The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1896-09-29

Il question was Hrst adopted In Nebraska
4 by the silver Democrats there. Gap
! planse.) When we did it we had bolt
ersjthen IS they have had since. We
had men who claimed to be Democrat;
who would not agree TO our platform
They called themselves better Demo
crate than we were and voted the Re
| publican ticket to prove it. daughter,
| We believe the Democratic party
which owed its success to the toiline
masses, must still .sstand by them Iii
their fight against the few II IL de
serves to cohtinue its existence. We
organized in Nebraska @ Democratic
free silver league. The members o.
that league made an open fight. They
did not 90 around in the dark wearing
. mask. They said to the Democracy
OF the State, we are going to take pos
session of the machinery of the part,
Ii we can we are going to submit this
| question to the voters. We went out
and presented the questions. Wher
our State convention met we had three
to one and we adopted that platform
which has been readopted by the ma
tional Democratic convention. LAD,
plause.i There was never fairer con
test ever waged. Then we organized 8
birnetallic Democratic national league
which went out to do in the nation
what free silver Democrats of Nebraska
had done in that State. We carried
the question to the primaries, and the
voters instructed the delegates to the
county conventions and from there tc
the State convention and from there to
the national convention. We never
had convention In this country which
more correctly represented the senti-
ment OF the people who sent the dele
gates than that convention which met
at Chicago. 1t is honor enough to be
the nominee of convention for
President. But it is a higher honor
yet to be the nominee of the most
Democratic convention ever held in
this country. (Applause.) 1t is suffi.
cient honor to be nominated by the
machinery OF party, but it Is d high
er honor still to be nominated by the
people In a party regardless of the ma
chinery. (Applause.)
Since that platform was adopted the
people have commenced to study the
money question. What do they find f?
They find that the people of The West
and South, who have been asking for
the restoration of bimetallism, instead
of trying to ruin the country are trying
to save it. Great applause.) We are
are trying to help our people. That is
true. but want to tell you that our
people cannot buy of you unless they
can sell what they raise. We must have
more than appetites out there. uaugh-
ter.) We must have money to pay for
those things which crafty the appe-
tite. Because you have food to sell
don't think you can sell it just because
people are hungry. You have got to
have people who want it and who hav
the money to pay for something to eat.
Great applause.) Your people are
producing manufacturing products
here largely. Where do you get your
consumers Wipe out the farming
population and where will you sell the
goods you produce? You virtually
wipe out the farmers as consumers
when you drive down the price of their
products 80 they only realize enough
to pay taxes and interest. Great APP
ers. When they take what they have
to sell in the town they tipd the mark
ct is rather dull, and what they get is
small compared with what it used to
be. Does 1T mean the people of Phila-
delphla are not as hungry as they ever
were! venture the assertion there
Is more hunger here in Philadelphia
than there was five years ago. Great
applause.) Is it because people have
lost their taste for the good things
which you produce? No, there Is as
much taste as ever If they could get
chance to try it on something. Great
applause.) How are you going to in
crease your markets? BY increasing
the number of people able to buy what
you produce. Will you do that by
making dollars dearer? No, dollars
do not eat.i They devour a great ocal,
but they do not eat. Naughter) How
are you going to create markets ? BY
increasing dollars in the hands OF the
few 4? No., you have got to restore
prosperity by stopping the fall of prices,
so men will sell what they produce to
get money to buy what you produce.
(Applause.)
The gold standard newspapers think
we won't be able to get silver into
circulation If We had free coinage. /
want to tell you that they will be
mighty glad to have subscriptions paid
even in silver dollars If these people
whom they have been trying to de-
stroy in the interests of foreign capi-
talists will continue their papers into
their houses. Great applause.) Our
opponents who are SO confident that
money can beat argument in a cam
paign are glad to use silver dollar fora
campaign fund. tApplause.) If you de-
stroy part of our money you must be
content to take a lower price for what
you have to sell. When you drive
down the value of your property, you
don't drive down the value OF the mort
gage you have agreed to pay. That
man still asks the same for it. We
don't ask to reduce the amount of
mortgages, but say the man who holds
mortgage and wants you to pay him
In an ever growing dollar is the most
dishonest man you can find. They have
an idea there is only one kind OF repu-
diation. II a debtor wants to pay in a
dollar less valuable than the dollar he
borrowed he is q repudiator, but Il the
man who holds that mortgage wants
him to pay in q dollar worth twice as
much as when it was loaned that man
is financier and patriot and you
cannot open your mouth against him.
(App)ause.) Ii those who hold the
notes Of the people of the United
States have right to insist on a gold
standard to make their dollars devour
more of our farm products, / want to
know why the people OF the United
States have not right in their SOW
ereign majesty to stop the growth of
these dollars before they get any big
ger. (Applause.)
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