Evening star., 1896-07-17

The republican congressional COMMITTEES
is in full blast al d doing a rushing blIsi-
ness. Everybody in the big headquarters
uptown is hard at work, and one OF thu
busiest people in the lot is Vice Chairman
Apsley of Massachusetts, who divides The
labors of the executive chair with Mr..
Babcock.
Letters From WOrkingmen.
"All these letters on the money ques-
tion," caid Mr.. Apsley, pointing 10 stack
OF communications before him. In my
position vice chairman OF the congress
s.onal committee 1 am daily receiving ,loz-
ems of letters from working mon AID work
irg mems clubs OF only Of New England
but of the middle states and elsewhere,
Which form barometric indication Of The
temper OF these men, and ! tell YOU :hai
when tie November election has come and
Son" il viii surprise people how s.anchiy
adherent to honesty ard Intelligent gov
ernment the great work.n masses OF The
population have proved themselNes to he.
No InrOnds Likely I'm That Class.
This talk of certain democratic leaders
who nave not repudiated the Chicago plat
form Of making heavy inroads among ;he
factory operatives OF the east ard Now
England with thei~ free silver shibholeth is
the vcriest nonsense. The factory opera
a.
well as OF all sections OF the United States,
have lot forgotten that they Were receiving
higher wages in 1892 than they have en-
jcyed since, and that the action OF the
Ffty-tf ird Congress scaled down l!ot only
their pay, but their hours of labor. They
have not forgotten that they wcic happy
and prosperous under republican rule. and
that their prosperity ended with the close
OF the republican administration ard The
advent of democratic Congress
Working People Think
''The working people Of the entire coun-
try are a thinking people" continued NJ.
Apsley, 'and the wild and featier-hrained
propagar da viii not convert them. They
have aad one experience with democratic
free trade, and they paid dearly for IT, II
Is absurd to imagine that they can be in
duced tc desert the party that nas always
Looked out fer their interests oy prov ding
them with work and the means of c.,iov.ng
happiness, to follow the standard of a
party which, having made failure Of run
ihhS the government, now takes up The
dangerous proposition 20 experiment with
the nnances of the country
III Mr.. Bryan, in his speech to The Chi
cago convention, made one poir; that an
peais strongly to the people, IL is thaf the
term business men is entitled To a con-
struction which shall include th. working
men OF the country. To this sentiment /
subscribe. The factory operatives IN. great
class of working men and the farmers are
al BUSINESS men, and part of the great
business system of the country Rut as
such they are not going to be CARED avay
from the firm mocrings OF our economic
system by an appeal to their passions and
their implied ignorance of the great issues
which affect all channels of trade alike.
Arc Thoroughly Honest.
As rule, the working men Of OR cnt,r-
try are thoroughly honest. They are not
repudiators, and they will not consent TO
countenance the proposed crime Of repudi-
atng 30 per cent of all debts private and
public, by voting to substitute a debased
currency for a financial system which, un-
uer republican management, has always
insured happiness and prosperity The hap
pest eras in the history of the country.
AS business men, they are as competent 10
Judge the issues as are their EMPLOYERS. as
business men they will consult their own
interests and exercise their right, as com
SerVauNe business men by preserving III.
financial integrity of the country. To i'm
agine that these men, with the eNperiarce
OF the past four years to guide them viii
deposit their ballots for a candidate who
stands on platform which attacks the
protective system and proposes to circulate
a hfty-cent dollar with no government
guarantee of redemption behind IT, is an in
suit 10 their intelligence"