The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-07-18

of the hall being jammed full of men.
On the platform among others were
Hon. C. D. O'Brien, chairman; w. p.
Murray, John H. Gilman, Gen. George
L. Becker, Warren H. Mead, T. d.
O'Brien, J.. M. Hawthorne, Louis Nash,
A. II. Hall, S. L. Pierce, Judge Mac
donald, Gen. r. w. Johnson. VIM. Hen
dricks,u john Dale, F.. A. Pike, VIM.
Dunlap, e. M. Card, L. j. Dobner, w.
P. Jay, r. l.. Johns, Dr. Donne1ly, M.
r. Prendergast, Francis H. Clark,
Harry Caldwell, J. T. Avery and John
Dale, president of the so-called BIZ
metallic league.
In opening the meeting Mr.. O'Brieh
touched briefly on it's significance Pay
ing a compliment to Congressman
Towne the orator of the evening, he
compared him to the early martyrs
standing ready to sacrifice self for con-
viction and for conscience. HE is fit
to be the companion Of the young
David of the nineteenth century, Will
liam J. Bryan" said the chairman, and
the audience voiced it's approval
Mr.. Towne began by saying he was
all his life Republican. until 1:45
o'clock on the eighteenth day Of June.
IF | am not Republican now," he
continued, 'it must be because some
one else has changed" Passing on he
asserted the Republican platform
marks the first time that any party has
declared for the gold standard. De-
monetization in Europe had been ac-
complished, he said, without the con-
sent of the people themselves, to al
low of the establishment of system
carefully calculated to work the en-
ergy and the enterprise Of all man
kind for the benefit of idle and selfish
ruling classes.
when events transpired to force
the issue on this question in the United
States, unfortunately the Republican
party, or those in control Of it. took
the stand upon the wrong side. Most
happily and fortunately majority of
the Democratic party have aligned
themselves upon the other. But-and I
do not wish to offend the party pride
of any mantle Democratic party
found itself sorely in need of an issue
Owing to the mistakes and misman-
agement of it's temporary leaders it lay
almost nloribund by the side of the
political highway. The silver issue
gave it the glad hand, rejuvenated it,
pointed out a goal, and started 1t on
the road to victory" This sally tickled
the audience, and the speaker proceed
ed to say that the time has come when
party must go down that flag and
country may i've Then came an ex-
planation of why he walked out of the
ST. Louis convention and out of the
Republican party.
Here he roasted the newspapers
This is question Of conscience and
of duty, continued Mr. Towne, "hav-
ing reference to our whole future life.
and we claim honesty of purpose in
our course Names on the wall were
invoked and their merits reviewed. or
Bryan the speaker said the great mass
es Of the people hope and believe he
will be elected to control the destinies
of the United States HE has made
1t eminently respectable to be young
man. and being sixteen months older
I hope the Pioneer Press will gracious
-ly permit me to express an opinion of
my own. The Republican party has
assumed the negative. One year ago
charged that the papers Of these two
cities had Joined conspiracy to i'm
pose upon the people Of the United
States an alien monetary policy. and
I asserted that the members of the
grand old party never would indorse 1t
if they understood it. There would not
today be so many Republicans follow
ing an alien flag If more attention had
been paid year ago to the definition
of bimetallism; and there would have
been no transfer of the party, firm and
assets to an alien body" John Sher-
mans definition was mentioned. and
the name was Kissed. He continued: :
Were 1T not for the SherTnano-Pio-
neer Press definition the stars and
stripes never would have been torn
down to give place to the Union Jack"
Another roast on the newspapers.
The speaker quoted the Pioneer Press
as saying a year ago that interna ton
al bimetallism Is impossible under any
conditions, and then said: The gold
standard looks inevitably to bank
ruptcy Of the producers OF the world.
IT is our duty 30 get rid Of the infam-
ous system In order 10 get rid Of this