Mohave County miner., 1896-10-17
Sloan and Doran.

oey niRnt 70 listen to the republican
 speakers and not all of these were awake
 Judge Blakely, after announcing him
 selt emphsticsiiy as being silver man,
 and explaining that 1t was only on ac
 count of his official position as chairman
 of the central committee, and because he
 felt that every man had . right to be
 heard, that he presided ct the meeting,
 and giving tho audience to understand
 that he was not in sympathy with the
 views of tho speakers, introduced Judge
 Sloan of Prescott.
 Judge Sloan assured his bearers ,ha.
 his speech would have nothing to rec
 ommend it but brsvisy, and proceeded
 to prove the truth of tho first part of
 that remark, but evidently los. sight of
 his avowsdly, strong point, brevity. Al.
 ter experimenting the ladies and telling
 them that the republican party was their
 only hope to ever obtain equal suffrage,
 and seeing that those nearest the door
 were beginning to drop out. he ex.
 plained to those remaining that he
 could not hold an audience who were free to leave when they pleased. tor the reason that he was in the habit os talk. ing to l2 men In box, or one man in
 box dE court room) to whom he was
 not ooliged to be interesting, because
 they could not get away. He then proceeded to point cut that the principal qualification Of his friend for the high
 position of delegate to congress, was his
 inability to sing and his lack of beauty. Judge Sloan had evidently heard that palmistry and fortune telling was ths
 present fashionable fad in Kingmsn, and
 proceeded to prove by the lines of Mir.
 Dorsn's hand, that the candidate was
 peculiarly spd especially adapted by
 providence and the iates for using pick and shovel, or for any lsboring employ.
 ment. The principal reasons he gave
 for heing republican were that he was . young man and kns1 no better, and that the republicans were just four years behind the democrats, and were now be. fore the people advocating exactly the same policiee and principles as those on which Grover Cleveland had been elect. ed in 1892, the ooly difference being that the republican party was honest and the democrats were not.
 He then went on to state that the United States could not by herself keep the value Of silver on . par with that of gold because there was such . vast amount Of silver in the world (fve bill. ion ounces he said) which would all be dumped on us if we opened our hints 10 free coinage, leaving the audience to in. fer that every country now using silver for money would st once repudiste that else forgetting that any other country is now using silver ss money. He thought our best course would be to wait foY the permission of other nations, and work for an international agreement. Our only hope, he thought, is ina high pro. tecsivs tariff, and that is the real issue, the financial question being of minor i'm. portance. At this point of the orstion the suores becoming uprosrous, Judge | Sloan created . diversion and woke some ot the sleepers, by introducing the prin. cipal speaker of the evening, A. J. Doran.
 Mr.Dorsn frankly admitted that he dld not think that he could accom mplish | anything for this territory even if he was elected, but added that he did not believe any one elee could either. He said that he was against silver because he had invested both money and muscle in silver mines and had received no ade- quate return for said investments, but he did not seem to recognize the fact that the demonetizstion and consequent low prices of silver was responsible for his lack of success, or that free coinage and q consequent demand for silver would make his silver mine valuable piece of property. The reason he gave Tor being gold bug is the very same tbst should make every man in this territory , free silver advocate. He said that we could not compete with other nations in the production of cheap silver because wages were higher in this country than n any other silver producing nation. Mir. Dorsn went on to say that farm was better than anybody's silver mine; iaclaxad hImaalf in faxnr of hattar fri.