Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-12-11
THERE ARE OTHER ISSUES
THE General viii Speak at Columbus on
jackson Day.

/ lii the Sunday issue of the Columbus
Dispatch appeared the following. which
doubtless will nrove of much interest
/ to the people Of Marietta:
Probably the most interesting ad-
dress at the Jacksonian banquet on the
night Of January will be delivered in
response to The toast THE Money
/ Question" General A. j. Warner, the
pioneer of the free silver movement in
Ohio. was in viJed by the committee to
handle his important question md
yesterday a subcommittee waited up
| On Mr.. Warner and pressed him to ac-
cept the invitation.
General Warner stated that he was
about to leave for Chute, Georgia. on
a business trip, and would probably
not return for month but upon being
| informed that the committee expected
! him to talk upon "the money question"
and particularly its bearing upon the
/ future of the Democratic party, the
veteran leader of many a hard-fought
1 political campaign gave utterance to
| the terse sentence:
"There is no longer a money ques-
tion in the political affairs of either
/ party"
81 will, if possible attend the Jack
| sonian banquet continued General
| Warner. land respond to the toast you
/ have assigned to me.
THE Democrats of Columbus are to
/ be congratulated" said he. "for taking
/ the initiative in 2 movement that will
viii snro2d from 2tate to state and
unite the rartv everywhere.
I'VE must face present conditions" :"
I said General Warner, "if We are to
/ continue in existence as a party. We
must now set about doing what should
/ have been done at Kansas City last
/ July.
"Conditions have changed since the
| 1896 campaign. We were then
| battling for a sufficient money supply
/ We now have between three hundred
and fifty and four hundred million dol
lars in sold to do business wth-more
money than we expected or demanded
in 1896, under the most favorable oper-
alton of the free silver coinage on 16
| to l ratio.
"Why should we turn away from
present advantages because our money
supply happens to be yellow instead Of
white? 1t is not the color of the metal
but the sufficiency we were pleading
for.
'If Bryan had been elected the Dom
ocracy's reign would last only four
years With united Democracy and
Bryan no longer a political factor we
will go into the white house in 1905 to
remain at least eight years.
Our country has before it twenty
years of prosperity despite the oredic-
tions of croakers or people who will
not admit what is clear to every man
who transacts business. l do not give
President McKinley's administration
credit for this condition of affairs. The
administration did not produce this en-
ormous and unexpected supply of gold
or the conditions at home and abroad
that have made us a prosperous people
We have prosDered despite the Nc
Kinley regime.
"Mr, Bryan and some of his adviser!
at Kansas City were responsible fol
McKinley's election last November,
said General Warner, with considerable
emphasis.
1T was not confidence in McKinle!
but dfstrust of Bryan that lost New
York state and many other states t,
the Democratic ticket.
81 pleaded with Bryan at Kansa
City to listen to the arguments an
counsels of those who reDrcsented tn
states that the party had to carry Il
order to win the presidency. admire
Bryan and am still his friend. but h
5 wants to do all the talking and all tn
= thinking for the whole party.
r Bryan knew more than all the lead
ers Of the party at Kansas City an
( would listen to no one unless the view
2 were in accord with his own ideas. for
getting that the conditions had S