The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-08-12
THE PEOPLE AROUSED.
-kuRIN'S. DEBATE WITH AORR IN
The GOLD COUNTRY.

Matter Sc Was Given AN EnthusiaS'ic
Reception by tho Crny.d Ont There.
The Hon. John l.. McLaurin has re-
turned from Franklin, Ohio, where
he went to debate the money question
will! Mr.. Horr, the leading gold adgo-
cafe Of the northwestern country.
That Mr. McLaurin Jared we'll in his
debate with the famed gold lighter
can be seen from the following taken
from the Cincinn ati Enquirer:
Hon. J. l.. Mcl.aurin Of Eannetl&
Vile, ). G., member Of congress.
member Of the ways and means com
lnittee and * attorney general Of his
State, WAS al the Gibson yesterday,
returning from the great debate he
held with Hon. Roswell G. Horr OF
Michigan, the gold champion at
Franklin, Warren county, Ohio.
Speaking of the great controversy he
said: Il was most agreeabjy surprised
at the reception | received and the
number OF silver people present to
greet NE with enthusiasm. had eX-
pected to encounter an iceberg, but on
the contrary, found multitude Of
my way OF thinking. There were
{, 900 people present and | could tell
by the applause and cheers that | re.
ceived that | had fully half the assem-
blage with me- We made five speech
es. and during one Of mine some one
raised picture of Bryan in the audi
ence and thousands stood up and
cheered and it was fully ten minutes
before I could proceed 1t was grand
meeting Of the people, and after it was
over Mr.. Horr suddenly departed in
carriage and I could not leave for an
hour, the crowd gathered thick and
fast about me to shake my hand and |
will pledge you my word that my
right arm so sore from hearty shakes
that | can hardly lift it today. All
this attribute to the cause | advocate
and the straightforward way in which
| presented it. Mr. Horr got mad
when l pinned the shortcomings OF
his party down to facts. quoted
| them from Senator Sherman's strong
silver speech made in 1869, when he
was poor man, and contrasted that
with utterances since he has grown to
be a millionaire and lives in a marble
palace.
II told them that those marble
walls could not shut out from his ears
the murmurs of disapproval and dis.
content occasioned by financial policy.
| showed them from statistics how in
their district in 1880 the number of
tenant farmers was 81 per cent; in
1890 it had increased to 80 per cent,
and 40 per cent. of the farms under
mortgage. Prices of products were
falling all the time, it taking more
and more wheat and corn to get dol
lar, and it is only a question, OF time
when Is per cent. of the citizenship
will own all of the rich Miami valley.
/ read them something from the rec
ords of the Ohio legislature, a joint
reso, ation adopted when General
Grosvenor, now gold advocate, was
speaker of tie house of representatives
something they had forgotten. 1t
is history, and here it is:
Joint resolution relative to the res
toration of the silver dollar to its for,
mer rank as lawful money:
Resolved by the general assembly
of the State OF Ohio, that common
honesty to the taxpayer, the letter and
spirit of the contract under which the
great body Of Indebtedness was as
sumed by the United States, and true
financial wisdom, each and all demand
the restoration of the silver dollar to
its former rank as lawful money.
G. II. Grosvenor,
Speaker OF the house Representatives.
''H. W. Curtis,
president Of the Senate
adopted April "a, 1877"
II read them from James G. Blain's
speeches in 1877 and 1880, extracts
which I would like to see printed
every day. Here is what Mr.. Blaine
said in the senate in 1880 on the mon.
ey question:
ION the much vexed and long.
mooted question as to bimetallic and
monometallic standards, my own
views are sufficiently indicated In the
remarks l have made. I believe the
struggle now going on IN this country
and in other countries for a single
gold standard would, if successful,
produce widespread disaster in and
throughout the commercial worlds.
The destruction Of silver as money,
and establishing gold as the sole unit
of value must have ruinous effect
on all forms of property except those
investments which yield liked re-
turn in money. Those would be
enormously enhanced in value and
would gain disproportionate and un,
fair advantage over every other spe
cies of property. If, as the most reli
able statistics affirm, there are nearly
81, 200, 900, 900 of coin or bullion in
the world, very equally divided be
tween gold and silver, it is impossible
to strike silver out of existence as
money without results that will prove
disastrous to millions and utterly dis
astrous to tens Of thousands.
II believe gold and silver coin TO be
the money of the Constitution; indeed
the money of the American people
anterior to the Constitution, which
the great organic law recognized as
quite Independent of its own exist
ence. No power was conferred or
congress to declare either metal should
not be money. Congress has, there
, fore, in my Judgment, no power te
has been demonetized, l am in favo,
of lemonetizing it. If its coinage has
been prohibited, am in favor OF or
dering it to be resumed. l am IN IA
,, vor of having it enlarged.
81 told them that was GLAD to know
that there was one great daily papel
north of the Ohio river that had the