The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-04-17

at the national convention when the
question Of putting UP candidate Ior
president was settled by bought Negro
delegates from the south. Such con
dltiOn never existed in Rome we dld
not have any of that when we were
Democrats straight and Lincoln Ike
pubncans. What are you going to do
about that, you Republicans who are
today patting the juba and saying We
viii have Mckinley? What does ne
stand for Protection What does HeeQ
stad fOr2 What does Allison stand fOrE
Every man of them who is seeking the
Republican nomination says he believes
in sound money. We Democrats would
believe in sound money, but what con-
stitutes sound money! We must get
political dictionary to answer that. /
viii address myself now to the deflnl-
ton. There is one difficulty in the way.
/ see it everywhere. If it is only the
question Of a natiOni But all, the
struggle for local office of the little fry.
You must stand by the party The so
luton Of the question is handicapped
and, perhaps will be defeated, simply
because the local politicians put these
petty things above this grand patriotic
fOrm.And we consider ourselves Amer
lean citizens. We chOuld go together
on this national question, and therefore
we should not have too many questions
in our platform. After we have done
that say to the knaves who want to
load the platform down. let us first set
tie with Sherman and Cleveland
NENAL NEWSPAPERS
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the depIOraDIe condition OF TINS country
I failed TO bring in one most important
factor jefferson said if he had to have
q. country without newspapers or with
out government he would have 1T with
out government. Great God, did JEFF
ferson but then know to what level the
press descends, that it can be bought
and manipulated by the scheming pol
itlcians ne would not nave uttered
those words. We have the most cor
rupt newspapers ia the world, believe
and right here I viii prove it. When i
tried to show some of the nefarlOuS ac-
lions being perpetrated in South caro-
lima when / was governor every dally
paper and -fifths of the Weel11eS
in the state rose UP to drown my voice.
which was lifted in the right. but i
have an organ of my own. CThe speak
er put his finger to his tOngue) 1
challenge my opponents to meet me on
the stump before the people who are
The power of the natiOn-the common
people. and decide upon the question
with the ballot. That is all that We
need now Have honest men go before
the people and tell them what is being
done to enslaVe them. But where, on
where are there enough honest men to
go before 10 600 COO of people when the
leaders of the different parties pre-
viously agree what policy is TO pc car
ried out on the matter at stake DeLOfe
TIL ev appear before the people? 1T is a
noticeable thing in every city that the
doodle aldermen have sold this or that
That this legislature has been br1Ded
to pass that bill our politics have got
to be a cessDOOl. and we deserve to be
brought to the bar of our own con
sciences for the low ana uesplctt3le
condition in which we find ourselves
We are responsible for it, for no stream
can rise higher than its source, and II
the people are idiots they deserve what
they are getting
R1lt why should I be for silver? There
was never a pound produced in South
Carolina and there are more silver
men in that state than there are in
Kansas. at the door of silver produc-
ing state. "A few men IN the senate
and the goldbugs in New FORK keep az
itating the money question and say IT
is only the people out here who want
bimetallism. because their chief pro
ductiOn is silver. This conspiracy has
been entered into with England by
these men who have bamboOzled the
people with that proposition THESE
powers who constitute the privileged
and money classes have reduced the
standard One-haIf. and 1t lies IN Ihe
sense of any man that if you have cut
off One-half of the money OF ultimate
redemption the other half must fill the
vacuum If there is too much money
it becomes cheap. If there is too little
it becomes dear This is a truism
But there are a great number OF peo-
pie in this country who vote Tor then
party under the proposition that it is
greater than the country.
THE BUTTER SMILE.
Let me illustrate the double STANDARD
bv farming. The simne is simple. Let
us present two plates of butter, one vel
low and one white, and let every mar
in this audience have biscuit apiece
+ on the plates there is enough Tor a Ii
] But around comes John Sherman ana
I Grover Cleveland. Cleveland smell.
the butter on enc plate and says that's
not good Congress must condemn tina
butter; smells it again; / don't think il
I is sound Now if any fellow Will say
/ he would have got as much butter fol
( his biscuit as if the two plates haC
/ been used. he is fool
FIAT MONEY
What is fiat money The LatiT
/ word means so be it, 1t means law
/ Take gold and hammer it into q fla