The Butler weekly times., 1896-08-06
EX-GOV. JOHNSON.
An Able Speech by the Gifted and
Eloquent Criminal Lawyer.
Made Mt the Bryan Ratification Held
tSt. LOUIS Mo.


at ST. LOUIS Mo.
Post Die patch.
Gov. johnson was then introduced
and the applause that greeted him
must have spurred him to his best,
for his speech was one Of the hits Of
the evening.
Gov. Johnson commenced by say.
ing that he did not propose to talk
more than Is or 20 minutes--that it
was q time and occasion for iollifi-
cation and congratulation, and not
specially for the discussion at length
of the issues involved in the cam
paign. He went on to say that for
tunately the action of both parties
had left but one principal issue,
around which all others revolved;
that that issue was unquestionably
the most important that had been
presented to the American people
since the war.
He said he knew it was the habit
of speakers at every election to mag.
Nifty the importance of questions
presented, but there was no reasons
to doubt the assertion made at this
time. The agitation of questions be-
fore the people very frequently inn
PEELED party leaders and parties into
positions over which they had ap.
parently no control. The tendency
OF the Republican party for the last
eight or ten years eliminated in an
attitude which very conservative
members of that party would have
prevented if it were possible. That
tendency was towards the centraliza.
tion of power, the encouragement of
the protected interest OF the country,
and to place the principal go5ern-
ment machinery into the hands of
those who represented the moneyed
power and strength of the nation.
The Governor continued as fol-
lows:
Anyone who was an observer of
what led to the nomination of Nc.
Kinley and the adoption of the plat
form in st. Louis at the Republican
Convention, will see how that party
reached it's ultimate in the abuses
that had crept into it for the last
decade. There never was presented,
since the day of the Roman Empire,
when the crown was purchased from
the Pretorian Guards, picture of
as fragrant purchase of the candi.
dacy of great and powerful office.
1t could not be said of Mr.. Mckinley
that he openly espoused any such
purchase, but he represented the
principles of those who have control
OF the interests that I speak of, and
was the ablest servant that they
could obtain or select for their pur.
poses.
1T was evidently the intention of
many of the leaders of the Republi.
can party, before the assembling of
that convention, to adopt a platform
the less extreme in its declarations;
but the demands of the moneyed
power of the East, representatives
of the bond holders of Europe, pre-
vented it. New York's demand,
through her delegation, was that the
word gold" should be in the plat
form. Sound money would not do.
1t must be gold-gold-gold And
so it is put down in the contracts ,snd
the Republican party is pledged to-
day, It's strength and entirety as
party, to the Endorsement of the
crime of 1S13in demonetizing silver,
and to the sustaining as against all
our local interests the policy of the
bond-holders of England. Mr.. Nc
kinley's chief representative could
not prevent such declaration in the
platform. Ard the insertion of the
statement that they favor bimetal-
iism by international agreement is
an insult to the intelligence Of the
American people, for it never has
yet been known in the history of an
autocratic power for the creditor to
relinquish willingly any right he may
possess.
mo wonder that Senator Teller