The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-09-19


was some talk of the latter retiring
agreed that Michael should be the
lucky man.
There is scramble. too, for the Of
flee of county attorney. 1t Is place
worth fighting for, with its $500 sal
airy attached Stan Dcnnelly seems
TO have had cinch on the nominal
ton for some time, but now 1t Is
limited that Pierce Butler will insist
ON denomination, IL J. f. Markham
is nominated by the Republicans.
But Markham, 1t is said, is already
sure or the office of corporation at
torny, and, il Buffers ambition is
limited to a desire to run against
Markham, then Donnelly Is the man
Dave PEBBLES bolted the candidate of
the silverites and then went to In
dIanapolis, which ruined his chances
or nomination for any office in the
hands of the Democrats this year.
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Henry Weber Is out In a card tell
ing the Republicans why he expects q
denomination for the office of register
or deeds First. he says precedent
entities him to the honor of renomina-
ton; personal attention to the bust
ness OF the office has been the means
Of adding thousands of dollars to the
taxable list of property, and he calls
attention to the fact that he polled
the largest vote of any candidate in
the last election, although the Ger
man vote was divided against him. He
also says he has the support of many
prominent Republicans, who have
urged him to make the canvass again
this fall. Thus far he has rot made
personal canvass, he says, and he
will not neglect the business Of his
office to do so.
The Republicans have thirty three
orators in the field in Minnesota at
this time. These range in prominence
all the way from Senators Da-
Wis and Nelson to Tim Shee-
han, and in ability from Con-
gresham McCleary to Ole Olson.
I'h1rty-three meetings will be- held In
the state tonight in the interest Of
Mckinley, and several of them will
be in st. Paul. The most important
OF these latter are: f. c. Stevens at
Pliebusch's hall, Arundel and Lafond
streets in the Eighth ward, and ]. s.
Carlson in the hall at Payne and
Wells streets.
Gen. r. A. Alger and party Of SOL
der orators will speak at Duluth Sept.
"a and In st. Paul on the day follow
ing. This trip is made in the inter-
ests OF sound money as we'll as Nc
Kinley, and doubtless the meetings
VIII be attended as we'll in this state
as they have been elsewhere. There are
in the party Gen. Alger, Gen. Dan
Sickles, Gen. Franz Sigel and "Corpo-
raj Tanner.
Hon. S. o. Peterson one Of the most
celebrated Swedish orators in the
United States, will address the citizens
or the First ward in the Swedish lam
guage at Sjoberg's hall, corner Payne
avenue and Wells street this evening
A general meeting of the Democrats
OF the Fifth ward will be held this
evening at s o'clock, at $40 West
Seventh street, for the purpose of or
ganizing. All Dmocrats are requested
to attend.
About one hundred residents Of Glad
stone attended a sound money meeting
held in the hall at that suburb last
night. The principal speaker was Os-
car Hallam, who was well received and
patiently listened to.
F. G. Stevens, Republican candidate
Tor congress, rendering the scrip
tural promise concerning the two or
three that are gathered together
perched on the edge Of a pine table in
quarters of an hour cOnversed with his
hearers concerning the value and uses
or money. 1t wasn't a speech, but a
talk, and was appreciated and enjoyed
all the more by those present for that
reason.
Assuming that money has two func-
tons-that of measure of values and
as a medium of exchange-which is
admitted by the Bryanites as we'll as
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,blmetallism, the speaker proceeded to
show that all measures, to be of value
must be stable and uniform, and that
all mediums Of exchange must possess
qualities that inspire confidence. Sill
yer, he argued, Is regarded as a COM
modify the world over and, like all
other commodities, it fluctuates; there
fore, 1t is without value as a standard
of measurement. Free coinage of silver
would result in cheap money, and the
gold, which Is now the basis of all pub
lie business, would be driven out Of
circulation. The shrinkage that would
result from the free coinage Of silver
would be greater than all the minis Of
the country could make good in months
and years of constant operation. Thus,
as medium of exchange, silver would
be lacking in quantity to trans
act the business Of the nation.
Free silver would result In lack of pub
lie confidence; lack Of confidence pro-
duces smaller volume of business:
reduced business transactions means
less money in circulation and distress
and poverty for the great middle class
es. He called attention to the fact
that the annual clearing house busi-
ness of the nation. prior to the panic
Of 1893. was about so billions of dollars.
Since that time the annual clearings
have been about As billions of dollars.
This enormous contraction is entirely
due to lack of confidence. With a cheap
money there would be further lack of
trust evidenced and the falling off in
the business of the country would be
almost impossible to estimate All the
minis of the country toiling for half
century could not produce the money
that would make good the losses that
would accrue to the business of the
nation IL free silver should be declared
the basis Of the nations finances.
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Bryan, the speaker declared, Is q
monometallist, and a cheap mono
metallist, at that. He wants a cheap
money made the basis of the nations
credit. Under such system this coun-
try would sink to the level of China.
Mexico and the Latin American coun-
tries that have silver as a financial
basis. In those nations there are but
two classeS-the very rich, who own
all the wealth, and the very poor, who
are the slaves Of the wealthy. Free
silver would wipe out of existence the
great middle class that is the bone and
bulk and sinew of the United States.
With gold as a basis and silver at a
parity to preserve the relative values
of the two metals, this country can do
business with the rest of the world and
the other nations Of the earth will be
glad to do business with 1t, knowing