The herald., 1896-08-19
OURSTEVE' OPENING GUN
The Senator's First Speech
of the Campaign
he TALKED ON The EAST SIDE
A Remarkable Meeting on
Downey Avenue
THE HALL WAS TOO SMALL
Over Eight Hundred Persons Heard the
Bimetallic Arguments
J.. l.. Murphy and William S. Creighton Also
Made Speeches
| Remarkable Meeting or
D0wney Avenue
THE HALL WAS TOO SMALL
Over Eight Hundred Persons Heard the
Bimetalllc Arguments
J. L. Murphy and William S. Creighton Also
Made Speeches
Hundreds Of Ladies' Had to Stand Up-cheers
for william Jennings Bryan, tho Next
President-Another Silver Club
for the Flrst Ward

IOr tHo TTpS "uto
Citizens of the First ward irrespective
of party. packed and jammed Banquet
hall on the corner of Chestnut street and
Downey avenue last night, the occasion
being the first real silver rally in that
section of the city during the present
year. over 500 persons turned out to hear
Senator Stephen M. White, J. l.. Murphy
and w. s. Creighton discuss bimetallism.
over 200 ladies and as many male vot-
ers were compelled to stand up.
The chairman of the meeting was /.
J. Adcock, and the first speaker was
W. S. Creighton, who said
MR.. CREIGHTON'S SPEECH
Friends and Fellow Citizens:-Thirty
to decline with thanks your invitation to
speak to you in advocacy of the free and
unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio
of 16 to 1, or any other ratio, for that
matter. At that time was not only not
a silverite. was not even bimetallist.
] was, according to the strictest sect of
the gold religion, a goldite. l wanted
the best money, and il that was gold,
and 1 thought it was, 1 wanted the gold
standard. Now I am like unto Paul
ouce called Saul of Tarsus-in that 1
have "seen light" You will not misun-
derstand me. / never proposed to bolt
the nominees of the Chicago convention.
/ am a Democrat. l have followed the
flag of the Democratic party with un-
wavering allegiance for twenty years
l have kept step on the march and coun-
seled close order in the ranks. The
body of Democratic doctrine has been to
me religion. / believe that, like the
single touch of nature which makes the
whole world kin, there is certain bal
samic virtue in the touch of true Democ-
racy calculated to make the world less
sore, and which ministers in the direction
of a larger recognition of the universal
brotherhood of man. But. until re-
Gently, 1 have believed that the domain
of finance was something outside Of
party politics. I thought it an exact
science governed by few universally
accepted maxims. One of them was that
the dearest money is always the best
money Another that in any fluctuations
of money standards the creditor shall
never SuIIpT. OI ldtt L HctNC pCth Nciii-
PEELED to challenge both of these max
inns. I have come to the conclusion that
a dear dollar, an appreclating dollar Is
not a good dollar for anybody but money
lender, or for any nation but creditor
nation The best dollar for the great
multitude of people, who do the worlds
work, is the "nimble dollar"-the dol
lar that is not gripped-that is not so
dear but that it's owner is willing to let
go of it. My friends. between the two
oceans there are millions of discontented
men. who are discontented because they
are idle, and idle because the dollar Is too
dear
With boundless undeveloped resour-
ces to be developed and only lacking the
application of capital to put labor at
work. capital sits boarding its gold-its
dear dollars. The dear dollars are
gripped because there Is no prospect for
remunerative investment, for remunera-
tive investments cannot accrue when the
prices of products have so declined that
producers are becoming bankrupt. Gen
tlemen, the appreciation of gold must
be arrested. The dollar is too dear. You
may ask: Shall we not, then, have an
honest dollar?" Yes, we must have an
honest dollar, though the heavens fall.
But make bold to say that the gold dol
lar is an artificially enhanced, over-val-
ued, aristocratic dollar. Your silver dol
lar Is an honest Democratic dollar. Who
dares stigmatize it as dishonest? Who
but John Sherman eyer designed or i'm
agined that resumption of specie pay
ments meant resumption in gold? The
bonds call for coin. No bonds have ever
been issued that did not call for coin.
When Mr.. Cleveland desired to ISSUE
gold bonds instead Of coin bonds the
American congress said mo" 1t sacri-
feed fifteen million dollars interest
rather than nar1nit poId hOnHc
to be issued Shall these coin bonds be
paid in gold? say no. How about the
maxim, "The creditor shall never suf-
fer?" Well, I say to you, that if the credi-
tor must never suffer when standards
fuctuate, equity and justice must often
suffer" The maxim, 1.-THE creditor must
never suffer" has, however, nothing to do
with the present case The United States
debtor has an option to pay in legal ten
der silver money and he will honestly
pay this debt In honest money. And who
shall say him nay? set humanity above
the creditor who demands more and bet
ter than his bond.
William Jennings Bryan gave utter
ance TO something more than "a sound
ing brass and tinkling cymbal' when
ne protested against the crucifixion of
humanity upon cross of gold Insist
ence upon the dearest dollar" means. I
fear. nothing less than that.
TIN. =. Il. MORPH Y s ADDRESS,
Hon. J. L. Murphy discussed the sill
yer question as a Republican who in
tends this year to vote for William ].
Bryan. Mr.. Murphy was greeted with
cheers when he was introduced. His
sentiments were greeted with cheers,
1t was full of merit and loaded down
with statistics.
What the United States needs and
wants." said the speaker, "the United
States pretty generally gets sem
ator Pettigrew of North Dakota said
truly at the st. Louis Republican ma
,tional convention. He is a Republican
just like myself Some call us anarch-
lists, but we have votes and some prop
erty. have no fear of free trade. Even
the last Democratic national convention
has declared against that. My friend,
Mr.. White, does not believe with Mr..
Cleveland upon all things. I believe Mr.
Mckinley is an excellent man, but Mr.
Hanna Is running this campaign, and
he said the other day at New York that
Republicans this year believed only in
a tariff for revenue. That statement I
saw in the Times, and 1t is perhaps true.
(Laughter.) II the Republican party is
so anxious for protection why protect all
Of the gold and none Of the silver. The