The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-22
Whenever that Party Has Been Trust
ed with Power 1t Has shown It's
Lack of Sfatesmanghip.
ALLIANCE FOR SPOILS ONLY
HOW FREE SILVER WOULD AFFECT
wORKINGMEN AND FARMERS,
And why the People Should Not Again
Put Democracy I'm PGwer-Speech
by Hon. Charles l.. Henry.

On friday night Hon. CharleS Il. henry
candidate for Congress in the Eighth dis
| trict, spoke at Anderson and was given
ovation. The weather inclement, but
| that did not prevent Anderson Republicans
| turning out by thousands to hear Mr. Hem
| ry. He was greeted with great enthusiasm,
and when quiet had been restored spoke as
| follows:
Mr.. Chairman, Members of the Mckinley
| Club and Ladies and Gentlemen-It is "A
| pleasure to me TO be greeted this night by
| such an outpouring OF citizens OF my own
| city. For three weeks more / have been
speaking to the people in various parts of
| the district, ana the attendance at the
| meetings is convincing proof that the
| American people are intensely interested in
| the result of the coming election. We find
| strange condition OF AFFAIRS IN some re-
| spects in this campaign. our opponents.
| the Democratic party, who have heretofore
always come up in solid column and united
| in common cause, are this time divided.
! A large portion of that party do not believe
in the Chicago platform or the nominees:
| at the polls than they do for principle, have
allied themselves with the Populist party
| and nominated a man who is a Populist at
| heart, and upon platform wholly in con-
| fiict with former Democratic platforms. BY
and place a man in the White House who
| is unfit to fill the presidential chair; one
| whose every course in life shows the Amer
| lean people that If he We're elected there
! would be experiment after experiment in
stored confidence and renewed business and
| Industrial activity we would expect in
| creased dlStruSt ana business embarraSS-
| ment.
Now. this is a strange alliance. but it is
one that is made up for the purpose of sue
| have heretofore had no kind words for the
| Populists, nor have the Populists ever
! spoken kind word for the Democrats, but
in this campaign they have fallen into each
| others embrace and formed an unholy al
| lance, and in order to accomplish 1t the
| Democratic party, that has uniformly adj
vocated sound metallic currency, has
| taken up with the Populist idea of the free
| coinage of silver. The Republican party,
| on the other hand, comes with it's old-time
platform and doctrines and with one OF its
| old standard bearers, William Mckinley
| lapplause), as it's candidate for President
TO blot out. It rejoices in every line of its
| history and in every act and deed of the
| time. 1t has never been tempted to make
| combinations with others simply for sue
cess, forgetting the principles for which it
| has contended.
Now, feliow-citizens, in this campaign we
have presented TO US a new issue by the
| only issue, an issue over and above all
| others, which must be settled before we
! the American people know that this issue
is but false one brought up to blind the
issue. and that real issue is this: After
| four years of trial the Democratic party
government. (Applause) -Four years ago
| the Democratic party, united, came before
| the people and said: Vote with and put
| us into power and you will have prosperity;
| give us Grover Cleveland and you will have
revenue only or free trade, viii bring pros
| perity and give US the markets of the
world" They said to the laboring man that
| it would increase the number of days he
could work give him higher wages, and at
the same time he would be able to buy
that everything we sold would sell higher
and everything we bought would be bought
standing how it could be that whenever
you wanted to buy anything it would be-
| cheaper and at the same time everything
you wanted to sell would be higher but
that is what they told Now, we have
had four years of experience. and that four
years has convinced the American people
that the Democratic party, either united or
it is like old Governor oglesby once said:
What Talk about the Democratic party
we can do TO run it ourselves" Laugh
ter) But they have presented this false
dodees am anv issue never runs away from
anything, and now comes to the front to
meet them upon the issue which they pre-
sent. and proposes to sweep them from the
political field on the Sd of November by the
largest majority that ever given TO
any candidate or party in the history of
this country. (Applause)
WHAT BRYAN'S PEOPLE OFFER.
What is this they say need? Free
coinage of silver. free and unlimited coin
age of silver, sixteen to one. What is that?
They seem to think it something godlike.
One free-sver man in Anderson that
heard of exchanging whatever money
what he was doing that for, being a free
silver man. Yes" he said, II am a free
silver man. and l getting ready for
free coinage of silver. i am turning all my
money into gold, and when we get free
coinage of silver / will take 1t and get
sixteen dollars for every dollar in gold"
CLaughter) Now, he was little mistaken
on the question. over in Blackford county
another advanced different idea.
While at a threshing shower came up,
and as they waited for the sun to come
out this man got up on a stump and made
a free-silver speech in which he said he
would tell them what sixteen TO one meant.
He said it means that a man in favor of
free coinage of silver will pay sixteen times
as much for a job of work Qaughter) a
god-standard man would That was his
idea. But at indianapolis colored
preacher had about the right idea OF the
situation. He was called upon to preside
at the organization of a Mckinley club.
and on taking the chair said: Fellow
citizens. / have not had time TO study UP
this great economic question, and am not
very well versed in all the intrcacies OF
this free-coinage matter: but as near as
can tell this question of sixteen to one
cratic party succeeds this fail. man will
have sixteen chances to starve against one
shot a little wild on the coinage question,
but was about right on the main facts.
That we will put sixteen times as much
silver in a silver dollar as gold I'm gold
dollar sixteen ounces of silver must make
as much money as one ounce of gold. Now.
we are coming 1t that way, so there Is
nOtnlnB new III lHat, lHeTe Is just sixteen
times as much silver IN the silver dollar as
there is gold in the gold dollar But what
do they mean by free and unlimited coin
age? There have also been a great many
different ideas about that IT does not
mean a free distribution of silver money
at all. and the man in Louisiana who wrote
to Grover Cleveland asking to be appointed
distributing agent when should have
free coinage entirely wrong in his idea
of what il meant If we had free coinage
still could not get the frea-colnage dol
lars IN any other way than TO sell some-
thing for them or work for them They
would still be as hard to get. even II they
were not worth so much when we got
them Then. what is free coinage? First.
| will tell you what Is not free coinage.
Here is as silver dollar coined In 1896. early
in the campaign some Democrats and Popu-
lists had said there had been no silver
coined this year while the fact is that
there has hean more silNar coined this