The sun., 1896-10-09
MASS MEETING AND PARADE.
Speeches by Candidates Frank 3. Black
and Timothy l.. WoodruH

and Timothy L.. woodruT.
! SYRACUSE, Oct. S.-The Republican State
League Convention was brought to a fitting
| close tonight with q mass meeting in the AL
hambra Rink under league auspices. Previous
to tho meeting there was n street parade of
campaign clubs and wheelmen, and II was esti-
mated that there were $500 mon in line. Clubs
were here from Binghamton. Utica, OsweEo.
Fulton and surrounding towns. and the city
was abaze with Greek fire as the parade passed
through the streets. which were thronged with
people.
The rink was crowded TO the doors when the
Hon. Frank S. Black, the Republican candidate
for Governor, and the Hon. Timothy l.. Wood
ruff. tho candidate for Leutenant-Governor.
appeared upon the stage platform. under tho
escort of the Hon. Francis Hendricks. Congress
man Theodore l.. Poole and John s. Kenyon.
The candidates received q decided ovation.
Upon the platform was seated that old Repub-
lican war horse, the Hon. Thomas g. Alvord.
and upon both sides of him sat the prominent
Republicans Of onondaGa county.
State Treasurer Addison B. Colvin. President
OF the State League, called tho meeting to order.
He named William Nottingham u prominent
lawyer OF Syracuse as Charm an. When Mr..
Black was introduced as the next Governor by
Chairman Nottingham there was an enthu-
siastc outburst of applause. Mr.. Blacks re-
marks were warmly received. Upon the issues
of the campaign he spoke as follows:
The Government OF the United States has
found in its career on more than one occasion
that n prompt recognition of the moral sense of
its people and u just observance of tho oaths OF
those intrusted with the highest public duties
might have ayerted disasters which have left
their marks upon the history of the whole earth.
Weakness will never prevent wrong and dam
than those who face 1t. No historian will ever
tell the evils that courage h IN public stations on,
n NrF n O
OF the disasters which the cowardice OF ths:
period entailed. A, crisis hardly less serious
faces us now. The lohs OF life and property is
no more to be deplored than the loss of honor.
And when honor Is TO be sacrificed not by
ate outrage. the situation may well provoke
ALARM. ri. atom, ,ou g., elm. n,oo,.o ,,,,t,or III.
forces that are threatening the integrity Of this
country are those which have no proper place
hG sr fher nfs nn parayze or
destroy necessary executive powers. to degrade
the courts. which are the chief support OF the
Government, and to inict a stain upon the ma
tions credit which will take years to live down.
In those calamities every citizen would be in
possible forgiveness would be slow in coming.
This is a country Of law and order and Of
symptom OF anarchy should be lert unchecked.
Let every man arouse himself and remember
and his fellow ' mem is III This s year 's grave and m
perative. Let him not be msled by false hopes
Of gain. Gains that come through the sacrifice
OF honor are not to be hoped for. but dreaded.
through an alliance with forces, that are a
time to have been dearly bought 80 '.o0 s''
Those who read the platforms of st. Louis
will realize that this is no time for party poll
tics, or to divide our strength upon questions of
s S o and
Let that be settled first; the Others may be
The Hon. Timothy l.. Woodruff followed Mr..
Black. He said:
Our free coinage of silver friends tell us
that We must make ifty-three cents worth OF
silver a dollar because the amount Of silver
which is now worth fifty three cents was years
dollar arc OF our r daddies" The he first medium ' Of
exchange among men was the cow this was
yp sSr by auns X Pss %gn
years year silver has given place to gold to, In
,hs ,he word as ss nss
the value of all hngs deal in. The cow iron.
copper; and silver have each been superseded by
and stable value through excessive and variable
production. Why should we only add to the
not, indeed. add copper and iron the dollar of
our granddaddies. and then round out our Cir
This country has been on a legal gold basis
since 1879 Tho coinage of silver since then
crnment at its market value Of a stipulated
amount OF silver bullion. which was coined
YER YER certificates. the Government retSining ' or
making for its own account the difference be-
tween the market value and the face value.
age of all the silver bullion in the world.
there was in the autumn Of 1893 n prac-
tically unanimous demand for the repeal
even OF the Sherman act under which four and
half million ounces of silver were purchased
per month. The confidence OF the nation was
shaken even at the realization of the fact that
put in circulation below It's face value. although
the Government still retained the difference to
ts a 10Y the pc tse
without any retention of security profit by
the Government at all
ton has been paid TO the claim OF Mr.. Bryan
that there is n necessity for an increase of our
In France. where the circuat ing medium is $50
per capita, wages are considerably lower than
bnt SIS pcr capita. and vastly lower than in the
United States. where the circulating medium 10
eo. of sSppd ad nnH Which,
the employed, and not the amount OF money in
circulation. Confidence plays an important
part 1t alone can bring back the good old days
OF business prosperity, and it will not come
We find one OF our great parties offering n
platform embodyiDg tho principle of single
standard for the measurement of tho value OF
commodities. that standard being the same as
the one one In use by Al the other advanced nations
OF the world; while the other great political
and without It who have combined together to
folst npon the nation two standards for the
measurement OF values. one of which is lust
half the other. The silver, mine owner the
Populist, and the Socaist!c Repudiator having
conspired for the free and unlimited coinage OF
the silver bullion of the world essayed to cap
ture both the Republican and Democratic party
organizations. One succumbed after a gallant
struggle: the other WAS mpregnable in Its main
tenanco of the integrity and honor OF the nation
II has so faithfully guarded and conserved.
THE Republican party, secure in Its intrench-
ments and behind the sound bulwark OF honest
dollars, offers safe and peaceful resting place
to- those OF its Democratic friends who driven
out OF their own fortress by the overwhelming
numbers OF the FOL lowers OF cheap silver money,
are prepared 10 subordinate party fealty to prin-
ciple aud patriotism. The great function OF
party organization is 10 attract the permanent
or even the temporary. support of all who be-
lieve In the principles II has enunoated and
the purpose II proposes TO promote, bearing In
mind that II doesn't pay in politics any more
than in business to try 10 fool anybody into the
belief that ifty-three cents on the dollar pays a
debt In full. Our grand old party Is now. as the
result OF honest, undertaking endeRvor In the
past. drawing to its support the brains and the
moral forces OF the Democracy; and II its career
is as wisely directed in tho future in tho past,
they will remain with us. and should now be
welfare"
Among the other speakers were D. D. Wood
OF Ohio. presidont the National