The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1897-09-10
THE BIMETALLlC LEAGUE.
Brings Together Many Prominent Ad'
v0cates Of Silver.
Addresses Made At the afternoon
Meeting.
indianapolis Sentinel.

Addresses MADE ~ the afternoon
Meeting.
indianapolis sentinel
The meeting of the executive and
ADVISORY committees Of the Indiana
bimetallic league at the Grand hotel
yesterday was made the occasion Of
a big love feast. 1t was signifi-
cant gathering in that reports from
representative men of all parts Of
the state were received, showing
uniformly the utmost enthusiasm in
the cause of silver.
The trend of the reports indicated
that the masses of the democracy Of
the state have their minds on the
state election of next year, and that
they are determined to see that a
straight free silver platform is
adopted.
The meeting yesterday was for
the purpose of transacting routine
business and laying plans for the
future work of the league.
That the prospects are rosy for
next year was indicated by the fact
that an absorbing feature of yester-
days meeting was the log rolling
by aspirants for state offices.
1t was a splendid gathering Of
representative democrats that met
at the headquarters of the Indiana
bimelallic league at the Grand hotel
yesterday afternoon. 1t was one of
the accompanying features of the
meeting of the advisory and execu-
tive com nittees that an open ses-
sion for informal discussion should
be held during the afternoon, when
the prominent democrats present
would give their views touching on
the condition of sentiment through
out the state, and the situation in
which the true democracy finds it.
self.
Mr.. Allen Clark of Greensburg,
chairman of the bimetallic league,
presided over the meeting. Mr..
Isaac Strause OF Rockville was sec
retary. There were calls for Mr..
Samuel +. Morss for a speech.
Mr.. Morss talked briefly. He said
he came as a listener rather than a
participant, and he saw no evidence
in the enthusiastic assemblage be-
fore him that the "silver craze" as
it was called, is dying out. 81 form
the belief from this large assem-
blage." said he, "that something is
going on and something important
at that. ! believed that the party
in the stand it took on the money
question last fall was absolutely
right and still believe so. The
fight is still between the money
power and the masses of the people.
The nearer we get to the principles
of Jackson and Jefferson the more
surely we will succeed, and the more
we will deserve to succeed. My
program is to stand pat upon the
Chicago PLATFORM
THE Hon. JOHN w. KERN.
All Of the speeches were extempo-
raneous and most OF them were
brief. The chairman had an
nounced before speaking began that
the tive-minute rule would prevail
but this was not lived up to in all
cases. Following Mr.. Morss the
Hon. John w. Kern was called for
and enthusiastically received. His
speech was directed against attempt
ed gold standard invasion into the
of the democratic party.
I'VE must BEWARE" he said,
"of attempts of the monometallic
forces to gain success by creating
division in our forces. They see
that if we, who are fighting for sill
yer, stand united, the handwriting is
on the wall. The cheapest and
most effective way they can fight us
is after the plan they followed in
the Fourth district-that is by di-
viding our forces. That plan is an
one and is the cheapest
way of accomplishing their purpose.
The plan originated in the fertile
brain of Mark Hanna.
"We must look out for firebrandsI
aimed to divide our ranks. We have
an instance right here in our city
in the municipal campaign that is
now on. There are men here who
hope by throwing firebrands into the
ranks Of the democratic party to ac-
its defeat. You can watch
for it in every state and every city
campaign from now on. 1t is a.
part of the program to create di-I
vision in our ranks. We must be
on the alert and no power, money
or otherwise, can produce defeat. |"
M. l.. DAGGY, PoPULIsT OF GREEN
rAQTTE