The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1898-10-28
owosso. FRIDAY. OCTOBER IS, 1898,
GOOD MEETING IN CORUNNA.
Republicans Listen to James
O'DOnneIl.
Speech Bnm Full of Wit and Eloquence
Good Words for Chas B. Colhng-
wood and Joseph w. Fordney.

wood and Joseph w. Fordney.
The republican rally filled the court
house to overlooking in Corunna Fri
day evening, and was a great success,
developing good deal of honest en-.
thusiasm among republican workers.
1t couldn't help being success, how
ever, with such genial speaker as the
one who addressed the meeting especi.
ally when the most complete knowledge
of the political situation was displayed
not only in most instructive way but
interviewer with such a mass of anec-
dotes, all appropriate to the various
points which they were there to illus
trate, and told as only Mr. James
O'Donnell, of Jackson, knows how to
tell them. The occasions when Mr..
| O'Donnell has spoken to Shiawassee
county voters have not been numerous,
and in fact but comparatively small
number of the voters have heard him
at all. None of those who have heard
him, however, would have any doubt
as to the interesting nature OF any
meeting where he was to take part in
the program.
The meeting was called to order by
Mr.. Frank Welch who called Mr.. A. E.
Richards to the chair The latter gen.
tleman, after few brief remarks on
topics of national interest, introduced
Mr.. James O'Donnell, of Jackson, "can-
didate for governor in 1900" who
then addressed the audience, warn
ing them that, like nature which was
constantly averaging up extremes, he
was going to offset the wet night out of
doors, by giving them dry speech, a
thing, by the way, which he did not do.
He then expressed his sense of modesty
in speaking after two such men as Sen
ator Burrows and Governor Pingree,
and thanked the chairman for his fine
Introductory speech, the close of which
he said was especially good.
With the remark that the democrats
had again brought the money question
to the front the speaker referred to
their statement that we didn't have
money enough and couldn't have with
out the free coinage of silver. Then
he showed by figures that we now have
more money in the country per capita
than ever before in the history of the
country, while the increase in the total
amount of the currency during the last
two years has been equal to So, 7S per
second--S5 70 added to the currency of
the country with every tick of the clock
during the last two years.
Among the great crop Of financiers
which sprung up some two years ago
one of the favorite assertions was that
gold was coward and that it always
left the country when war came. Since
the war broke out last spring however,
the increase in gold in the country has
been equal to more than a half million
per day. Gold was not coward, and
If this country, which was all unpre-
pared for war, had been on silver
basis it would have had to pay twice as
much for its munitions of war as it did.
We can't fix the standard. 1t is fixed
by all of the great commercial nations
and has already been fixed as gold,
while the amount of it has increased so
greatly--there was more gold mined
last year than both gold and silver to-
gether eight years ago--that capitalists
even insist that there is too much
And yet the calamity bowler wants the
government to coin vacuum and
make a forty-tive cent dollar
Mr. O'Donnell then started in race
against time and gave series of strik-
ing statistical statements, comparing
the results of democratic and republican
parties on the national credit of the
country, the one debt increasing the
other debt paying policy, thing
which is being further illustrated by the
action of the exports and imports un-
der the Dingley law, the former having
diIoduy chCoCuou buc ldIOcl NY ONcl
six hundred millions, balance due
this country which has been largely
paid in gold
Two years ago there was much talk
about farm mortgages Since then
there have been hundred millions of
dollars worth of farm mortgages paid
Referring to-the conduct of the war
Mr. O'Donnell stated, what any one
can investigate for himself in the con-
gressional record, that when the ques-
ton of raising money to pay the troops
and buy clothes for them came up,
every democrat in the house except six
voted against the measure and every
democrat in the senate except eight
also voted against 1t.
The taxation question in Michigan
then received considerable attention
in the same witty, but clean cut, COM
nonsense vein. OF the various railway