Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-08-06
JOINT DISCUSSION.

Senator ThuFston. of Nebraska and q Chs
eaGo Lawyer Open the Campaign In Wis
eonsGn-Frse silver the subject Of tine
Dsbase-Ths Question Logically and
LoSrnedIy Discussed ny the Speakers On
Both Sides.
MADISON. Wis. Aug. Ex-senator
Thurston, of Nebraska, for the repub-
ican party, and Clarence s. barrow.
Chicago lawyer, for the democrats and
populists, contested with oratory and
argument for presidential votes yes
terday afternoon at Lakeside, the
grounds of the Monona Lake assem-
bly, near this city.
Mr.. Thurston said that it was among
Wisconsin people that ne grew to man
hood and that in the first regiment of
its cavalry he went out TO fight and
die, il necessary for his country. The
senator continued:
We are here especially to discuss GER
tain financial theories and views which
are distur bling our people. This money
question is a new one in this cam
paign. was brought up to believe
that the Judgment of the man who
had succeeded in life was better to
follow than that of the man who had
failed; that the word of the man who
had never broken his promise was bet
ter to believe than that of the man
who had broken his word. There
fore, l think it is safer for
me to keep away from the lead
ership of such men as Altgeld
and Tillman and Lleweiyn and Waite,
and follow the lead of Allison and
Reed, and that greatest of all Amer
leans, William Mckinley, of Ohio.
Four years ago the issue before the
people made. for the most part. by the
men who are now presenting another
issue, was not the issue which they
would have you believe should be the
one on which to go to the polls in 1896.
William J. Bryan made no other argu-
ment and advocated no other issue
four years ago than the tariff. Hear
his associates had no intention of
bringing forth this new issue until
they realized they were everlastingly
defeated by the people on the issue OF
free trade on which they secured a
majority of votes four years ago.
Don't you think, in view of the
promises given four years ago and their
default to pay, that it would be best
to ask for little collateral security
on which to back up this new promisef
l am an American. The American
travelling in foreign lands finds that
his silver dollar is taken without one
cent of discount, You can buy with
it twice as much as you can with the
silver dollar of any country which
opens its minis to the free coinage of
silver. l do not want to Mexicanize
our American dollar or apologize for
its cheaphess.
Gold means free coinage. Did you
stop to think that if free coinage OF
silver will increase the value of bull
lion, that it will not bring to the peo-
pie higher wages or give them better
prices for their product? Free coin.
age will either lower the standard Of
our dollar to the 5O-cent Mexican dol
lar or else it will double the value of
our neighbours dollar without expense
| to them.
The senator mentioned that July II
the Chicago Chronicle had charged
Bryan with being the paid agent or
| spokesman of the Bonanza silver kings,
who had really made the silver issue,
and that he had not met the charge.
He closed by arguing that cheap
money would not help the poor man.
Mr.. Barrow was then introduced.
| He did not think the settlement of the
free coinage question would ever give
| to labor that which labor never had
under a democrat or repu blican admin
istration, full share of the product OF
his toll, nor lift from the farmer the
great burden of debt and distress under
which he lived. But 1t would do some
thing. He repudiated the senator's
prescription of four more years Of the
gold cure administered by Mckinley
| instead of Cleveland. He accused
the Cleveland democrats of work.
ing for Mckinley, and asked the
people to support what was
Maj. McKinley's policy until he be-
came a candidate for the presidency.
1t was the first time that a national
party in the United States asked that
silver money be stricken down and
gold alone used by our people. The
| proposition was so outrageous and I'M
heard of that the men who framed it
ut st. Louis were afraid to openly sd-
vocate it, and added the international
| agreement clause as n sop which they
and the people knew to be a trick and
lie. He sternly resented the senator's
claim to being an American when he
OeIenOeu the prOpOSlIlCn 10 pCCOWo
the bond slave of Lombard street and
Wall street. The great creditor class
had been the blighting curse on the
| earth for ages.
He created a sensational scene when
he declared that if a dollars worth OF
American wheat continued to be sold
for so cent the Englishman will collect
his interest from America, as he does
from the Egyptians with cannon and
with sword. The speaker was vigor-
ously Missed and several men arose
and shook their fists and cried,
Never" The chairman appealed foE
order and fair hearing.
Senator Thurston, in closing, de-
nounced the attempt to array class
against class, and section against Sec
ton. There was no such issue under
the Stars and Stripes. A party was
needed to build up, not tear down.
Finally. he said:
"The man who holds the key TO the
situation is the officer who held the
line for Sheridan at Shenandoah, Maj.
Mckinley, and please God he will be
0ur next president"
At NFAchINGTOM