The record-union., 1896-09-16
SENATOR E. 0. VoLco7T.
ADDRESSES A LARGE r1EETlNG
AT COLORADO SPRINGS.
Day of Silver is Coming, But 1t Will
be Only Under Direction OF
the Republican Party.

COLORADO SPRINGS (Col), Sept.
Ex-senator E. o. Wolcott delivered
his first speech of the campaign at the
Coliseum here tonight in the presence
Of 1000 people. An overflow meeting
was held at North Park.
After dwelling upon local issues and
the Importance to Colorado Of protec-
ton and an arraignment of the Chi
cago platform, the Senator spoke as
follows:
From the tumble and farrago Of the
Chicago platform, with its Populist APP
pendage turn to the Republican plat
form at st. Louis. Except on the silver
question, the party never stood more
scuarely for everything which we in
Colorado, who have always voted the
Republican ticket, have held most
dear. The candidate OF the convention,
high minded, able, distinguished both
as a soldier and q statesman, clean,
upright and Of wide experience, is an
ideal American. So much of the plat
form as relates to silver is unsatisfac-
tory to US who live i'll Colorado. We
wish all Republicans could see this
vital monetary question as we do, and
that this great party, which on all
other questions affecting the welfare
Of mankind has stood for the masses
against the classes, could have insisted
on the restoration Of silver to it's old
place as a standard Of value. The ma
jCrity of the convention thought other
wise, however; it declared only for BIZ
metallism by international agreement,
and pledged the party to every effort
to secure this agreement. This pledge
will be sacredly kept, and | have for
myself every belief that through the
efforts Of the Republican party this re-
suit will be attained.
The day Of silver is coming. 1t is
my serious and solemn opinion that the
full recognition Of silver will come
soon; that it will come through the
efforts and under the direction Of the
Republican party, in which the con-
servative people Of this country have
confidence, and that ii will never come
through the Democratic-Po Populist ag-
gregation headed by this wandering
orator Of the Platte Your interests
and mine are all in Colorado. To-day
our State is depressed and impover-
ished. A brighter future is in store for
US, and 1t will come as every other
good thing has come to Colorado under
a Republican Administration: it will
come with William Mckinley at the
helm of State.
THE campaign upon which we have
entered differs from all those which
have preceded it in many respects,
but especially in the deliberate effort
here and elsewhere to array one sec
! ton of our common country against
the other, and one class Of our fellow
citizens against other classes. The
campaign is conducted upon the false
theory that the people who labor and
! the people who are in debt ought to
| unite against the people who do not
1 labor with their hands, or who labor
and own their homes; that every man
who possesses means is a conspirator
| against the welfare and happiness of
t the man who must rely on the fruits
| of his daily labor, and that inasmuch
as men are more largely borrowers Of
/ money in the West and South than
/ in the North and East, therefore the
sections are engaged in a bitter and
violent war for supremacy, the inter-
ests of one being diametrlcally opposed
! to those Of the other
1T is wicked to endeavor to instill
| into the minds Of the people in any one
/ section the opinion that those of an
other are either corrupt or unpatriotic
| in the view they hold on the money
question. We in Colorado are honest
| in the unanimous opinion we hold the
citizens Of New England and Iennsyl-
vania and Ohio and other Northern
and Eastern States are equally homes,
| in their views. and there should be
only condemnation Of the fncendiary
newspaper utterance Of the journals OF
either section which seek in order to
attract local subscribers TO vil,ify and
misrepresent and abuse the citizens OF
the other