Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1896-10-10
AblaZe with
.....OratOry.
Big Democratic Meetings Held
i'm Snow Hill, POcOmOkc
and Newark.


this district, when he opened his cam
paign in the Court House here last
Tuesday. Thursday was the day set
by the State Committee for Mr. Miles
to come to Snow Hill but the local
workers for Bryan, Sewall and Miles
thought Tuesday better day, as it
gave the people an opportunity not
only TO hear the speaking but to get
registered, so Mr.. Miles complied with
the request and came here TO address
the people on Tuesday instead of
Thursday. He was accompanied to
Snow Hill by his private Secretary,
Mr.. BENJAMIN Greene.
The meeting was called to order by
Mr.. Robert n. Todd, of Colbourns
district and Mr.. o. NJ. Purnell, one of
the editors of the MESSENGER was
made chairman. Mr. Miles told the
people that he had always been a
bimetallist and the only difference be-
tween him and the most ardent silver
advocate was the method by which
the money of the constitution could be
restored TO the people. He said he
bowed to the will of his party and he
wished it understood that he endorsed
every plank OF the Chicago platform
and every letter of it. He said that
the convention which nominated Will
liam Jennings Bryan was bossed by
no politician, and was the most thor
oughly Democratic convention which
has assembled in this country for
many years The delegates TO that
convention knew what they wanted
and they would have nothing else.
Mr. Miles is not in very good health
but he made good speech and i'm
pressed everyone who heard him as
being an honest straightforward man,
as far above his Republican competi-
tor in point of ability to fill the office
of Congressman 10 the credit of this
district as--well comparisons are
Odious. but we can saw truthfully
that almost any county in the distric,
could have furnished the Republicans
an ADLER man even had il been She'll
pile Link.
Major William + Stewart. of Tai
bot county, followed Mr. Miles at the
afternoon meeting and he made one Of
his characteristic speeches, which
never fail TO please. lie says Bryan
Is sure Of election.
At night the meeting was presided
over by Mr.. Charles :. Richardson
who introduced as the speaker of the
evening, Mr. Ernest T. Baldwin, Audi
tor Of the United States Treasury.
He made one Of the strongest argu-
ments for the tree coinage Of silver
ever made in this country. He was
not in good voice, because he had been
speaking outdoors in Baltimore and
had caught had cold, so he started
in 10 talk in conversational manner
TO his audience. which was an appre-
ciative and attentive one. il not very
large. He stated at the opening that
he proposed TO give figures which
would not lie as they were all certified
to by the L. S. Treasury Department.
lie soon warmed up to his work and
although he dealt largely in figures, of
which he seemed to be full. hardly
ever referring to printed tables. vet
he held his audience and taught his
hearers more about the money ques-
ton than they had learned from the
public press during the entire cam
paign. He said it was the talk Of
fools to say that free coinage would
bring to this country the silver of
other countries, whose ratios are lower
than is To /. In France l5l ounces
of silver is dollar, then would not a
Frenchman be crazy to give halt
ounce more for an American dollar.
Mr.. Baldwin is in position TO thor
oughly understand the money question,
and we believe he knows il better than
any Secretary Of the Treasury now
alive. He has been commended by
President Cleveland as being one OF
the most competent officials in the
employ of the government. And al
though he is opposing the attitude Of
the administration, by taking the side
of 'iree silver" yet he is too valuable
man for the government to be denied
his services. He says positively that
the restoring of silver to Stree coin
age" will surely bring prosperity to
the farmers and set the wheels of the
factories of the United States all to
going. He picked up campaign
circular which the Republicans had
distributed to the country people after
the afternoon meeting. aud in few
words he showed how deceptive the
Republican party was. The circular
showed pictures of hams and other hog
meat and went on to claim that the
Republican party had protected the
American farmer from foreign meat.
Mr.. Baldwin said that mo- hams are
imported into this country, and he
would give dollar a pound for every
imported ham that could he brought
to him. Any farmer with the least
degree of common sense knows the
American people do not buy hog meat
from foreign countries. Instead of
that we supply the balance of the
world with it. We wish we could
tell YOU all he said but space does not
permit, but no man who heard that
speech went away without Il better
knowledge of the money question than
when he entered the Court Room, and
he went away satisfied that he had
learned the truth from competent
Treasury official.
Bryant and YellOtt.
An enthusiastic meeting was held
in Snow Hill last Saturday afternoon
under the auspices of the Snow Hill
District Bryan and Sewall Club. a
speakers stand had been erected on
the vacant lot Of Mr. Levi A. Purnell,
\ corner OF Green and Washington
streets, and it Was surrounded bv
several hundred farmers, merchants
and workingmen, while Messrs. How
ard Bryant and Osborn |. Yelloti, of
Baltimore city and Baltimore county
respectively, addressed them. Mr..