The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-10-17


! the gold standard. Now, do not know
whether you have any gold standard
Democrats in your town or not, but, my
friends, / want gold Democrat to an
swer this questions: Did the gold Demo
Gratis believe in gold standard at Chi
cago? If they did, they tried to prac-
tice Il fraud upon their companions In
the convention, for there they were in
favor of international bimetallsm.
Peter Cartwright was once asked If
he was sanctifed, and he said, Yes, in
spots The gold Democrat is honest
in spots. He spends so much time in
talking about honest money that he has
no time to be honest in his efforts to get
any kind of money. Now, my friends
you cannot evade the proposition. The
! gold Democrat was either a fraud and
pretender at Chicago or he was bimet
allist. But | do not want to dwell longer
on this phase of the subject.
"Now, during the campaign some Re
publcans abused me. Some papers said
| hard things against me. If there arc
any Republicans here tonight | am go
ing to convince them l am better man
than they gave me credit for. 1t is NOT
worth while for a man to stand out on
cold night and talk to the people who
went through the fight last fall without
losing their integrity. 1 want somebody
| against me. My friends, / want to
| convince you that | am a better man
than the Republicans thought | was, and
better patriot. l was proud OF the
manner IN which our people bowed to
the will of the majority. We did not
know just where the majority came from,
but we bowed to it. But, my friends, !
am In favor of doing more than accept.
ing defeat gracefully. l believe it help
ing them carry out every gold poljcl
which they proposed. l believe in bl
metalllsm. From the bottom of M
heart | want it. l am in favor of indie
! pendent blmetalliSm. | would not wait
Ior one moment for the aid or consent of
/ any other nation on earth to decide on
the policy of our financial system. Bun
IL VIII be three years before we can get
| d chahce TO put our plans in execution.
FOR three years we must waitand in the
meantime am willing to help the Repub-
ilcanS get international bimetallism =
there is any possibility of securing II
l know they will get the credit If thov
br1ng it, but if they bring it, thew are
entitled to the credit for it. and if thev
Drlng 1t L shall rejoice as sincerely. as
emphatlcally, as any Republican who
iavors international bimetallism. I he
ileve that when they try to get interno-
tlonai bimetallism, until we can put orr
pans In operation, we ought to helm
them. am in favor of helping Wolcott
10 try and scare those capitalists. and
l am speaking twice day to back him
! up. lie says if they don't do something
i r'ght away the free silver party will
win' ana l say so, too. He points ont
,hat the silver movement is growing, and
l want to make it grow. Well,my friends
l am so earnest In this matter. am so
anxious to have bimetallism, II the Re-
pubilcan party brings it I am willing
10 give the Republican party a plan
"hlch they can use to secure interim
tlonal bimetallism and get the credit for
1t. will tell you what my plan is. We
nave elections in several States this fall.
Now, my plan is for all Republicans who
believe IN international bimetallism to
join with us this fall to make the vot.
Tor silver as large as possible. / want to
carry every State where there is an elec-
ton by an overwhelming majority for
free silver. Then what? The news will
go across the ocean; Wolcott will b.,
waiting to get the news, and when he
gets the message that everyone of these
States have gone for silver, he will rush
TO the big financiers and will show them
the telegram and say, Didn't / tell you
so. If you don't hurry and send dele
gates to that conference the free silver
party will win. You have got to have
those delegates sent at once
4 Now, my friends. reforms come TO
get rid of abuses, and reforms are in
!, itiated and supported by the people who
suffer from abuses, and every reform
that has been achieved Of great benefit
to mankind has come in spite of and not
; because of the capitalist And yet the
/, Republican party would turn over the
| finances of this Countrywide future of
! our country and the welfare of our chill
, dren, not to local but to foreign finan-
ciers. l denounce that platform as the
: most infamous one ever adopted and any
: man ought to blush to stand upon it.
? But enough of that Let me call your
; attention to another fact that has been
t exploded in their argument They said
: all we needed was confidence. We had
' an election and it went their way, and
; according to the headlines, they can
: not complain Of the size of their major
y ity. They said confidence was restored
They said: Now prosperity would come,
and did for two months. Why, the trade
papers told us how business was look.
ing up. The boom lasted nearly a month
. long enough for the people to spend the
| money the Republicans put in circula.
+ ton on election day, and then it dropped
again.
'Then times got worse. There were
more banks that failed within the frs
six months after confidence was re-
stored than there had been failures In
the corresponding six months Of the
year before. More business houses failed
in the first six months after the restora.
. ton Of confidence than had failed during
the same period of the year previous
Times got bad and they got worse, and
then they got worse still until they got
so bad that many people concluded that
/ must have been elected.
But after about SIX months things be-
gan to look up. Do you know where the
first ray of hope came from? 1t came
from the Klondike. read you a dispatch
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