The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1903-05-22
IOWNB TALKS AGAIN
Famous Silver TOngued Orator
Has Broken Silence.
Attended a Harmony Meet,ne :,
nrooklyn and Made a Speech
which Democrats Don't Like

FOR long time that famons s;Ivo-
tongued orator, Charles A. Towna onoo
OF Minnesota but now of New Yort re-
Deen silent. The lips that were wont 70
| spellbind audiences from the AtIan+io " ~
the Pacific seemed to have been tbor,
selves spellbound. Reports have bad i
that TOwne has made n fortune ir IN
and belief has spread abroad tba+ b;s
silence has been due to the influence -
money on the mind; that he has found
1t peasanter TO listen to his coin than
| 10 talk himself; in short. il has baor
rulhored that IoWne has become much
uiote vi piutocrat than populst and
Ghat we would never more see him nor
| near OF him IN the forefront of a fobt
for cheap money.
All such reports and speculations{con
cerhlng the silver orator were unfounded.
mr' Io"ne has been silent solely because
no one asked him TO speak, and he has
oeeh TOO much absorbed in oil to think
OF hlrlng hall for himself 1t seems.
however, that he has been ready at ali
times TO speak whenever occasion offered
ana at last the occasion has come to
MIN. 1t is hardly necessary to saw il
came IN the form of an invitation TO n
democratic harmony banquet, since that
form OF festlvity constitutes about all
the opportunity for oratOry the party
now Affords. The particular feast to
winch Mr. Towne was invited was known
as the Monroe dinner" given by the
democratic club of Brooklyn. He at
tended and he made a speech Stood
out for harmony by informing the ban
queters that they we're all wrong in op-
posing the silver platform, but that in
the fullness OF time the issue would re-
turn and they might then get on the
right side and be democrats once more
In the course of his speech the speaker
SAID: Some of you are cIamoring TO.
day Tor what we urged in 1896 and 1900
that Is, more money. We said then to
the people that we needed more money
lou didn't understand the issue. We
made great mistake by putting the
prescription for the disease in the state
ment OF it. The increase in money came
and the danger was Obviated. but il ia
just as sure as preaching that 2, SOC. 900
more people would not be dong So
oOO,OOO,OOO more business without more
money. That's a cinch. | warn Won
that the issue of cheaper money NAV
some time come up again. The desire
that some OF you exhibit to do business
to the full extent of the assets of your
banks is subcutaneOus admission of
the correctness of the principle for which
we fought"
Such statements were rather startling
to the Monroe Club democrats. We are
told that many OF the banqueters went
home as soon as he had finished. Others
stayed and sought relief for their pent
up emotions by cheering vociferousIy
when portrait of Grover Cleveland was
presented to the club. The incident is
something more than another ilustra
ton OF the difference between the melody
and the harmony at a democratic ban
quet. 1t may mean the appearance OF a
new candidate in the field for the demo-
cratic nomination next year. Evidently
while the plot may remain as thin as
ever the soup is thickening.