The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-06
DEMOCRACY HAS A FIT
SENATOR BOYD's DESCRIPTION OF
THE CAUSE OF HARD TIMES.
Debtor and Creditor Classes in
a Loan Association.

1IuD. Oh oOllGSS avenue, was Rdly les
TONED with Chinese lanterns last evening,
and about four hundred people gathered
20 listen to a speech from Secretary Of
State w. ID. Owen. In this they were dis
appointed, Mr.. Owen was suffering with
a severe cold, which rendered it impossible
for him to speak scarcely above a whisper.
However, he occupied seat on the plat
form. Senator Thomas E. Boyd and Joel
W. Stafford, of Noblesville, were the speak
ers of the evening.
THE Democratic party during this cam
paign,'' said Senator Boyd, reminds me
of an old fat doctor who lived in the part
of the country live in. who was not much
of a success a physician other than lie
could cure fits. When patient came to
him he promptly threw him into a fit and
then cured him of the fit. / am of the
opinion that the Democrats have had about
the same kind of q dose that hat old doc
tor administered. We have heard of the
commercial projects eluciaated from the
lips of Bryan, and have been told by Gov
ernor Matthews that the. policy of the
party is to cover the seas with the white
sails of vessels going out to the ports of
commerce, but just the same thousands of
working people of the United States have
been thrown out of jobs and are literally
starving for want of employment.
My fellow citizens, only the other day
my old father, who is a good, honest farm
er, drove into my town with load of prod
uce He was accompanied by my mother
who stopped at my house while he went
out to sell his produce. After a while he
came back and told me he could not sell
his produce to the groceries, and wanted to
know if he was permitted to sell from his
wagon on the streets. I told him he was
and he went forth. About noon he came
oack and told me he had sold only thirty
live cents worth, and putting the stuff in
my back yard, he and my mother drove
uack to their country home. That night a
man who is hard working, honest citi-
zen came to me and begged live cents with
which to buy bread. There is no money in
The town.
Recently I took a trip through the
north,. visiting the lakes and different
watering places and large cities. During
The ten days l was away L saw more want
more hunger more restitution and more
,ife. AS gazed upon that massive and
5eautiful statue Of Lincoln in Lincoln
Cark, at Chicago, and thought of the thou
sands of people who were suffering in that
sreat city, L was told that that night ten
thousand people weak from hunger and
want slept on the grass in the park, while
nifty thousand in the same condition walked
the streets. In this beautiful city. which J.
through the streets to-day past the homes
of the laboring people l have seen more
traces of want and hunger than L have
sver seen here before. Is it strange then
that come here and ask to be taken back
20 the days of Harrison and prosperity :?
tAppauSe.)
Il went through the army and after
was discharged knew what it meant to
earn my bread by the sweat of my brow.
therefore can Sympathze with those who
are unable to even earn their bread, scanty
as it may be- My friends. the policy of the
Republican party will start every wheel in
these United States, start the factories and
Industries and give employment TO the peo-
pie. (Applause.)
ar half mi IL,
banks of my county and yet the people
walk the streets unemployed. Yes but
ONE one says those banks are the fellows
are after Why, God bless your souls
my brothers, this money doesn't belong to
nose banks, ~ is on.y in tneir care. In
looking over the books / find that the
money in those banks belongs to the toll
srs in my county. who have earned it by
1ard labor. The banks are not cruel cor
porationS; the bankers are the people who
Jake care of the money of the people OF
the country.
OWES POOR PEOPLE 81, 400.
II once worked in law Office, but find
ing l could not live on no salary a week.
excepting the privilege of reading law
books, I went into a county office and
from there was elected to a county po-
sition, and, for a time. made money hand
over fist. 1 then got smart and ran for
the legislature. While candidating L Went
about the country shaking hands with
made acquaintance came to me and asked
me to go their security on notes l die.
and my name went down on the notes Of
many different people, and they were hon
ored because l known. One day
was sued on one of these notes for 50 600
and it took all ! had. 1 went TO my wife
and found her in tears. / was heartbroken
and / said L am not worthy to be your
and retrieve myself in some new pace
My wife took my hand and said: You are
too young to make an assignment; stay
and let us live it down The next day a
banker loaned me money. and / paid off
part of my debts. l sold everything | had
and paid off the rest. Again l prospered
and | borrowed money of ii building asso-
aiaton and once more / he'd up my head
IN life. To-day as l sat in my office looked
out and saw poor, poverty stricken peop. e
who earned every cent they had by hard
association to pay their dues / owe that
class of people $1.40 tonight, ami paralyzed
be my right arm if l don't pay it back iii
money as good as gold. / don't want to
pay it in fifty-cent dollars. (Applause.1
I'm closing / want to make few propo-
sitions. Three-ffths OF the nations OF the
earth have g silver basis aud two-fifths
have gold and yet the latter do nine
teen-twentieths of all the business on the
face of the earth. Why should we aban-
don the nations that do the .uneIeen-twep>
twentieth of the business? There is rs ma
ton the face of the earth with the
tree coinage of silver that has a dollar &c
loan. There isn't a nation xnat mas more
silver per capita than the United States.