The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-10-09

Jones. a Popa.ssr csn1.9s.e tcr congress,
who're has3Gcis.4ttcr = -hz- Is cents worm
~ ttEyer car 1e made Is good "a 20 cents
v3FtG o E981 - enactment q ne Cosl-
srsss q ire CGit~9 States. was here lAss
= CIR arc SPOKE b~fefe a Cneaai-s aut--
eF7ne NJ. jones' 9eas71e - 20 says the
silver cosr-3 5nfo dsiiaes. y. tAcn- any
l-y7st SIS 20 t1sa numb az them u1aaUsSc-
.Bred. T-ey.S Tc2.cf raise their vaiae. 5c-
coeaiDg - Joaes. al <1ey would by Just
as nuca co-n meal 60 ic9 O ham and
eggs a. tae ifs1-cent god dollars Jones
bases he's belief IN theS@ proposstScF7s ori
tae wa -kn1w1 facs t7st the more Tieu1-
ri "a eot modify becomes. me higher SIS
price Wi -.
4 goos SIZED crowd gathered a. The op-
sra a9use q hear Jones. The people q
caehA.Is are 81 sasy 9irS. tsier&1- KIND.
Taes a%a't Graw t5e are oa a r orator be-
ca8se ~ kagpsr-z 70 be 4 trfe cracked
!. vas TO ALE. h1sTever, hat IL F1e crow &
there ssTs very fsw popollsts. once Jones
spoke 81 fEe Increased Democrat mater
tig II a Southern slaie. ard tae fope. re-
roraat - the fast 1sat all The incresse was
a. ise exp nse - their own party. trig . 10
max a 1eEnoG=tr ia ,i0Ta. Il sounded Ike a
tired echo. More Democrats were present
t1gt Pops Fully sraff the people IN the
audience were Republicans. The applause
given tht SPEAKER occasionally was faint
ard scattering. The mention OF Bryan s
ranse several tines created no sntnus.-
ssyu
J r. willis introduced Jones Mr.. VIII
fESfE
pain aa4 he told the crowd taaG ne never
q2aFreie1 With ! mans honest opinions.
II 4 man told hin t..at Iceland IS the nat
uTa4 home o. the strawberry, or thar me
African elephant =. la fact, no bigger
than cricket, and ne thought the man
was sincere n making :le statement. ne
eofsy!nuss! 10 respect the man, even * ne
1idn; believe what ne said. Taus pre-
pairing she audience 70: what was TO come,
ne nircd 3cei Jones'
Jones began by alleging. IN substance,
taat ne was not renegade from the Re
nafd< the Republican party had ruthless
Is and reTnovsaietsly DIS rted him. He
diG not say whether he thought tia: was
suffic ent excuse for being found IN ne
company Of sHgie taxers. Democrats ana
Popul.sts. fIe dseclare'! that the Republic
an party four years ago Endorsed the free
coinage Of s.lSer al IL 10 /. winch 1t did
not DO. He said ali the Republican leaders
OF Washington were for free coinage then.
buJ he failed 10 note that II trey were
they advocated SOM thing they were never
authorized 10 advocate By any natiOna.
Republican platform. He said all the Re-
publican leaders Of the nation. from Tnona-
As f. Reed down had at some dme d.
clared for free silver. statement that Is
untrue.
Tae Caehal.s Nugget OF yesterday morn
Ing having suggested tnas he might ex-
plain a few PORTS, Jones said tina. ne
would do &c. prefacing MS remarks, how
ever, by telling how sorry he fe; for a
man who didn't know any more than the
editor Of the Nugget He thought II was
silly 20 ask such questions.
The Nugget had pointed out that Jones
would probably tell why IL was wheat and
ge;her since 1873. were occasionally so far
apart before that date; filst he would ex-
plain whether the fall OF prices In wheat
ard other commodities began in 1878, or
earlier than that: that ne might state
whether the price of labor had been CO.
ing up or down since wheat and silver
took 4 tumble, and II Ii had gone up.
whether the laboring man had been hurt;
that he might show how II is that the
Washington farmer can pay of his mort
gage with ss-cent wheat while The Mime
sofa farmer of 1873 WAS going broke with
wheat two Or three times as much; that
he might inform his crowd why 1t IS. il
the law Of supply and demand governs the
price Of wheat when II is high. as the
Populkts declared WAS the case last year,
II doesn't always govern, without regard
to the price OF silver; that ne would show
how Il would be any easer for the audi
enoe to- get hold OF the silver of the silver
baron when there IL free coinage than Il
Is now TO get hold OF the god Of the gold
king and finally. that he might help the
crowd TO understand now much easier IL
would have been % fight the Spanish war
with the silver dollar, and how much
more plea sait. for the sl3 IL month men to
work for Scent silver dollars than for 100
cent god dollars.
These little matters Mr.. Jones declared
that he would explain II Is the testimony
of those who were present. including she
intelligent silverites, that ne did not at
tempt 20 do so. lie talked OF everything
else under the sun. but he did not get TO
the point
Jones made no converts 10 the frea-slver
idea here. He is a good fellow, with q
harmless mania, but lie IL not much of
missionary-at any rate. not in this year
OF the Lord. when the gold standard men
are on the aggressive and do not have 10
cGn!ine themselves 20 theories. or borrow
illustrations from ancient history. hut are
able 10 point 10 the stubborn, convincing
facts that are within the knowledge and
experience Of every citizen.