The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1896-10-09
The Great GoIdbug Jamboree.

The great spectacular Mckinley circus
which required something like super
human efforts on the part of Mr.. Haine!
to get up, has come and gone. Wednes
day was a gala day for Rising Sun. Every
body in town and immediate neighbor
hoop, men, women and children, turned
out to see the sights and enjoy the band:
which had been so extensively advertised.
A fair delegation came from Elkton and
intermediate stations accompanied by the
K. of P. Band of North East. A special
came from above Oxford with three cars
filled, accompanied by a band. When all
had punched in the afternoon, there had
assembled two thousand or twenty-five
hundred persons, one-third, or nearly, Of
whom were women. The ladies turned
out WE'LL
There was a stiff north west breeze
blowing which was cold and uncom-
Portable to stand in and appeared to chill
the enthusiasm of the crowd, which was
rather saving of its applause. Governor
Lowndes nor Congressman Wellington
were neither on hand. The Governor
had to attend reception of Boston mil
itary company at Annapolis, and Mr..
Wellington was laid up sick after reach
ing home from stumping tour on the
Eastern Shore. Congressman Baker was
the only Marylander who put in an
appearance and made the forenoon speech
Mr.. Thomas Cooper, ex-Collector of the
port of Philadelphia, Hon. Chas. Emory
Smith, ex-Minister to Russia, and Judge
Tourgee, the author of GA Fools
Errand," composed the speaking corps
for the occasion.
Mr.. H. H. Haines was Chairman of the
meeting and before the afternoon service
commenced read off the list of vice
presidents, and it was the longest list of
vice-presidents ever announced in the
United States, or the rest of the world.
The list contained about all the Mckinley
voters in Cecil county and a number of
Bryan voters. The Hon. VIM. B. Baker,
of Hartford county, our present member OF
Congress, was pressed into service for a
second speech, and occupied perhaps IS
or 20 minutes telling stories to get the
company in receptive mood, when Mr..
Cooper, of Media, Pa, was introduced
and told some more good stories and
waltzed round the silver question, keep
ing safe distance from the merits of the
subject.
Mr.. Charles Emory Smith, of the Phil
adelphia Press, was brought to the front
after Mr.. Cooper retired, and was the
heavy battery in the engagement. Mr..
Smith is good speaker, artistically and
professionally considered, and fully as de-
ceptive as his Press editorials. He made
an elaborate attack on the silver question,
and was as unfair and sophistic as it is
possible to be on that subject. He told
half but kept back their logical Sc
quence, or placed foreign construction
on them. He fortified and enforced his
boldest declarations by show of earnest
defamation, which CLOSED over and
concealed their weakness from an au-
dience which he judged-perhaps cor
rectly-but lily informed on the subject.
He stated correctly the amount of silver
in the banks of England, France and
Germany, all waiting patiently for our
minis to open when they would send it
here to have it coined into American dol
lars. With earnest defamation and EN-
phatic gestures Mr.. Smith may have inl-
posed this white lie on his audience, but
all who are informed on the subject read
lily detected his sophistry. The silver
coin In the banks of France and Germany
is full legal tender, and that in the
Bank of England and in circulation is
subsidiary, and all of it, like our silver
coin, is on parity with gold, at ratio
not of I6 to but I5H to I. When an
attempt is made to draw gold from the
Bank of France for expectation, silver
coin is offered the drawer. The French
officials are patriotic and not traitors to
their government and people as our
Cleveland and Carlisle are. None of that
coin could be brought to this country to
be coined into U. S. dollars unless first
paid for at the rate of I514 ounces to I
ounce of gold. Mr.. Smith told his story
ingenuously but it could deceive no one
but the ignorant. And his story of the
interview with the Russian Minister of
Finance with the hard name was equally
barren of truth as to results-not disput-
ing what the Minister said. Russia is a
silver country and uses paper roubles in
place of the coin. as we use silver GER
Gates in place of the coin dollars, and
not gone onto gold basis.