The age-herald., 1899-09-01

lars were worth S1.M legal tender, but this
 act had struck dead it's moral and legal
 power. He had steadily fought for the resto-- ration of silver since his going to the sen- ate in 1877. when the fight was led by Allen O. Thurman Once the democrats had
 passed the bill through the senate but
 Hayes had vetoed It. As a compromise the
 Bland-Allison act was passed giving us $76SO 900 more of silver. This pays all of the government expenses. the army, and would pay the interest on the national l debt, but the government persists in pay
 ing this in gold. Take away this $73,0O0,00o I and you take away the whole backbone of the currency. The republican party has formulated a bill, he said, which they would attempt to pass at the next session | of congress making all monies, the silver dollar, national bank notes and currency 1 redeemable at the treaury in gold coin. | They call that restoring the parity, when | It is merely scheme of the money sharks l to have all of the gold paid out of the 1 treasury in order that more bonds will | have to be issued with which to buy gold. This issue we will have to meet next l year, fellow democrats. The real issue In 1 that campaign will be 16 to 1-free coinage ] as stated in the Chicago platform. That | platform was built for all time to come l and 1t will ever stand as embodydng true i democratic principles. Who is the logical candidate, do you ask? believe him to be, and oheerfully hope that William J. Bryan will be nominated. And why so? Not be- cause he has better understanding of the money question, but because he repre- sents the people, and not the corporations" Senator Morgan read from the morning | paper the announcement of the nomination | of John R. Mclean by the democrats for l governor of Ohio. He said that Mclean was the. equal of Mark Hanna in 'practi- | cal politics." and he believed would be | elected on the Chicago platform.
 'sSome newspapers have questioned my | fidelity to free coinage and the principles l set forth in the Chicago platform con- i tinued the senator <fe Look over my speeches" said he, from the very first one delivered in the senate, , and find, if you can, single want of ab- | solute faith in the Chicago platform" While the Cuban war was going on it | was charged by some that his advocacy of a resolution to secure the freedom of Cuba was merely to secure more coinage of sl- yer. "T'hey are always making some accusa- tion against me, but they don't worry me- he declared. He says that President Mckinley was getting along very well with the new pps- i sessions, but that 1t would not last. He would submit to the next. congress his views for theory of government forithese Spanish possessions, but when the bill came up some democrat would offer ian amendment demanding the free coinage, of silver, and he would say to the republicans: You can't get that government unless you give us money for these people.''i, He said he was not for expansion be- cause we had already got every country in the world that he would have. He was against expansion, but he was also against contraction. When the resolution came up l he had voted for 1t, together with his col- league MT. Bryan had said it was best to ratify the treaty. That treaty made ex- pansion. It made the old Spanish posses , sions our territory, and brought 1t within | our jurisdiction. 'nt Bryan Advised Them O Do It "If any country wants us to withdraw from this new territory, I will tell them no. We voted for it. Bryan advised us to l do 1t. I don't want to stultify myself and do not believe that any man here wants 1 me to do 1t. l voted on my own responsi- bility and there I will stand. I am not going to double my track"
 It Is not our duty, he said, to turn the Philippines over to Aguinaldo. We favor republican form of government. Aguin- aldos is dctatorial government.
 Senator Morgan advocated the establish ment of great cotton depot at Manila, ar- gung that it would be worth more to the cotton growers than anything else. It would reduce the cost of exporting cotton about two-thirds and this large amount in difference would go to the farmers. He said that to annex Haiwaii, Cuba and Porto Rico, meant that the south would ultimately have equal strength in the United States senate with the north. The south now has thirty senators. The north has sixty. In Haiwail the south would | gain two, in Cuba four, in Porto Rico two, l iI the territories soon to be admitted to statehood eight, and divide Texas into | five states, and We would have one ma iority in the senate.
 "The democratic party Is the only party with a creed. I am not in favor of tearing it down. We will stand by the Chicago platform, but add other things to meet temporary needs"
 Senator Morgan was enthusiastically ap- plauded Hon. John W. Tomlinson spoke in the afternoon. He ably discussed the currency question, trusts, imperialism and mflitar- 1 ism. The currency question he considered | most vital, as money regulates prices. 1 Trusts crush individual effort, and mako 1 the masses tenants and employees ser wants. Monopoles put up the prices of what they sell, while currency contraction forces down the prices of what you have to sell
 He spoke in part as follows:
 MT. Tomilson argued at length the Philip pine question, contending earnestly that ] the republicans should be fought all along the line; that on this question the foreign | and labor vote of the pivotal states was l being united solidly against the republi- i cans; that by approving this policy the re- 1 pubicans would be perpeuated in office, | which meant the gold standard. the trusts i and a large standing army to crush out any l discontent in this country.
 l He showed that all territory heretofore 1 acquired was to round up our boundary. It 1 made the defense line shorter by more than | half and decried the necessity for a.stand- 1 ing army. The territory previously 9acaur- ] ed was practically unsettled, and all but l Alaska contiguous and made our country | extend from ocean to ocean. and removed | three foreign nations from contact! ' 1 Territory can only be annexed, conSti-