Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1896-04-20

made by friends of silver who took the
national platform to mean what it
plainly said to get the Democratic
caucus to give us some relief. New
England Democrats went with the Re-
publicans and trample on your rights
Look at your own state. Who was
nominated by the Democrats for
Senator9 "a voice, "Joe Blackburn. ~
How many refused to vote for him9
"a voice, "Five traitors."0
You were betrayed, bamboozled and
debauched. Take your physic. 1t
will do you good. Let your Court
House rings go to the State Conven-
tion and instruct your delegates TO
Chicago to vote for Carlisle for Presi-
dent, but you had better go out and
hang yourselves as,Judas did. What
are you doing9 You are paying the
taxes andsvotlng for these chronic
officeholders. AS / said, 1 am DEM
ocrat, but what use is party If it is
going to rob you9 Look at your Dem
ocratlc party in Kentucky, when it
was Carrying the state by from 10000
60, 600 majority.
Bob Ingersol said that when Ken
lucky went Republican he would say
there was hell. / don't think Bob
carried out his pledge, but the devil
has got Kentucky certain. II man
Is rotten and dishonest as man, he
can not be honest as Ian official. You
have got to go down among your rank
and file and force some of your honest
men out, like they did me in South
Carolina. Organize; get to work right
away. Get together and agree to be
Democrats,and not John Sherman and
Carlisle Republicans. Redeem the
name OF your state and wipe out the
charge that you are now political
prostitutes. But they tell us (simu-
lating crying) to ''stick by the old
party"
God helps those who help them
selves, and you've got to help your
selves, If you get any help. You
think 1 ought to talk about silver.
I've just been trying to make frame
to put the silver picture in. / want
you TO take this frame home with
you and study it over. will read
you a little extract from a speech
made by one Of your former leaders
(Breckenridge) at Covington.
QUOTES BRECKENRIDGE.
"Now universal trade is founded on
universal money. 1t is impossible TO
conceive of the right to buy and sell
wherever you can buy and sell the best
without the conception of standard
OF value which shall be the same in
all markets and a medium Of exchange
which shall be universally accepted.
1t therefore follows that the necessary
and ultimate goal OF all currency leg
islatlon is precisely the same as that
of all taxation legislation. In the
one case IL is universal free trade, in
the other case tits universally accepted
currency, and the same Limitation
must be observed. Monetary systems
In the various nations are diverse.
We can not separate ourselves from the
world on the one handy can not sud
denly revolutionize our own cur
rency."
This is rot, the worst kind of rot.
This from one Of your former leaders,
although 1 am glad TO say that you
women of Kentucky can give him his
walking papers. Now he is trying to
throw a pepper-box full Of sand in
your eyes. How did the world get
along before the domenetizatiOn OF
silver9 Everybody knows that nations
trade by products, money only being
used in making balances. This is the
kind OF stun that the tariff reformers
are telling Democrats. 1t is Democ-
racy rot. Your gifted Henry Waiter
son used to teach it. Poor Henry; he
was a good free trader, and a good
silver man, but when his masters got
control of the Courier-Journal they
made him grovel in the dirt. IwOuld
rather have taken knife and cut my