The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-10-31
SILVER FALLACIES.
Mass Meeting of National
Democrats in Woods
Hall Last Night.
CONGRESSMAN WARMERS SPEECH
Don't Believe in McKinleyism-
Mr.. Record and Mr.. Grouse
Attack the Chicago
Convention.
CONGRESSMAN WARMERS SPEECH

mass meeting last evening at Woods
Hail. The gathering was large, filing the
entire hail with people of very respect
able, intelligent character, and extremely
enthusiastic. Solid business men hredoin-
mated, and the speakers were listened to
with marked attention. A police force
was on hand to prevent disturbance but
nothing occurred to call for their SER
vices.
On the platform were seated a number
of well known prominent Democrats in
eluding Messrs. Otto Grouse, Alva A.
Bedell, candidate for Sheriff; Andrew A.
Corcoran. Nelson J. Edge the Presidential
eleetor, and George L. Record.
Counsellor Otto Grouse presided, open
ing the meeting with a brief address in
Which he said that he was gratified to
greet an audience of SO much intelligence
and thought. The managers of the meet
ing We're there as Democrats to present
the doctrines of pure Democracy. which
had always been true to the Statesof New
Jersey until q band of conspirators met at
Chicago, stole the name of the party and
clothed it in garments which placed 1t IN
disguise, but a band of patriots sounded
the alarm and the true Democrats, to
preserve the traditional integrity of the
party, have reorganized under new name
and have already established a party that
has come to stay.
Congressman John De Witt Warner, of
New York, said it was always a great
pleasure to him to speak to New Jersey
Democrats. The last time he spoke before
them it was in favor of ballot reform,
which since had been put in force. and by
it the State had been redeemed from fraud
and corruption. The State of New Jer-
sey had gloriously 1oated the Democratic
banner when every other State but one
Delaware( yielded to the opposing party
and now the very existence of the 3Democ-
racy has been made a bye-word by those
who stole its name at Chicago, but as the
courts have prevented it being robbed of
its name, the high court of the people
will on November render verdict de-
claring the will of the American people
in terms that cannot be misunderstood
They stole the livery Of Heaven, he
said, ito serve the devil in, and have
thrown down the gauge of 16 to /. and on
that we will meet them and battles for
the right. In each silver dollar there is
about fifty cents worth of silver, and the
Silyerites say they do not want poorer
money than those who have gold. The
law makes a parity between gold and sill
yer, and the Government redeems at par
all money be it gold or silver, at its face
value. If anything is to be made out of
the coinage of silver 1t should go to the
government not to the mine owner. The
government guarantees a parity that
every dollar shall be worth a dollar in
gold. The Silverites propose first to take
away the government guar7 ntees and
without the government guarantee the
dollar is only worth the value of the bull
| lion that is in it.
Next they propose to degrade our cur
rency by taking away one-half of its
value. You cannot make a Silverite mad
| der than to tell him that he desires free
| coinage in the true meaning of the term.
| what they want is a forced currency. 1t
| is not that they care to make silver dol
| lars they want to force the people, en-
4 ployes and all wage earners to receive
money of decreased value. Just half of
4 what 1t should be worth
| THE decalogue was written before the
| Declaration of Independence, and you can t
| get away from the doctrine of Thomas
Jefferson without thumping up against the
| Ten Commandments one of which is,
| Thou shalt not steal The people have
| not contracted to take money of reduced
| value, and Congress can't pass a law to
| make you take it any more than you can
| be made to take a coat for which you
| agreed to pay $40, when that coat is not
made according to contract. No man can
| be obliged to take that which he did not
| bargain for. That is unlawful and un-
\ Democratic. Every man should be made
| to stand by the contract he makes, and
| If he is obliged to pay in gold on his
| debts and investments he should pay it,
| and if he has not made on it as he ex-
pected, suffer the loss of profit and not
pect to make it out of the people,
| "Who are behind this great silver
movement? The farmers of the South
and West, the mine owners engineer il; !;
| but they haven't the votes. The farmers
| want the East to pay higher prices for
| their products and at the same time they
| cut down the wages of their enoeployes.
| If we go to the polls and repel this
conspiracy. We are going to. get just
what we deserve because we are our
own arbitrators.
| we don't believe in McKinieyism. we
| don't believe Mckinley is sound on the
money question, and know we shall have
/ to fight for years against his theories of
protection. We don't propose to surren-
den to McKinleyism, SO we have two enc
| mics to fight, arrayed one upon each side
and we will fight one until it is thrashed
/ and then turn and thrash the other One
| is carrying the Mckinley flag and the
/ other the Bryan flag We want nothing
to do with either Let every man cast
his ballot on next Tuesday according to
his convictions having remembrance the
| Christmas benediction. Peace on earth,
| good will to man. and prosperity to our
! country Great cheering.)
! Counsellor George l.. Record made an
! able address on monopolies against which
the people are always kicking and politic-
| ians ever promising to destroy but never
| do. He said there are two ways in which
monopolies can be put down, one is by the
/ triumph Of Assarchy, which must never
! be allowed to prevail in this country
and the other by sending men to the
| Legislature and Congress who cannot be
| bought and who will repeal the laws
| under which all monopoIies have been
/ created. Any man elected by the ma
chine party he said, who will bow the
/ knee before election viii bow the knee
after election. Men of Intelligence and
| capability will dominate the Democratic
| party and are going to win, and Demo-
] cratic doctrines Will De IN the line of the
| progress of the people, and for the inter-
/ ests and prosperity of all mankind
| Great applause.)
Mr.. Grouse spoke generally of the cleo
| tion of good men for Freeholders. afleg-
| ing that great corruption has existed in
| the administration of county affairs by
| that Board and singing out the lob of
/ lighting the Boulevard, said there was
| "swag" IN it,
/ He was at this point promptly interrupt
| ed by Mr.. John c. Sweeny, who asked
/ Mr.. Grouse If he would back up that as
sertion. He (Mr Sweeney said that he
was a friend of Mr. Connolly, the contrac-
| tor, and knew there was nothing wrong
| about the giving of that contract, 1t even
| being approved of and ordered by the
/ Court.
Mr.. Grouse replied that to any one hav-
! ing authority to discuss the charge he
| had made he would back up what allie
/ cations he had made
/ Mr.. Kynier J. Wortendyke, candidate for
| Congress, made the closing address on
| the policy and principles of the National
| Democratic party claiming them to be
| the same as maintained by the glorious
old Democratic prrty for d century past
and which has come to stay and become
a power in the land. The meeting then
adjourned.
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