The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-12

sionally can be seen walking up and
down the street; but he is practically
4 forgotten by the present generation of
/ politicians.
AS a public speaker he was grave,
dignided and deliberate. He en-
deavored to carry conviction by an un-
anSwerable argument When inter-
ested in a subject he would use SEN
! fences of three and four hundred
words, which were so involved that it
was difficult for the ordinary listener to
make head or tail of them. His style
Of expression was widely criticised
and his only reply was: No one but
criminals should object to long sem
fences"
COMBINES REToRT.
It will be long time before worthy
successor of Roscoe ConkIing is found.
AS an orator he ranked head and
shoulders above the best. He was al
ways at the service of the Republican
campaign manager and was the hot
test kind of a partisan man. He was
the central figure Of the famous sos
which stood for Grant in the Republi-
can convention of 1880 Nothing could
phase him. At a political meeting,
where one of the audience called him
an aristocrat, he answered: 81 am
the sweat of my brow. 1t does not
seem to me that it makes any differ
ence whether this perspiration is on
the outside or on the inside of my
head
After the war John A. Logan Won
much fame as a political speaker, and
he talked as he fought. There was no
pretense of highly vanished rhetoric.
He went at everything in slam-bang
style, seeking to overwhelm the OPP
position by the force and vigor of his
argument.
The richest word-painter of them all,
Robert G.. Ingersoll, is still in the har-
ness. His nominating sDeech at the
Cincinnati convention of 1876, in which
he eulogized James c. Blaine as the
'Plumed Knight" viii live forever in
the histories of political campaigns
More than twenty years ago he de-
livered a speech at Cooper Union, New
York. to an immense audience, and
what he said there is closely allied to
the great issue of the present cam
paign. Here it is:
Il am in favor of honest money. I
am in favor of gold and silver. and
paper with gold and silver behind it.
/ believe in silver, because it is one of
the greatest American products, and
l am in favor of anything that will
a@@ to the value Of an American pro-
duct. But 1 want a. silver dollar worth
gold dollar, even if you make it or
have to make it four feet in diameter.
No government can afford to be a
clipper OF coin. A great republic can
not afford to stamp lie upon gold or
silver Honest money, an honest peo-
pie, an honest nation.
When our money is only worth 80
ce-.s on the dollar, we feel 20 per
cent below par. When our money is
good, we feel good When our money
* as par that is where we are 1 am
a profound believer in the doctrine that
for nations, as well as for men, hon
esty is best, always, everywhere and
forever.
What section of this country, what
party, will give US honest money
honor bright-honor bright? 1 have
been told that during the war we had
plenty of money. I never saw il
lived years without seeing a dollar 1
saw promises for dollars, but not dol
lars. And the greenback, unless you
have the gold behind it, is no more
a dollar than a bill of fare is dinner.
You cannot make a paper dollar
without taking a dollars worth of
panAr- We must have the paper that
represents money. 1 want it issued by
the government, and I want behind
every one of these dollars either a gold
or a silver dollar, so that every green
back under the flag can lift up its
hand and swear, I know that my re-
deemer liveth'"