The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-21
POPOCRACY's FAKE.
The Cheap Dollar scheme Condemn ID
in Plain. Nigorous Terms.

The Cheap Dollar Scheme Condemn ed
in Plain, Vigorous Terms.
At Mooresville crowd of six or seven
hundred people had gathered, and the space
about TIE station had been made gay with
bunting and flags. AS the stop was very
brief there was no introduction. General
Harrison appeared at the rear of the car
and was given an ovation He said:
MY Fellow-citizens-We have only a few
moments with you. and I must plunge at
once into the heart of what I have to say
L think you all remember that for the last
quarter of a century the Democrats in
Indiana have been talking in favor of
cheapness. Their orators were telling the
farmers everywhere that they ought to
have cheaper coats and cheaper farm i'm
plements, and that the protective tariff
which the Republicans Were imposing on
all these things was very heavy tax upon
them. They told the laboring man that
he ought 10 have cheaper coat and cheap
er shoes and cheaper coffee and cheaper
sugar. Their war cry seemed to be cheap
ress, and L remember in those times was
lifting my voice. sometimes availingy and
sometimes unavailingly, in Indiana in de-
Tense of the doctrine that things might be
highest good; that a fair price was the
right thng-a fair price for the farmers
wheat and a fair price for the coat When
anything is so cheap that the man who
raises it or makes it does not get a fair
living out of it it is too cheap. and nobody
ought to want that kind of thing.
Now, you will notice an entire change
in the Democratic campaign this year.
They have abandoned the campaign of
cheapneSS, and now they are telling you
that you want high-priced things. You
will notice that difference in the plan of
campaign they are making this this year. Tney
ed a Democratic President and elected a
Democratic Congress, so that for two years
they had their own sweet will in legisla-
ton. They struck down the protective tar
iff and brought in a time of cheap things
and they have been very cheap, haven't
20 hn lie vi oh
the Democrats promised them, in one re-
spect-they have the cheapest coats they
..ver bought. and they paid for them with
the cheapest wheat they ever sold. The
Y orkingmen in these factories have bought
6. cheap coat and they nave paid for them
in reduced wages and sometimes have
worn out that cheap coat in 1dleness be-
cause there was nothing for them to do.
Now, I want you to bear in mind that
these people who are trying to enice Re-
pubIicans and trying to hold Democrats are
the very people who did that thing. Mr..
Bryan, who is appealing for your suffrages
President, was one of the most ultra
of tariff reformers or free traders. He was
particularly severe on the duty on wool.
He wanted that taken off so you could get
this cheap coat that you have, and if he is
elected President you are electing a man
who will still defend those principles that
have brought about your present distress
sNIDE GAME
''I want you to remember another thing:
Pressed by the distress of the people which
they have largely brought upon you by in
augurating a tariff bill that did not pay
the expenses of the government and that
has flooded this country with foreign-made
goods and has stopped our facatories and
largely cut off from the farmer the home
market which he had when the American
workmen in the Eastern mills were able
to buy plenty of fiour-seeing this condition
of things fearful to face this intelligent
people upon that proposition again, they
have tried to put it out of sight for the
time being and have come to you with. the
fake notion-for say it is fake-that
you will be made rich by calling a half
dollar dollar. tCheers) They want now
to bring everything up: They have seen
carried too far and that the people are dis
gusted with it. You cannot bring in
condition when the things. you have to sell
are very high and everything else is very
low and keep it for any length of time.
I want to say to you that you will not be
a whit richer when you call a half dollar a
game: ii is a fake; it is a fraud to tell the
people of this country that by introducing
the present bullion value of the two metals
remains what it is the silver dollar will
be worth just half as much as the dollar
you are getting now. Is there a farmer
here who would not just as leave have 80
cents a bushel for his wheat as to have 81
if the 81 would buy no more than the
80 cents?
'"rhey are appealing to Republicans to go
over this year to the Democratic party
this year, when the Democratic party Is
at the very bottom, when 1t has made SO
gigantic a failure, when the old captains
have nearly all left the ship, when they
have thrown the compass overheard and
when they have got a new and untried
crew on the deck. daughter and applause)
When most of the good Democrats are
leaving the party they are asking the Re
publicans to join it. If you wanted to
turn Democrat why didn't you turn when
the party was in more credit? Oaughter0 p
The American people want what is hon
est and right The good common sense
that our people always show will in this
campaign as ! do not doubt, speak for
integrity in public affairs, speak for in
tegrity in private affairs, speak for dollar
for the farmer and dollar for the work
ingman that is as good as anybodys dol
lar. {Cheers.)
This country is going to elect William
Mckinley. (Cheers.) / spent some time
this summer in the East and man can
hardly tell what ma jority those States are
going to give for him. New York, Cons
necticut and New Jersey-States that have
more often voted the Democratic ticket
will vote overwhelmingly for Mckinley and
Hobart. Shall Indiana-the State We love,
the State of glorious memories in war and
peace-shall she this year consent to leave
the old party of freedom and truth and
vote for reputation and cheap dollars?
(Cries of No, no.! and applause) Never.
Indiana will walk with her proud sisters
of the Union in favor of national honor
and truth as she did in the war Cap