The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-17
Speeches at the Dayton Home to Vet
Grams and mt Xenia, Columbus
and other. Points.
ROUGHS SCORED BY BUCKNER
PALMER's SPEECH AT MOBILE IN
TERRUPTED LAST NIGHT.
Chairman Jones Again BafIIed I'm His
Effort to Secure n Date for n Pm
rade of Chicago Popocrats.

WASHINGTON, Oct 16.4-A delegation Of
about three hundred members of the Wage
Earners' Patriotic League of Maryland
called on Secretary Carlisle at the Treas
ury Department this afternoon and in
lited him to make address before the
wage earners of Baltimore at his earliest
convenience. Mr.. III. X. Johnson, president
of the league. in addressing the Secretary.
said that while the league Is a nonpartisan
body, the delegates here to-day are DEM
ocrats They Carlisle and Cleveland
Democrats who do not believe that labor
can prosper when capital is attacked and
who have determined on this election 10
sink party and stand for the honor of our
Nation. I'VE propose, sir, at this elec-
tion Democrats though we are" said the
speaker, ito cast our votes for the only
candidate possible of election at this time"
w. II. Q. Thompson, a member of the ex-
ecutive committee of the league, followed.
briefly, urging the Secretary to deliver the
address at the earliest possible opportunity.
After three cheers had been given for the
Secretary, he mounted a small platform.
and. expressing his regrets that he could
not accept, substantially folows:
II am very much obliged to you for yours
kind invitation, and very sorry that IL 10
quest My reasons are we'll understood.
NV business has been so arranged that
can make several speeches in my own
State. but ii is not possible for me to go
elsewhere. But there are one or two things
suggested by yoar spokesman which
would like 10 say to you"
''Tel the truth" shouted voice.
'Ill try to-, replied Mr.. Carlisle. IF
there Is ba any aeernF IN ihe
the money he receives for his toll s too
good. that ii will buy too much food and
clothing for himself and family, or pay for
a better house than he should have, then
il is his duty to vote for free and unlim-
tied coinage at the ratio of 10 TO i. IL
there is any laboring man who has saved
money out of his earnings and has depos-
tied it in a savings bank or building and
the protection of his family. and he desires
to have the proceeds Of that investment re-
turned to him in dollars worth half as much
those which he paid. he also. should
On the other hand every man in the United
States whether he works for wages or not,
who desires to preserve what he has accu-
mulated or what he may hereafter accu-
16 to l. and for the maintenance of sound
and stable currency. Every man whose
wage compensation is fixed is deeply inter-
ested in the outcome of this contest. IL
silver We're coined free at l6 to j, the men
who work for n transportation company
would find himself the helpless victim of a
policy which diminished the purchasing
power of his wages about one-haf ana
compelled him to work on and on for the
same number of dollars he received be-
fore thus destroying all hope of improve
ment OF his condition. But. gentlemen, the
laboring men have their fates in their own
hands. If they intelligently and patriot
ically exercise the right of suffrage. no
nan hereafter will dare to approach them
with wild and revolutionary schemes OF
civil government"