The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-09-18

OWOssO Voters Unite for
Sound rIoney, Protec-
tiOn and Prosper
ity.
Largest Club in. rlichigan Addressed
by Ex-senator John Patton. Jr.

Largest Club in. rIichigan Addressed
by Ex-senator John Patton. Jr.
The result of one weeks canvass amone
the voters of OwOsso is that over clever
hundred of them declare by their signature!
upon Mckinley and Hobart club list tha
they will work together for the interest oi
the American laboring man and farmer as
against the paupers of Europe and the bar
barians of the Argentine Republic, the
Czar-ridden people of Russia and miserable
heather of China. Together they will &c
to the polls and say to Bryan, Altgeld and
Tillman that the people have had enough OF
free trade, enough of rebellion, enough OF
anarchy.
At seven o'clock the Armory was well
filed. +. III. Watson called the assem-
bly, to order, and K. o. Dewey read the fol-
lowing list of officers as prepared by the
committee consisting of Judge S. f. Smith,
FIJI. Watson, WE. Hall and E. o. Dewey:
Presdent-Warren Pierpont.
Vice Presidents
First Ward-L. M. Woodin, o. Samuel
son, F. w. Smith, j. II. Soule, Chas. Tap
house.
Second Ward-Felix Teal, Jas. Bartrem,
B. Garrison, M. G. Dawes, ]. Tawse.
Third Ward-Chas. Beebe, Julius Friese-
Ike. Harry Noble, Chas. Shaw, A. M. Young.
Fourth Ward-Chas. w. Parker, G. G.
Gregory, j. w. Jordan, W. White, w. K.
Washburn.
ecretary-George M. Dewey, Jr.
Treasurer--W. E. Hall.
Upon motion the report was accepted and
adopted. Judge Smith reported that the
Woodland store on Main street could be Sc
cured as a club room and the committee
were instructed to rent it. The secretary
reported that the lists turned in showed a
membership of over 900, which during the
evening was swelled to 1862 and has since
gone up to 1871.
arrived, f. III. Watson entertained the thir-
teen hundred people by short but pleasant
and forcible talk. He then introduced Hon.
John Patton, Jr., ex- United States Senator,
of Grand Rapids, who was enthusiastically
welcomed. Mr.. Patton made speech in
Owosso two years ago and 1t was one of the
very best ever heard in the city. His meth
cd Tuesday evening was different, and while
he did not attempt oratory, his plain state
ments and the good sense of the arguments
had more effect with his hearers than all the
fancy theoretical doctrines preached by the
free coinage advocates.
Mr.. Patton said that in our political his
tory there had been some campaigns that
were crises in the life of the republic. The
intelligent citizens united under the banner
of some party, and that the one from which
sprung the republican party had stood like
monuments along the line of progress. In
1860 the issue was whether we should be
one nation or two; whether men were equal
under the law. Another battle of ballots
was fought in 1864 when the transcendent
issue was whether we should stand by Lin
coin and the army and prosecute the war or
give up to the southern idea that slavery
and states rights were lawful and right be-
fore God. The hearts of men pulsating
with patriotism had declared for the right,
and noble army had stepped out Of party
ranks and made the issue, "Our country
and our flag" and the most tremendous vic
tory in the history of the world was won.
Now another crisis had come and 1t would
by its wrong ending be in its evil effect
more mighty than any since the foundation
of the government. The question went
back to the very foundation Of the govern
ment itself and the issues must be weighed
carefully. No jury that ever sat had a
mightier question to settle; no arguments
were ever more subtly prepared and used,
and all must hear the evidence carefully.
In Chicago party had arisen that had
thrust aside the old and acknowledged lead
ers of the democratic party; the very brain
and conscience of the party had been push
ed away; a new set of men had undertaken
to guide the voters, and had enunciated a
platform that embodied not only what the
financial policy of the government should
be, but what the very money itself, what
scale should be used in wages and what the
money would buy after it was paid. But
another question was here and it had not
been considered by the ombinationists:--
''How to retrace the steps of the last three
years into darkness back to the sunlight of
of 1892" They had, instead,
planned an attack on the Supreme Court of
The United States-one of the most glorious
bodies in the history Of government of ma
tions. Our forefathers had wisely divided
the government into three parts. The Su-