Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1896-10-01

Last tuesday night witnessed another
grand demonstration by the union forces
OF Grays harbor in monster meeting at
the Acme opera house. The speakers
were Hon. John Il. Rogers, candidate for
governor and Hon. w. c. Jones, candi.
date for congress.
The meeting was at enthusiastic one,
and round after round Of applause show
ed their appreciation. Judge J. C. Pear
son, silver republican, was chairman OF
the evening, and he introduced the first
speaker, Mr.. Rogers, as an Abraham
Lincoln republican lie having been in
the first convention that nominated Mr.,
Lincoln for the presidency
MIR. Rogers occupied short time in a
plain, practical statement OF facts relating
to state affairs, and impressed himself
upon the audience as beinga man of plain
rugged honesty OF purpose whom the peo-
pie could safely trust in the gubernato.
rial chair. He opened by announcing
that the republican managers practically
conceded that the state was lost to Nc
Kinley, but that ten days or two weeks
before election, it was their purpose to
make strong fight for the state ticket by
raising a terrible howl TO the effect "For
Gods sake don't turn the state over to
the populists."
"Our state is in bad way financially"
said Mr.. Rogers. "With constitutional
limitation OF $4OO, 900, we have state
debt Of nearly 100000, and running
behind 81 900 day. Our institution for
feeble minded children is closed for lack
OF funds. 1t costs three times as much to
run the state government OF Washington
as it does that OF Tennessee with five
times the population. or per capita cost
fifteen times greater. We have jute
mill at Walla Walla that cost 100000,
while the highest amount which experts
say it should cost is $2l, 900. We have
capitol foundation costing about $4S, 900
while warrants have been drawn against
the capitol fund aggregating $4,000 in
round numbers, leaving $35 900 for the
letting Of the contract.
The appropriations by the last legisla-
ture he gave AS three quarters OF Il million
dollars more than the estimated needs.
The interest bearing debt OF the state
has increased 2S3 per cent during the last
four years. With more than 100000 Of
the school funds lying in favored banks
for the past two years, the school child
rem are deprived OF SEQ, 900.
He also charged the loss OF valuable
land to the state through inactivity Of the
state land commission, to call it no harsh
er name, some $4,000 acres OF land which
the state land cruiser some time since, es-
timated to contain $4,000 feet to the acre,
having been recently gobbled up by the
Great Northern through grant it had to
select land anywhere.
He also told how Seattle, forehanded
Seattle, got her army post site for nom.
inal sum, ($ll ,72l for $40 acres in town
OF Ballard) through connivance and a
stealthy sale OF the land This he plainly
called steal of 100000. The figures
presented were terrible arraignment OF
the republic state administration, and
it is no wonder they are fighting tooth
and toe nail to vent the terrible pop
ulist" from getting chance to investigate
their doings.
Mr.. Jones occupied about two hours in
mastery address, which was logical from
beginning to end. and every statement OF
which he backed up with positive proof.
He had nothing to apologize for or retract,
for he stood on the same financial plat
form that he did two years ago, and he
poured such hot shot into the Republican
ranks as to cause decidedly uneasy feel.
ing among them.
He said that conditions had been get
ting worse and worse under all kinds OF
tariffs that the tariff was not an issue in
this cam paign, as both parties stood prac-
tically on the same ground on that point,
for proof of which he quoted the Demo-
cratic platform and Mark Hanna. "The
people will not be fooled any longer" he
continued Republicans had always con,
tended that falling prices means a bigger
dollar, and yet they 'have the impudence
to say have switched"
He showed that the effort to limit the
amount of standard money was no new
thing, that the Romans, in order to make
money dear, had got decree forbidding
the mining OF both gold and silver in the
province OF Gaul, their only source o.
supply. That the ancestors eli the bank
ers OF Lombard street, when tobacco was
the measure of value in Virginia, anC
after they had secured many contracts
payable in tobacco, got law prohibiting
the planting OF more than Il certain mum
Der OF acres of tobacco in Virginia.
lie quoted Leon Fauchet, in 1913, ant
NJ. Wolowski, in 1868, who at those time!
predicted the direful results that would
follow should either one OF the metals b'
suppressed. In 1869 NJ. Wolowski said
"The sum total of the precious metals ii
reckoned at fifty milliards, one-half golt
and one-half silver. II by stroke OF tn
pen they suppress one OF these metals ii
the monetary service they double the de
m md for the other metal, to the ruin o
all d,btors," That was what was don
in 1873, and by the stroke OF pen, toe
He quoted VIM. Mckinley, only fou