The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-03
SAD TURNING OF COATS
A SOrrOwful Story OfPolitics At
Stockton, Kansas.
Strong Earnest Free Silver Men
In 1895
Are Now Gulping Down a Dose That
Turns Their Stomachs As Well
As Their Coats.

Stockton, Kan, Sept 3.-In the early
part of June. 1895. the following call an
peared in the newspapers of Stock
ton:
CALL FOR A REPUBLICAN ST.
WEIR LEAGUE MEETING.
IN order to put the Republican par
~ u looks county ia line with the
party throughout the nation and
state, the undersigned resident Ren5Ib
hcans, earnestly recommend the FoT-
nation OF county Republican silver
league, and hereby call a meeting for.
Inat purpose, to be held on Saturday,
June 10, 1895, at Stockton. All friends
Of silver are cordially invited to at
tend
This call was signed by the following
names: .
R. S. Coolbaugh, Richard Martin. T.
f. Gentry J. D. Reed, G. H Dewey. J.
L smith, ]. J. Slightman, J. w. Moore.
W. r. Griffin, J. c. WeakIey, S. A. He
prev G. E Fritz, J. W. Kenworthy,
John Travis Vim. Bishop J. A South
ard, j. Hebrew, John Ruby, Ed Oat-
man, j. Z. Cline, J. NeVins John Fell
bic, Geo. Robinson, T. E. Baldwin. c. e.
Oatman, NJ. J. CoOlbaugh, c. S. Purvi-
ance, w. L. Chambers, T. T. Evans. f.
P. Hill, c. Dickinson, ]. G. smith, Geo.
o. Farr, 6. E. Heiner, o. A. Higgins, A
II. Judd, G. r. Campbell, A. E. Wilson,
W. A. Leigh, F. E. Young, E. J. Will
Hams, w. H Sage, r. NJ Howe, F. E.
Sherman, C. P. Nellist, w. B. CaIIen-
dar, l. B. Powell, G. G. Jones, w. E.
CoOlbaugh, E. c. KewIey, F. w. Bur-
lin, G. P. AinswOrth, I. N. Pepper, H
Clark G. L. Mills, John Shaw, w H
Clayton, James McCauley, I. H. Ken
worthy, Frank BIazier, Ernest Braun,
1. N. Estep, A. G. Hammond, W. Mar
shall, s. Tarbell, E. W. Rose, J. F.
Huey. H. V. Toeptffer, T. E. Ballard.
Alfred Reed, A. B. Ming, H. Fairbank,
Geo. EStep, B. G. Scott, F. McMannis,
Q. I. Ballard, w. L. Grove, G. W. Dan
ner, Milton Clark, William Carkey, G.
W. Phelps, John Brummit, w. H. H.
TannyhilI, George Jeffrey, Geo. Dorsey,
Philip Hayden. Jacob Martin, John
Clark, Vim. Clark David Johnson, T.
w. Green, S. w. Allen, w. F. Thrasher,
NJ. NJ. Smith, w. F. McNulty, D. w.
Cook, D. G. Johnson, S. A. Wilkin, c..
F. Green, E. L. Reynolds, E. H. Evans,
F. BectOld, w. NJ. Robinson, L. Hulse,
G. w. Graves, Fred RaynOr, Geo. Hus-
ted, J. B. Kelly, H. c. Smithers, B. T.
Smithers, I. 0. Prizer, Vim. Combs, J.
f. Mitchell. P. c. Dunlap, R. o. James,
H. E. Hornish, VIM. Miller, R. East
man, Thos. McKiddy, Robert Fairbanks,
L W. HOrniSh, H. A. McKiddy, J. S.
Morrisy, Geo. W. Owens, E. L. Hale,
James Crosse, Frank J. Dust, G. H. era
ham, James o. Connor, H. H. Bishop,
A. HOude, J. w. Graham, Q. R. Ere
geor, Ed Thyfault, P. Demasteau, L. NJ
Thyfault Paul Bedard, Mart SutOr, J.
H. Huffe, c. c. Cook, J. A. Clayton, G.
L Bushnan, G. w Phillips. J. NJ.
Melon. r. Bartholomew, Vim. Mayor,
VIM. a. Hall, Milton Clark.
The report of the meeting in local
paper was as follows:
THE SILVER MEETING.
Pursuant to call of 1873 Republican
voters of Rocks county the crowd met
at the opera house at 2 D. m. on Satur-
day, June Is. The meeting was called
to order by John Ruby and a club was
organized by the election of W. B. Cal
lendar president; Geo. YoxaH, vice
president; A E. Wilson, treasurer; F.
chair the president thanked those pres
ent very cordially for the honor bestOW-
ed upon him. 1t was moved and sec
Onded that a committee of five be ap-
pointed on resolutions; motion carried.
and the chairman appointed the follow
ing: A. z. Wilson, A. NJ. King, Q. r.
F'regeau, Richard James and Elan Bar
thOlOmew.
dressed the house as follows, after
which he introduced A. H. Ellis of Be
lott:
Gentlemen: Again I thank you for
the honor conferred upon me. feel
my lack of knowledge upon the ques-
ton at issue, but it is my understand
ing that we are to study and to hear
from those who have given these ques-
lions more thought. This is the time
when political parties are shaping their
politics, and now, while the financial
condition of our country is in SO de-
plOrable a state. the success OF any
party depends, I believe, on a fair con-
sideratiOn Of all economic and social
questions. The shaping of the platform
of the leading parties has mostly been
done by the east, but now has come
time when the west must be heard
from. I am confident that the grand
old party of Abraham Lincoln, the
party that believed in a government of
the people, for the people and by the
people, will solve this question to the
best interests of ALL
Judge Ellis then occupied about two
hours time, in Which he dealt extern
sively with the silver question, advo-
eating the coinage of the American pro-
duct of gold and silver at the present
ratio of 16 to 1. He gave many in
teresting facts concerning metallic
money and his talk throughout was
we'll taken by his hearers.
The committee on resolutions did not
retire, on account of the intense inter-
est in the speech, until near the close,
and had not time to prepare the reSo-
lutions and present them before the
speech closed and the people, many Of
whom lived at a distance, had gone;
nevertheless the resolutions, which read
as follows, were adopted by those who
remained and warmly Endorsed by
Judge Ellis:
I'VE, your committee on resolutions,
would respectfully submit the follow
ing:
we adhere to the position taken by
the Republican party of Kansas in its
state platform of 1894, which declared
for the coinage of the entire product of
the gold and silver of the United States
at the ratio of 16 to 1, and that a pro-
hibitory tariff be placed on the foreign
product, to the end that American labor
be protected and that maintenance of
the parity of values of the two metals
shall be preserved SO that the purchas-
ing and debt paying power of the dol
lar whether gold. silver or paper, shall
at all times be equal
"A E. WILSON,
"A. M KING,
"R. JAMES,