Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-09-04
RALLY OF THE POPOGRA1s
The First Meeting of the Anti-Protection
and Anti-Soundl Money Party
Last Week.

The First Meeting of the Anti-PrOtection
and Anti-Sound Money Party
Last Week.
The formal opening ofthe popocratic
campaign in Fall River county occur
red at the court house on last Thurs.
day night when Judge Plowman and
Freeman Knowles addressed full
house, including large number OF
ladies. At an early hour Thursday
evening the enthusiasts and rising
young statesmen of the popocratic
party commenced making preparations
for the flambeau procession to the
court house headed by the Fireman's
band. Tho beating of tom toms and
the wierd, shrill shriek of the deviline
whistle coupled with the discordant
sounds of horns and the voice of the
irrepressible small boy served to re.
mind everyone that the popocrats were
getting ready to spout. It is gener-
ally conceded that one popocrat can
make more noise than. sixteen repub-
licans. The procession of forty tlam-
beaux, carried for the most part, by
the small boy who was everywhere in
evidence, headed by the band, made a
good appearance. The procession
marched to the court house where,
after the band played one or two lively
airs, the speaking began.
Col. Kellar, as member Of the ex-
ecutive committee of the fusion party
of the county, introduced the first
speaker of the evening, Judge Plow-
man, of Deadwood. The appearance
in the rostrum of the erratic Dead
wood jGrist was the signal for an out
burst of tumultuous applause. Tom
Wells seized the bass drum and beat it
till he was red in the face. Other pops
were equally boisterous in their dem
onstrations of enthusiasm.
Judge Plowman read his carefully
prepared speech from manuscript. His
opening remarks, i'll which he dwelt on
the creation of the universe and the
immutable laws of astronomy, botany
chemistry and other sciences were elo-
quent and impressive, and are said by
we'll known Custer county attorney
to bear striking resemblance to por-
tion of speech delivered some years
ago on the battle ground of Banker
Hill by the renowned Edward Everett.
to forget that they We're pops, demo
Gratis and republicans. and pleased the
ladies by saying that he believed it Il
disgrace to our civilization that the
ballot had not been placed in the hands
of the mothers. sisters and daughters
of America. He quoted freely from
the Declaration of Independence and
Washington's farewell address. and
these passages were vigorously ap-
plauded. Heasked his hearers to pause
and reflect before they enter into al
international agreement and quoted
from Lincoln to prove that the contest
is between the ''money power and the
plain people" He gave the definition
of money and said that the fiat of gov
ernment and that alone makes money
that the intrinsic value of the material
composing our money makes no differ
ence with its value as money as it is
solely the fiat of government that
makes money. Ifa government should
fail, then only would intrinsic value be
necessary. In short his theory OF
money is that of the "greenbacker'
though we are told he protests that he
is not a greenbacker. He frequently
referred to "the boys in blue" in a vain
effort to stir up some enthusiasm
among them. He tried to create the
impression that the republican party
is opposed to the use of both gold and
silver as money and cunningly dis
guised the fact that the free and un
limited coinage of the worlds product
of silver means silver monometalism
He audaciously asserted that the re-
publican party does not want bimetal
ism but that the international agree
ment business was thrown into the
platform to scatch votes" Hereferred
to the international conferences of the
past few years and endeavored to show
that because no agreement had beer
reached as yet that it was impossible
to reach an agreement in the future
Why not get the consent, he dramat
ically asked, of foreign nations before
you get Mckinley tariff, and endeav
ored to convey the impression that {
similarity exists between nationa
revenue bill and an agree
ment on ratios. He said we want more
money and quoted from the late report
of Secretary Carlisle, which, he said
had been revised for rcampaign purposes
to show that the volume of circulating
medium is not as great is it should be
He grossly misrepresented the facts in
the case by leaving out of his state
ments all the gold and silver certifi