Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-08-20
SEN. MONEY TALKS SILVER
Distinguished Mississippi Statesman
Greeted by a Fine Audience at the
Court House Last Night.
ELOQUENT CHAMPION OF BIMETALLISM
A Clear, Logical and Convincing Ar
gument in Favor of Restoration of
Silver to Its Former Place as
American Money Metal.

American Money Metal.
The first public meeting of the Bryan
Democratic club of Santa Fe county was
held at the court house in this city last
evening and was in all respects a most
gratifying success. The audience was
one of the largest, most intelligent and
appreclative gatherings of ladies and
gentlemen ever assembled in the terri
tory. Every seat in the spacious and
beautiful court room was occupied and
many people were glad to occupy stand.
ing room. 1t was good deal like the
audience that greeted Mr.. Bryan when he
delivered his mastery address on Ameri-
can bimetalism in the same room last
January and waves of the same enthusi-
asm that the magnetic and fascinating
Nebraska orator kindled repeatedly
swept over the meeting.
The gathering was called to order by
Hon. George P. Money, president of the
Bryan club and son of Senator Money,
who said that he had known the speak or
Of the evening ever since he could recol-
lect and intimated that he would like first
rate for once to preside over him; but,
yielding to the expressed wishes of many
people and foregoing privilege in the in
terest of manifest propriety, he took
great pleasure in calling Gov. Thornton
to the chair.
Upon assuming the duties of president
of the evening, Gov. Thornton was greet
ed with sincere applause from all parts of
the hall. In brief and fitting opening
address, Gov. Thornton emphasized the
vital Importance to every one of the issue
between the people and plutocracy pend
ing in the campaign now in progress and
congratulated his hearers upon the fact
that he was privileged to present to them
distinguished orator and statesman who
was thoroughly familiar with the great
money metal problem and would illumi-
nate it from the twofold stand point of a
profound student of the subject and a
jealous patriot and friend of humanity.
Then, amid spontaneous burst of APP
plause, he introduced Hon. H. d. Money,
who has ably represented a Mississi ppi
district in the lower house of congress for
nearly fourteen years and who holds a
commission as United States senator elect
from his state for the six years ensuing
the 4th of March, 1899.
Senator Money then began a plain,
clear, candid, logical, satisfying, convinc-
ing exposition of the money metal prob
lem that riveted the attention of his au-
dience for two hours; removed doubts
from many minds; conclusively answered
a multiplicity of questions that arise
every day, and armored hundreds of BIZ
metallists with fresh facts and arguments
with which to combat the poisonous
heresy of gold monometallism. The
speaker made no effort to dazzle his au-
ditors with brilliant flights of eloquence;
studiously avoided appeals to the pas
slons and prejudices of partisan politics;
treated with fitting respect the honest
opinions OF persons whose views we're not
in harmony with those he entertained;
himself to the intellect and rea-
son of his audience rather than to feel
ing and sentiment, and impressed all who
had the good fortune to hear him with
his thorough mastery of his sub iect and
the depth aud honesty of his CONVICTIONS.
He said that when he entered public
life he was comparatively young man
ind that the great economic question at
present before the country was one of the
irst subj ects that arrested his attention,
de then and there registered solemn
low passionately to investigate the
ubiect, reach the truth, and guide his con-
'ressional action thereby without regard
o any other consideration. After the
most painstaking study of all the
acts he arrived at the conclusion that
liver was dropped from the coin
&c of the United States in 1873 as the
esult of deliberate and carefully ma
nred conspiracy of foreign and domestic
ondholders; that this action was STEALTH
7 taken at time when the silver dollar |
'as actually worth more than gold dol
.r and for this reason it was not noticed
y the people for some time afterward;
aat the object of this conspiracy was to
rake the United States party to the
ornament destruction of bimetallism in
le world for the purpose of rendering dol
.rs dearer and all forms of property and
Ibor cheaper; that the accomplishment
this design would inevitably result In
realty enhancing the money and money
emand holdings of the creditor class at
10 expense of the productive debtor
asses; that, having arrived at these de-
berate conclusions, one of his first votes
! congress was cast in favor of the res
,ration of silver to it's former place in
ur coinage system, and subsequent
indy and subsequent disclosures steadi-
7 served to strengthen him in the silver
nth.
He then proceeded to an able amplifica-
on of the reasons that Influenced his
rst and all his subsequent votes in con-
ress on the silver question, supporting
is propositions with wealth of facts
rawn from the records and from the
tactical experiences of the country dur
lg the twenty-three years that have
apsed since the silver dollar was stricken
own and the squeezing processes of the
old standard conspirators have been in
peratlon.
The stock arguments of the gold stand
I'd advocates, including the ridiculous
lbbish about the effort to force upon
le country So cent dollar, the danger
enriching the "silver barons," the pros
cot of the United States being made the
dumping ground" for the worlds silver
nd the awful danger of depriv wing foreign
ondholders of the p rivilege of receiving
ayment in constantly rising dollars,
ere treated at length and in manner