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SUPPLEMENT TO TEE SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE. Friday, October 2 1896. NORTII PLATTE, - NEBRASKA. 1 3 PATRIOTS. republic and in no part an idle vrorking- man who wanted to wort, (-tremendous applause.) AN EXACTING PATIENT. Prominent Stump Speakers on Sound Money, Protection and National Honor, RECENT CAMPAIGN ORATORY. Makers of History Record Utterances Which Are Bound to Live for Ages. tt'hat the Republican Part' Stands For. MA J. McKINLEI. "The political situation of the country Is peculiar. We have had few parallels to our present political condition. Wc have but one political party which is united, and that is ours. (Applause.) Discord reigns in all others. Our time honored opponent, the Democratic party, is torn and divided. Two national con ventions have been held hj it and two national tickets presented, and their plat forms arc totally different on every sub ject and in almost every section. The Papulist party has merged its organiza tion into that of the Chicago Demo cratic and St. Louis silver organizations, and their allies are for the most part harmonious except that each one has a distinct and different candidate for vice president. (Great laughter and ap plause.) "Happily the Republican party was never more closely united than now, both in fact and in spirit, and there were never better reasons for such union, and lever greater necessity for it than now (Cheers and cries Bryan Tor Fiat Money. EX-SENATOR WARNER MILLER. Mr. Bryan at heart cares nothing for the free coinage of silver. Sir. Bryan is first and last a believer in fiat money, and he is only using the free coinage of silver to arrive at that finally. This is a serious charge to make, but it I cannot prove it I will apologize publicly for it. In the September number of the Arena just last month there is an article on the currency by Mr. Bryan, in which ho criticises Mr. Cleveland severely for using bonds in time of peace, and espe cially for selling them to a syndicate. Ho says: "When the United States, without waiting for the aid or consent of any other nation, opens its mints to the free and unlimited coinage of gold and silver at the present legal ratio of 1G to 1 it will bring real relief to its peo ple, and will lead the way to the restora tion of bimetallism throughout the world. It will then be prepared to perfect its financial system by furnishing a paper money invested with legal tender quali ties and sufficient in volume to supply the needs of the government. Its paper money will not be loaned then to favor ites, but will be paid out in the expenses of government, so that all may receive the benefits." This is fiat money, pure and simple. Mr. Bryan proposes to stop taxation and pay the expenses of the government by printing fiat money. This government once launched upon that boundless sea would as certainly fall and go down as did the French republic, which was set up at the close' of the last century by a lot of theorists and revolutionists. They issued during a few years forty thousand millions of francs of fiat money called assignats and mandats. They gave a legal-tender quality to it, but while it could pay debts they could not compel people to take it in pur chase. In other words, they could give legal-tender quality to the money, but thov conlfl not civn nnrnhasinc nower to it. From day to day it was issued, loolcs as large again, doesn't it ? " uuu. maii.vuai. u i uiw uui, TT1 C tfltr j, ... . , , worthless. iNot a single franc of it was "'- uax. wc, xo uoesn c wcigii any Jieaner." ever paid or redeemed, and the people who had parted with their property for it were rendered paupers. Their property was gone and the money they had received was valueless. Shall this be a lesson to us? And silver Double: WETAi-TH 11 1 Jf3l 4lOlx 'i wt Y1? fiVh t?M . . AAWW spectacles II III J' which may be intended to be a conserva tive body, may be a revolutionary bedr. we take comfort in the fact that we ca rely upon the patri6tism, upon the wis-, dom and upon the fearlessness of the judiciary. (Applause.) The man wh makes it his business in public or pri vate life to destroy the confidence of the people in the judiciary is a public ene my. (Applause.) It is a cowardly thinff to do. It is the next meanest thing t whispering something about the charac ter of a woman: and nothing on eartle can be meaner than that. (Applause.) It is the next thing to it, to pass un- inenaiy comment and impeachment upoa judges, and the integrity of their pur poses; because a judge cannot comr down from the bench and resent an if sult like that. I say the people in thk. election ought to see to it that no Pre deut is elected upon a platform whict c;umij proposes, Dy unmistnKahie suae gestion, to make the Supreme court of" the United States, and other courts ia our system, the mere football of politics. S the mere tool of passions. (Applause.) i tnmK Air. sryan thus far in 1II. J l T -1 . . liiiKs mm ne savs. i understand. tn? he never sees a crowd without wanting to talk to it and I sympathize with him. a little in that respect: I used to feel that way myself daughter), but it was whon I was a good deal younger than I am. now, and didn't know a great deal; when I was about 3G years old (laugh ter), although I never expect to know- as much as I thought I knew the (laughter) Mr. Bryan in his speeches has n6t much to say about this packin of the Supreme court, but it is in theae- iiuitiuixii. xiiat iact useit is anotnq reason which justifies the Democrat of character and respectability in a re volt against the nomination made an4 platform promulgated at Chicago." Dr. JBryan: "There, sir; gaze at any object, your wallet, lor instance; it Chicago Iuter-Ocean. Congress, can you go, thus far and no further, as laid down in this written doc ument. Wn nnmoil nn nfflnoi" ir nTOcntn thn can we contemplate the probability of laws, called the