Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1896-10-28
Senator Daniel Speaks.
The Lame Lion Of Lylelblrg
Stirred the People as they
had not been Stirred.
One Thousand Men in Line.
Three Thousand Hear 'Hin.
SIXTEEN WHITE HORSES
ONE LITTLE SORREL PUNY.
The Horses Useful.
The Pony Ornamental.

If there be any who have laid the flattering
JUNCTION to their souls that Augusta county
and the city of Staunton have no silver people
within their limits they will no longer doubt if
they were on our streets Monday and saw the
outpouring of the sovereigns, the enthusiasm
and the determination written on their faces
The sun had scarcely thrown his long rays
over the crest of our blue mountains before
the people from the county began to come, in
all directions. Every conceivable mode of
transportation was adopted, carriages, bug
gies, wagons, horseback, wheels, all brought
their human freight. and those who have
seen and experienced the effect of the gold
standard until they have neither horse nor
carriage, trudged along on foot, determined
to join in the great throng which had met to
hear Senator Daniel and speed the cause of
Bryan and the people. Three bands of music
had been procured, the Roman Band, the
Blackford Band and the Stonewall Band, and
their inspiring airs sent magnetic thrills
through the assembled multitude. 1t soon
became known that Senator Daniel had ar
rived and the fear of disappointment gave
place to enthusiasm as the crowd surged here
and there to hear the bands play or enjoy a
political spat. The marshals were on horse
back with long flowing white ribbons on
their breasts. the white horses which were to
draw the carriage of Senator Daniel began to
receive their caparsoning, and the poor little
pony which was to do the thank less act of
posing as the gold emblem in the procession
came sulkily trotting to its place. This pretty
little animal is the property of Hon. Edward
Echols, Democratic County Chairman, and
no doubt never intended anything wrong by
being sorrel, but would have been just as con-
| tented to have been white. The sixteen white
horses were soon hitched to the carriage the
pony tied behind it, Senator Daniel, Hon.
| Edward Echols, Jas. r. Kemper, Esq, and
| Capt. David Drake took their seats in the car
riage, and headed by the Stonewall Band the
procession took up its line of march. After
| moving around some squares it again appear
ed on Main street, and proceeded up to Jeffer-
son street. thence down Frederick and out
Lewis to Columbian Hall. After the carriage
was long line of citizens on foot, then came
the Blackboard Band, then more citizens, then
the Roman Band, then long cavalcade of
horsemen. The Fishersville club had sent a
| beautiful Bryan, Sewall and Flood flag, and
this was carried by members of the club
throughout the line of march. The streets
were lined with citizens. and as the procession
passed tremendous cheers went up from al
most every point. The public schools had al
lowed the children to come out in the yard to
witness the procession, and at the V. F. 1.
| Sf1,or fJc fba I'll cfo
porch and cheered and waved handkerchiefs.
Of course this cheer was heartily responded
to by the crowd and the young marshalls
lifted their hats reverentiallv. Before the
procession had reached Columbian Hall
| large number of people had gone there and it
was more than half full. With the process
sion all seats in the Hall were completely
filled and many had to stand, which they in
most instances did preserving the best of
order. A chorus of female voices then rem
dered a campaign song dedicated to Bryan
which was loudly cheered, after which Mr..
Echols in a well chosen speech intro
duced Senator Daniel, the orator of the day.
| Amid deafening cheers Senator Daniel came
| forward, and began by saluting the audience
as Mr. hartman, ladies and gentleman, fell
! low soldiers, free silverites, and anarchists.
| This called forth the most tumultnous cheer
| ing, and the speaker and the people at once
| were on good terms.
The Senator then entered upon one of his
most eloquent and able addresses. He re-
minded the people of the hard times, and
told them that the gold bugs said that these
hard times came from having produced too
| much that the fellow without shoes, and his
hair sticking out through the windows in his
hat was suffering from the over prod uction
of shoes and hats, that when a laborers table
whe re plenty used to be was now in want
of both meat and bread, the gold bug told the
| country that that mans poverty was caused
by an overproduction of meat and bread He
drew from his pocket silver dollar and as
he did so an enthusiastic silverite shouted,
''Them's what we want, silver dollars"
This said Senator Daniel is a silver dollar,
on one side of it is the English coat of arms
on the other an inscription which tells that
Britannia rules the waves This Dollar he
said was coined in India and bore date 1895.
The English had stopped coming silver there
| until the United States was duped by Cleve.
land into doing so too, then foxy old Eng
land went back to coming them straightway
and now was pouring them through her
| minis at wonderful rate. He told how sim
pie was the cry of silver driving away gold,
but if such should be the case, it would only
go to England and as En- gland had to subsist
on our beef and flour and cotton and corn
! no one need fear that as soon as it got there
gold would begin to come back and the more
| there was there to come the more we would
get. He satisfied the people who heard him
that their troubles came from having too lit
| tie instead of too much money, and defied
| any student to show him a single case of a
nation destroying itself with too much gold
and silver. There were many national deaths
he said and would be more but no case was
on record OF any one dying from such a
cause
As gold and silver coins are money, as silver
| was the first dollar coined in this republic, as
| it had Washington for its father and Jeffer-
son and Hamilton as its baptismal sponsors,
he had no fear nor need the people have any