The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1896-10-29
MR.. QUARLES' SPEECH
A VERY ABLE AND POPOCRAT
SCATTERING. ARGUMENT.
IMMENSE CROWD HEARS IT
People Were Turned Away From the opera
House.-Most Stunning Meeting of the
Campaign.-Knocks UNDERMINING
From Under the Popocrats.

a large anu dppI6CldGlN0 duu10bC0
gathered at the Rhode opera house
Tuesday evening to welcome to Keno
sha one of her former sons, and one of
| her warmest friends from the time when
he ran a barefoot boy about these
streets until Tuesday evening when he
came to speak to the friends of his boy
hood days, their families and their
friends, on the greatest questions of
the greatest campaign in American
history since 1861, the Hon. j. V.
Quarles. If Mr.. Quarles felt any doubt
in his mind about the friendship, OF
which he so pathetically spoke, being
still afame, warm and ruddy in the
hearts of the people of Kenosha. surely
the crowd that listened with eager and
attentive ears to what he said Tuesday
evening, must have quoted his fears.
By o'clock, before the doors were
open, mass of old fellows bent on
hearing their old friend "Joe" stormed
the entrance. Before the appointed
hour for the discourse every available
portion OF the room, either for standing
or for sitting, was occupied. and all
waited upon the words OF Mr.. Quarles
for two hours with unabated interest.
James Cavanagh presided over the
meeting. The first number was song
by the republican campaign glee club,
after which Mr. Cavanagh introduced
to a Kenosha audience Mr.. Quarles.
Space will not permit anything like
a reproduction or even an outline of
the speech of the evening. The story
was told again Of the two majors who
had fought their way up to the front in
civil service as they had previously done
in war, Majors Mckinley and Scofeld.
These men, learned in the manners and
methods of warfare, were we'll pre-
pared by their experience to under
stand the peculiar flank movement that
the opposing party has made in this
campaign. The speaker referred to
the silver bill or plank in the Chicago
platform as flank movement. Four
years ago it was the tariff, now by the
cooperation of the southern states, and
the silver western states, the tariff
question has been put aside and the
silver one substituted for it. Though
such men as Daniel Webster and Henry
Clay, ambitious for the honor of pTesi-
dent, could not with all their eloquence
capture the prize, but went to the
grave with broken hearts, the con-
glommerate convention of Chicago was
carried away by the magnetic words of
the Orator of the Platte, and as con-
sequence the free silver plank move
ment is complete, and has for its head
the boy Orator, William Jennings
Bryan.
There were some. however, in that
convention too loyal to true deTOc
racy, too true to the ancient principles
of that party and the good Of their
country to stand by the pernicious plat
form at that time adopted, who in their
manliness broke from it and dlsOWned
it. These were the democrats with
whom the heroes of '62 fought shoulder
to shoulder for the preservation OfhOme
and country.
The speaker called attention to the
varying policy of the party of the
Platte, which in 1872 cried too high |
prices and now cries too low, and to
the policy Of the republican party which |
says that commodities shall not be
cheapened, for a cheap commodity |
means cheap labor, but that commOd-
tiles and labor should both be raised.
Moreover, the republican party advo-
Gates no change in the currency of the
past twenty years. 1t merely means to
maintain gold as the standard, and not |
that gold shall be used exclusively as
money. The two functions of money
are as medium of exchange, and as
measure of values. Tt is as the latter
that the republican party is advocat-
ing gold and not as the former.
In closing the speaker spoke as
warmly and as warningly Of the So
called democratic party in its attempt
to separate capital and labor, and to
create between them hostility and war,
as did Senator Spooner and Judge
Moran.
After another song by the club Major
Scofeld spoke briefly and pointedly, as
is his won't showing that the present |
wrong is not with our monetary system
but with the condition of our labor.
When our labor is all we'll employed, |
and we'll paid, prosperity will dawn
upon US, and the only way to bring
that about is to vote on Nov. 3 for
Major Mckinley. Major Scofeld
further said that the vast audiences
that he had seen in his rounds through
the state had convinced him that Major
Mckinley will be our next president.
At the close Mr. Cavanagh called for
three cheers for Scofeld, which were
heartily given.