The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-10-25
Fate of Candidate and His Hobby.
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the latter Is the representative OF those |
principles of which | have just told you, I
and will be in position TO defend them
IN the congress OF tho nation.
Wa have Just come through a war with |
Spain Is whtch victory has crowned our |
every effout. Wa have lost IN battle and |
as the result OF wounds only 900 men, while |
Srain has lost nearly 5000. In ships we
have lost none, ~hllo Spain los lost nearly
forty. The precious Pearl of he Antilles
has been freed from the douinion OF iis
oppresc ora and the Cubans viii soon be
free. AL THE is glorious, and the ropub-
can party has had the auiacity 10 claim
all the glory, Lea us SEQ II SIS claim be
Well founded. For three years Democrats
have been introducing resolutions IN con-
gre.s hearing tie words CUBA rs aud shail
be free" and FOR three years the republic
ans aud certain Of tba flleglrnate children
81 that party have steadily refuses 10
acknowledge thar freedom. AT last Inc
MORO hou.or a,wOke tse Nation aud the
sugar trust aud the tobacco erLst and the
lrote cttd republican manufacturers ci the
East. MS well as tao robber haionS OF wall
street coul9 no longer stpm tho tldo ot
popular Indignation So Uhey set to woTk
TO get as much out Of The war ~ they
could. All the s0Es Of rich men or OF trst-
while great republican politicians got TAT
Jobs In the staff corps. Glcfiy n me quar-
to maslor, comml esary transportat ON ann
pSy departments. Railroads whose man
ayers might furnish money for this
| election were preferred over others OF
shorter haul and less influence ana troops
| were carried over 200 miles 10 be moved
! forty. II tn 5 were all It might no over
| locked, but there IL a tale Of crime 80 nor
| rible yet to be told as VIII forever brand
| tho already deeply dyed republican party
| with a burning fiery brand OF .l1me aui
| nfamy az NO party has ever borne msan
| that while these fellows who were appoint
| ed 10 these nn places becauso ~hey were
| cons OF some one VINO htl aijc1 that party
| wers either dswdling away the time they
| SHOULD have deyotef 10 the government
| IN helpless contemplation OF tasks
! u.5iy were not fitted for, or In making love
/ 70 their female admirors or IN slowing
| away appeti2lng m%4ts or exhilIralnS
drink, the po0r representatives. OF the cam
mon people who had enlisted as privatcs 10
fight their countrys BATTLES were dying
like flies IN ma!o Sorous camps, chosen Win
regard to tac desires of Influential poilti-
clans sind not with regard TO their health
fitness or adaptahilliy. To the gross mi
lrgragement OF the republican party is due
the dtafI OF over 2000 men. Who are
their muiNierer'E? Ana now the republican
party has through its republican presi-
deut. ordered Its republican secretary OF
war TO appoint a republican commission 10
fnvestgate / tajI you, we must elect
democrats 10 congress this year because
we want the grand jury OF the Nation to
he composed OF different party from that
10 which belong the mscreanis TO whom
siaall BIS traced the scaths aud abuse OF
cur brothers Taad Is why we must elect
Rud Kleberg That is why We must have
majority in congress- next December.
We must not. my friends. forget that
there "a another issue at 8 AXE 10 this cleo
ton. There Is another application OF the
doctrine OF equal rights 10 all, and that Is
In the coinage Of money. We stand for the
free and unlimited coinage OF god and sill
yer "a rHtio Of sixteen 10 one. and thaS
without sskiug the permission OF airy other
Nation We have shown ourselves invincl :
bic on sea ans ian6 In a war of force. ana
we car and Will be inYincible alike In q
! war Of Gnagce. Every argument Is on our
t side. az you viii sec from few polntei
MIR spinetI then gave n short history oil
the pse OF money showed by pointed ax'
amr,'es that money hss 20 value OF itself
applied the laws OF supply and demand ie
0 slow the reason for the fail OF silver, or
IA he % d. the apprec iation OF gold. Hs
showed that ysiue Is relative. that money
: Il only A measure OF value. hat 8 deai
: nlorey ana cheap money must circulate
; M eotral terms for all the rurpoies Of com.
E MERGE. because the former IL necessary n
. large transactions and the latter IN small
2 opes That TIA common people are thos,
! nneatiy silver is the money OF the people
. That GOLD and silver must circulate OF
: equal terme IN order that the people ma
fcrive the a1va-t'Fe % an elastic cur
ieucy. and that Y they do not circulate o.
: .aual germs orc rrust be the money oil uiti-
5 ,r,s,a rcsenptlon ard that values ajtue
s Themselves by he value OF the amount O.
: rroray az ultimate redernrtior'
I Mr.. cpnelli then DEMONSTRATED Now TIN
I national banks were rally Permitted b.
> Law 70 receive usurious ipterts, on W
4 bo,,as g,,arars eninr Their notes than leansf
: tbeir notes AT 20 per cent. ard then eol
le,.sd ira, IN sdvanee. making an aa1f,
[ tio~,,i one qni ore- ninth rer cent. ioff
5 which In some cases reached seventeen an.
/ orc-n,nih rer cent on money invested, ~
e-,ona other than the government 10 issu.
, hills Of credit and exposed the whole ma
I floral banking sdrsfn,.
. ne then showed how the democratic ID