The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-08-09

II g-yszh-~s- 70 7Sarnr7a was introduced
ard he made tie humorous spe@cA OF tae
ewsring Several times be attempted 10
quit, ss the hoa- was growing LAKE. but
ire audience xas so delighted with the
humorous poIntS and salhss he made thzt
h. was compelled 10 talk Until IL Was
about midnight He said that az a Demo
cratic rally a. Tacc-ns a short tire sine
ha vas told that the Republican party was
dead aus re knew Il was untrue. and from
the appearance of the audience before
hira. ard other indications. Il would prove
a verv lively corpse -Four years ago
when everything and every body was pros
porous ard the people did not have ttu2e
10 think a Democratic administration was
foisted upon rs, but now We have time 20
think and are doing some pretty tall
thinking"
Mr.. Cushman held that ne financial IS
sue was a false one. The true issue. he
said. Is protection. and not the coinage OF
8 ia. dollar. The Republican party would
not dodge that issue. on the contrary Il
~Sais 1ieet II On every stump in the state
OF Washington tAp7lsGsel Thick have
dug up the rag baby OF the old green
hackers, and are going about the country
with L. claiming that X IS stil alive. The
Democrats say that we need more
money. There was plenty OF money
during the administration Of Presi-
dent Harrison. and now when
they have stepped every industry IN
The land, ard there is 10 work for labor.
they are crying, Give US more
money. The laboring man SAYS there IS
something wrong, and something Is
wrong We are not bothered 50 much
with financial headache. however as We
are with Democratic bellyacne. IL took
Us from 1873 until now 10 find out that we
were sick. and then Il was only when we
ate the Democratic green apple thaE we
found II out" uong and loud applause-l
Mr. Cushrnan then said that the coinage
OF more money would not put money IN
our pockets. IF a pyramid OF dollars
with q foundation as broad as the earth
and whose top reached Up to the giittering
stars were coined we would not get
single dollar OF IL without giving in re-
turn a dollars worth Of labor They say
that we want a dollar that viii circulate.
In that case we would better coin IL with
legs upon H."
Then he asked his auditors IL they had
ever heard the wheels in Guvnor Teats
head revolve. II asked him during le-
bate that we had on the money question
how he proposed to have the fiat money
which the government viii coin. circulate.
If the Pops get into power. and ne replied:
The government will pay IL TO the Goa
gressmen, and they in tuen viii spend IL
among the people. Then the people will
pay il back 20 the government for taxes
That was a great financial whiriig}g,
wasn't it?' loud applaGse.l
Then he told the story OF a man who
had a COW and no feed for her, and when
asked how she was going 70 live, said she
would suck herself and live on the milk.
There are some people. he said, who think
this government can live by sucking IS
own teats, and az the same time support
IS. 100000 OF people.
Then he spoke of the reference TO the
income tax in the Democratic platform.
and said that under the Democratic adj
ministration the people had no income 70
tax. Then he said that the Democratic
claim that Thomas Jefferson favored free
trade and free silver was false, and proved
IL by quoting Jeffersol's language he
said when he saw Jefferson's picture AT a
Democratic meeting IL gave him pain n
his patriotism, as there was as much dif-
ference between Jeffersons Democracy
and the modern article as there was be-
skunk cabbage.
With such saliies as these Mr.. Cushman
kept the audience IN a roar OF laughter
for nearly an hour.
At the conclusion of his speech three
rousing cheers were given for Mckinley
and the Republican party, and the audi
ence filed out of the Armory 10 the strains
of Aud Lang Syne" by the band.
over a0 enthusiastic Republicans from
Ballard were at the meeting. A few of
them were for free silver when they came
in, but after listening 10 the speeches
most of them were brought back into the
Republican fold.