The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1900-10-18
WHITEHEAD SPEAKS.
Seven Hundred Infantry and Horsemen
Escort Speaker to Opera House
Amid Great Enthusiasm
ISSUES ARE ABLY DISCUSSED.
The GAINESVILLE Senator Tells Crowded
House Of the Impossible Promises of
Mr.. Bryan Frequent Applause,


The music of bands and the march
of hundreds of Mckinley and Roose-
welt Rough Riders, foot and horse, up
and down the crowded streets of the
city Monday evening demonstrated to
the satisfaction of all, that Republican
enthusiasm is thoroughly aroused in
Kenosha and that this city will do its
best to secure the reelection of Presi-
dent Mckinley. John M Whitehead,
Of GAINESVILLE, spoke a the Rhode
opera house and by O'Clock there was
stir and confusion in the vicinity of
the Republican Headquarters as the
Rough Riders Of the Mckinley Roose-
welt Marching Club, some mounted and
some on foot, gathered to form and es-
cort Senator Whitehead to the opera
house. About forty cavalry and one
hundred men in the Rough Rider uni
forms finally fell into line, and, pre-
coded by the band, marched to the
Simmons Manufacturing Works,
where they were joined by four hum
dred men of the Prosperity Marching
Club of the Simmons Works with their
own band under the leadership of Mr..
Jones. From the Simmons Works the
whole troop, with two bands and nearly
seven hundred men in line, N arched up
Main street around the Park and back
to the Grant House, where the speaker
of the evening and the Committee of
the Republican Club joined the process
sion and then proceeded to the opera
house.
After Splendid music from the Re-
publican male quartette, the speaker
was introduced by the Chairman of
the evening, Johnson A. Jackson.
With a few preliminary remarks
Senator Whitehead proceeded to the
discussion of the questions of the cam
paign. He first took up the promises
of Mr.. Bryan. He said that they were
too numerouss to take up treatment
of all of them, but the first and great
est promise in the list was the one in
which Mr.. Bryan gave his word that
the gold standard would not endure
longer than it took him to get rid of it.
Mr.. Whitehead pointed out the .univer-
sal danger of tampering with the cur
rency of the country and appealed to
the manufacturer, the banker, the
wage Garner and all men equally in
terested in INSTABILITY of the currency
to prevent, with their ballots, the use
less and dangerous tampering with the
nations money that would follow the
election of Mr.. Bryan. Mr.. Bryan
can not fulfill that promise. He
can not overthrow the gold standard.
We are only one Of the nations of the
world and we would have to make all
our foreign sales and purchases in
terms of gold. The promise, therefore,
is greater than Mr.. Bryan could ever
fulfill, and the panic, the business de-
preston and the distress that he would
cause in an attempt to change the
whole financial system of the United
States would result ultimately in no
good and a great deal of evil.
The next promise of Mr.. Bryan to
which the Senator referred, was the
promise that if elected he would sweep
the "trust'' off the face of the earth.
The speaker then said that there is
not ''trust'' in the United States to-
day. He defined "trust'' and said that
the legislation and laws of this land
and of England, from which we get
our law, has always been hostile and
enimica1 to E'trusts," and there were no
such things now, because law was too
much for them. He said Mr.. Bryan
used the terms 'trust," monopoly"
and Corporation INTERCHANGEABLE
He told his audience of the great
"trust" conference in Chicago, in
which the most able representatives of
all classes of thong hit, and all shades of
political opinion met for the purpose
of studying the ''trust" question, and
if possible, finding a way out of the
difficulty. They listened to men of
great e1oquence, who denounced the
corporati tons in the most scathing
terms, and were for annihi1ating them
without trial or defense. But they
listened, also, to the words of men of
great learning and renowned ability,
who had spent years in the study of
these questions and who brought to
bear on them the sober light of reason
and common sense. After four, long
and solid days, said the Senator, of
the careful study of these questions
of the trust the men there gathered
came to the conclusion that the trusts
were not thing to be lightly and
easily dealt with. They are not nee
essari1y an evil, and are not to be leg
islated out of existence. They are
only a phase of the industrial and
social development of the race, and
rather the results of the demands and
the necessities of the people than the
creatures of men whose pleasure it is
to feed upon their fellow men.
When Mr.. Bryan got up in that con-
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