The record-union., 1896-10-26
COLORADO'S SILVER PENCE.
HE CALLS INGERSOLL "THE
GREATEST REPUDIATIONIST,"- -
And Says That New York Will No
Longer be Able to Control the
Democratic Party.

CHICAGO, Oct. 23.-Hon. Lafe Pence
of Colorado was the previously unan-
nounced but star speaker at a largely
attended meeting of supporters of silver
leld at Battery d this afternoon. Sam
Small was to have spoken, but owing
to illness in his family was unable to
be present.
Mr.. Pence said this is the best cam
paign he has ever known for Sunday
II eetingS to discuss the questions of
the day. He quoted a local paper as
having said the Republican party stood
for religion, morality, law and order.
AS examples of these great principles
he cited Bob Ingersoll for religion, W.
G. +. Breckenridge for morality, and
Herr Most for law and order-all of
! these men being pronounced in their
support of the Republican party in this
campaign.
The speaker quoted Ingersoll's strong
| Endorsement of bimetallsm in lectures
delivered in Chicago in 1893, when no
/ political campaign was on, and said
that. in view of his change of position
this year, ne considered the Colonel
| ''the greatest repudiationist in the
world This, however was no new
| character as years ago Colonel Inger-
| p.ll had repudiated Moses and the
| prophets, the apostles and the martyrs,
his Savior and his God. and had now
only reached the climax by repudiating
| himself. The wonder was that he did
not repudiate the silver dollar long ago
| because 1t was inscribed I'm God we
trus ST.
Mr. Pence then turned his attention
| to BOurke Cochran, the mention Of
| Ylose name brought out Kisses and
cries of Hes a rat"
| He said New York had held the De
mccracy of the country by the throat
since 1865, nominating every Presiden-
| tial candidate since the war This time
the sovereign people of the South and
/ West had declared it would select
man who would fit the Democratic plat
| Crm it had adopted Now the New
| York Democracy sends out its leaders
| TO disrupt the party. Quoting Cock
rar's famous speech in 1892 denounc-
| Ing the mugwumps, he pronounced
| Cochran the attorney of the mugwumps
in this campaign, and thanked these
men" for their example, saying If they
&C uld thus easily shake off their party
/ ffiliations. so could he and his Re
publican friends.
! no controls the Republican party?
/ Nv stShtu, dltu a SliOul went up, hdi
| Hanna" Referring to the youth of Mr..
/ Hryan, the speaker said 1t was enough
! that he was as old as the fathers Of
/ the Constitution considered necessary,
| and that ne is as old as Thomas JEFF
! ferson when he wrote the Declaration
| of Independence.
| The positions of the two great parties
| on the currency question as outlined
in their platforms of 1854, 1883, 1892
/ and the present year were reviewed,
a'-d the alleged change of heart on the
4 part of the Republican party pointed
4 out
| Referring to the past glories of the
! Republican party, he related the story
! Of q snake which had got into an
J eagles nest during the absence of the
latter, and applied to Mark Hanna the
| snakes reply 10 the question of how
] he got there: II crawled up
He declared that Lincoln, the friend
/ of the masses, and Douglas would both
/ he for free coinage We're they alive
to-day, but 1T is true their sons are
I down.
A reference to Carnegie called forth
al other storm of Kisses.
In conclusion Mr.. Pence abjured his
| RI. arers when they go to the polling
booths to remember their wives and
children and to vote TO protect their
interests.