The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-10-30

wears he thought the gold standard must
have been pretty good thing to do bus
| mess under. Coin Harvey's insult to
Sickles, Alger and the other generals in
saying that they had lost their patriotism
and honor would be resented next Tues
day.
Bryan promises you good government
but his followers rotten-egged Carlisle in
his own state, and threatened our party
at Saginaw yesterday. Like the calf that
ran after the steer the silverites will find
that Bryan is not the mother of Michi-
gan Democracy.
The ills of this country are largely due
to the era of speculation which followed
the war, and built railroads and towns
in the unsettled states. Bryan cannot re-
lieve us by trying to add AZ cents worth
of nothing to So cents worth of silver and
calling it dollar. The question is Sc
rious one and the eyes of the world are
upon us.
The next speaker was Prof. Bradley M.
Thompson, of Ann Arbor, who said that
the government purchase of silver had
caused loss of $2,500,000 in Michigan.
Free silver would pay the $1,000, 900 pen
sion money in our state with 50-cent dol
lars, causing us loss of three and half
million dollars.
More serious than the free silver move
ment is Bryan's leadership of a strife
which Tillman declared and Bryan does
not disguise. He arrays our people into
masses versus classes, which, if it is the
way to settle political questions, declares
our government failure. 1t is the lead
ing principle that the majority should
strive for the best laws and the minority
bow in submission until it could con-
vince others of its rights. The democrat
ic party stood for this principle as exem-
plified in its history in Michigan. If the
masses are to be arrayed against classes
instead of majority against minority,
then the defeated masses or classes will
always be whetting their knives for re-
venge. The old line democrats are going
to be counted against Bryan for his I'M
patriotic and reasonable utterances. The
successful business men are the ones to
advise us, and they speak for full
weight dollar. Let us unite to save the
country by burying this heresy. Cheers. }
Col. John T. Irish was immensely
cheered, and gracefully acknowledged the
yell given by the Owosso high school
boys by saying that he had a fifteen-year
old boy at Oakland who often informed
people that Bryan was GAIL wrong"
(Applause.) Lincoln and Douglass in
their famous debate always answered
questions politely. Does any thoughtful
man want in the. presidential chair any
man who, like Bryan did here, spent his
time Safeguarding his questioner? Bry-
an is playing bunco game when he says
no man dare defend the single gold stan
dard. The sound money democrats stood
for it at Indianapolis. The "Boy Orator
of the Platte" who is not boy enough or
orator enough to represent such stream
as the Platte, should know that the dem
ocratic party in 1853 gave us the present
standard, which has remained, with the
exception of the time when specie pay
ments had to be suspended. We stand
by the old principles and purpose to give
our people the best money they can get
and which they deserve. Bryan may go
to the populists after his defeat, and like
the western cowboy who feared he would
have to go to Hades, should be very
thankful considering the life he had lived
that he had any place to which he could
go. (Cheers.)
At the conclusion of the speeches,
three rousing cheers were given for the
grand old national Democratic standard
bearers, Generals Palmer and Buckner
also three cheers for Rufus M. Sprague
the democratic candidate for governor.
The party's time was limited, and they
left for Lansing at 1045 on their special
train, which bore banners inscribed,
"Sound Money Democracy" Palmer and
Buckner Sound Money Special" Al
though the time and weather were not
propitious the audience was large and
enthusiastic one and much good resulted
from the meeting.