Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-09-05
Datlp Gennebec 3opr1al.
SECOND POW WOW
Of the Bimeta||ic League at
Crescent Park.
Senator Til|man Gives His New Eng
land Brothers Sharp Dig.
Even Says That President Could Be Elected
Even Says That President Could Be Elected
Without Our Help.

tendance weather and surroundings
Nearly 2000 persons, most of them
standing, remained four hours to listen
to arguments on the subject of bimetal-
lism. Representative Democrats from
all the New England states occupied
the platform. The noise and babel
which disturbed the meeting Of yester-
day, was quelled and the words of the
speakers We're heard to more advant-
age. 1t was a representative labor au-
dience. as the holiday and the other at
fractions of Crescent park drew the
laboring men of the district Their at
tention to the arguments was evinced
by the frequent applause which greeted
salient points.
Mayor George w. Greene of Woon-
socket opened the session and intro
duced as presiding officer Hon. John E.
Comfy of Providence. Hon. H. o.
Kent of Lancaster, n. H.. was the first
speaker.
Gen. A. ]. Warner of Marietta. Ohio,
was then introduced as the oldest war
rior in the silver cause in the country.
Gen Warner reviewed at length the eff
forts of the older members of the party
in their campaign of education since
1873 and their work in the organization
of silver or bimetallic leagues through
out the middle west. He argued that
the silver question was considerably
larger than the one incident of 16 to l.
The silver question at the bottom is Il
question of an adequate money supply
not one of color or specific gravity
The periods when the supply has
been adequate to sustain commerce
have been the brightest spots in the
worlds history. He said in regard to
the increased output of gold this year
that the bimetalists did not care about
the color of the bimetallic money,
was the quantity of either they We're
arguing for. He stated that he hoped
the output of gold would continue to
increase until the advocates of the gold
standard should turn around and adVo-
cate the free coinage of silver because
of the super abundance of gold. He
referred to the proposed new banking
law and the proposed bill of Sec. Gage
and detailed the alleged plans of the
Republican party and the banks of the
country to pass these bills. and change
or continue the gold standard at their
pleasure.
He referred to the alleged corruptions
gued that the laboring people furnish
ed the money by which they them
selves were corrupted. by allowing
few to amass great fortunes which
were used to wage a war upon labor
In speaking of trusts he said he real
lied that capital must combine in or
der to carry on the great industries of
the world. but 800. 900 We're not en-
;ol univ
than the one individual dollar. He said
railroad discrimination must cease, to-
gether with all such special privileges
and in the light of these events he pre-
dicted a bright future for the laboring
people.
Rev. Robert f, Bisbee of East Pep
perell, Mass. was the next speaker. He
said in substance:
THE cause which calls us together.
today. is. as we believe, the cause of
humanity. In a well established gov
eminent the value of a legal tender
dollar does not depend upon the value
of the material out of which the dollar
is made. but upon the number of dol
lars in circulation and the demand for
them.
The balance of trade between nations
Whatever the domestic money of a
country. il does not prevent trade with
other countries Gold standard ma
tons trade INCREASINGLY with silver
standard ones The simple statement
of the fact ought to silence forever the
cry of the necessity of a worlds stand
ard 1t may be convenient, but the
convenience does not warrant the sac
1nI jlIStIch
cannot by any possibility be achieved
then life is worth more than property,
the man is of more value than the dol
lar.
This free silver struggle marks the
era of the dawn of a new conscience.
n Christian conscience in business.
do not say that all silver advocates are
aware of the significance of the con-
test Doubtless some. prompted by sell
fish motives. are blind to the ethical
import. but the mass of the people feel
within them a divine instinct urging
on the struggle for justice. Because
he did not feel or did not obey this in
stinct you justly repudiated Grover
Cleveland Our leader, William Jen-
nings Bryan, feels it, and it is this
which nerves his arm after first de-
feat for a second battle
Mr.. Conley then read a set of resoiu-
tons declaring for free silver, against
militarism and uring the nomination OF
W. ]. Bryan for President, which were
unanimously adopted.
There was a burst of enthusi-
asm when Senator Benjamin IL.
Tillman of South Carolina. was
introduced and his address was
puntuated with cheers throughout. He
alluded to his Southern. home and
stated that the Spanish war was worth
all it cost if it has proved nothing else
than the South will fight for the Stars
and Stripes as eagerly as Will the
North. He argued that unless the
policy of the government is changed so
on, the republic is doomed and it Will
become a government of oppression of
the many by the few.
He praised New England highly for
what it had done for the country, but
called the attention of the audience to
the fact that there We're people enough
south and west of the Potomac ana the
Mississippi to elect a President without
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