The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-11-06
'a[IIBACkS AND SILVER.
r. 3. VOORHEES, DISCUSSES
~rsrY CAMPAIGN ISSUES.
-. Audience at seattle Thea
rnldly Receives Je6ersOntan
.~vaey. hat Wildly App1auds
prysa and Fiat None, '"erance

I voorhees,, OF Spokane. who
- S.n,sssrtes. the territory OF Washing
/, OLE s.. Congress. but who :os more than
,H 81. has taken no active part IN poll
X 49, s.-.liv emerged from his retirement
Ia. saa.tIe theater, and with the aid
- 1900 a,sartette and a glee club from
entertained a large gathering or
q faEgnisss- ..,oh ,,,,1,.-
- r,esor.inaied. filed the tneater so
4 -. ar STARS standing room only" was
b..tS,hls AID many stood In the foyer
= ss....shn,sr the meeting. Mr. Voorhees, be-
, -. - =, saelarlng that re was Democrat,
-. audience falling TO respond in APP
a. he changed hiz tone and asowed
- 70 n q greenbacker Then he and
sAs..sssoee got together WITH considerable
: - - ard he proceeded 10 deliver regu-
. - greenback speech. After exhausting
- x,shtec, Mr.. Voorhees, talked silver Tor
-sfts after the fashion OF Mary Ellen
- and closed with a brief reference TO
- var His mention OF greeabacks.
- grvan and the war We're loudly APP
GO Lewis name was cheered with
f-s,asrstIs enthusiasm, but tentative ef-
3 - ~ the speaker 10 conjure with the
N ms. NJ Thomas jefferson and the DEM
- we've go colby received that he
fs,ar6aneg them early III the evening.
IL onan.ug his speech Mr.. Voorhees, re-
= - a, some length TO the fact that ne
VI a., faced a seattle audience since 1854.
go a. the ant-Nortnern Paciflc candl-
e., hs had swept the county. tie trusted
rs.rsssman Lewis and the whole fusion
I've, would repeat the feat again on
xss,iay he then proceeded 10 argue the
.-is..rsa Of the Classes and masses and the
ss.rsors Of public debt and to eSpatiats
mon the honor due 10 Thomas Jefferson as
b. original Giscoserer OF these horrors.
fCor,inuIng Ar. Voorhees, declared that
a. party founded by Jefferson always had
eaoa and always would stand so long as
~ republic existed. as the great exponent
q The rights 81 the people against the
r,m{snsd greed of the money changers
. n audience did not respond. The feeble
xpsuse 81 the few Jeffersonians present
eaa.ed extremely lonesome. Then Mr.
4,oarhess FASTENED to explain tha; he was
: Democrat Of the W. J. Bryan brand.
NE audience warmed up some. Then he
teciared be was a Greenbacker. and the
hpplsgse xas deafentns.
Carefully following the same lead, Mr.
vocrhees proceeded 10 arraign the Repub-
ican administration for the issue Of bonds
I, ray the expenses OF the H;spano- Ameri-
m war and fatien the hungry horde OF
money changers In Wall street. lie de-
cared that silver certificates should frs,
AVE been issued against the uncoined
Anchorage In the United States treasure.
l.
aHs o. the West 10 aid In the war should
hive been needed: and that after silver
cs.it Dc 10 more the sturdy greenhack
& ~ needed the call OF legislation 10 spring
= q The aid a. the coain'ry's arm -
J TIE audience ckeerei wildly. and its
cshers were redoubed when Mr. VOORHEES,
svaining hls voice 10 an unpleasant pitch
seiarrs that ''the greenhack dollar was as
suna money as the wit OF man ever de-
vse4'
Fer half hour Mr. VOORHEES, continued
, o extol an irredeemable paper currency.
aa5 hen brorched off on the crime az
n" To 'his ne devoted half-hour more
sanegdsng by scoring impartiaily both ex-
1 President Cleveland and President McKfn-
ls for Their attitudes toward the white
|, metal
lie Gage bill. which he termed the "can
essss o the jnsanay OF Republican iegis-