Birmingham state herald., 1896-02-22

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 was worth four years ago that is not 1 busted tonight I know some people 1 whose rents were $500 year four years | ago, and whose taxes were $150, who got | in rents in 1895 $500 and paid $225 taxes 1 Incomes diminishing and taxes increas- | ing. Had the same money been invested | in bonds or mortgages the income from l it would have been the same then and 1 now. A farmer who owes $500 and makes | five bales of cotton at 10 cents, realizes | $250. Interest $50, taxes $10, support of | his family $100, leaving $90 to pay on his | mortgage. The same farmer, with 5 | cent cotton realized $125. Interest $50 l taxes $10 (possibly increased), support of | family $50-the latter for the sake of ar | gument only-well it is not 50 per cent | less-leaving $15 to pay on his mortgage. 1 These are object lessons. They demon | strate condition, not a theory" And | this condition follows the gold standard | policy of our goldbug president and his | goldbug followers. No man is benefited l by an appreciated money but the clipper i of solvent coupons and the owner of | mortgages. Neither the industrial capi- | talist nor his employees are benefited, | nor the merchants, lawyers, doctors, etc, | who live off the earnings of the people. | How in the name of common sense an
 individual or government can strengthen l it's credit by borrowing from Peter to | guarantee Paul, when both have the | same chance at the assets, is to me | financial c0nundrum. Yet such is the | policy of the republican party and the | nominal head of the democratic party, I against which to raise a protest is rank | heresy.
 Debts contracted payable in coin are paid in gold by mugwumpian converted secretary of the treasury. I wish l was 1 secretary about fifteen minutes-not
 longer for fear I might be converted"
 by insomnia or otherwise. I would just 1 like to pay few million of "coin' obliga 1 tions in silver at the pleasure of the
 secretary of the treasury" But say our l gold standard friends that would sink | the ship. We'll she has already been "scuttled" by the money shark sand bond conspirators and sinking would put | her out of sight. But she would not sink; on the contrary, her mast would tower | towards the heavens. and her white sails l of pure Jeffersonian democracy would stiffen with the breezes of universal pros- | perity, and her colors would shine in l the glorious sunlight of a >rejuvenated democracy like the variegated colors of the rainbow, when the mist is kissed by the morning sun. (Applause).
 1 A great deal has been said about loy alty to MT. Cleveland. Gentlemen, I am | democrat; in fact, I am a partisan-So much so, indeed, that I am opposed to l planting democratic doctrines in republi- | can soil and cultivating the crop by re- | publican office-holders. It matters not | Wnetner ne De secretary or Sldlt UT d | fourth-clasS postmaster l would be such | a partisan as to put only democrats on | guard. We'll, have been wanting to hol-
 low for our president long time, and l when he pinched the British lions tail l with the Monroe doctrine pinchers l just | yelled-in fact, louder than the lion l roared-and before he could close his mouth it was filled with United States
 bonds. Loud laughter and applause) Gentlemen, I am opposed to going | down into the murky waters of republi- | can doctrine, led by the hand of demo- | cratic president, so-called. and baptized | by John Sherman, while the valleys and | hollows ring with the discordant music l of his converted followers.
 l Gentlemen, the issue Is plain: On one | side is a Cleveland edition of mugwump- | ian democracy, espoused by a postoffice | press. with a few honorable exceptions, | and championed by "blue-eyed destiny I on the other side old-fashioned. time
 honored democracy, espoused by the peo- | ple and press and championed by the | honest honored, loyal and red-headed son of Jefferson. So far as am concerned | I shall stand by the latter. Loud ap- | plause.)
 Dan A. Green.
 l Attoreny Dan A. Green spoke as fol I MT. Chairman and Fellow-C Citizens:
 | "I take pleasure tonight in proclaim ] ing to this large audience my hearty ana l unfaltering indorsement and support ol | Captain Johnston's candidacy. 1 am l MT Chairman, what is known as golu- l bug, being opposed to the free ana un- l limited coinage of silver at 16 to l, but | I support Captain Johnston because he | deserves my support as true and loyal | democrat. I give him my hearty support | because there has never been tlme WIen | Captain Johnston did not freely give ms l time. talents and money to further the | success of the democratic party. l give | him my support, above all because De- | lieve his nomination will tend to reunlte | and harmonize the conflicting factions Tn
 our grand old party; to once agaln orihs l the white people of our beloved state to- | gether and insure party success. 1Applause) indorse him because l he seeks the office fairly, open l ly and honestly, and not un- l der the spacious guise that he IS con | tending for principle merely, at per | sonal sacrifice, and against his personal | wishes The democrats of Alabama | value the office of governor too hlghly 10 | bestow 1t upon one seeking 1t under such | false and fimsy pretenses. Princlpiet v l Where was Dick Clarke in the dark days | from 1872 to 1876, when the people or Ala | hama under the leadership of Joe John- l ston, were engaged in death struggle | for the principles most vital to them- | selves, their government, aye tneir very | existence?, Let not the democrats out l side of Jefferson be deluded with the idea | that we democrats of Jefferson can be l driven from the support or Captain Jonh- ! ston hv such false and mis- l leading plea. (Applause) We may l he divided on questions of finan- | cial policy, but he asks no sacrifice Of l opinion on that score, and the occasion | demands none; and the hundreds or en- ! th,,sjastic administration democrats in this county testify by their hearty sup | port of Captain, Johnston that our party shall be a reunited and triumphant de- | mocracy shorn of prejudice. biogtry and l intojerance. When young man Lincoln l raised a company of soldiers for the pur- nose of fighting the Indians. His men | came from the stores, shops and farms. l and were blissfully ignorant of the man. l ual or evolutions, and their captain had l no advantage of them on that score. | While on their way to the scene of war | they were marching in company front, | ,torn fQnna the