The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-09-25

Mckinley and Hobart Club Organized
Mrs. ]. Ellen Foster Addresses
Large and Enthusiastic
Audience.

AuOlcnCc.
On Monday evening the republicans of
Corunna and vicinity enjoyed treat by
hearing Mrs. j. Ellen Foster speak in the
opera house, upon the issues of the cam
paign. The house was packed full and the
meeting was very enthusiastic one.
The following members Of the Lincoln
club, composed of men who had voted for
Lincoln, were the vice presidents of the
evening:
Solomon Chapel, Chas. Holman, N.
Grant. A. A. Harper, e. Eveleth, o. F.
Wilkinson, Ii. w. Bigelow, Caleb Mead, j.
Sloan, G. Gale, P. N. Cook, Benz. butcher,
w. A. Weeden, w. II. Lindsey, Geo. d.
Moreau, j. Hicks, ii. b. Youngs, John
Moyses, Andrew Porter, T. Kennedy, Am
brose Austin, David Evans, Eli Martin, G.
Daniels. l.. Warmer, George Weller, DIR.
Tuttle. M. ii. Cole, David Frain, II. Hay
den, John Chapman, w. Robinson, JON
athan Wood, s. w. Cooper, w. e. Jacobs,
j. o. Derr ST., j. Q. Thomas, G. A. Potter,
j. w. Miles, Thomas Lindsay, s. A. Fish,
Abraham Williams.
The first part of the evenings program
was the organization of a Mckinley and
Hobart club. j. G. Knight was appointed
temporary ch airman and A. j. Sutton tenn
porary secretary. Then following the
recommendation of the nominating COM
mittee, the following officers were elected:
j. Ii. Collins, president; DR. W. s. Jones,
Secy.; w. II. Bigelow, Treas; Frank Pea
cock, LIST vice Pres; Fred q. Jacobs, I'd
vice Pres; Chas. Eveleth, Sd vice Pres.
Executive committee, j. II. Collins, w. A.
Rosenkrans and S. b. Symes. The club
has a majority of Corunna's voters, includ-
ing number Of life long democrats on its
roll and will be still larger before election.
Mrs. Alice Kellogg, who acted as presi-
dent of the evening, then introduced the
speaker in speech which was not too long
but was full of spirit and right to the point.
After eulogizing Lincoln, Blaine, Garfield
and Mckinley, she asked, ''Is it any won
der that the women trust the republican
party?" Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe as.
sisted in inaugurating 1t and women have
helped ard aided it ever since.
Mrs. Foster, who has dlgnifed, impress
sive appearance, but so pleasant that she at
once wins the good will of her hearers, then
addressed the meeting, She is one of the
best speakers in the republican ranks and
her services are constantly in demand. 1t
was not often she felt SO honored, she said,
as then, standing on platform filled with
men who had supported Lincoln. It's little
grace to US, but meant great strength in
| them, to follow Abraham Lincoln as we
now follow Mckinley.
The issues of this campaign were declared
by the conventions, the one side by the re-
publicans at st. Louis, the other side by
those who managed to gain possession of the
democratic party at Chicago, led by Mr..
Bryan, young man, but with apparently
no hope in his heart.
Sound money and protection! Why
sound money in the foreground; Mrs. Fos-
ter reviewed the early monetary history of
the country, showing how the leaders of
both parties carefully investigated and
studied to find the exact commercial ratio of
the two metals and finallay agreed that it
was practically Is to 1, which accordingly
was the ratio they decided upon. The gov
eminent cannot make thing so which isn't
so, and 1t was understood to be simply put
tingithe government stamp on thing which
was already so. She also gave quotations
to show that while it was intended to use
both metals at their relative commercial
values, it was at the same time intended
that gold alone was to be the standard. In
1884 the ratio was changed to 16 to 1 to fol-
low the commercial values, q change which
the European countries had also made.
Whenever the value of silver was greater
than the value indicated by the government
stamp, it disappeared. At one time even
the subsidiary currency, which is naturally
oyervalued, became worth so much more
than its face value that it too disappeared.
While we are nation among the nations
of the earth we need an international cur
rency, and that's gold.
In 1869 the government pledged to pay its
debts in gold, as gold was what was bor-
rowed. From III to '73, when it was final
ly passed, a bill framed by treasury experts
was before congress. The silver dollar was
not mentioned in the bill and no provision
was made for its COINAGE.
Mention was made of what the republic
cans had done for silver and the steady de-
cline in its value, of the clamor that the gov
eminent should do more for silver until the
climax came when In answer to an appeal
from President Cleveland that congress
should provide sufficient revenue, the Ding
ley bill came up and passed the house. In
the senate, however, it was killed by the
action of five silver senators from the west
who refused to allow the passage of the