Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-10-09
JUDGES CLEVELAND AND DUDLEY
Assisted by - Mixed Quartet. Amuse an,
Entertain, but Fail to Esiify.

Assisted by - Mixed Quartet, Amuse an,
Entertain. but Fail to Etlify.
Dodgers scattered broadcast through
out the city Monday announced tina
in the evening of that day at the cour
house Judge Cleveland would answe
the argument of Judge Gardner, ane
that Judge Dudley would reply to tn,
speech of Major Anderson delivered
on Saturday evening. The court hous,
was quite we'll filled ut the appointed
hour. Editor Meredith, of the Edge
mont Advocate, called the meeting tt
order, after the Fireman's band hat
rendered one or two selections, ant
introduced the popocratic mixed quar-
tet. Sam Odell presided at the organ
and showed himself to be musician
of ahigh order. Mrs. Il. o. Burton, o.
Custer, led in the singing, the othel
members of the quartet joining in the
chorus. The singing was admirable
and won much merited applause.
MIR. Meredith then made a few pre-
llmlnary remarks. He reminded his
hearers that this is a campaign of edu.
cation, IA fight of the masses against
the classes and of labor against capitals
i'll short it was am abbreviated form of
the same old pop wall calculated to
instil into the minds of the people the
idea that labor and capital cannot work
together to mutual advantage and that
the people of this country are divided
into 'classes." He then introduced
the first speaker of the evening, Judge
Cleveland.
Judge Cleveland said that it might
appear rather presumptuous in him to
attempt to answer the allie argument
of Judge Gardner but that he had made
such palpable mlsstatements that they
should not be allowed to pass unchal-
lenged. In striking contrast to the
unbridled spleen and coarse invective
hurled at Judge Gardner by the Herald
last week, Judge Cleveland spoke in
the most complimentary terms of the
gentlemany, fair and courteous spirit
manifested 10y Judge Gardner and said
that he proposed to endeavor to answer
his speech in the same frank and
friendly manner
Judge Cleveland first attacked that
part of Judge Garelner's address where
the latter is quoted as having said that
1.-The free and unlimited coinage of sill
yer at l6 to |, and the making of this
silver Il legal tender for all debts. would
be a rascally and dishonest piece of
business Judge Cleveland stated
that the government never at any time
entered into Il contract in which it 1.-THE
government agreed to pay any of it's
Obligations i'll gold. and then read the
Mathews resolution. which was adopted
by both houses of congress, in which
it was expressly stipulated that the
United States could pay any of it's obi
cations ill silver dollars. The Judge
laid great stress on this silver dollar
resolution and inquired in a loud voice
ii it was "rascally and dishonest" to pay
obligations in silver when the govern
ment authorizes it. 1t will readily he
seen that the silver dollars contem-
plated by this resolntion-silyer dol.
lars like those in circulation then and
now, coined on government account
and guaranteed to be kept at a parity
with gold-are quite different from the
silver dollars for winch Judge Cleveland
and his followers are SO passionately
declaiming silver dollars coined on
private account ,or the owners of silver
bullion for which the government dis
claims any responsibility except to ccrti-
iy to their weight and tineness. These
dollars would he similar to the Mexican
dollars. worth in American money
about 53 cents. When this matter is
considered in the right light it will be
seen that Judge G;lrdner's proposition
is not far out of the way.
Judge Cleveland endorsed Senator
Pettigrew's assertion that there is very
little silver in the world to be dumped
into this country in the event of the
free coinage of silver, when by refer
ence to the report of the director of
the mint it is fonnd that the coinage
value of the worlds prodnct of silver
has reached the enormous sum of
s2225.tN0.ooo annually. while the pro-
duction of the United States alone,
when stimulated by the purchases
under the Sherman law, amounted to
over 80. QUO. c.0O0annually. Judge Cleye.
land said that no silver coin from foreign
nations would be brought here for re-
coinage as by so doing it would suffer
loss. and this assertion is made in the
face of the fact that "object lessons'' of
the silver dollars of Mexico and other
free coinage countries being purchased
for about 80 cents each are continually
in evidence. If the fifty-cent dollars
of Mexico would 'suffer loss" by being
brought here and recoined into United