The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1897-10-21

to practice a fraud upon their com
panions in the convention, for there
they were in favor Of international
bimetallism.
" Peter Cartwright WAS once asked
II he was sanctitied, and he said, Yes,
In SPOTS The gold Democrat Is honest
In spots. He spends 30 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
trlepCs, you cannot evade the PROPOSE
tlon. The gold Democrat was either a
fraud and prctender at Chicago or he
was bimotallist. But do not want
to dwell longer on this phase OF tho
subject.
Now, during the campaign some
Republicans abused me. Some papers
SAID hard things against mo. II there
are any Republicans here tonight |
am going to convince them | am a
oetter man than they gave me credit
Tor. 1t Is not worth while for a man
to stand out on cold night and talk to
the people who won't through the fight
last fall without losing their integrity.
! want somebody against me. My
friends, l want to convince you that /
am d better man than tho Republicans
thought l was, and better patriot.
| | was proud of the manner in which
tho p .ople who bowed to the will Of the
majority. We did not know just whore
the majority came from, but we bowed
to 1t. But, my friends, | am in favor
OF doing more than accepting defeat
gracefl ally. believe in helping them
carry out every good policy which
they proposed. l believe in bimetal-
lism. From the bottom Of my heart
want it. l am in favor of Independent
bimetallism. | would not wait for one
moment for the aid or consent OF any
other nation on earth to decide on the
policy Of our financial system. But it
will be three years before we can get
a chance to put our plans in execution.
For three years VIC must wait, and In
the meantime | am willing to help the
Republicans get international bimc-
tallism, If there Is any possibility OF
securing it.. know they will got the
credit If they bring it, but II they
bring 1t, they are entitled to the credit
for 1t, and if they bring it shall ro-
Joice as sincerely, as emphatically, as
any Republican who favors interna.
tional bimetallism. | believe that
when they try to get international
hlmetalllsm. until we can put our
plans In operation, We ought to help
them. am In favor Of helping VOL
cott to try and scare those capitalists,
and am speaking twice day to back
him up. Ho says If they don't do
something right away the free silver
party will win, and | say go, too.
He points out that tho silver move
ment is growing, and want to make
it grow: Well, my friends, l am SO
earnest in this matter, l am 80 anxious
to have bimetallism, If the Republi-
} can party brings it am willing to
give the Republican party q plan which
they can use to secure international
bimetallism and get the credit for it.
: | will tell you what my plan is. We
have elections in several States this
fall. Now, my plan is for ali Eepubii.
cans who believe in international
bimctallism to join with us this fall to
make the vote for silver as large as
possible. | want to carry every State
where there is an election by an over
whelming majority for free silver.
Then what? The news will go across
the ocean, Wolcott will be 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
you 80. If you don't hurry and send
| delegates to that conference the FREQ
silver party will win. You have got
to have those delegates sent at once
| Now, my friends, reforms come to
get rid Of abuses, and reforms are
initiated and supported by the people
who suffer from abuses, and every re-
form that has been achieved of great
benefit to mankind has como in spite
OF and not because of tho capitalist.
And yet the Republican party would
the future Of our country and tho
welfare Of our children, not to local
but to foreign Gnanciers. I denounce
| that platform as tho 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 exploded in their argument.
| They said all we needed was confidence
| We had an election and 1t went their
way, and according to tho headlines,
their majority. They said confidence
was restored. They said : Now pros
perity would come and did for two
months. Why, the trade papers told
us how business was looking up. The
boom lasted nearly month long
enough for the people to spend the
money the Republicans put in circula-
tion on election day, and then it
dropped again
| Incn tlmeS gOt worse. There
were more banks that failed within
the first six months after confidence
was restored than there had been
failures In the corresponding six
months Of the year before. More busi-
ness houses failed in the first six
months after the restoration OF con-
tidence 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
began to look up. Do you know
where the first ray Of hope came from
1t came from the Klondike. I read
you n dispatch from London, and since
the Republicans have transferred the
Legislative power to the hands OF
foreigners, London Is the place whence
comcth their hope; and the first ray
OF hope came from the discovery OF
gold In tho British possessions at X lon
dixie. And they rejoice, and men who