The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-10-27
GOLD THE THEME.
Palmer and Buckner on Their
Southern Tour.
TENNESSEES WARM WELCOME.

Impressed MISUNDERSTANDING for
Principle which They Believe win Save
the Democratic Party-Free Silver Men
Give Them Attentive Hearing.
The tour of the candidates for pres
ident and vice president through Ten
nessee has been a succession OF pleas
ant incidents for the two war veterans.
They have been treated with the ut
most courtesy and fairness wherever
they have stopped. Men who differed
with them politically and men who.
protesting the same faith, differed with
them on some of the planks OF the Chi
cago platform, gave them the same
courteous and respectful attention that
was accorded by the most enthusiastic
supporters OF the National Democratic
ticket.
They have invaded the very hotbeds
of free silverism; have talked into the
faces of people who would sooner vio-
late the whole Ten Commandments In
one single act than go contrary to the
teachings of Mr.. Bryan and the Popo-
cratic platform on which he stands.
They have stood In front of large
crowds of men many OF whom were
fixed In their intense desire to change
the financial system OF the government,
and have told them OF the false posi-
tion they occupied, of the delusive
phantom they were chasing, and yet
not a man has said a word that was
disrespectful nor committed an act that
could be condemned by any one.
This has caused a great deal Of COM
ment. The free silver leaders have be-
lieved their men were so solidly en-
| trenched that no argument could move
them. but when they see hundreds of
Bryan adherents sitting drinking In ev-
| cry word that is said by a gold stand
| ard advocate. and looking as IL they
were hungry for more. Ii causes them
| to reflect and to wonder what kind Of
| an impression has been made.
| General Palmer and his associate on
| the ticket, General Buckner, are men,
however, who command respect wher-
| ever they go. The appearance OF these
| grizzly veterans on the public platform,
walking side by side. each leaning for
assistance upon a cane, causes the most
| vindictive and bitter partisan to halt
| In his mad chase after the elusive free
silver dollar. and almost bow his head.
| while he raises his hat In reverence.
/ Their appearance causes him to think
| and reason. He wonders IL there Is not
something, after all, in a cause which
brings to the front of the fight two
| men upon whom the country has show
| cred honors in a long and useful ca
reer; two men who, standing on the
shady side of life, have left quiet and
peaceful homes. where the comforts OF
old age invite them. to engage in the
| noise and conflict and discomforts OF
political battle. and make personal
sacrifices in defense of a principle
which to them can offer no reward. And
that Is where the strength of this Dem
ocratic campaign for honest money lies
When General Palmer raised his voice
and said to those in front Of him: II
am fighting for a principle that has
guided me politically during all my
years and which ! want to see main
tained before my life is ended" those
who had doubted his sincerity could dc
30 no longer. And when General Buck
ner told his listeners that he led them
once through battles where bullets
rained death and filled the trenches
with rivers of blood. struggling for q
cause which they believed was right
they could not doubt his sincerity II
the fight for honest money, and many
| OF those WHOM ne pllOltu DelOIc VII
follow his flag again.
The men themselves in the gray glory
of old age. are an argument for honesty
In all things. without a word from tn,
lips of either. a lasAng impression II
left upon all who see them in theil
unequal struggle for the maintenance
of true Democratic doctrines.
Hundreds of people heard each o.
| C1l, nd tv
all the crowd Knocked or sneered at tn,
arguments made for gold. A house al
full of people as II could be packed
heard them last night In Pulaski, ant
they were greeted by applause anC
cheers throughout the evening. On tn,
train from Nashville through the stat,
and into Alabama. little crowds woult
gather ut the stations to get a sight o
those two representatives of the old
time Democratic principles which wer
saved from the wreck at Chicago by tn
convention at Indianapolis.
General Palmer makes the PLANES
and simplest argument and explana
ton of the financial question the peo
pie here have ever heard. He takes hi
audience by the hand and says: %
have naught to utter in bitterness o
condemnation. let us reason together.
and he reasons with them just as a ma
would sit in the center Of his famil
and teach his children.
General Buckner then takes up tn
subject and goes deeper into It. III
makes comparisons with other nation
in showing the fallacy of free silver
He is q historian. an encyclopedia o
knowledge and he applies 1t In an in
telligible and simple way to his audi
ence.
Neither of them make long and tire
some speeches. Both go right into tn
subject I'm hand and treat II In a con
else and simple way. They do not Pill
up an array of figures and statistics
confuse the minds Of the people an
leave them in doubt and darkness. bu
tell facts in such way that n chill
can understand them.--Nashville Bar