Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-10-05
DEMOCRATIC MEETING.

| lue opera rouse on saturday nlgh
under the auspices of the Bryan, Sew
all and Rixey Club. Mr.. NJ. B. Harlow
presided and on the stage were Messrs
! H. Strauss, F. E. Anderson, J. T
Sweeney, Col. Daniels, NJ. II. Nash, l.
Marbury, w. II. Smith, G. L. Boothe
and others. The Third Regiment Drum
Corps furnished music for the occasion
MIR. Harlow, in few appropriate re-
marks, introduced Mr.. Stilson Hutchins
es the man who had aoored the great
financial officer fthe District of Colum.
bla. Before presenting Mr.. Hutchins
MIR. Harlow said he wished to express
regret at the interruption that had
taken place at the meeting on the pre-
vious night and hoped in future his
party would not interrupt speakers on
the other siGe, as he and the democratic
party believed in fair play.
MIR. HUI chins said he would liked TO
nave bsen present on tho previous
night 10 have asked Ex-Gov. Cameron
one question, What was Mckinley 60
ing to do if he was elected. His party
promised nothing. but only said we
must have confidence. The speaker
said ne was forced against his will to
believe that the welfare of 80 per cent
of the people depended upon settle
ment OF the money question in Novem-
ber-free coinage OF gold and silver.
He said all republican gold men of any
prominence few years ago were in
favor OF free coinage. Speaking of the
depression Of times and of enterprises
throughout the country, be said there
must be some reason for this.
Mckinley said it was the tariff, and
Perry Belmont said it was the agitation
of the silver question, but for his part,
he believed the reason of the hard
times was the demonstration of silver.
He believed the demonstration was
through conspiracy, organized in Eng
land, the members of which influenced
Congress, and this he gathered from
the Congressional Record. We're he on
a jury, and they on trial, he would send
John Sherman and Sam Hooper, Of
Boston, to the penitentiary for life for
what they had done in Congress. When
the Sherman act, permitting the coin
age of Ssh 100000 year, was repealed,
the conspiracy began in Europe was
ended. They promised us good times
when this act should be repealed. Have
you got them? The fnanciers ofthe Old
World wanted to bring this nation
under the burden of large national
debt. Before the war the debt was
mere bagatelle, but since then the
Rothschilds had schemed TO get control
of the debt of the country. They had
bought bonds at from 40 to rs cents on
the dollar, and thus made thousand
millions of dollars. He thought the
mllionaires should pay an income tax.
They paid no more now than he did to
the extinguishment of the debt.
Mr.. Hutchins told of how Mr.. Sher
man had gotten Congress TO make the
bonds payable in gold, and then de-
monetiZe silver.
A voice-"That's how Sherman
made his millions"
Mr.. Hutchins No, Sherman got TO
be millionaire by only having one
servant, by strict economy and by strict
attention to business. He had said that
he had made his start by operating a |
planning mill Continuing, Mr.. Hutchins
said only Sherman and Hooper knew
at the time that the bill demonetizing
silver had passed Congress. Grant,
Blaine, Garfield, Conkling, Kelly,
Thurman and VOORHEES, did not know
it had passed. After the demonitiza-
ton Bland got up his silver bill, which
Hayes vetoed and Mckinley voted to
pass it over his veto. Under the Bland
bill we had pretty good times, and
there was an increase in wealth. Silver
dollars, he said, which were coined
while Washington was President, were
marked unit of value" and called on
any one in the audience to deny this.
A voice-You might call Brent or
McCuen, but they are not here
Mr.. Hutchins said he was not in favor
of arrayipg classes against classes,
but did not look with fa-
vor on few men making mil
lions while so many could not make
a living. Gov. Cameron had talked
about 81 cent dollars but he meant
only TO hoodwink the people as he had
done once before. He ridiculed the
idea of other countries sending their
silver here-they wanted it themselves.
France. he said, paid the Rothschilds .
per cent. in gold and 90 per cent. in sill
YER, vet Mr.. Carlisle says we must pay
them all in gold; foreign nations want
ed to get our silver down low so they
could buy it cheap and coin it into
their money. He then pitched into the
trusts and said one thing that would
make him vote for Bryan was that if he
was elected no syndicate could go to
the White House and say: 1--WE put
you here, pay us our reward" he
said the trusts could make millions out
of the people by simply advancing
prices fraction of cent and instanced
the sugar and oil trusts and said the
people would not stand them forever
The republicans now say we must be
honest and pay our debts in gold.
WHY, said the speaker, there is not
enough gold in the whole country to
nav the debts and they know it.
There is no gold in circulation now,
nor has there been for some years, yet
we are warned not to descend to Sill
Yer currency when we already have
such a currency.
Mr.. Hutchins in abiding to the gold
money demo Gratis called them pail
bearers" and "nondescripts" and rdi'
culed the idea of Bryan and his party
being anarchists. He urged his hear
ers to stand by the party nominees and
said some times he, himself, had re-
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