
MY opponent stands here without in
diyiduality, but as the chosen repre-
sentative Of his party" He should
hold him responsible for all the acts
of the Democratic party. He said he
did not wish to arouse laughter and
asked that he should not be disturbed
by applause as he wished to adress
himself strictly to the intellect" of
his audience. CThe court house was
packed-half of whom were negroes.)
He wished to ask his opponent if this
was not the first time that the Demo
cratic party had declared for the free
coinage of silver; the evil, they said,
had existed since 1873, but they had
waited until 1896 in Chicago, before
they had seen light. He said there
was nothing about free coinage in the
platform of 1888, and he proceeded to
read the money plank in the Demo
cratic platform of 1892. He proposed
- Oh Io& "a s~fxr
had left that position, and to-day says
that you must flood this country with
one dollar for the rich man and an
other of a less and fluctuating value
for the poor man. He said the Popu-
list party sprang up and declared for
free silver, and the Democratic party
went into the Populist lumber yard,
piled up its shoulders with lumber,
and made platform and claimed the
timber as its own. (Applause.) The
Democratic party fills the people with
wind which is not healthy diet.
Gaughter.) My opponent may de-
nounce Cleveland, but it was partly by
his aid that Cleveland was put where
he is. Some Democrats say that Mr..
Cleveland is a Republican. God save
the mark He is the only man who
has infused the conviction of a princi-
pie in the Democratic party since its
inception. This abuse of Cleveland is
new dodge of the Democrats. Then
he went on to ridicule the statement
of the Democratic financial position
and explained that free silver meant
only that it might be coined free and
that UNLIMITED" meant only that the
silver of the world might be dumped
into the mints. Then he went into
the gold-bug, 53-cents argument, and
wanted 10 know why the Democrats
should i'm 1892 declare for silver and
gold of equal intrinsic value and now
declare for dollar worth only SO cents.
What new light have they seen? TAP
plause.)
You say that to open the mints will
bring silver to a par with gold-if that
will do it what do you want with the
legal tender proposition? But my pro-
phecy is that my opponent will not
tell you that he is willing to do with
out the legal tender clause, but he
wants it there because he wants you
to give $1.00 worth of your produce
for 50 cents; S1.0O worth of your labor
for SO cents. Much applause.) /
stand on the Republican platform; /
am not in favor of one dollar for the
capitalists and another for the poor
laborer. / want a dollar that you can
put under your head at night and
wake up and find you had as much
as when you went to bed. (Applause.)
He wanted silver but only when it
could be kept at parity with gold.
The Spanish dollar, with more silver
in it than was in the American dollar,
was worth only half of the American
silver dollar. He went into mining
statistics and raked up his bogus bill
of last winter to coin American pro-
duets.
The court house was packed with
negroes up to the cramped platform,
sweating, swinish, dirty negroes, sit
ting all over the tables and everything
else. The reporter of the News and
Observer got finally a corner of the
table about six inches by twelve inches.
the only spot in the room, but the
brutes finally crowded everything off,
refusing even that much space. Moth
ing could be done Pritchard's speech
and Motifs and RusselPs speech is do
ing it's work among the negroes. There |
fore the reporter had to get out of the
courthouse, having not a spot any
where upon which to write, and there |
fore missed about ten minutes of Set |
ties speech from the point above. |
Listening to him from the next little |
outside room, he was just on the mat |
ter of Thomas Jefferson, who he said, |
was gold-bug ''just like him." He |
went into the history of money from |
1892 to 1884 and 1887, during which |
time he said the country was on sill |
yer basis, and though there was only |
about one per cent of silver it was
sufficient to drive the gold out of the |
country. From 1887 to 1862, we were
on a gold basis-and the total coinage |