The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1898-10-06
THE CAMPAIGN IS OPENED
Bio Guns of the Fusion Forces at
Work.
ROGERS. JONES AND LEWIS
Overlooking and Delighted Audiences-Enthu-
siastie neutrality-suspicious. Begin
ming Of the Fall
Campaign.
ROGERS. JONES AND LEWIS

A rousing mass meeting at Masons
opera house last Thursday night greeted
Governor Rogers and Congressman Jones.
The speakers were in the best mood and
the audience receptive and enthusiastic.
Judge Preble presided and introduced the
speakers in his usual apt and eloquent
manner. The stage was also graced with
the presence of distinguished citizens,
including the state senatorial and repre-.
sentative candidates for the legislature.
Messrs. Brooks and Colby; Joseph Bax-
ter, pr esident of the state fair commits
sion, Judge Joseph Allen and Others
Misses Madge and Daisy Boyle presided
at the piano with their usual skill.
The governor said in substance that he
was not there to make partisan speech.
At the proper time he would render an
accounting to the people of his steward
ship and vindicste the efficient and
economical administration of state at.
fairs by the state officials. He spoke OF
the silver question as being the para
mount issue, as the acknowledged de-
cline IN price OF all products Of the soil
and OF real estate to the extent OF one
half since the emonetization OF silver
in 1873, made the restoration OF silver as
money metal the foremost question OF
the age. A Thousand dollars, he said,
buried in the earth, idle and unproduct-
i've, in few years had so appreciated in
value as to be able to buy three times the
products of the soil now that it would
when buried. He spoke feelinglv Of the
patriotic valor OF our soldiers in the late
Spanish war on land and sea, unparal
elled in the annals of warfare. He ia
on the lines laid down in the Ellensburg
platform, and held that there was nat
ural law governing the growth OF ma
tions and their social and political pro-
gress, on lines running from south to
north and from east to west, and in &C.
cordance with this law the United States,
from manifest destiny, were following
the law of their being and would rise to
the pinnacle of human grandeur. The
governor illustrated this law by refer
ence to human events extending back
to rem otest antiquity. He closed his
speech amid prolonged applause.
Judge Preble then introduced Hon. w.
G. Jones with fitting eulogy Of the gal
liant congressman.
Mr.. Jones opened by briefly recalling
salient features OF international diplo-
macy and the Cuban rebellion tn at led
up to the Spanish American war. The
democrats and popufists in congress
were foremost in their denunciation of
Spanish barbarities, eliminating in the
destruction OF the battleship Maine,
thereby forcing the republican admins
| tration with Mark Hanna and Major Nc
| Kinley at its head, and against their
wishes. to take up arms against the cruel
foe. The war coming on, the democrats
and popullsts OF congress became enths-
astic in favor of financial legislation TO
promote the war, but were bitterly OPP
| posed to an issue of bonds for the sole
benefit Of financial syndicates, and incl
dentally to increase the revenues from
taxation. He repudiated the absurd as
sumption that it was a republican war
which had been hallowed by the best
blood of democrats and populists on ev-
cry battlefield. 1t was only republican
war in the gross Encouragement Of the
commissary and quartermas depart
ments, which had inflicted a thousand
fold more horrible disease and death
upon our soldiers than the war itself.
Mr.. Jones discussed at length the sill.
yer question from the so-caled "wheat
chart" point OF view, and charged that
after the famine IN India and the short
age In Argentina and Australia had
ceased to affect the value OF wheat it
was once again on par with the de-
monetized commodity OF silver, and one
bushel OF wheat was worth one ounce Of
silver. q
At the conclusion OF his powerful adj
dress Mr.. Jones was greeted with enthu-
siastic applause by the great audience,
which then dispersed, winding up most
successful and profitably attended meet
/ ing.
James Hamilton Lewis