The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-08-13
Charges Made by Prominent Democratic Paper That Re-
 main Unanswered.
An Object Lesson-The Mexican Dol lar and the Present American
 Silver Coin.
a Brief Reply to the Silver Arguments of Mir. c. s. DarrOw. of
 Chicago.

Madison, Wis, July 31.-The great political campaign of 1896 was most nu. spiciously begun in the west to-day. In Che presence of nearly 5000 people Sen. Gicr John M. Thurston, of Nebraska and Clarence s. Darrow, of Chicago presented the respective sides of the currency question for two hours and q haIf. It was n great audience and a great debate.
 Senator Thurston was greeted with long and continued applause, and it was several minutes before he could make himself heard. His voice rang out sharp 'snd clear. Every word of his eloquent plea for sound and stable currency could be heard. He spoke without notes. calmly and clearly. laying the currency question before his hearers and asking them to decide it on its mer. Its as business proposition. He told sf the ruin and devastation which he pr~dicted would be brought by 5O- cent dollar. and how the poor man would be the one to feel its evil effects most. He said:
 
 NY Fellow Citizens: It Is most gratifying tn me to-day to come back here to the scenes of my childhood: for SO many years ago that do not care to tell. I used to wan- -t~r around this lake shore with a gun In my hand, that my father trusted me wits. and with which think amused the ducks and alarmed the inhabitants. Hove to come back to dear old Wisconsin. for it WAS here in the midst of this sturdy people 'that I grew to manhood's years. It was here that I learned those lessons of duty ard of patriotism that I have cndeayored to TnalSc the guide of all my life. I love to come back to dear old loyal Wisconsin, for ftn S,se first regiment of her cavalry my fa- ~ther went out q private soldier to fight and die for his country's flag [Applause.]
 'fI love my country and her free institu- Hons. have no aim. have no ambition. I have no desire to win her people in this gresss campaign to any action or to any decision that shall net rebound to tho honor of the government. to tho welfare Of the people. and to the prosperity of all the classes, whose prosperity in every btanCh of development must stand side by side. united and together. if we are to go on progressing and developing and advancing as a nation.
 Dcsires to Speak Only Truth.
 '>T am an officer of the government of the United States. I have something at stake in this great campaign, and in those events
  ambition that the people of this country. ulsen the heat of this campaign Is over and established facts have demonstrated the truth or the falsity of the cause repre- scrst--I have an ambition that the people of tAIs country shall then say to me. after rhc heat of antc-elcction time is over: Tho AcssoDs that you taught to us were for OUT benefit and resulted well for the coun- try. I would feel myself false to every insiinct of Americanism if l sought to cin ntyla H,ntn fnr hnr pa n nnr urs,ess felt deep in my heart, profound ly la xnv soul. that tho success of thatparty | is slss ore thing upon which the welfare of the Ameacan people must rest tAp- v.ause.] .'AIy countrymen. we are met here to-day | to discuss more especially some of the | tffaancial views and theories which are now | disturbing our people. 1 have no polished | ,gerss of rhetoric. no studied outbursts of ael0yuence, with wlich to delight your ears | OF woo your senses. But come here. in the | .quietudo of this afternoon-out here, in | the clear air. l come-for the purpose of l aapcAking words to you that you will bear | home with you to the quiet of your own chambers, that you will recall by your fsrssidcs. where the judgment of the Ameri can people ought to be made up
 My countrymcn, there is disturbance in l r!Ie political world over the question of money. There have been disturbances in the political world in years gone by over other questions. We are meeting new issue to-day, so far as a presidential can- yasss Is concerned, and yet. as look the forces over, I find that arrayed upon one | sbss IS the same old stalwart patriotism | fa the same old wisdom of statcsmanship | Ef the same security of accomplished eSforts,which has stood upon the statute books of the United States for the last 30 years. for that wonderful measure of pros- peyity and advancement which has come Sn aN Its fullncss and all its wonder to tho people alone of the United States
 Successful Men as an Example.
 'f am not here to-day to attempt to in- GueHce your judgment unfairly by any dis arrangement Of men and measures, and yet | 4 was brought up as a boy to believe that tsr Judgment of the men who had sue ccfsied in life was better to follow than the 1nGsment of the man who has failed. IAp- n,aase.l was brought up to believe that thtt promise of the man who had always | hcpt his word was better than that of the fSh1 who had always broken it. TAD. pfaAsc.s was brought up to believe that tke promise of those men who knew had , -sn every emergency of the nation stood fo- neftei for mc-one individual-to follow ch2a the Judgment of those men who had 'never represented any of the measures or , amy ofthe things that had resulted for tbe hos'or and the glory and the welfare of inc American people. Applause TT say to you to-day in Ell s;noor,t,, , 'sanaor, believing it to be legitimate argu- fasft ara Knowing that it is entirely annro- pfSs.e 10 say. that if I had no other guide . 70 aasht me onward in the right hath of my ( ,peMncai duty, it seems to me that in ius,icc ! anti honor to my country 1t would be safer as. a.F .ri, me to turn away from the leadership ths lah am ana Altgeld and Waite to follow ( e sIotry or Allison and Reed and the 6 'sre'tsst among them all, William McKin- ( cy: Loud applausc.] '
 TOUT years ago the oppoa,ticr to the C