The San Francisco call., 1896-06-26
President Cleveland Proclaimed
to Be a Tool of Wall
Street.
AN APPEAL TO LABoRING MEN.
Free Silver and New Precautionary
Coin and Gold Certificates
Demanded.

NEW YORK, N. Y, June 25.-The sill
yer mass-meeting at Cooper Union to-
night filed the large auditorium and all
the available standing room. The
audience was enthusiastic. Senator Ben
jamin R. Tillman of South Carolina oc-
capled prominent place on the platform
and was cheered Justify when he entered
the auditorium.
George F. Keeney, founder of the Amerl-
can Silver Organization, presided. He
said that the object of the meeting was to
get resolutions adopted declaring for the
free coinage of silver and urging the adop-
ton of free coinage by the Chicago Con-
vention.
After Senator Bixby had made a few
remarks, in which he said the country
needed free silver and was going to get it,
Hon. Alexander Delmar was introduced
as a recognized authority, the world over,
on the money question. He made g
lengthy speech in which he said that the
capitalists were not content with the high
rates of interest, but wanted to bind the
people to pay in gold, of which they
had a monopoly. The country needed a
medium of exchange. Gold would not do,
because it would flow out of the country.
Silver and greenbacks would do, because
they would stay here. Fifty per cent of
the business of the country the speaker
said, is done by note, proving that there
is not sufficient money counting in both
gold and silver, for the volume of business.
This nation, if it is to remain inde-
pendent, must devise and maintain its
own system of money!" said Mr.. DeImar,
land l saw, with the monetary commits
sions of 1876 and 1878. that ali attempts to
render money international are doomed
to disastrous failure"
1t took several minutes for the vast
crowd in the auditorium to get through
cheering when Senator Tillman was in
troduced. He began by paying his re-
spects to the newspapers. He said shat
the night would give an opportunity TO
show the members of the audience that
the newspapers were unconscionable
liars. The owners of the newspapers, he
said, were prostitutes of journalism, and
not a paper in New York would dare print
his speech in full. The speaker said that
although he had been much talked about
and lied about, he had written his name
on a page of South Carolina history in
such a way that it would remain there
always. Coming to the money question,
the Senator said:
"If the Chicago Convention does not give
US Democracy and return to the faith of
Washington and Jefferson 1 will have
nothing TO do with it afterward. The
money question is up and has got to be
settled. 1t is as important as was the
slavery question, and if enough of you can
get together TO reverse the let of the
two millionaire conventions you will de-
serve the thanks of the whole country"
Senator Tillman referred to the moneyed
men of the East as timble-riggers, and re-
peated his assertion that Cleveland was
tool of Wall street. The Senator called on
all those who had handled gold within
year to hold up their hands. Half dozen
hands were raised. Then be called on
those who had not handled gold coin to
raise their hands. Possibly thousand
hands went up.