The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-09-26

SOUND MONEY CROWD
]. Sloat FasSett Addresses
a Large Audience in
Poh1mann's Pavilion.
FIREWORKS AND ENTHUSIASM
Hundreds Cheer for an Honest
Currency The Fremont
Clubs Parade.
W AND ENTHUSIASM

The Republicans opened the compaign
IN earnest in this county last night by
holding a big mass meeting in Ponlmann's
Hall. The affair was held under the
auspices of the Hudson County Republic
can Committee, who spared neither time
nor money TO make it effective. The
speaker of the evening was ]. Sloat Fas-
sett of New York.
About 1900 people, of whom at least 200
were ladies, listened to Mr.. Fassett ex-
pound the cause of sound money and
condemn William Jennings Bryan and the
Democratic party in general.
Previous to the meeting about 1fe
bers of the Fremont Club, heade
drum and fife corps and the
Battalion, in full uniform, msr
the Five Corners, where they were 1ea
by the Orion Battery of the Fifth ward,
which was fifty strong. The procession
then marched back to the hall, through
the principal streets of the Heights.
All along the line of march fireworks
were set off. which soon caused a crowd
to gather, so that by the time the pro-
eession reached Pohlmann's there was a
large audience there.
The meeting was presided over by DR..
Ilamor Allen, Who with fourteen vice.
presidents and five secretaries, occupied
the temporary stage erected for the &C.
,asion at the head of the big pavilion.
Behind the people upon the stage was a
large American flag, which was the only
sign of decoration in the entire place.
The vice-presidents were:-D. N.
purreil, A. B. Dayton, John
E. Macarthur, j. C. Meharg, Emil
P. H. Mehl. Henry PattbeFg. H.
Hesse, William H. Furman, George Tay-
Ter, Edward Savage, Walter Wirths,
Herman Hansen, Henry Roelfs and John
Doscher.
The secretaries were:-C. e. Siebert,
Andrew Knox, Robert NJ. Henry, H. H.
Williams and John Koeplinger.
There was no speech making previous
to Mr.. Fassett,s. DIR. Allen made a few
remarks of welcome in opening the meet
ing, and introduced the star" of the
evening. AS Mr.. Fassett stepped to the
front of the stage he was greeted with
a fiattering ovation
He spoke for an hour and a half, and
d.d not seem TO. grow weary. Among
other things he said
Il have been brought tonight here to
talk to you about the coming campaign,
and l will start in by telling you that
times We're never worse thar they are
now. And Mr.. Bryan. the Democratic
candidate for President. says that the
crime of 1873 is the cause of it. Let me
tell you hat previous to 1873. when we had
an unlimited coinage of silver at a ratio
Of Is to /, there were only 100000 silver
dollars coined, while since 1873. when the
government abolished the free coinage of
silver, there has been 433, 5000 0 silver dol
lars coined; which only goes to prove
that the abolfshing of the free coinag
system has had nothing to do with caus-
ing the hard times
Bryan's remedy of a free and unlim-
tied coinage Of silver at a ratio of 16 to
J., is like that of the country physician
who threw his patient into a fit and then
cured the fit but not the disease
The speaker then ave a lengthy ex-
PLANTATION of money was and was
about to branch off upon Bryan. when
some one in the audience shouted OUT
What's the matter with Coxey?"
Hes all right replied Mr.. Fassett;
hes with Bryan. and they're a good
team
Continuing, the speaker said:-
Confidence is absolutely necessary to
restore trade among civilized people, but
Bryan says restore prosperity and Wen
nave confidence. But We cannot have
prosperity until We lave confidence.
The Legislature cannot alter the value
CT a dollar or anything else. By the
leg stature making an inch a foot, I
would be sixty-eight feet high. vet
would be no nearer. the ceiling. It can
Change the names of things, my friends.
but not their value.
A man with gold goes to the mint now,
ana with the gold value simply asks the
government to. put the stamp on ii.
Bryans idea is, that any one having ST.
Yer should be allowed 10 go to the mint
aml ave a collar stamped upon 81
cents worth of the stuff. Where would
Lncie sam come in on that transaction,
Il ne made a 81 cents silver dollar worth
a 100 cents gold fdollar2 Why he would
hurt England. I'll tell you how 1t would
hurt that country. People would take 4
half million dollars of gold to Europe,
buy raw silver, and bring it back 70 his
country and have it coined into a million
dollars. Several repetitions of that kind
would soon put all the gold in this coun-
Try n Great Britain. That my dear
England.
free and unlimited coinage of silver
would necessitate new mints, and as Mo
Kinney says, we 90 not need more minis.
We need more money and factories Cheap
money makes cheap men and higher
prices. Bryan would have you believe
that the classes are arrayed against the
are no classes or masses. : The poor man
TO-DAY is liable to be rich tomorrow. and
the Tich man poor: Every man has an
eqaaI opportunity in this country.
because when a bank fails it is not the
banker VINO feels it but the poor man
and when the rich man fails it is the
Worklngman and the poor people who
He was a~pplauded occasionally through
out his speech. but at no time was there
any marked enthusiasm.
A. P. Colvin, State Treasurer of New
YORK. was the next speaker, and was fol-
loWed by Or. n. e. Snyder, of Hoboken.
who was the last speaker.