The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-24


redeemabIe currency. As to his own
opinion, he believed in "a limited vol
ume of paper currency of full legal
tender, redeemable in nothing but the
revenues of the government
Dr. Shattinger, a Missouri delegate,
mere came forward amidst cries Of
who are you?'' and Put him out, :"
and presented to the speaker a news
matter
OF the attempt to bring in garbled
newspaper statements Of his speeches
and again stated his attitude as to
greenbacks.
BOW TO THE MAJORITY.
senator Allen improved the OppOrtu
nifty afforded by these Interruptions to
again plead with his hearers for for
bearance and Difference to the viii of
the majority. He dwelt upon the low
prices OF labor and farm and factory
products all over the country and of
the hardships imposed upon the pro-
duclng classes and asserted his belief
that the convention would be true to
the interests of the people and that the
doctrines Of Jefferson and Madison and
Lincoln and of all the great fathers
OF the republic Which declare that this
government was founded upon popu-
lar sovereignty and equal and exact
justice to all, would prevail He plead
ed that the convention should so act as
to bring the people into the inheritance
of their own; that it should not follow
the brass bands and the torchlights
furnished by the money of corporations
and the gold power, but that it should
take up the humble banner of the peO-
pie, lOwly as it might be, or seem to be,
and follow that banner to victory.
CAST A PURE BALLOT
Senator Allen concluded as follows:
They say we do not know enough to
conduct public affairs. My fellow citi-
zens, we may not be equipped with the
intellect of some of these gold bugs,
01Tf ;,
and the hearts are things to have.
(Applause.) When Mr. Whitney and
Gov Hill and Senator Gray went out
to Chicago with their campaign of ed
ucation, they went back, possibly, with
it unopened. daughter
These wise men started from the
east going to Chicago to meet frontiers
men who are ignorant and to distrib-
ute tracts among them, giving them
valuable information upon economic
subjects. 1t is not recorded that they
got an opportunity to distri butte them
to any extent. It is unknown even to
this day whether that education was
contained in barrels or in boxes Laugh
ter.) We are to have a campaign of
education this fall and already the
Republican press and the gOldbug
Democratic press are impudently say
ing 1t viii cost $4,000, 600 to carry the
election of Mckinley and Hobart. Yes
some put it as high as fifty or a hun
bred million. My fellow citizens are
the American people to be bought and
sold like cattle and sheep? (Cries of
MOI.
These men think they can buy you.
I am sorry that once in awhile they
can find &, poor mentally and morally
defOrmed creature whom they can buy
but usually he is of such despica bic
material, 50 contemplate that he is a
stencil to the nOStrils of all good men
and women, and cannot do much harm.
Whoever fails to go to the polls in No
vember and in the light of his respOn-
sibility to God cast a pure and incor-
rupt ballot in the interests of the peo-
ole is a traitor to his home and his
country (Applause).
The supreme problem is before the
American people whether this republic
shall go up or shall so down; it is the
great question of the age. Shall we
follow the course that was pursued by
the Roman republic? Shall we go down
in hopeless night2 Shall we turn back
the dials of civilization, or shall we
lift our civilization higher to a grand
er pedestal, a more perfect government
that shall stand as the monument and
wonder of the age?' prolonged and
deafening APPLAUSE
It was 9:43 when Senator Allen con-
GUIDED Several attempts were made
to secure an adjournment but Senator
Butler acting as a delegate moved the
with the committee of the silver con-
veutiOn. There were many and loud
cries of mo, no" and Mr.. Branch of
Georgia moved to table the motion.
The noes seemed to be in a large ma
jority and the motion to table was de-
clared lost
Senator Buffers motion was carried
with a loud cheer. The Bryan men
were apparently in full control of the
convention.
The committee on rules then made its
report. Little interest was manifested
in it and before the convention had
acted upon it Lafe Pence moved an
adjournment until 10 o'clock tomorrow
morning., and then at 1000 the conven-
ton adjourned.