The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-10-21
GREEN RIDGE VOTERS
LISTEN TO LOGIC
Large Outpouriug at Last Nights Re
publican Rally.
THREE ELOQUENT SPEECHES HEARD
Assistant District Attorney John NJ.
Harris, A. J. Colborn and J. Ball
Osborne, ex.COnsul to Ghent, Bel.
gium, Discuss the Various Cam.
paign Issues..ColOnel George San.
dersOn Presides and Makes a Pithy
and OppOrtune Opening Address.

and Opportune Opening Address.
NJ. L. Fine. Select Councilman George
Sanderson, City Assessor c. S. Fowler,
Common Councilman c. S. Seamans,
Michael Faust, Miles Mcdonald, ex-
Councilman Il. B. Howe. j. ]. Williams.
George Geary, j. G. McAskie. c. f.
Dolph, c. B. Gardner, j. S. Robinson,
B. T. Jayne, Alderman A. c. Bailey,
John McTague, Edward McNally.
Thomas Barrowman, II. l.. Burdick.
There are the names taken at random
of a few of the men who attended last
nights Republican rally in Oak hall,
corner of Capouse avenue and Marion
street, Green Ridge. They are men,
toned merely to give an idea of the
class of people who are attending the
Republican meetings. 1t incidentally
serves to show that there is an unusu-
ally lively interest in the campaign,
for the Thirteenth ward people are not
as q general rule very demonstrative
and 1t is only when they want to put
themselves OH record in some important
matter that they will participate In any
demonstration. The fact that they
turned out last night in numbers that
Overtlowed the commOdious hall evil
tremely important campaign.
Colonel Sanderson, the chairman of
the meeting. made the camuaign's i'm
portance the sole theme of his opening
remarks. 1T is struggle to determine
whether laborer shall receive his pay
in debased dollars; whether the ma
tional and Individual debts shall be paid
in dishonest currency: whether our SUI
preme court. the most august body In
the world, shall be maligned by mud
singers without a protest from the
people, and whether the present season
of depression shall continue or wheth-
er prosperity shall once again reign In
the land"
After selection by campaign
quartette John NJ. Harris was intro
duced.
MIR. HARRIS ADDRESS.
your chairman has said rightly" be-
gan Mr.. Harris, that this is an import
ant campaign. It's Importance has
drowned party Affiliations and 1t Is no
uncommon sight to see one-time Demo-
Gratis presiding at Republican meetings.
Free coinage il an important issue but
it is not or should not be political
issue. 1t Is an economic measure.
They would force this as party issue
which in fact Is nothing more or less
In its present state. than a commercial
deal backed by a syndicate of the Farr
estate, the Mackey estate. Jones, Stew
art & Co, and other silver miners who
represent capital of $547 100000, and
who Would be benefited by the passage
of a free coinage act to the extent of
from $6O. O.O00.00O to $75,0O0,00O a year."
The "crime of '73' was shown by
Mr.. Harris to have been anything but
a crime. He cited figures to show that
where only eight million dollars In sill
yer had been coined prior to 1873, twen-
ty times that much has been coined
since. He also touched briefly and in
an elementary way upon the various
other phases of the free silver issue,
attacking the fallacies of Popocracy in
an eloquent and learned manner, car
rying conviction with his every utter
ance. In closing he dealt with the i'm
portance Of electinG Republican con-
gress, and the wisdom of naming as
Lackawanna's representative one
whose interests are common with every
workman in the county. Such one,
he said, was William Connell. the can
didate of the Republican party. As
an attorney and an attache of the court
he commended the administration of
the present majority Commissioners
Giles Roberts and S. w. Roberts, say
ing that he had never seen two men
more competent or courteous in that
office since he became an observer OF
court house affairs. He also spoke a
word for Kiefer and Ward. and urged
his hearers to show their appreciation
of their neighbor. A. f. Kiefer by CIV
ing the whole ticket the largest vote
ever given a Republican ticket in the
Thirteenth ward.
ADDRESS BY A. J. COLBORN, JR.
Mr.. ColbOrn was next introduced and
for nearly an hour with his mastery
and original treatment of the campaign
issues held the closest attention of his
auditors. being frequently forced to
pause for the cheering to subside.
The foe this time, he said, brings
forward an issue that was never before
dreamed of. They knew they could not
fight against protection. The expert
ence of the people after the repeal of
the Mckinley act would make such a
course suicidal. The silver question
rose from the ruins of the demolished
Democracy. For time it Jared we'll
The newspapers seemed to get into q
frenzy over it. For q few days after
the Chicago convention it seemed that
we were insane. The county was GO
ing silver-mad. But before the votes
were counted in Vermont sanity re-
turned and 1t kept on returning until
the returns from Maine showed that
reason was firmly seated in her throne
In compating the allegation that the
act of 1873 was passed surreptitiously
by stealth and fraud. Mr.. Colborn cited
the fact that it was public question
for three years: that ii was before con-
gress for two years: that 1t was de-
bated for twenty-one days In the house
and seventeen days in the senate; that
it was the subject of many conference
committee meetings and that the Con-
gressional Record shows sixty-five
columns of speeches were delivered up
on II. 1t was never heard of as a
crime until the Democrats started out
to secure stock of excuses for the due
results of the Wilson bill.
SOME SILVER HISTORY.
Some of the Inconsistencies of the
Democrats were pointed out in a very
convincing manner by Mr. Colborn.
Notwithstanding the fact that from
1873 to 1892 twenty times as much sill
yer was coined as during the years
previous to the "crime." the West en-
tered a plea for the white metal. say
ing 1t was not receiving fair treatment
Congress, In its wisdom and goodness
of heart. passed the Bland Allison act
directing that at least two and one
half billions of silver dollars should
be coined every year This did not
satisfy them and In 1890 in response to
their demands came the Sherman law
by which the government was COM
PEELED to buy s4.5OO.O0O worth of silver
bullion every month and coin II as fas,
as there was need for the money. Then
came a season of prosperity. The peo-
pie became too prosperous. They
wanted change and they got It.
Cleveland was elected and stagnation
ensued. The Democrats said it was
the Sherman act and in 1893 the act
was repealed. Mark you there was
too much silver. the Democrats claimed
Now they clamor for more silver
One of the arguments used by the
Democrats in 1892 was that prices were
too high. The Mckinley bill should
be repealed and the tariff for revenue