The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1896-08-07
JASPER INDIANA. FRIDAY AUGUST Z. 1890
Program Of the Military Operations u
the Soldiers Re.unlon at HUNT.
iagburs. Indiana. August
II. I3 and II, 1876.
.TnE SILVER CRAZE"

md west has reached the s'rohs
oolds of sound money in the east
and is making friends rapidly, de- n
.lares the Atlanta Constitution. r
Among those who have recently
declared their loyalty to Democracy, 4
,s presented through the national /, 4
platform adopted at Chicago, Is ex- n
District Attorney General James Z
". Ridgway, of Brooklyn, close :
uolitical friend Of Mr.. Hill. Mr..
lRjdgway's declaration means not
,nly that Bryan and Sewall are theI
nominees of the Democratic party, h
out he goes further and declares ]
that 49, II
"No better reason exists tor the
Ioyerthrow of the gold party than III
1.-The illustration furnished few DAYS
.;nce when the hoarders of gold In
/ the east were able to release $Zo,-
100 600 of the precious metal from
/, ,ltheir vaults and supply the same 10
the government to prevent ano.he.
slhond issue. which they feared might
elbe fatal to them in the campaign.
> lone might ask why their patriotism
% was not large enough to do the sahe
n nIthing in time to prevent the las'
issue, which increased our
m m,e| nublic debt $15O,OOO,0 600 and com, Io
q pelled the people to pay So ,OOo,Voo
per year in gold to the very
,dlmen who object 10 paying an IN
is come tax.
20 ~ The free and unlimited coinage
'c.Iof silver at the rate of IL to Will OF
n Of the greatest benefit to the people
he m The country is suffering from re-
~ stricted currency. There is nothing
edIin the argument that free colnag
o. will decrease the purchasing powe
nd lof the American dollars.
70 To acknowledge that we mu,
,eY wait for England to adopt blmeta
tesIl Ilism before we undertake to DO :
is to acknowledge that we are II u
ntsIferior to England. You might WI,
I, aIthe same force say that we ougi
rhe not to have built the monitor du
,heIinp the civil war because Englar
rchlhad not yet adopted that style
naval architecture. England i'
rh;s lowed us very closely after we fio'
nm ed the first iron ship, and she "
tbe be compelled to follow us alter
and adopt bimetallism.
snf. This clear and strong stateme
shows that not only party dlscipi,i
eek in re-asserting itself in the east,
theIthat the leaven of true democra
yon is working in the masses ana u
anne the people are being educated
We TO the doctrines which underlie u
VAS Democracy. Another well-kno
;s. convert to the support OF Bryan
tons Sewall is Hon. James A. Gouidi
and formerly commissioner oieducall
,a;na go FIRST vice-president of the Gr,
.antS Army of the Republic, and "
~ president Of the district organ.
ZINC ton { Tammany. Mr.. Gouldi
.t;ne like Mr.. Ridgway, does not 81
'ands for the mere endorsement VI
$40" 'nas sk keleton ticket, but he comes a
yton to the principles which unde
Thay SsO that ticket. He described the
, ~ the government Of the last twenty ye
n,anJ eliminating in the administra
ln" : :" of President Cleveland, who ia
= 'o,, roo 80 to carry out the platform Y
, 80 70 which he was nominated and e
~ go, ed. He finds that both Kep'
.ra M cans and Democrats alike are
= W., Wy satisfied with the existing econ'
elf 10 conditions.
! 90 nor, ~ "Itis from the people that
:. al !. : revelation has to come when
upport manus eh oha us covernment is
'iJ;si hal;si ducted," says Mr.. Goulding.
cation alton sees everything to hope from
'o smch free coinage of silver at 10 TO
! ss,,;,a sui looks for victory Of the DE
! 'a anJ racy in the state Of New YORK
3 M a." because Of the candidates
p'u'o because Of the latform, VIII
-. Co.. pre.eminently the expression
ne =, .nd ID wishes of the great masses 0
"a, pamm ~" people Of America. -Evar
e ,,ary Courier.