The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1897-09-10

on by the chairman. His home is
m Greencastle. He said that he
wished to endorse the words OF Mr..
Kern as to the necessity of being on
the lookout for attempts from insin-
cere sources to create division in
true democratic ranks. In union,
he said, is strength, and democrats
should take this adage home to
themselves in the present situation.
Mr.. Daggy said he believed in a
good many more reforms from the
invasion Of the money power than
free silver, but that in his opinion
the enactment of free coinage law
is the entering wedge. He pledged
himself to work with might and
main for Bryan democracy.
WILLIAM PATTERSON, PoPULIsT.
A good deal of interest centered
in the speech of Mr.. William Pat
terson which came next. Mr.. Pat
terson has been a rock-ribbed popu-
list for many years and leading
exponent Of the party because it is,
in his opinion, through that organi-
zation and through it alone that the
lpopulists can hope to achieve the
free coinage of silver, which is the
cardinal doctrine that they are con-
tending for. 81 want no populist
separation in the future" he said.
"What is the use Of keeping up this
fag-end organization known as the
populist party? Hereafter | am
going with the great mass who will
be found in the ranks Of the demo-
cratic party. Populists should
know that it is through this organi-
zation that they have a chance to
help down the money power.
"Some populists say to me, Pat
terson, you say that you are going
to cooperate with the democratic
party. That means that you have
gone over to the democratic party
| don't care whether | have gone
over to the democratic party or the
democratic party has come over to
me. II you want to accomplish
anything you must go over to the
democratic party and help. We
must take the democratic name be-
cause it would be too long process
of education to attempt to induce
the democratic party to come over
to us.
THAT thing Of putting a popu-
list ticket in the field in the Fourth
district was engineered by republi-
cans. | hope that in the future we
who shall have been populists can
take the lesson and say, The popu-
list is the last person on earth who
can be fooled by division. We
know what that means.
DR.. +. J. VAN VoRHIs' TALK.
The next speech was from a free
silver republican, the Hon. Flavius
j. Van Vorhis, Of this city. DIR.
Van Vorhis feared that the same
money power controlled the repub-
lican national platform and nomina-
tions last year had been insinuatingl
itself, or trying to do so, into the
democratic local organizations dur
ing the last six months. He warn
ed all present Of the necessity of
keeping the free silver organization
intact.
"The danger comes," he said,
"from the subtle influences that get
into your councils. The money
power is subtle. 1t does not fight
an open fight, but it is ever on the
alert, and we should fight to the
last these insinuating advances of
the money power. Let us remem-
Der that in 1896 we went before the
people on a squarely defined basis,
and urged the principle that there
should be a full legal tender quality!
to all money. There oughtn't to|
be any weakening now. As for
myself l will cooperate with any
party for this principle. Let us
stand by the sheet anchor and COR
ner-stone, which is a demand for a
full legal tender for every dollar"
DR.. PASSAGE OF PERU.
DR.. Henry Passage, Of Peru, who
fought the gold standard invasion
into this country, nobly last fall
next spoke. "The advocates Of the
money power" said he, "have OBJ
tained the idea and are working on
the principle that the only thing
that will save them is to get back
into the democratic party, capture|
the organization and defeat it. II
believe in saying to those fellows
that if they want to get back they
must come back after the old meth
odist plan Of probation except that |
would make the probationary Pc
ri ID sixyears instead Of six months.
miami county was the worst in
tested gold bug county in the state