The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-09-28
JOE BAILEY IN INDIANA.
The Texan Speaks to an lmme o,c
Crowd at indianapolis.
He WAS GIVEN A GREAT OVATION.
He Expounds Democratic Doctrine
ana Lays Down the Democratic
Position ON Current Issues.

Texas after few preliminary remarks.
spoke as follows:
Your representative In congress said In
an interview printed In the Washington
Post last Sunday that all that was done for
the soldiers was done by the republican
parry ana against Democratic opposition.
He said we voted against all the appropria-
tons say TO YOU. aou appeal TO III
| record 10 sustain me We did noS yoas
asa nst FL single appropriation. (Applause)
When the president asked fifty million dol
lars. we gave 1t with unanlmity never be-
fore equaled In such an emergency. We
| Vo'ed Tor every appropriation, We voted
to repeal the law, or to suspend the law,
that required the government to buy pro-
visions by bids We did not REQUIRE any
! officer OF the government 10 cail upou the
! bsdders to come up and buy from ihe msn
! who would sell the CHEAPEST. We author
| lied him 10 TAKE the money In his hands.
| 80 INTO the markets OF this couNry aud
| buy the best for the best was mono tol
| good for any soldier that wears the uniform
| OF this Republic. tApplausel And IL they
| d.d nos buy the best, the crime "a thcirs.
| the honor is ours. because We not only gave
| them the authority TO buy the best We
gave them the money besides (Applause)
| But. fellow citizens, II is not the war IN 4
shall address myself TO during the brio
| time shall occupy your attention, because
whea this war Ia over, when its issues have
pass i, that question which in the last
campaign was the paramount one will IN
ehe next campaien be the paramount ole
again. Great applause) There il no ru.
ture event more certain than that the next
democratic National convention will re-
adopt tho Chicago platform AMI Will place
it's standard In the hands OF the matchl IS
lelgder in that last great combat tNre-
m2ndous applause and chears.) And thea
when the mastering roll OF the great army
OF democracy Is called there viii he no alb
sent one that answered TO the last. and
thousands of those who Struggled against
us. perceivlng their error, will try to re-
deem their fail. our gold standard friends
| felt sorry for them during the last two
years They would not go with us be-
cause they said they were too democratic
and yet they have been compelled to stand
around for the lest two years and hear the
rpuhliclns whom they assisted pour out
the vials OF Their wrath upon the demo-
Gratis of this country, How dpcs mo
crat feel, after having fought by The side
OF the republicans and shot down hts dem
ocratic brother, TO have the republican turn
around and smbtc him on his cacek2 n
lsnuw they are sorry for Il. They feel like
they have spent these last two years ~
eating huskS which have fallen from This
republican table. aud ! am led To extend %
them an Invitation TO come back home. |
I tell them now that we AFRO not gniug to
kill the fattch calf nor give them the best
robe but We Will let them come back
without asking them any questions about
whore they have been Applause aud
laughter)
NO JUSTIFICATION.
"Now my fellow citizens, there never
any real justification for democrat
quitting the democratic party on this
financial question. lie might have dir
fcred with us, but his difference dld not
justify HIS separation from us. When no
separated from us on the money question !
and wdnt to the assistance oil the repub- |
lioen party and put himself IN this rid icu- /
lous attitude. He abandoned people with |
whom he agreed on all questions but one |
and joined himself with people, with VII in /
he disagreed upoa all question EXCEPT one. /
He gave up dozen agreements for oae
dlSasl ameDt and embraced a dozen dds !
agreements for one agreement. Now, /
fellow citizens, our gold standard friends /
who still belong to the democratic parry
and our republican friends who will re-
after belong TO the democratic party. have
been asking all the psople OF this country
10 justify their present position. Whyg /
VIVA Is thar argument in favor OF The /
maintenance OF the gold standard? TIL, ray
they are IA favor OF maintaining the gold /
standard because in that way they main /
tain the honesty of our money Now my /
fellow citizens, there is no difference be- !
tween them and us as to the deslrablHty I
OF maintaining honest money. All m IN +
want honest money, and ali wis men know
this country ought 10 have l.. Pat do
these gentlemen stop to reflect that they
have never yet given us a definition OF I
n hnurSt ~ Aak nf y hop tha m
honest dollar Is. Some OF than viii tell |
you that an honest dollar Is a dollar worth !
hundred cents. Others viii tell us that 4
an honest dollar is a dollar made out Of
a material worth jus, as much before Il
is coined the dollar into which II Is
coined Now, pledge you my word that
in all the books they have ever written
and ~ all the speeches they have ever de-
llvered they never veuurei on any def
milton except one or the othrr OF these two f
Let me analyze them. dollar Is honest
because VI Is worth hundred cents. Why
man who gives ME that definition fur
nishes me an excellent excuse for believing
in the gold standard, because he sho &g
me that he is entirely ignorant Of the
question. Why Is a dollar worth hundred
cents? Simply and only because the law
divides the dollar into a hundred paris
and calls each bart cant The law, with
out changing the ms al In dollar or The
purchasing power OF It, could say that The
dollar could be divided into fifty parts
and each par, shall BE- a celt, ami the
your dollar would only be worth 30 cents,
although II would possess The sama pur-
chasing power that il DOS today dollar
Is honest, others tell me whenever the ma
terial out % which Il IL made Is worth
tho dollar into which Il can be made. Tfs'
the honesty OF tha dollar by that dsfbaition
and testing II by that | Will pledge you my
soul can make as honcsf dollar out OF
iron as they can out o. gold. The law says
today that a gold dollar consisting Of 25s
grains Of gold Is our unit Of value Amend
that law tomorrow and declare that here
after tbs unit OF value shall be an iro0
dollar consisting OF an ounce OF iron. and
the mlnts arc op7n 10 the free and unlimit-
de coinage OF iron J. would b. ilst as GER
tain then that an ounce Of Iron would be
worth the iron dollar as Il Is TO-DAY that
25,s grains OF gold ara worth tn gold do
lar. And why? Bscausa the government
would stand ready 10 take an ounce OF nn-
coined iron and coin II into dollar ] am
not teaching that the government can make
as good money out OF iron az It can out OF
gold. ] am simply saying that whatever
this law declares 10 he the unit OF value