The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-08-05

years, I ought to retract all ever said.
Ihe Democratic party is an object of
compassion, rather than of revenge.
Grover Cleveland, having accumulated
a vast personal fortune without being
IN agriculture (laughter) employs his
time IN pursuing the treasures of the
deep and gazes without a sigh upon the
ruin he has made. Gaughter).
The experiment of CIevelandisIn has
cost this country far more than that
other Democratic experiment of JEFF
ferson Davis (applause), in the loss of
wages, in the destruction of values, in
the diminutiOn of profits, in the depre-
citation of the products of the farm, the
mill and the mine. Yet I am told there
are alleged Republicans who want to
perpetuate such a policy.
There has not been a day during
the past four years that there has not
been an added triumph of Democratic
policies-sOne bank closed, some fac
tory shut down, the fires on some forge
or furnace eXtinguished, some railroad
IN the hands of a receiver, the sails of
some ship furled in our harbOrS. the
mortgage on some little farm foreclos-
ed, some manned and disabled pension
er wearing the inky cloak of despair
with bended head and fading sight and
TaIter1nS footsteps, marching to the
almShOuse or the inf1rmary. If there
are Republicans who will seek to con-
unue this policy, 1 am not one of them.
(CheerS.)
"The st. Louis platform is not exact
ly as would like to have it. If I had
been writing it, the pharseolOgy would
have been a little different, but it would
have meant the the same. (Applause.)
1t would have been a little easier to be
swallowed and digested by our sensi-
tive friends who are disposed, on ac-
count of the misunderstanding of term
great historic period of the nation.
The American people have been
learning the past four years; they have
had little else to do. (Laughter.) They
have been enjoying a period of enfOrc-
ed philosophical and meditative refiec-
ton. I have had the opportunity of
meditating a little myself Oaughter),
owing to your mistaken judgment, my
friends, an error I hope you will re-
pair at the earliest opportunity. Gaugh-
ter.) The American people have learn
ed that the American laborer earns no
wages on goods made in Germany or
England (applauSe), and that it makes
no odds how much of the necessaries of
life a dollar will buy if they have not
the dollar to buy with. applause. )These
two invaluable precepts lie at the fOun-
datiOn of the law and the prophets. I
would rather the products of the loom
and forge were made at home, on wa
ges paid to American labor, even if the
necessaries of life did cost a little
more" (Applause.)
On the financial question Mr. ingalls,
said:
"As I understand and interpret the
financial plank in the Republican plat
approval and support. 1 am opposed to
gold recommendation which would ban
Ish legal tender silver, and to silver
mOnOmetalliSra which would eXDel gold
from our financial system. 1 am also
opposed to the retirement of the legal
tender greenbacks, amounting to $346,-
0O0, 600, unless some other form of legal
tender money is substituted in their
place. stand upon my record. 1 am
a bimetallist. I voted to pass the bill
for the coinage of the silver dollar in
FEBRUARY, 1873, over the veto of Presi-
dent Hayes, and also for the Sherman
act of 1890, under which measures $780,
100000 have been added to our cur
rency.
Should I be returned to the senate,
I shall favor constitutional bimetaIlism
the largest use of full legal tender
standard silver money compatible with
its parity and equality in debt-payinE
power with gold, and with legal tender
paper redeemable as now provided by
law. This I understand to be in accord
with the traditional policy of the Re
publican party, and to be the true in
tent and meaning of the financial de-
cIaration of the Republican platform -
Mr.. ingalls, read from Benjamin Har-
riSOn'S letter of acceptance and his
messages of 1890, 1891, and 1892, show
ing his desire to insure the continuance
of a bimetaIlic policy.
THE Republican party continued
Mr.. ingalls,, lis pledged to secure the
largest and fullest use of legal tender
equilibrium of the two metals. Gap
plause) 1t was predicted that rs mil
lions of silver could not be assimilated,
but I have seen six hundred millions
money or debased currency. I want
every dollar as good as every other dol
lar in all parts of the United States and
in all the markets of the world (cheerS),
consistent with the largest and fullest
use of legal tender standard silver mon
There are three ways of getting
it, have it given to you,
or steal it The government can do
no more than the individual, for the
government is the people. It is our
money it coins and spends. Here is the
error of our friends, whose
whole scheme rests on an unworthy
and unpatriOtfc fallacy. (Applause.)
Grover Cleveland had a legal right
to return those torn and priceless tro-
ph1eS to the states from which they
had been captured, but public opinion
itself, and, in the language of
John Waller, Grover 'drapped EN- He
had the legal right to say that prosti-
tuted queen should be restored to a de-
graded throne, but public opinion said
nay, and, instead of a comic opera
queen on a pocket throne, there is a re
public. modelled after our own. CAP
plause.)
This is the peoples year. They have
caught on. The people of the Republi-
can party nominated Mckinley.
cratic party nominated Bryan. The
bosses and politicians and rings and
machines amt in it.
This is the year of the people. but
there never was a time when it was
quite 50 uncertain just what they are
going to do as on this 4th day of Aug
1st, 1896. I wish knew Qaughter). but
I have a great faith that the great
mass of the people are patriotic and
devoted to the welfare and honor of
the country. and that they will elect
(Cheers, and a voice, And
John J., too.")
Thank you retOrted Mr.. ingalls,,
loosely; you're the kind of man I
want to hear from"
AT OMAHA