The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-02
SHIEL SCORES a POINT
SHOWS WHY THE FARMER Is NOT
GOING TO VOTE FOR BRYAN.
James T.. Watson's Voice Gave oCt ii
Lebanon and the Rushvi1le Con-
gresham May Have to Rest Up.


Special to the indianapolis Journal.
CICERO, Ind. Oct. NEARLY all of
Jackson township turned out here last
night to hear Mr.. r. r. Shiel. Of Indian
apolis. make a Republican speech. The
town hall packed TO the doors, and
Mr.. Shiel said it was the most enthusiastic
The Mckinley Club of Cicero was re-
enforced by TWO hundred members of the
NoblesviIle ciub and fifty from Atlanta.
There were bands and drum corps present
and the air rang with Republican cheers
Mr.. Shiel was raised i'll his county and
is great favorite here He
enlisted from Cicero, ard is we'll known to
all the veterans Mr.. Shiel WAS introduced
by J. A. Hall, the local executive commit
teeman, and spoke in part as follows:
"Thirty-f1ve years ago this last month
was one OF those who answered the call of
Abraham Lincoln for 100000 men. L felt
sure that after four years of war it had
been settled by the sword once and for all
that States rights had been shot to death,
!y in Chicago where they assaied the Pres
ident of the. United States for sending
shed and destruction of property and the
enforcement of the law, and also criticised
the supreme Court of the United States
for the decisions rendered according to the
law and the Constitution in the light in
which they saw 1t. The Supreme Court is
the highest tribunal known to the govern
ment, and when it renders a decision any
true American must bow his head in sub
mission. it is the sole judge. l didn't
vote for Grover Cleveland. and / didn't be-
lleve that he ought to have been elected
President, but when he received a majority
much as the men who voted for him, and
when he sent the troops to stop riot and
If ] had voted for him.
On the money question Mr. Shiel said:
Ihey tell me that the farmers are I'll
coinage of silver but let me show you
why | think the farmer will be the last
is a farmer. and there is just one differ
ence between Colorado farmer and an
Indiana farmer; the former employs cheap
bullion, while the Indiana farmer labors
on the farm himself; Now, Just go, with
the products of a few States. I see two
carloads of silver bullion loaded on train
In and start East hunting man
two carloads of corn, then to Iowa and
take two cars of cattle, in Illinois two
carloads of wheat: from Indiana two, car
loads of horses; from Ohio two carloads
of wool. Going over the mountains of
Pennsylvania. the owners of all the prod.
ucts ride in a car attached to the rear. of
the train. The bullion owner asks the Ohio
man an, Where are you going with your
wool? The Ohio man answers: To New
England; | understand that is the best
owner asks: Where are you going with
your horses?' Indiana answered: To Glas-
cow scotland; that is the pest morse mar
ket at present
"Of the Illinois man he asks: Where are,
you going with your. wheat? The answer
was: Paris, France
Then he asked the Iowa man: Where
are you going with your cattle? To Lon
don. England, ] understand it is the
best cattle market replied the Iowa man.
of the Nebraska man he questions:
Where are you going with your corn?' TO
Germany said he: it is the best corn mar
ket at present.
Then the Indiana man ado addresses the 1n
Western man and says: Mr.. Colorado:
where are you going with your silver?
The answer came: I will leave you at
Harrisburg; I am going to Washington.
has been a Populist Congress and q. Popu-
list Senate elected, and you have all voted
for them and they have had special law
passed for me- Every ffty-three cents
worth of my product is going to be coined
into a dollar under the new law. You
have to hunt the markets of the world
for your product and you have to labor
but I employ cheap labor and produce
mine. and gulled you folks into voting for
Bryan to enable me to get a special law
passed. How do you like it,?
Then the farmers began to see what a
great mistake they had made. After the
Colorado man gets his 81 cents coined INTO
a dollar it is still his dollar and you can't
get any of it,.
Mr.. Shells speech provoked applause that
made the building shake. and after the
meeting many of his old friends gathered
around and renewed old acquaintance. Mr.
Shiel is making his own dates, speaking
twice a week on special invitation. On
Republican League of Boone county. at
Lebanon