The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1896-08-28
THE NIGHT MEETING
The B.sees. Political Gathering Ever
seen In This City.

The Biggest Political Gathering Ever
Seen in This City.
The evening meeting In the big tent
was even larger In point Of numbers
than the afternoon meeting, and fully
It's equal In the manifestations OF en-
thusiasm. It was undoubtedly one Of
the largest, II not the largest political
gathering ever assembled In the state.
Long before the time OF opening the
stream Of humanity commenced to pour
into the tent and by 1850 fully 5000 peo-
pie had arrived. At 3 o'clock, the time
set for the meeting 20 commence, every
seat In the vast auditorium Wa pccii-
pied, ana great banks OF humanity rose
everywhere from behind the rear rows
of benches. It was estimated that not
less than 1900 people were within the
confines of the canvas while outside
were hundreds waiting their turn as
occasionally some OF those In the rear
dropped out.
Hon. Stewart l.. woodford,s Speech.
Men of Ohio;
come to Columbus again with mingled
pleasure and regret am glad TO meet and
greet old friends, bnt cannot forget that
closed our Joint discussion on the tnaiice
question. Since then he has passed away.
He was courtly gentleman. u brave sol.
rssd persuasive ~ ; SIat n. s aaSos thf"
Our debate was upon the resumption q
denied tho wisdom. the justice and the
possibility OF such resumption and de-
ma Aal Nhn ~ ehs, Las
We Republicans stood by the law and said
squarely that II we given the power
We would compel It's ltion. Ohio voted
With US By small bur sure majority, and
every grcenback dollar, whether held BY
bank or workinRman, has been as good as
gold. The grsenback Is n promise and full
hllment has made and keeps that promise
To-day The form Of the finance question
y changed. But the essential fact, that ID
back OF the form, remains. l believe that
It viii remain as long as legal tender paper
TEN.
Today our Democratic friends state this
question thus: "Shall we open our minis
e, the free and unlimited coinage Of both
ont waiting for the aid or consent Of any
other uatlon7
You will remember that our mints are
open today to the FREQ unlimited eoluage
b.tA Wtkuuut tHutt3H ANA MktAuub ~
strietion except as to weight and hneness.
They are closed ny 70 silver. The Dem.
ocratic party demands this free and unlimited
cotnnge Of silver. In this demand II Il
supported by the Peoples party.
The Republican party OPPOSES the nnlim.
lied coinage OF silver except by interna.
tional agreement with the leading CONNER
eial nations Of the world. The Republican
national agreement, but Insists that until
such agreement can be obtained the exist.
Ing gold standard must be preserved.
The democracy further demands that tho
legal tender paper issued by the govern
ment Shall be radeemabie In coin.
Inc Peoples party makes NO such 70.
str,ctlon, but demands n national money
y. un, DC Issued BY the general government and
that the volume OF circulating medium No
speedily Increased.
believe and shall try to prove that the
e eIas 9 Of Democracy, II honestly car.
oss s and make our legal tender paper
This II lust where Mexico, China and
innia are. II ls silver monometallIsm.
Honest fulhllment of PopulIst pledres
", Monla put ps on paper basis. redeemahle
W paper and In paper alone, und lust where
10 n CIVILIZED land In the world Is today. Ii
deePabis s in .Ssp SSe q sSsp bubbles
or foundation for any suDerstriictnre ~
business farming or labor. VI
1T sIfeueeninbie paper money always beEcts
crease. And such Increase has aiwass ende.i
IN reputation. e''Nsu
For convenience let me consider the Pom.
c n,,si position first. and then the Demo.
The world has had three experiences ot
nopaiist finance within the last two hundred
r John ~. Law ,,, the minister ., finance in
every scrap Of his paper issues was fnai I
repudinied. Tint WIS during Tho ahsnin,s
re lin q the Bcurbons. M a''''"''
an, rhe FRENCH r. l republic tried the experiment
asaln ~ lISV ana continued II for sever,
years. The Grent Tallyrand fought the n.
sue OF paper money by the government
NE soine1 the entire argument Into these
The nsonic lou ab can IN indeed arrange 1t so that
SAND frames In paper instead Of a thousnns
francs ~ specie. but you can never ar,nrs...
y , 20 ,hat man shall he obliged 10 riSs
frsnSs ~ na rpsnes ~ s,eeie for thousand
,ae entire question, and on account Of tbat
Iact the Whole system falls He W.s
T Thass i.s ?: me clo1uence of MIrabenu'
nsis Ths aes re o. paper were called asslg.
OF tnirty.six Thousand million francs. rhnv
were nnt Kept At par. They cOuld no, ~
every ever " poisb,c Ts snn sov e exercised
even employed tho sullotine and bebc,Il MY
10 argue against II. "atuu
al,Ion Ten issm 100, they deereed nm nd.
mahaa,s. They decreet, and j quote tsa
exact Language OF their decree, thst ,ha. s
n INV PAPER money should be fully secured
n aa ,~ a. E ;nSi u.s. gold" The nandats rose
Some OF The. previous Issue az assirn ons.
Wrre FUNDED Into these new tnandnts a.,
All asni ,ns French republic had out over thlrtys
Sney o aiio@ns a faauc fra n IN sPss
,hsS had issued 5000, 900 Of I MINER
money. THIS Is what the finmnciai tin nih..
.n,po, M srensh assembly found TO be the
q business aud population and to s res,nro
W.. .ns luss level OF prices OF labor nroInr'
t tSS ,oa Ia s.' nss f'9S gplotpe smpasse
provdIn= sueh i ~ ss French assenbly in
ven, inc decentralization OF the lawful mbnn,
o. France by private contract. 1 " ~
ss a,. tne words Of the ~. Louis MAI
and se ~ prai v, anu you can apply iext
tempt failed. The gold colin then ralis.,
louis ana afterwards napoleon was x,anI
ny Inotcu at nm advancing premium ,i"r-
nnye ere w sn NJ paper money debauch There
lne paper ut lust the price which rho h,uIy
Ness common sense OF France knew u"..
, ,Se. the actual difference In value hetwe. s
.hht PAPER nnl the gold. The crash Tr',
ly came. In February, INA one ~ ~ nhnl-
gold bought 2SS francs OF the nansr ~, -
n ,Sa s for as much bread cloth or labor a ns
majority of 2sS to the rniJbnvs H., ~
Gu tue PAPER moth and It was ineyi,n,,i...
The crash came. aud the day after III, ....,',
inc paper money of the great repubIis .
whose soldiers were then nnrchiny ~ ~
umph over Italy and through terirnI IN
rope, was worth just what al equal amo ,
OF equally good PAPER made for any oih.s
purpose was worth In The paper fsc, ",Ier
o. France. u was paper pulp aud n l.iis