The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-10-08
GREAT TRIUMYlRATE
REED, LODGE AND VOLCOTT AD-
 DRESS BOSTON REPUBLIC4NS.

Grander Meeting Never Held in the City-Reeds Words Pregnant With Wis dom-He Asks for a Consideration of F Facts and Not of Fancies-Lodge's and Wolcott's Contributions.
 Boston, Oct. "A grander public meeting was never held in Boston than
 that which greeted Hon. Thomas B.
 Reed in Music hall tonight Not only
 was every seat in the great house taken long before o'clock, but the aisles were occupied as much as the police would permit. The occasion of the den- onstration was the ratification of the republican national and state tickets.
 Speaker Reed, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge and Acting Gov. Wolcott were
 the speakers announced. The hall was tastefully decorated, tri-colored bunt- ing everywhere prevailing and several thousand small sized American 1ags
 were distributed among the audienca, producing a beautiful effect as Bald wins land played the various well
 known popular, patriotic airs, these flags being waved in unison. As S'15,
 as the band played Hail to the Chief"
 the distinguished party came upon the stage amid the cheers and plaudits of
 the vast audience, the waving of the flags adding a splendor and patriotic glow to the scene.
 Hon. George H. Lyman. of the state committe, called the meeting to order and introduced as the presiding officer William Lowering, of Taunton. MT.
 Lowering was given a great round of applause, as he rose to speak, for while he is not very generally known he has presided over a republican state con- vention in the past, and was well
 known to all present by reputation. He
 introduced as the first regular speak
 CT of the evening Acting Governor Wol- cott, who was most cordially received. | His speech was less than ten minutes in length.
 Governor Wolcott was followed by
 Senator Lodge who was given a great reception. Said he: T wish in this
 moment of deserved triumph to call the l lieutenant governors attention to the fact that the unanimity which nomi-
 mated him was but the unaninity of one party and one convention. How much
 larger is that unanimity with which the
 nomination of his opponent has been desired? We all wanted MT. Williams nominated. Every republican would have been sadly disappointed if he had
 not been The gold democrats certain Jxy Jacirad bie yoy,oina tinp Jp fha diffin cult and patriotic duty that the cam | paign seemed to afford them, the Fam euil hall convention wanted him. He spurred them, it is true. They might ] we'll have said: It was all very well to dissemble your love, but why did you kick me down stairs?' and yet they wanted him. Their motives l will not | inquire into. They say he developed 1 in the city of Boston on election day. i And then there was the Music hall and l the Hamilton place convention, and the | Horticultural hall convention, and a populist convention somewhere or other. l They all nominated him. And he has
 got one or two lieutenant governors running with him, instead of only one,
 as Mr. Wolcott has, and he has got
 
 or three sets of electors.
 | MT. Reed, after thanking his audience
 for his grand reception, said: 'We do
 not need to talk of protection, for this
 country by three elections, each more decisive than the other, has practically determined that question, and if we
 can by judicious action secure such l tariff founded on business principles as will give us sufficient revenue, give the American market and thereby set busi- ness in motion, I am sure the business
 man, whether he be democrat or repub-
 lican, will have no cause for sorrow l But the question now before us is the silver question Even MT. Bryan calls | a truce on the tariff, though he earn estly desired and vigorously fought for | a worse one than we now have. This | discussion we are now having is born | and bred of the depressed condition of public and private affairs. It has come upon us like the greenback agitation of | 1878. It had the same causes and, in my judgment, will have the same fate With the rising tide of business in l 1879. which followed specie resumption, | greenbackism disappeared from the | face of the earth, perhaps never again | to reappear. In like manner, when | this election is over and business re- wives, this question of free coinage of silver by the United States, single | handed and alone, will disappear from public and private discussion The people of the United States were sen- sible enough to take no steps in the | dark. and on the action of the people of this country eighteen years ago found my belief in the victory of the republican party. We are as sensible as we were then, and have had eight | cen years of education and ought to
 have more sense than then, and we had
 sense enough then for the emergencies | of the hour.
 "Nor is the question to-day half as difficult as the question of 1878. One half the argument of the question of | to-day is to understand what it is. It is certain not bimetallism. Bimetal- Iism means the use of both metals and not of one. Bimetallism means even more than that. It means the use of
 both metals by all of the civilized world at least. At this bimetallism MT. Bry-
 an sneers. He says that is establishing a system in America with the consent of Europe. as if we were vassals' Had
 he said agreement as does the repub- lican platform, he would have recog- nized both the individuality of other nations and their equality. But he l l 1o1 fp+ +IaY Yil l og