The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-09-30
HON II. l.. CHAPMAN, CANDIDATE
FOR GOVERNOR, RISES UP AND
TURNS HIMSELF.
SAME OLD VHEEZY CAMPAIGN SONG
Roasted the Grand Old Party ana
Then Proceeded to Blow Into
the Muzzle of the Free
Silver Gun.

WV
people attended the opening meeting of
the democratic campaign at the Audi
forum tonight. Several thousand per-
sOnal invitations had been sent out by
the local committee. Hon. Allen w.
Thurman presided. The chief speech
was that of Horace L. Chapman, candi-
date for governor.
Hon. II. l.. Chapman said in part:
your committee very properly select
ed the 23rd day of September as the
time to open our campaign, in comment
Grafton of the patriotism and virtue OF
three New York militiamen, Paul Ding.
Van Vert and Williams. in honor of
whom three counties in Ohio are named
who refused to be bribed and to sell
their country 40 years ago today for
10000 guineas or $4,000 worth of
British gold offered by Maj. Andree,
the spy. an officer OF the British army,
who had arranged with that traitor,
Benedict Arnold, to betray his country
and deliver Gen. Washington into the
hands of Sir Henry Clinton. When the
brides were offered and the amount in
creased from time to time, the firm reply
came from the three plain militiamen:
we are Americans
'oThey could not be bought with
British gold.
"By reason of the positions taken by
the two great parties of Ohio in their
platforms this year, the same questions
are again discussed and passed upon by
the voters of our commonwealth at the
election in November, together with
other questions of Importance, taxation
and the purity of the ballot affecting our
state government, municipalities, coun-
ties and even down to townships and
school districts. The contest last year
was the most remarkable in our history
by reason of the fact that the money
power, trusts and corporations of every
kind were largely arrayed on one side
and the common people on the other
Under these circumstances six and one.
half million votes were cast for Mr.
Bryan in the face of the most powerful
corruption fund ever raised i'll the his.
tory of any country.
SIT is now eleven months since the
election, and what has taken place!
Nothing but broken promises and I'M
publican party. We are told that pros
perity exists throughout the country
that labor is employed at good wages
and business booming, caused by the ad
vance in some articles from the effect
Of the Dlngley bill,
SIN my opinion the tariff question is
one that can be rightfully and honestly
adjusted in the interest of the whole
people. There are only two ways Of
raising revenue under our laws-one by
internal revenue and the other duties
on imports. After ascertaining the
amount that can be raised from the in
ternal revenue. the balance should BIZ
levied in the form of duties on imports
with view to revenue only and ought
to be levied on luxuries-not prohibitory
with the view of raising the largest
amount of revenue and causing the bur
den to fall chiefly upon the wealth Of
the country.
Money, whether metallic or paper. is
the creature of law, and it's measuring
power of every other species of proper
ty is determined by the amount in cir.
culation and the demand for it. On this
question my position is well known.
am in favor of the restoration of silver
at the ratio of 16 to l without waiting
for the permission or consent of any
other country. believing that we are able
to maintain our own financial policy, and
| am in favor of only three kinds of
money-gold, silver and legal tender.
treasury notes, goods for all debts, pub
lie and private-and in support of my
views | quote from prominent republic
can statesmen, who expressed their con-
victions upon this subject in language
stronger and more impressive than | can
use: Hon. William Mckinley said on
the floor of the house of representatives.
June IA. 1890: 4 am for the largest use
of silver in the currency of the country
Secretary Sherman said. as published
in his speeches and reports of financial
taxation April II, 1886, page 51S):
The two metals have kept together
with remarkable nearness, and it is said
with force, it seems to me, that to adopt
the gold standard without silver would
be to deprive the poor people of the
world of the one metal with which one
measures the value of their production
and their labor
"In the speech delivered by B. B. For
aker at Jackson, o., March 6. 1895, he
says:
"'We believe in bimetallism in the
sense that silver is more than credit
money. 1t must again be a money of
ultimate redemption, and as such take
its place alongside of gold
SIN conclusion, let the free men of
Ohio. no matter of what political party.
rise in their might at the polls and crush
that er-bribery-which threatens
to tear down our form of government
and with it the teachings of honor,
virtue and patriotism which we have so
long revered. With an honest ballot at
the coming election we will win a great
and glorious victory and emulate the
virtues of Paulding, Van Vert and VIII
liams."
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