The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-09-24
7SILVERORIW WAR.
Extraordinary Bryan Speech BY
Judge Kerr, OF Colorado.
TIE VERY VIOLENT WORDsuSElD


/ The following dispatch appeared In the
ST louis Star Sayings Of September is:
oTTuMwA. Ia, Sept. 1s.-"scoun.
drels, thieves. traitors, polsoners, liars,
brlbers. anarchists, manufacturers. 81
paupers. beggars, suicides, hoboes, and
dirty yellow whelps who want 10 ruin
the cnuntry.",
This Is what Judge William Kerr OF
Pueblo, Col. called the Republicans In n
speech 10 900 Popocrats here last night.
and his audience went wild with excite,
ment. With a TRADE OF abuse and in
suit Kerr excited his hearers until they
shouted themselves hoarse.i MA
He said: =
The man who votes for Mckinley Is
traitor TO his own manhood and dis.
grace to his country.'' 81 -
He talked freely Of war II the cause
failed at the polls this fall. He told his
hearers an effort would be made yI''the
dirty. yellow jaundlce whelps" to buy
every vote In Iowa, even IL they had 10
brioe every official In the state to make
IL possible. He said they would gladly
pay $500 a vote. He added: 40
when they come 10 you, take the
money. clothe the nakedness OF your
children, feed, their hungry little bodies,
and then 80 vote for Bryan. God will
justify you" fi-58l 5'G4
He denounced the local Republican
papers as unfit to be read by decent peo-
pie because they advocated the gold
standard. and said the county board of
supervisors had already started TO
thwart the will OF the people by making
gold standard Democrats, whom he call
ed uncomfortable names. judges OF cleo
ton. 20 / 80
The speech caused the mos, Intense
excitement.
The Effect at ot,umwa.
OTTUMW4A, Ia, Sept. % Especially
Judge kerr's speech revealed the Chica-
so platform and the Bryan-Altgeld- TIL
man propaganda In new light to the
people of this vicinity. The revelation
was varied In its effect. Some voters
who were wavering between the two
sides OF the financial question gave the
gold standard the benefit OF the doubt
and came out for Mckinley or Palmer,
shuddertng at kerr's sentiments in yio-
lation OF their love OF good government,
honesty and amenabllity to law. Silver
Democrats claim that his revolutionary
utterances attracted some voters from
the Republicans. Order-loving silver
Democrats repudiate his utterances,
while that dangerous class of citizens
known as agitntors have taken new
life and ore louder and more rabid than
ever. 3. :" !"
Judge Kerr hurt his cause. Working
men, commercial men and some profess
sional men are known to have made the
Kerr speech their reason for debating
uneauivocolly for Mckinley. Their
number is not large. but in community
with so many quantities uncertain, the
moral Influence will be great On the
other hand, though the Democrats claim
converts, their names are not obtaina-
bic. sitel5 ii-
The speech made polite" Supporters Of
the platform of D. B. Hills stripe
ashamed OF it. 1T aroused the lRepubli-
cans to realization of what that plat
form means. as 1t would be interpreted
By the crowd that backs It. There Is a
feeling in Ottumwa, since the Kerr
meeting. that the country must be saw
ed from the hands OF such dangerous
demagogues. 80.
Kerr attempted to made no argument
whatever on the money question, and
his speech could do no good TO the cause
In that respect. The Republican man.
ayers express themselves willing to
trade any revolutionists he might have
made by his anarchist utterances for the
men whom his exposition Of the real
milk in the Democratic cocoanut has
sent to them. a
The fight can now be made In this very
close congressional district with line
drawn between honor and integrity and
reputation and anarchy.
A. W. LEE.
EdItar ntturuu.a CnurIar