Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1896-10-23
BEDE AND STEVENS
Hold Rousing Meeting at the
Gross Opera House Wednes-
n day Evening.
The Issues of the Campaign
Discussed by a Democrat
and a Republican.

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The voters Of this city and thu
surrounding country turned out
! Wednesday evening In numbers SUI
ficient to pack Gross opera house
from the stage to- the entrance. tt
hear the campaign issues discussed
by j. Adam Bede and Hon. Hiram
F. Stevens. n Democrat and Re
publican. respectively.
Mr.. Stevens was the first speaker
introduced by Chairman Blanchard
Mr.. Stevens is the Republican state
senator from the st. Paul district
and is an eloquent and forcibl'
speaker.
His remarks were devoted to 8
discussion of the Chicago platform
and particularly to the Altgelc
planks attacking the supreme court
and the power Of the chief executive
Mr.. Stevens cited the decision Of tn
supreme court in the case Of the at
tempt of j. J. Hill to combine thu
two great competing IiLes OF rail
way, the Northern Pacific and thu
Great Northern. The supreme court
sustained the law Of this state pro
hibiting such combine, and tn
decision was Of great interest to the
large number of rail way employees
and to all citizens along the two
lines.
He also showed the necessity OF
the chief executive having the power
to interfere in such riots az occurred
in Chicago, which through the mac
ton OF Gov. Altgeli resulted In
serious loss Of life and damage to
property. These planks he considered
a seriO Us menance to this government.
Another issue is the silver question
The speaker discussed 1t at some
length. He shovel that the price OF
silver could have been kept up prior
to 1873 by the coinage of our minis
for we only coined 8.Q0O,0O0 silver
dollars in the entire time and the
factional currency WAS not touched
by that law. Neither could the
decline in the price of silver be caused
by our lack of coinage since 1873 for
we have over 5O0,00O,00O silver
dollars since. He showed how the
law was not passed secretly but was
before congress almost three years;
was printed thirteen times and laid
ON the desk Of each congressman
Mr.. Stevens deprecated the attempt
Of the candidate on the silver ticket
to array the masses against the
classes, and his attempt to create
feelings of sectiona]ism. There are
classes in this country. Nearly all
our statesmen were poor boys.
Bryan speaks Of the east as the
enemy's country. Some Of us were
born there some of us have lett there
dear ones who still live or perchance
have passed away. God pity the
man who can speak OF any place
over which floats the stars and
stripes al the enemy's country.
He closed with an eloquent
appeal to his hearers to
stand by the Republican party, the
party that had always promoted
the best interests Of the people OF
this great nation. Mr.. Stevens was
greeted with loud applause through
out his discourse, which was both
logical and convincing.
Mr.. Bede was then introduced. He
said in short: II came here to ask
you to vote fer VIM. Mckinley
Dave Clough and Page Morris.
II gave the, people COOL advice
two years ago. 1 gave $l0,OO0 OF
advice when l told you not to vote
for Charley Towne, and you wish
now you had followed it. Az a
Democrat I cannot vote for Demo-
Gratis If I wanted to. The electors
on the ticket are largely P0pulists.
The candidate for governor claims
to be a Republican. The candidate
for congress in this district still
claims to be a Republican, and the
same is true in some :Other districts
of the state. In the first district
they thought they had Democrat.
but when he began to tell about
what Lincoln said about the crime
Of IS they did not know what he
was.
Mr.. Lommen, the Populist can
didate for congress from the seventh
district, spoke at length about the
Mills bill, and when some one sug-
gested that the bill never passed, he
stopped. MIR. Towne says we ought
to coin silver at 16 to l because we
used to do do it. We used to cut
whea. with II cradle; we used to
travel by stage coach; we used to
use tallow candles instead Of kerosene
or electric lights, but that is no