The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1896-10-22
MR.. SPOONER SPEAKS
MAKES A REGULAR, OLD TIMED
A NO. / TALK.
ENTHUSIASM RUNS HIGH
The Man Who Should Represent the State
in the National Upper House, Ex-
pounds the Money Question
Opera House Crowded.

The audience that greeted ex-Sena-
tor Spooner at the opera house Monday
evening was large one, and manifest
ed its interest in the speaker and the
discourse by frequent applause. A
great many were turned away who
could not get seats, and there were not
few who preferred standing to miss
ing the opportunity of hearing ex-Sen-
ator SpOoner.
Senator Timme presided, and after a
song by the Republican quartette, in
troduced the speaker to his friends.
Senator Spooner said that he repre-.
sented two majors, both of whom had
answered their country's call for young
men to protect her honor, and had
joined the army as the rank and file.
Both alike had worked their way up
from the humble position of private to
the exalted one of major. They were
Major Mckinley and Major Scofield.
When the country was in peril, and
disunion threatened, they proffered
their services and their lives In the
army they had been honored by promo.
ton, and since he had left the army
Mckinley had always served the peo-
pie aud the country, and now our peo-
Pile and country were about to give him
the greatest reward possible to them.
the supreme leadership. M
Major scofield's war Record.
| Major Scotield has also served the
people, though in a less conspicuous
way. When the war was about finished
and he had been given his leave of alb
sence, on the eve OF great battle he
declined to accept the leave, but in
stead, planted himself at the head of a.
regiment whose officer had been killed
in battle, and as volunteer officer led
them through the thickest of the fray,
fighting until all but handful of his
men wore melted about him, and he
himself taken to starve for thirteen
months in a rebel prison. This is a
good time to put old soldiers into the
positions of trust and responsibility.
why He Is a Republican.
This campaign is an extraordinary
one in many ways, both in incidents
and in principles. The speaker said
that he was republican, loved the re-
publican party, and believed in the
policy and principles of that party. As
all men are more or less the creatures
of circumstances and associations he
thought that he had probably first
learned to love the republican party
because his father loved it: to believe
in it's principles because his father had
believed in them, and to uphold its
principles because his father had sup
ported them. 1t was matter calling
for sympathy from all true men, that
such democrats us Villas and Bragg
should have to break away from a
party which they loved and with which
thew had affiliated for years, because
it's policy had become unworthy Of it.
Great democratic leaders all over the
country, those who have spent the
greater part of their lives in ldboring
in the interests of the democratic party
and which they considered the good Of
a nation, are now fairly pleading with
the democrats to repudiate the plat
form adopted by the Chicago cOnven-
ton.
The President Upheld.
That platform the speaker declared
a reasonable one. Reasonable be-
cause it denounced tie right given by
the constitution, the right upon which
all union depends, the right for which
we were for four years engaged in a
bloody war, the right of the govern
ment to protect itself. When the
Debs rebellion lin Illinois tempered
with the post, wantonly destroyed the
property and even the lives of our
citizens, the president of the United
States, expressing the authority vested
in him by the constitution, ordered
General Miles to Chicago to protect
the government and to enforce the law.
For this act of judgment and patriot
ism the convention at Chicago, under
the leadership of Altgeld, who declared
that Uncle Sam could not keep his
house IN order without his consent, and
Tillman, who boasted that he came
from the home of secession, denounced
Grover Cleveland as traitor to bis
country and a violator of his oath of
Office. All because he had the courage
to save the eternal principles of Union
for which the boys in blue bled, and
Abraham Lincoln gave his life; because
he dared to maintain and enforce the
laws of the United States, without the
consent of any governor of any state.
The Crime Of 90.
| Another plank in the platform de-
Inounces Cleveland for the $262, 200, 900
of bonds he issued when he saw that
the honor of the country, its financial
credit and prosperity, depended upon
the issue. It's contracts were to pay in
gold, and the gold reserve with which