The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-09-09
SKINS ANT|S Alive
Long Has Been Digging in
the Archives Again.
RECORD OF DEMOCRACY
On Expansion One of Its Very,
Very Few Good Things.

Garden City, Kan. Sept 8.-Congress-
man Chester L Longs meeting here on
this date was a repetition of previous
ones of his present campalgn-well at
tended, with interest and enthusiasm at
height. Mr. Long outdid himself in hand
ling even his most effective weapon
irony. The following extracts are only
a few of the thrusts which found the
mark today:
THE Democratic party met in CONVEX
ton in Chicago and adopted a platform
was paramount to all others, and de-
manded the free and unlimited coinage
( of silver and gold at the ratio OF 1 to l.
Mr.. Bryan, during the campaign Of 1896,
at Pittsburg, Pa, made the following
prediction:
I'VE venture to predict that # Nc
/ Kinley is elected and backed by gold
standard congress, every smelter in the
district will blow out within four months,
and there won't be a thousand dollars
spent on building all next summer. Corn
viii go to 10 cents in St Louis and wheat
to % cents in Chicago and what is more,
it will stay down. The closed mills will
keep company with the closed minis, and
only be able to keep out of the sheriff's
hands McKinley's election means DESC
lation to the farmer and workingmen.
in opening the campaign at Garden
City on August Is, 1896, I said You
know, if you viii be honest with your
selves, that the election of Mckinley
means prosperity, peace and a revival Of
business It means that our currency,
composed of gold, silver and paper, shall
be as good as gold, one dollar exchange
able for any other at par. It means the
enactment Of a protective tariff that will
produce revenue sufficient to pay the ex-
penses of the government and render I'M
necessary the sale of bonds in time of
peace. It means the opening of factories
in the east and the employment of the
idle workingman who now boards at tie
soup-house. 1t means that he will become
your customer and consume your wheat,
your hogs and your cattle Te means
that hunger and want will once more dis
appear from our fair land
who was right in 1882"
1--WE all lived from 1893 to 1897 We have
an lived since 1897, and the chief duty of
the Republicans this year will be to re-
fresh the memory Of the people on these
two periods. During the first period we
lived under the threat and contamination
of free trade; during the second, we have
lived under a protective tariff During
the preceding administration we borrow
ed $3.50, 0o00 900 to pay current expenses;
during the fiscal year ending June 30
1900, after paying all expenses of war
pensions and other various expenditures,
there was a surplus of $50, 900, 0O0"
THE committee on ways and means of
the house during the last session gave
hearings to representatives of business
organizations from all parts Of the coun-
try, asking for revision Of the war
revenue law so that the surplus might
be reduced. There was no legislation at
the last session Of congress seeking to re-
duce the surplus We decided to wait
until the American people had declared
their choice for president for the next
four years. If they indorse the present
administration and re-elect William Nc
Kinley. the house Of representatives win
Immediately begin to devise ways and
means TO reduce the surplus If Bryan Is
elected. no reduction will be necessary. as
the surplus will again disappear as it al
ways has under Democratic administra-
tjnn=."
I'VE were warned during the campaign
of 1895 what the paramount issue of this
campaign would be. During that cam
paign Mr. Bryan said: The Democratic
party has begun a war of determination
against the gold standard We ask no
quarter; we give no quarter. We shall
prosecute this war until there is not an
American citizen that dares to advocate
a gold policy. We believe that no Ian
guage can overestimate the infinite dis
tress that the gold standard means to the
human race. I believe that we shall win
now. But whether we win or not. we
have begun q. warfare against the gold
standard that shall continue until the
gold standard is driven from our shores
back to England
The Democratic convention met IN
Kansas City on the Fourth of July of this
year. Mr.. Bryan was nominated for
president. Free silver has not hao,
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