The record-union., 1896-10-13
TAYLOR'S TALK ON SILVER.
address Before a Democratic -POpuliSt
Meeting.
Some of the County Candidates
Also Speak-A Fair Sized
Gathering.

Probably 500 persons assembled at the
old Pavilion last evening to listen to the
political situation explained from
democratic view by Taylor Rc"ers or
San Francisco.
superior Judge Matt F. Johnson
called the meeting to order and named
Judge j. H. McKune for Chairman and
the following named gentlemen for
"lce-PreSidents of the meeting: l.. M.
A'andsborough, L. w. O'Niel, II. M.
Clarken, Chris. Hilrath, VIM. j. Elder,
L. H. Watterland, Theodore Johnson,
;. 5. Culver, J. A. Nelson, M. L. Perkins,
Or. NewSom, j. N. Larkin, G.. Wilmun-
der, w. G. oliver, ellis Doty, r. Q. Cra-
Vens, p. j. Shields, d. w. Carmichael.
w. ID. Lawton, Matt #. Johnson, Joseph
Hahn, j. w. Hughes, w. H. Burtless,
NJ. j. Curtis, J. G. Davis, G. B. Dean,
w. T. Hamilton, William BOyne, d.
Mckay, c. w. Daley, A. Mazzinni,
VIM. Mclaughlin, W. D. Bessy, J. E.
Camp, H. M. Bowman.
Judge McKune said the Chicago con-
Vention had been a convention of the
people. There had been no programme.
The men who had controlled the con-
yention four years earlier were rele-
gated to private life. The convention
had given the people a candidate of
whom they might we'll be proud. His
speeches had been masterful and he was
to be depended on to carry out his
obligations faithfully. The gold bugs,
he said, could spend money on the
campaign. They had the money to
spend, and would do So and then if
they were successful in their effort
they would reimburse themselves at
the expense of the people. In conclu-
sion, the Chairman introduced Taylor
Rogers of San Francisco as the speaker
Of the evening.
The speaker drew a vivid picture of
the British attack on Bunker Hill, and
said that with the volley fired by the
patriots from behind their breastworks
republic was founded, which the re-
formers to-day believed was worth
preserving.
Statistics showed that the product of
the daily laborer in the United States
amounted to $40 30 a day, and the pay
of the laborer amounted to 81 Is a day
leaving 50 %. Every ybody was willing
TO admit that times were hard. Repub-
licans said it was the tariff, and that the
Democrats had ruined the country by
their free trade theories. This was
wrong. There was never in the United
States a. system of free trade The tar
If on manufactured articles was never
less than 3 per cent. The people gave
the tariff a strong slap four years ago,
and the Republicans should think
twice before they call the people fools
The difference between the Mckinley
and the Wilson tariff was about 500
100000, or 80 cents a head for the in
habitants of the country.
Mckinley said the cause of the hard
times was over production and no
money TO buy manufactures, and pro-
posed to help matters by shutting the
mints and by that means open the mills
In dealing with the question Of the
Supreme Court, the speaker contended
that it was never designed that the
judiciary should override the Legisla-
ture and Executive Departments. The
Constitution did not grant that power.
Years ago the Supreme Court rendered
its famous Dred Scott decision, which
riveted the shackles on to the slave so
that they might stay there forever
This the Republican party inveighed
against Their foremost men agitated
was one Of the most disastrous wars of
modern times in which 800, coo lives
were laid down, thousands of homes
put in mourning and eleven States des-
olated before that single decision was
wiped out There was a precedent for
the plank in the Democratic platform.
The speaker spoke Of Governor Alt
geld Of Illinois as one of the grandest
of characters in modern history. In
1894 there had been a strike in Chi
cagO, and Altgeld had telegraphed
Cleveland that there was no strike in
Chicago that the State of Illinois could
not handle. There was born this Won
derful new thing called the injunction,
and to-day the railroad companies were
out for Mckinley because they wished
this injunction placed in the hands of
the Federal Government so that the
striker-the laborer-might be crushed
in his efforts to secure or preserve his
rights.
Then the speaker took up the silver
side Of the question, and contended that
since the beginning Of the nations his
tory there had been an unlimited de-
mand for metal money and a limited