, 1898-11-03

Calamity How,S and Misleading
Statements His Entire Stock in
Trade.
Roots opera house was comfortably
filed last night by an intelligent Lara
mic audience which had turned out to
see the notorious a%crobatic Rawlins
who gained his %unenviable repu-
tation by climbing through a window
of the state capitol building to assume
the governors ship of the state.
A large number of republicans were
present, a fact which was noticed by
Mr.. Ccrthell and referred to in his in
troductory speech.
marks hat he did 10; intend to appeal
to the prejudices OF the people. but
would endeavor TO reason with them.
AS a matter OF fact. however, the only
reasoning he did was to misquote a Lot
Of statistics. During the course of his
remarks he made use Of the expression,
Figures won't lie, but liars will fig
ure.'' As one of the liars who figure,
John E. Osborne is a hCwling success.
His whole talk was made up OF
g%roundless assertions. He said the
American people were made a party to
thn 1r;poa ~ tho 1octr,,ptiNp ~ &1A
Maine because they did not grant rec
ognition to the Cuban belligerents when
the proposition frs, came up. He said
that William Mckinley does O rep
resent republicanism any more than
Cleveland represents democracy. He
said the Dingley bill was a failure as a
revenue producer, and switched right
around and maintained that the war
bond issue was unnecessary because
there was plenty of money in the treas
ury when the bonds were issued. and
after the Dingley bill had been in oper-
ton on the administration because one
Of the surgeons employed by the war
department happened to have a knowl-
edge Of veterinary surgery in addition
to his medical education. He posed as
a great friend of the w~orkingman, but
failed to mention his fool objection to
the consideration Of the Phillips bill
an action which defeated the passage
by the last session of congress OF this
worthy non-partisan measure; O did
he state that his only ground for OBJ
~jecting to this vas that it was
introduced by a republican member OF
congress.
He said that the reason Bryan was
defeated was that the American people
did not think what they were doing
when they voted for Mckinley. He
said there was no difference between a
Cleveland democrat and a Mckinley
republican; that they served the same
masters and were tarred with the same
stick. He said the lalboring men do MOI
think for themselves, and that a great
majority Of them were without work
or working ON short time at starvation
wages, when the fact OF the matter il
that 1t is impossible to get enough men
to do the work of the country. He said
the fact that the deposits in the state
banks had increased nearly half a mil
lion dollars was not a sign of prospect.
ty. but the reverse; he was not honest
e9rugh to acknowledge that this in
crease in the deposits was Offset by 6
like increase In loans, and that just
that much more business was being
done.
He said there were no tramps in the
country before 1873. He walled about
what he termed "the unherproductior
of money" but he we'll knows that more
money per capita is being coined now
than eve before in the history Of the
country. He distorted the facts abouI
the per capita circulation in the Unit
ed States and brought the amound
down to IS, when in fact he knows thai
there is three times this amount in cir.
culation. He howled about how hare
it was for a working man to earl a dol.
lar nowadays and how easy it would be
to earn 1t under free coinage OF silver
but he forgot to state just how this con
dition OF affairs would be brought
about under free coinage, and also neg.
lected to inform the people that the free
coinage dollar would be worth less thar
half as much as the present dollar.
He said the tariff question was not
an issue. That the law was on the
statute books and could, not be changed
as long as there was a republican presi-
dent in the White house. Free silver
was the question. How in the name OF
common sense does ne expect to change
the financial policy Of the government
when he acknowledge that no change
can be made in the tariff law?
He was like DR.. Wilson's dog-the
an mal which wae nualifed to edit n