The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-08
SPLENDID DEMONSTRATION I'm
HONOR or THE Ex-PREsIDENr
Ar CINCINNATI.
CAMPING ON. BRYAN's TRAIL.
HIS ESS DELIVERED IN MUSIC
HALL, WHERE BRYAN sPOKE
RECENTLY.
THOMAS p. REED AT BOSTON
Work In the General Campaign Re-
gum by the Caustic Gar of
the House.

CINCINNATI, o., Oct. THE sky
was clear but the weather was cold to-
night when ex-President Harrison,
with his wife by his side, set out for
Music hall. The Blaine club in uni
form, led by a splendid band, served
as HE escort. All along the lire of
march the sidewalks were crowded with
people. The shouting along the line
was from a thousand threats at q
time and 1t never ceased.
Long before 6 o'clock, the crowd be-
gan to assemble in front of Music hall
AT O'Clock the doors were thrown open
ana In less than ten minutes the hall,
including the great stage, was filled
Still people kept coming until all the
aisles and other standing room were
filled. Thousands crowded in the cor
ridor and on the outside, and then turn
ed homeward or went to the overflow
meeting on the outside. When ex-
President Harrison arrived the applause
was unbounded.. It seemed as If it
would never stop. Mrs. Harrison oc-
cupied a seat on the stage beside Murat
Halsted. Mayor Caldwell, the officials
of the Republican clubs and other
prominent citizens occupied front seats.
Hon. Thomas McDougan presided and in
troduced Gen. Harrison in few words. Wait
ing long Tor applause to cease, Gen. Harri-
son said in part:
Let US be comfortable. have had sus-
pieion for some time that has settled to-
night into conviction. It is impossible to
try to keep the presidency very long out of
question. In this campaign the Republican
party Is fortunate in the fact that 1t pre-
SCENTS to the voters of the United States
ticket that, In its first name. is great and
wholly unexceptionable. Gov. Mckinley, who
was named by the convention at St. Louis for
president, is man whose personal char
acter is irreproachable. The second man
character, man who has conducted success
fully a large and Important business, a man
OF hdelfty and who holds in a high measure
the respect of his neighbors and friends.
It is an historical fact that when the Re-
publican administration went out, we were
In time OF great prosperity; the country
was prosperous to an extent that never be-
fore had been attained 1t Is historically true
that since the Democratic party has been
brought in, the country has gone step by step
from this pinnacle of prosperity to the very
As Republicans, the remedy we propose is
that harmonious, well adjusted, revenue
producing and protective tariff shall be sub
stituted (applause), that the revenues of the
government shall be made adequate to its
expenditure. We propose that the neces-
slty for bond sales to replenish q diminished
treasury and to restore a wasting gold re-
serve shall be remedied by filling the treas
ury of the United States with a definite rev.
enue.
We propose that the money of the country,
whether in It's various forms, silver and
gold shall, every dollar of 1t, be kept at
parity with every other dollar. We pro-
pose that there shall be no distrust accom-
panying the dollars paper or coin that
this government emits or authorizes. We be-
lieve that these things will restore the pros
perity we have lost. We propose to MAIN
stitutional right and duty of the president
of the United States to enforce all national
laws, without asking the consent of the gov
ernor Of any state. We propose that the
dign1ied discharge Of every duty that the
constitution confdes to 1t. What do our
Democratic friends offer? Free silver They
propose to cure these Ills by authorizing ey-
cry miner of silver ore to bring the bullion
he takes from the earth to the minis of the
United States, and there, at the expense of
the government, have it converted into sill
yer dollars at ratio that returns to him
double, as things now are, in value for
the bullion. They propose then that he
shall take these dollars and use them in pay
ing his debts and compel every one to re-
ceive them at the value of 100 cents dollar
There are laws Of trade and all the legis-
latures In the world cannot annul them. Mr.
Bryan's proposition is that we shall have BIZ
metallism of both gold and silver at the
ratio Of 16 to 1; In other words, that we
shall have by law a proclamation that man
snail give collars worth OF something for
fifty cents worth OF something else. It Is
absolutely impossible. 1t is base 1t is
worse than base; it Is not creditable. 1t is
not speaking In high estimation Of the in
telligence of eur people when it is said to
them that because we achieved our political
independence, we can make two UNEQUAL
things equal to each other. A congress
might make law that one buffalo skin
should be equal to coon skin, but II you
want to know the ratio between those skins,
you would have to go to the fur merchant,
not to the statute books; and so 1t is pre-
dollar to another. The law can take the COM
mercial ratio approximately, and hold and
maintain the double standard but it cannot
disregard the quotations in the market for
these metals.