The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-08
SPLENDID DEMONSTRATION IN
HONOR OF THE Ex-PREsIDENT
ATt CINCINNATI.
CAMPING ON BRYAN's TRAIL.
HIS ADDRESS pELIvERED IN MUSIC
HALL, WHERE BRYAN SPOKE
RECENTLY.
THOMAS NJ REED AT BOSTON
Work I'm the General Campaign Be-
gun blythe Caustic Czar of
the House.

= CINCINNATI, O.,eOct THE sky
was clear but the weather was cold to-
night when ex-President Harrison,
with his wife by his side. set out for
Music hall. The Blaine club in uni
form, led by a splendid band, served
as HE escort. All along the line of
march the sidewalks were crowded with
people. The shouting along the line
was from thousand throats at a
time and 1t never ceased.
Long before 6 o'clock, the crowd be-
gan to assemble in front of Music hall.
AT O'Clock the doors were thrown open
and in less than ten minutes the hail.
including the great stage was filed
Still people kept coming until all the
aisles and other standing room were
filled. Thousands crowded in the COR
ridor and on the outside, and then turn
ed homeward or went to the overflow
meeting On the outside. When ex-
President Harrison arrived the applause
was unbounded. 1t seemed as if 1t
would never stop. Mrs. Harrison oc-
cupied seat on the stage beside Murat
Halsted. Mayor Caldwell, the officials
OF the Republican clubs and other
prominent citizens occupied front seats.
Hon. Thomas McDougall presided and In
troduced Gen. Harrison in a few words Wait
ing long 1or applause to cease, Gen. Harri-
son said in part:
Let us be comfortable. have had a sus-
picion for some time that has settled to-
night into conviction. 1t is impossible to
try to keep the presidency very long out of
question. In this campaign the Republican
party is fortunate in the fact that it pre-
sents to the voters of the United States a
ticket that, In It's first name, is great and
wholly unexceptionable. Gov. Mckinley, who
was named by the convention at st. Louis for
president, is man whose personal char
acter is irreproachable. The second man on
the national ticket is man of the highest
character a man who has conducted success
fully large and important business a man
OF hdelity and who holds in high measure
the respect of his neighbors and friends.
1t Is an historical fact that when the Re-
publican administration went out. we were
in time Of great prosperity; the country
was prosperous to an extent that never be-
fore had been attained. 1t is historically true
that since the Democratic party has been
brought in, the country has gone step by step
from this pinnacle of prosperity to the very
depths Of business depression and distress
AS Republicans, the remedy we propose is
that harmonious, we'll adjusted, revenue
producing and protective tariff shall be sub
stituted (applause), that the revenues of the
government shall be made adequate to its
expenditure We propose that the neces-
sity for bond sales to replenish diminished
treasury and to restore a wasting gold re-
serve shall be remedied by filling the treas
ury of the United States with definite rev.
enue.
We propose that the money Of the country
whether in its various forms, silver and
gold, shall, every dollar of it. be kept at
parity with every other dollar. We pro-
pose that there shall be no distrust accom-
panying the dollars, paper or coin, that
this government emits or authorizes. We be-
heye that these things will restore the pros
to
tain intact against every assault the con-
stitutional right and duty of the president
Of the United States to enforce all national
laws, without asking the consent of the gov
ernor of any state. We propose that the
federal judiciary shall be kept in the full
digniied discharge of every duty that the
Democratic friends offer? Free silver They
propose to cure these Ills by authorizing ev-
cry miner of silver ore to bring the bullion
he takes from the earth to the minis of the
United States, and there, at the expense Of
the government, have it converted into sill
yer dollars at ratio that returns to him
double, as things now are. In value. for
the bullion. They propose then that he
shall take these dollars and use them in pay
ing his debts and compel every one to re-
ceiye them at the value of 100 cents dollar
There are laws of trade and all the legis-
latures in the world cannot annul them. Mr.
Bryan's proposition is that we shall have BIZ
metaliisrn of both gold and silver at the
ratio Of 16 to /: in other words, that we
shall have by law proclamation that a man
shall give dollars worth of something for
fifty cents worth of something else. It is
absolutely impossible. 1t is base 1t is
worse than base; 1t is not creditable. 1t Is
not speaking In high estimation Of the In
telligenee Of our people when it is said to
them that because we achieved our political
independence, we can make two unequal
things equal to each other. A. congress
might make a. law that one buffalo skin
should be equal tova coon skin, but IL you
want to know the ratio between those skins
aut
not to the statute books; and so it is pre-
cisely with this matter of the ratio of one
dollar to another The law can take the COM
mercial ratio approximately, and hold and
maintain the double standard, but it cannot
disregard the quotations in the market for
these metals. 4