The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-06
WISCONSIN CAMPAIGN
Opened by ThurstOn and other
Speakers at Milwaukee.

MILWAUKEE,, Wis, Aug 5.-The
Republican campaign in Wisconsin
was opened tonight with a mass meet
ing at the Exposition, where 1000 peo-
pie were present and listened to ad-
dresses by Senator John NJ eThurston,
of Nebraska, ex-CongresSman Charles
M. Fowler, Of New Jersey, and ex-Con-
gresham William Mason, of Illinois.
The state convention has brought hun
dreds of politicians to the city and the
Wisconsin, editorial association meet
ing tomorrow has attracted nearly all
the newspaper workers of Wisconsin.
The speakers were received with en-
thusiasm, and each was warmly ap-
plauded. Ex-Congressman Mason said:
Every promise has been broken and now
when you lay it to their door the Democrats
enter a plea of confession and admit every
mistake. and then get you by the collar and
pull out a silver dollar and say: Now we
have broken every pledge, but for Gods sake,
take one more silver coated Democratic pill
and it will be all right in four years more,
Q1aughter) Our Democratic friends have
soiled, in four years, the fronts of their
shirts with free trade, with the repeal of the
doctrine of reciprocity, and now they are try
ing to cover it I'D with a free silver dickey.
Qaughter.) The only question before us Is
whether we can be deceived and led from
the real issue by this, what [ call a false
issue. They charge President Cleveland with
more crimes than we have dreamed of.
never say anything against the president of
the United States. IL free silver was to be
the only ISSUE why did Bryan insert in his
platform the assault upon the president. OF
the United States, because he defended the
homes Of Chicago against the mob. Cap
plause)
'"The Republican party has been a friend Of
labor and it is the friend of labor. 1t is an
insult to organized labor to say that it favored
mob. rode to my home twice when saw
mile of fire: property was destroyed; lives
were taken; we were In the hands of the mob
and the mayor was in partnership with the
governor of our state sthae helped to nominate
Bryan-our governor who was in Springfield
violating the law he had sworn to obey and
that was while a mile Of fire stretched along
pale and trembling and praying upon
the their knees knees for SOME power to save
US; but the president Of the
United States forgot state rights, he forgot
ne was Democrat, and for "a hours he was
a Republican (applause). For "a hours he
said: The nation is bigger that the state and
ne saved the city, and he is cursed for it in
the the Democratic platform and that is another
issue of Bryan's, and thank God that the
day has never come. and it never will, when
the Republican party. the party Of Lincoln,
socialist and taken of its cap to the red flag
of anarchy. and 1t never win. (Applause).
Mr.. Fowler discussed the silver ques-
tion. He began with a story, saying
that his father sowedi a crop Of wheat
in Wisconsin by hand, cut 1t with a
cradle, threshed 1T with a fail, convey
ed it SO miles to Milwaukee by wagon.
and sold it for 46 cents q bushel-that
in the SOS, and silver $1.30 an ounce.
He asked the advocates of free coinage
to explain 1t IL the price of silver
carries with it the price of wheat and
other commodities. Referring to q
statement by Mr.. Bryan at Kansas
City, that never in the history Of the
country had party declared before
fny c,to do ~ he
was because no party had ever before
declared for reputation. IF Mr. Bryan
gives us free trade ON the Pacific coast,
as he proposes to do, he continued,
"and free silver, with the great trans
Pacific steamships that are now build
ing in Japan, we are then on water
level with Japan, China and India,
and wages will be ranging from 1 cent
to 25 cents a day"
In the course Of his speech Mr.. Thurston
said:
My countrymen, 1 received word today from
trusted friend in my state, conf ming what
l already knew, that William ]. Bryan, great
as he may appear to other parts of the coun-
try. on election day in November next, will
be defeated in his ward. In his city, in his
the state where he lives. The gold mono
metallist says that gold alone is sound
money. The free silverite says that silver on
silver basis Is sound money. The green
hacker said that promise to pay at
time, in an unredeemabIe piece of paper, was
sound money. But, my countrymen. the in
teligence Of the American people says that
no money Is sound money which has dollar
either Of gold or silver or of paper that will
buy less or pay less than the best dollar Of
the civilized world. There Is no such thing
as a sound dollar which will be worth less
in the humble hand Of labor than the best
dollar of the civilized world will be worth
in the vaults of the richest man of the c. an
try. There Is no sound dollar which is
worth more today than its is certain of being
worth tomorrow. There isgno sound money
which laid away will be worth less next year
than it is worth now. There is no sound
dollar which is ashamed to stand side by
side in every market of civilization. Eng
land, France, Germany, the United States,
each has gold, silver and paper. Yes, and 1t
Is time that the gold standard countries of
the world are The only countries in which
silver is maintained as money side by side
with gold"