The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-10-19

cit arose to speak some rev i'ePuo'l-
cans started for the door
STAY and take your medicine ne
cried, "and before / get through III
make Won want TO renOunce the dew!
and ali his ks-Which includes the
Renublican barty He expressed him.
self as having been at first frightened
lat the prospect of meeting Mr.. Meek
ms, who had been going about chal-
longing people TO Joint debate and
weer offering money for speakers 10
contest With him. Now that I've
heard him peak, I'm no longer
afraid " he said
Referring to Meekin's exaggerated
c!vIe he told the joke CT the little girl
who. sent to pray for forgiveness for
having called a goat i lion, had report
ed that "DOd had said it looked so
much like a lion he thought al first
himself that il WAS one himself.
Mr. Meekins was a Prince Of Spell
binders, but he mad mighty bad
memory and Il very smooth and care
less tongue
The Republican party, says he. has
always been in favor Of the gold stand
ard Why. in 1888 the Republican
pla tform itself contained a plank stat
ing that it was in favor of the equal
use OF gold and silver and denounc-
erizing silver.
He turned on Meekins: Your mem
DRY isn't as long as a marble. You
asked me if / voted for Bryan. Did
you vote for Mckinley?
Mckinley declared: 81 am for the
la gest possible use Of silver-a double
standard"
= and you and Pritchard and others
went up and down the State trying to
,lyn ha 1,l HI
can party was in favor of free silver.
In 1901? and 2 the money question
vas settled by the blessing of God. not
by the Republican party.
Mr.. POu showed the increased pro-
ductiOn of gold in the Ki0ndyke and
elsewhere and took his opponent
strongly to task for assuming all
ere dit. What the people need is
large circulating medium Yet there
has been a bill introduced to redeem
all silver money in gold. measure
which would take six hundred mill 1ns
out of circulation.
"WCuld you vote for that billP'
Like a lamb led 10 the slaughter,
cried Pou, paraphrasn@ one of
Neekin's expressions, "he opens not his
mouth"
Getting IN to trusts. Nj. Pou vi@or-
ously assaulted the position OF MI
Meekins. The trusts demand, and
what thew demand the EapuDl can
party does. Ben TilIman did not vote
for the Dmglcy bill. You cannot trace
prosperity 20 The tariff or to the Re
ublican party. He riGiculed Mr.
Moekins' song of prosperity ard his
claims of its paternity The same
prosperity came to France, to Eng
land, to Germany. In 1900 the time
had come for q great wave of pros
pcrity and confidence. Is it fair 10 say
that good times came to free trade
EngIlnG, 10 Germany. t. far away ia
pan. by reason Of the Dinglcy tariff or
of Republican success in the nation
In tho South. it came n spite Of Re
publicansm, not by reason of it. I've
seen bill after bill passed through
Congress discriminating against my
section, making the rich richer and the
poor poorer
You talk Of Cleveland issuing bonds.
When he went out the first time. he
left q surplus of $1GS, 600. which
Mr.. Harrison. in five years, did away
with. The Republican party can't
Abide surplus. Harrison's admins
tTatioE had purchased The plates for
the bonds which Cleveland issued. YOu
talk about the Democratic party! You
ought to thank God you are good
enough to belong to it.
why didn't you tell the people
whether there's a surplus now" he
cried, and the crowd yelled. accord
ing to Cannon there's a deficit of $22,
900, 900 already.
Your folks have been doing little
stealing IN Washington. It's bad med
icine, but it will DO you good
Il will admit that the trusts are all
making money, that the tariff is high.
higher even than the Mckinley bill.
Where has the money gone? Wasted
wasted, wasted.
The Republican party is party
without a conscience, CT plumber and
robbery. 1t takes from one man and
gives TO another without compensa-
ton. If anything, under Goo, is wrong,
that g!
Prosperity! There is plenty of thu
sort of prosperity which enables one
fifteenth of the people to own 90 PER
cent of the money That makes il pos
SIbic for two men to own more money
than is contained in North Carolina
and Virginia combined.
(Here Gen" Green leaned over
and, as Billy Christian would say
"bleW his breath" on Nj. Meekln's
thoughts.)
Mr. Pou went on fiercely. He at
tackled the Tariff from every point, lay
ing particular stress on the fact chat
trust made goods were sold at a small
er price to foreigners than to the home
g nsumer. He went for the trusts WitE
groves off. The crowd pried at his
words. The house was in an uproar.
Noices shouted encouragement us
that right?' asked the speaker
Wrong'' roared the pit in answer.
lie anticipated the plea that the
trusts must get rid of their surplus at
q bargain counter That was 40 an
SWer. If they needed Il bargain coun-
ter it should be put un hero. Thn nan-