The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-08-15
He Addresses the Fifth Ward
Free Silver Club.
As Usual His Speech Is Highly
Entertaining.
The Club Now Has & Membership OF
175, Fifty Signatures Being Add
ed Last Evening.

/ ward at Zane's hall, corner of Seven
| teenth and Clay streets, last night.
/ The hall was uncomfortabIy crowded,
and the large audience took every OPP
/ portunity afforded to manifest their
sentiments by applause.
The meeting was called to order by
| the temporary chairman, s. K. Jones.
and the minutes of the last meeting
| were read by the secretary, H. c. Fra
! ser. A F. Chesney offered a resolu-
| ton criticising the stand taken by H.
NJ. Phillips and c. H Titus at the last
/ meeting of the Committee of Fifteen
| in reference to the visit of William
Jennings Bryan during the Fall Festi-
/ VAL and this was adopted unanimous
/ ly. The resolution stated that the
Festival should be allowed TO remain
bipartisan.
| A committee of five composed of
NIessrs. Chesney, Dalton, ChaIlis and
Keith was appointed by the chairman
to draft a constitution and bylaws
and to make the selection of permanent
/ officers of the organization, the report
! to be made at the next meeting. A
! committee on finance was also appoint
/ ed consisting of Messrs. Markham, Cor
/ ham and Ireland.
Before adjournment it was decided to
( hold the next meeting in the vacant
/ tract of land at the corner of Seven
/ tenth and Kansas avenue. A speaker
/ stand and seats will be provided, ana
/ this will be made the meeting place of
| the club during the rest OF the warm
I weather.
Il
| membership roll last night, and this
number brings the membership OF the
| club to rs
! At the meeting last night Captain
| Joe Waters and Eugene Wolfe were
present and both were called upon for
/ speeches. On account of the intense
\ heat Of the evening each spoke but
! few minutes. Mr.. Waters spoke first.
! He said:
/ Gentlemen, I know little or nothing
about finance. That was part OF my
/ education which was neglected But
/ when I am unable to collect my ices,
| when I dun and dun and dun the men
! that owe me. and then can't get money,
/ it strikes me that nancy is scarce and
| times are hard. That's the way look
What we have now, gentlemen. is
! SO per cent Of politics and per cent
/ of business. That's the shape this
/ country is in at present This must
/ be changed. We must help to change
| these conditions or go down to our
! graves desolate.
/ of silver would give US a deprecated
| currency. a debased currency Gen
/ tlenen, if I thought for one moment
| that free silver would not give US
cheaper money I would not be in favor
| of it, Cheaper money would be far
| easier to procure than money OF
higher value.
! been going around here like a horse
| with the blind staggers. We have
| been staggering, and lmping around
! with our eyes blindfOlded trying TO ma
! an opening. trying to find a gate. And
1 1 say to you. gentlemen, that the Amer
| lean people are going to find that gate
| if we have to advocate peanuts or
! Wilder's iron coin as the money OF the
country.
The workmen of this country are the
| people who are affected by the hard
/ times The workmen are the tender
| barometer which is first to feel the
| scarcity of money As in the human
! body when the heart becomes affected
! and the flow of blood is impaired, the
| extremitfes. the fingers, are the first to
| grow cold and clammy,s so 1t IS with the
/ people When the financial heart in
wall street commences to congest, to
| draw together, it IS the Workmen, the
| extre1nities, who are first to feel it
( They tell US that if we had free
{ coinage of silver that the people of
! other nations would bring their silver
| bullion to this country and have it
! coined So they would. Why shOuIdn
| they If an Indian over in India digs
| I'D an old amulet and brings it over to
! this country, and throws it into the
| melting pot, and in return receives
| American silver dollars, this country
| is that much better off. Why? Simply
| because there is no one but an moor
| rieibIe idiot who will tell me that that
| Indian would take our American dollars
| back to his own country. In his own
! country they are of no use to him. The
/ inscription on the old amulet would be
! far palmer to him than the inscription
| on our American dollars. He IS gong
| to leave them in this country in ex-
! change for American produce, or Amer
/ lean farms or American something else
! There are two classes in the Repub-
| lfcan party. Each is represented by an
! IriShman. One 1riShman hIred a morse
| one day and started out. He took him
| over picket fences, and through hedges
| and under thorn trees, and when he
| finally pulled up again at the livery
stable both himself and the horse were
! torn and lacerated. And a friend ask
! ed him: Pat, why on earth didn't you
! get off Get off replied Pat, why
| man [ had all I could do to stay on
This is exactly the fix which the ma
/ jorfty of the Republicans are in. They
| have all they can do to stay in the
party
And the other Irishman was a green
! sailor. One night the captain of the
/ vessel gave him the helm and pointing
out star in the sky told him to steer
/ straight for that star, as he was going
| below. And the green sailor kept the
[ ship in a course straight for the star
| until suddenly he passed it. And then
| he cried to the captain, Captain, cap
| tain come up here and give me new
| star I've lost the old one. That's what
/ the Republican party did at st. Louis
| They lost their old guiding star. They
| passed from out of its compass.
| 1t is said that Mr. Mckinley is su-
perstitiOuS. During the convention he
| was sorely afraid that he might be
nominated on Friday In considering
| this superstition he evidently forgot
that he was posing as Napoleon W hill
his cohorts shouted Austerlitz, he for
| got Waterloo and st. Helena. You will
| remember that when Napoleon was
| advancing towards Mt. St. Jean, he
! spoke to the peasant tied to his sad
| die and asked him what was between
| him and the summit of the mountain
| And the peasant shook his head, as If
| there was nothing. And the order to
| dash forward was given and the army
| plunged on And what happened? The
/ enemy rose W and swallowed them
| half way. This viii be true Of Nc