The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-29
Republicans, Hang Out Your
Flags Saturday. October 81.
STILL MAKES VOTES
CONGRESSMAN LONG CARRIERS
THEM IN AT CLEARWATER.
Most Intense Enthusiasm Displayed in the
Cause OF National Honesty and Pros
perity and the Utmost Devotion to Its
Able and Fearless Exponent, Chester L.
Long-No Building in the City Large
Enough to Accommodate the Crowds
Pop Questioners are Courteousiy
Ouenched--A Typical LoEg Meeting.

County Commissioner Y. z. Harmon
had gone on some county business While
there he was asked to. preside over the
largest and most enthusiastic Repubh-
can meeting ever held in that section OF
the county. This great outpourlng OF
people was to hear that matchless orator
and logician, the Hon. Chester l. Long,
who. for over two hours, instructed the
people on the issues of the day.
Mr.. Long was at his best and he made
many votes He showed up the fallacies
of the silver propaganda.
The people were mostly farmers who
had come to listen TO good, solid arSu-
ments, and they heard them They were
uproarious in their applause when Mr..
Long made a telling hit.
Two Populists tried to bother Mr..
Long by plying him with questions which
they thought were unanswerable, but
Mr. Long, with courtesy, answered their
questions in such a clear and concise
manner that they disappeared from the
crowd amid the cheers of the vast audi
ence.
The audience was practically two audi
snces, as the building where the speaking
was delivered was inadequate to accom-
mOdate the crowd, in order that all might
hear him Mr.. Long stood in the door on
a chair and there addressed the people,
giving those who were on the outside
an opportunity TO hear him.
Mr.. Long discussed the money question
In all its phases, saying, in part, that
there were two classes VINO advocated
En- Of noc cla n
that silver would rise from Go cents an
ounce, it's present value. to $1.29 an
ounce Among these Mr.. Bryan claims
to stand The other class do not care
for silver TO rise. What they want is
cheap money and deprecated cur
rency.
He said that the trouble with such
money was that those who delt in money
always had an advantage. In these
days when a man bargained for an ar
ticle the owner always put an extra price
on il for fear of the loss by depreciation;
that when this was practiced first by the
manufacturer, then by the jobber and
then by the middle man, a great hard
ship was worked on the consumer. II
man took one of these depreciating
notes with the full understanding that
II was deprecated, yet he was not pro-
tected. because, though it might be quot
ed at so cents yet when he went to the
bank he might find that he could get
only 80 cents, for the banks then often
took advantage Of such persons.
He next addressed his remarks to those
who believed, as Mr.. Bryan does, that
silver would rise to S-29 an ounce as
measured in gold. He then showed that
at the present time there were gold coun
tries which said that both should be
coined free and unlimited. In the gold
countries there was silver. In the sill |
yer countries there was no gold in circu- |
lation and in the countries where the two !
metals are presumed 10 have free COIN
age, gold does not circulate. AS an evil
dence Of the last he held up a gold piece
of Mexicant and one of United
States money, then a silver piece of each
country. The gold piece of each coun-
try was Of the same weight and value,
while the silver in each was nearly the
same weight, but the heavier was one /
bar the value, because the coinage was
unlimited. Not only could the two kinds I
of metals not be kept in circulation /
where there is free coinage, but never in /
the history Of the world has this been 4
accomplished.
Mr. Long presented numerous argu- |
ments which went right into the heart of /
his audience and when he closed three !
cheers were given for him. Mckinley and 4
the state ticket which were deafening.