The San Francisco call., 1896-08-06
Hon. Roswell P. Horr of New
York Makes the Initial
Address.
SILVER QUESTION DISCUSSED.
McKinley's Election Means Sound
Money, Revived Industries, Ma.
tional Honor.

LINCOLN, NEBR., Aug. 5.-Nebraska's
most interesting and important political
campaign began to-day in Lincoln. That
Lincoln realized the Importance of the
occasion was clearly shown and political
discussion has waged fast and furious, de-
spite the torrid heat, from Mr.. Bryan's
home on street to the postoffice square
in the business section. Whatever their
political affiliations, the people of Lin
coin take great pride in the fact that from
among their fellow-citizens Two candi-
dates for the Presidency of the United
States have been selected. Mr.. Bentley,
the National candidate of the silver Pro-
hibitionists, is, like Mr.. Bryan, a resident
of the little capital city. With the
rumored prospect of another Nebraskan,
J. Sterling Morton, heading second
Democratic ticket, the cup of Lincoln's
political happiness is that condition where
it should secure mate.
Delegates to the convention of the State
League of Republican Clubs met here to
day and held lively session. In the
evening Hon. r. P. Horr of New York,
formerly Michigan Congressman and a
well-known orator, opened the campaign
in behalf of the Republican National Com
mittee at M-street Park. The convention
without delay developed hot fight over
the selection of a president for the state
league. Omaha, Lincoln and Hastings had
candidates, and the Hastings man won,
much TO the disgust of the Omaha contin-
gent, who left the hall as soon as the re-
suit was announced. The officers selected
were as follows:
NJ MaGr 81
ings, Adams County; vice president. John
R. Hays, Madison County; secretary, Ed
]. Mock, Harlan County; treasurer, P. ].
Hill, Saunders County. Delegates at large
to the National convention of tine league
at MISUNDERSTANDING P. McReay, Ed J.
Mock, John L. Webster of Omaha and
Beman r. Dawes of Lincoln.
Mr.. Horr opened his speech with a
tribute to the protection policy of the Re-
publican party and denunciation of
Democratic free trade. He discussed the
history of money, sketching the progress
of its use from early days, and in conclu-
sion made some references to Mr.. Bryan
as candidate. After painting a vivid
picture of the financial disaster which he
predicted would follow the adoption of
free coinage, he said:
Gold would cease to be used as the currency
of the country. 1t would simply be bought
and sold as a commodity. The silver men
generally admit that such would be the re-
suit, but they insist that nation can be
blessed by degrading its currency in that way.
Nothing but ruin can follow any nation which
attempts to bless its people by degrading its
circulating medium. To-day we have seven
or eight kinds of money, and under the Re-
publican party every dollar of that money is
of equal value. Adopt this system in the
United States and you would diminish the
currency over $500, 900 900. You would lose
the confidence OF the world, destroy the busi-
ness integrity of our people and bring nothing
but ruin to the business interests of the Ma
ton. This whole theory is based upon the
idea that the world can be blessed by permit
ting people to pay their debts with money less
valuable than the money in which these loans
were contracted, and they utterlyitig-
more the fact that this great army
of people who earn money would be
ruined by such a process. The wage earners
of the United States will never agree to such a
policy. If these financiers are correct, wisdom
has recently, for the first time, struck the
planet These theories are entirely at variance
with the doctrine held by all the wise men of
the past
This is serious question. No wonder the
Democratic party is repudiating the nomina-
ton made at Chicago. That party has in it
large number of men who are patriots, not
partisans, and Democrats of that stamp will
not vote to hsve this nation given over into
the hands of the repudiator. The doctrine of
the Chicago platform not only indicates free
trade and free silver, but it largely smacks of
socialism and tastes of anarchy. 1t would have
the country governed by mob law, and it would
strike dowS the most sacred safeguard of the
Nation, the Supreme Court of the United States
In conclusion want to call the attention of
the people of this vicinity to one fact. Did it
ever occur to you that we are about to elect
man to fill the Office of President of the United
States? Do you know that the man elected is
to occupy the chair once held by Washington,
Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln and Grant. The
seat was aspired to by such men as Clay, Web
ster and Tilden.
The people of the Nation are going to be
little particular about who occupies that seat,
and in November next they will say to your
good townsman, Mr.. Bryan: tBub, don at
tempt to fill that chair. You are nice little
boy: you make nice little speeches, sonny;
but the people OF this country propose that
that chair be occupied by man of more ma
ture age, character and experiences man
who is we'll known as an embodiment of good
and great principles here throughout this
country" That man is Major Mckinley. His
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vived industries, National credit and National
honor.
While the Republican Leaguers were en-
gagged in heated discussion Candidate
Bryan was trying to keep cool at his house
on D street. Mr.. Bryan spent quiet day.
In the evening he drove down to the rail-
way station and met Governor and Mrs.
Altgeld, who passed through Lincoln en-
| route to Glenwood Springs, Colo. Mr..
Bryan and the Governor had talk over
campaign affairs. Governor Altgeld's only
answer to question as to whether Mr..
Bryan had said anything about appoint
ing him Attorney-GeneraI in the event of
Democratic success, was smile. Hon.
Richard P. Bland is not going to visit Mr..
Bryan in Lincoln. He wired the nominee
that it was too hot to travel, but he and
Mrs. Bland would meet Mr.. and Mrs.
Bryan at Chicago and go to New York
with them.
PROTECTION THE ISSUE.
! P0pNtisfs Ecen in Nebraska DESERVING
! Bryan's Standard.
WASHINGTON, D. G., Aug. 5.-Chaun-