Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-08-14
HOT SPRINGS. SOUTH DAKOTA, FRIDAY, AUGUST "a 1885,

.OlA, FRlDAY, AUG
FOR FREE SILVER.
The Popocratic Meeting Saturday Night a
Viewed by vox Ponnli.
Some Office holders, some would-b
Office holders, and few real silve
> men, assembled early at the cour
house and proceeded to organize b!
!, electing Col. A. j. Kellar, an ex-repub
lican, chairman, and Thos. H. Wells
|, an ex.pop, ex-republican, and ex-dele
}, gate to the last republican state con
vention, secretary Col. Kellar OF
taking the chair made quite an ex
tended address but failed to show, in
our opinion, q reason why eny one
:. should support the democratic ticket
nominated at Chicago. On the con
trary his mistrust of the democratic
party of the past should be sufficient
to throw great doubt over its course in
the future. The democratic party is
sick from too big dose of free trade
and like the devil they are having q
mock repentance, but like the devil
if successful it will be the same old
unreliable party.
"When the devil was sick,
The devil monk would he;
When the devil got we'll
Then IL devil of u monk was he.''
The colonel was cheered but little as
his speech was too much argumenta-
tive in form to suit the crowd. Like
the Rush bottom dancing parties, they
wanted something quick and devilish,
and when Capt. Lawless took the floor
they had it. 1t was a regular old fash
ioned calamity howl and the more he
howled the more the crowd cheered.
Noise was what they were after and
they got it in full doses. Ifthe captain
presented fact during the whole time
we failed to catch on; but statements
from calamity papers he made by Tie
scores. He did advance one original
/ idea in the statement that the old SOL
diers at the home were fed awful poor
grub, but now as election was approach
ing they had beefsteak, mutton chops,
ham and eggs, etc. We hardly know
whether this charge is made in the in
terest of honest money or free coinage,
as Capt. Phillips, the home commits
sioner, is free silver and Capt. Lucas
iS cn,1n1 ,,,onnx, R,,+ C,,,% Tou,lo,,
said it was SO and that we might put it
in our Eires and smoke it. Whether
true OF not we think this was the best
argument the captain made for the
free and unlimited coinage of silver
without waiting for any other nation
in the world, although James G. Blaine
in his great speech in 1878 on the free
coinage bill said it would be ruinous
to do so, and our friends the enemy
are quoting Blaine to show that he was
for free silver, and so he was and SO is
the republican party under the same
conditions that James G. Blaine con-
tended for. With few quotations
from Shylock's play the captain sub
sided. And the great friend of labor
and the great workman himself Judge
p. G. Dudley arose, made such plea
for the laboring man that it would
have drawn tears from the Indian cigar
sign. What the judge doesn't know
about labor and free silveris not worth
knowing. The only thing that the
Judge is in doubt about is whether
when the silver idea becomes law
the silver will be distributed at our
homes or whether we will have to go to
the court house after it. But judge is
rather of the opinion that it will be
brought to our homes, as going to the
court house would require little too
much time and exercise forus laboring
men. We paid strict attention to the
judge but for the life of us could not
see his arguments, although he GER
tainly made many, as the crowd was
continually bowling. After the Judge
had labored more perhaps than he has
since he made his great speech of con-
graduation to our citizens on the
election of Grover Cleveland as presi-
dent four years ago, he left the stage
in a state of almost complete collapse.
The real object of the meeting was
now taken up and that was, as stated
by that great laboring man Meredith,
of Edgemont, the selection of CON-
mittee of nine, from the democrats,
pops and silver republicans. three from
each, as an executive committee to see
about county offices and pull for their
election. When the offices were men.
toned about two thirds of the audience
pricked up their ears and they were
all attention. Most of the committee
from each of the parties was selected
from Hot Springs, which we think in.
dicates that they want most of the