Tombstone epitaph., 1896-11-01
DEMOCRATIC RALLY.
Our Delegate and the County
 Candidates Speak.

sshisGelin Hall was well attended Last night to see the Democratic rally and hsssn te Our Mark. Frank Cox asd the county candidates.
 The ssAgs was tasisiully decorated and the arrangement of dowsrs and , decorations bespoke of artistic taste and execution for which the free silver ladies in Tombstone deserve credit. The banner of "Our Mark" in large letters of evergreen csugh each ones eye and enkindled more enthusiasm for Cochiss iavori,e son which man, fested itself in unmispeskab.s terms shrouEhous his able and eloquent speech.
 Allen R. English acted As chairman and with s few spp'o oriste remarks intrOdued Mr. Frank Cox. Mr Cor made 6 brilliant speech scIntilA,ing with free coinage facts and unanswer- able arguments. He is . ready orator .ho:c ao~ oi e'o9usnceis is not inter rupted Tor want of sdJectives and whose rapid delivery captured his audience. He refuted some of the charges brought against Mark Smith and read come of his speeches in congress on the sub j-c,. extracts Of which have teen published in the PRosPEcToR ct var ious times. He made an excellent impression and wac warmly applauded Mark A. Smith, Democratic candi- date for delegate To cDngress, then stepped forward, which was the signal for . deafening round Of applause. He spoke teelinely of hIs old home and associates and his speech was punctusted throughout with spplAure He made an urgent and sincere appeal Tor the free ard unlimited coinage ci silver at the present ratio without waiting for the advice or consent Of any other nation On earth. He dem monstrated tine necessity 0! free coiu- sge by the United States, and among other things said in substance that "she only way to get free coinage was for congress to pass free silver bill, that the battle now being waged was fraught with more momsntous conse- qusnces 10 the republic than the war of the revolution.
 When MT. John Sherman was sso- retsry of the treasury he decided to rssume specie payments, 60 that the grsenbaeks and other outstsnding ob- ligstious Of the government should be equal to the coin money Of the nation. He, h order to meet any demand that might be made on the treasury. set aside one hundred million dollars in gold besides the silvsr on bond to re- deem these paper obligations. The gresLbscks became st once equal to coin. Congress passed thereafter . law prohibiting the redsmpti on of the greenbacks and directed that when re. ssived at the treasury they should be resmit,ed. There was then no longer any use for the reserve except to aid the conspirators who were sstsnpt- ing to demonstils silver. He then proceeded to show how from that time the diabolical work was accomplished. The repeal ot the Sherman act was the suluinssion of the purpose.
 The gold reserve was diminished by the redemption. or exchange of gold for gresnbscks, sherman notes and all pspe. money, except silver eertif- caies. Bonds had to be issued to pro- t~ct this unn-cessary gold reserve or the conspiracy would be insffectusl. Bo,.ds were irsued by the million in . time of profound pesc"-the peopls were subrnitted to sn additional bur- den Of taxation co that the money sharks might lend without fear of loss their idle capital to tho United ssstss. Money that should have been invssted in enterprises helpful to the country w.s utterly withdrawn from circula- ,ion. Money wont up; everything else went down. and every product of human labor and every dave work of . man became less and less valuable e compared with the money left in circulation.
 He showed further by unsnswersble arguments the bsos6ts to bs derived from a incFsass in our circulation That an international agreement