President, "conferring nlitino- Snfrw Tiriit'at. na Trnctlmif .f tnn I 1 . : x . x 1 j'uiiiufe ivi,i-. no -m. .o.v..k xj. uyun mui cerium powers 10 execute auu United States a man who holds such carry out the provisions of Congress, views? In my humble opinion there is His powers wero ponfnrrnd and limitnd but one way to bring us back to prosper- by the written constitution; it had never ity and to the path of progress, and that been done before. What then? Still a is to return to the system of adminis- further check in this new experiment, tration which has been of such great To what tribunal or what umpire shall benefit to us in the past, and to follow it be referred to decide upon the question nf 4Thit'? rJhf ') Tt m that path, to follow the lamp of ex- wnetner uongress goes beyond its wnt- wedded, to ;arty vmpr,vnn nitizon. without distinction of United States, and to what umnire shall is wedded, devotedly principles. It stands as it has always narty. should unite in this attempt at it be referred if the President shall go - - . i i i stood, for an American protective tariff restoration, and should by an overwhelm- which shall raise enough money to con- '"S majority stamp out now and torever j..a t. i ,i i i c i ""'j y- " uuti mt: sctKiui uqtuiuucuia ui mc t;u- i Hphqsivi rurrencv ernment, including liberal pensions to the Union soldiers. (Tremendous cheer ing and hurrahs for McKinley.) A tariff that will stop debts and deficiencies and make the treasury of the United States once more safe and sound in every par ticular. (Applause.) It stands for a re- Bryan as an Orator. HENRY D. ESTABROOK. But Mr. Bryan I know somewhat, and find in his habits of life many things to admire. He is a man of undoubted beyond the powers conferred upon him by tuis constitution of the United States? We had created a congress independ ent of the President; we had created a President independent of the con gress, within the powers conferred by the written instrument. Then the fath ers decided that another check was necessary; tnis President and this Uon- lutions, who represents neither the old heroic South of Lee and Gordon and Buckner and Hampton, nor the new South of enterprise and energy and activ ity and increasing manufacture, stood up in the Chicago convention and pro claimed a new sectional issue, the South and the West against the North and the East. A new sectional issue between the North sad the South! Why, God forbid! Illinois sent out the llower of her man hood to the nation's battlefield under Grant and Logan and Oglesby and Palm er to put an end to sectionalism be tween the North and the South forever. Illinois gave Lincoln to the restoration of the Union, that in his hallowed mem ory the hearts of all the people might grow together in close and lasting friend ship. My father went out under Wis consin's flag, and gave his life that there should be and should remain a united people. I have crossed the old Mason and Dixon's Hue. Two weeks ago I went from Washington to Richmond in tour Hours it took some of you four years to make the same journey. I have gruss, iuui we nave set up, may go ine v-"1 i" aac ouiut juuruu. jl uuve dnrocitv that s stage, perhaps, way of the French republic, or tie in rpt good fellowslnp the ciprocJiy . tnat seeks out tne markets or - effnff ' ; t: Roman renubhe. and of other svstoms hands of the men who fouuht unon the tne world tor pur surplus agricultural 'induTccnt father He of government that have been formed; I other side. The heroes of that great nun liiiiiiiii iii-i. in iiiir in nil in i 74 v 1 1 1 1 1 1 ii i Mir i . i . zi.x- i:i..ir xi i n and manufacturing products without sur t be We will set up here a tribunal, far re- - L ""TuA u does not smoke or chew, drink or swear, "(m witn a written constitution they ii-uuy u,, eiufeic uaj o ubw uim ui- nrm 0,K1- cllii. i,. i,c f may agree unon'a certain construction. longs to the American workman, Elause.) It believes ome market for the (applause), in the opening in nrpsprvinp a i AmwipTn hrmnr unless it might be lying; 'and even there uuui J''"1"' ul'- o- American tarmcr I t , i r .,;',.! . I nromi pnnrf nf tho Tmitoff Stntoa Inn. nf tha Amn,i I i nave uaa spens ot tuiuKing ue oeneves . .-r . . ,v 01 tne Amcri- I , , . - r -r rl I nlnnsoV with nnxror in snr tn tho riihli can factories for the American working- J Tare elcuenVe a IaPPlaHs the Senate: "Thus far shall you wlrt , rST m . li thr "nit int.rta It doubting the assertion. Reduced to SO m dealing with the rights of tie peo with profit to all the groat interests ef mU h:a nrHa htlMma morft rnnt pie, thus far and no farther, and w the United States. cold type his words become mere rant and bombast, while those self-same "Tt io tnn fnt. nnr,,l Tnnnov (wat . uwuiUMl, . ttuilB u t,o;t.V aSV .Iu Yc- "Ir.t- words, spoken in iiryan s voice a voice cheering), every dollar worth 100 cents no m 'ii;iim,0 C0 cotnot r-; ; Ele, thus far and no farther, and we old that you are forbidden to do ihese things by this constitution of the United States." (Applause.) They said further that the Prcsfdwit occupying the office ef the greatest po- (renewed cheering), every dollar as good "jrSln m,w ITu . as gold (continued cheering), and it if op- 7ild!r. SSfiL6' I0" 5e? posed alike to the free and unlimited Zl ;i"u'" i"X. .L 4 a tentate on earth, with these great now otmna9lffotlt-l9S; 7aZAZ1XB conferred upon. him. he may traw- reaeemaoie paper money to wmcn .uie S -- f nMi ." ! this constitution of the UmtoS Allien nnrrv Rppmrn nrmitr nnmTnirtpn i : . . i.3 ) nas always Kept " with him as it with cold. It nroDoses r. Bryan s audience what Mr. Bryan nv of immkflf.hmpnt rr, ; :.,i: s&jb, eo long as ne Keeps on saying it. ' j :V VZ c r and preserve side by side gold and silver Cr0TaX ai" 5 agree, that power would be futile, to and paper, each the equaf to the other. rY r t? ?? that we will name this great tribunal, atid .each the equal of the best, ana fA ffhr?rfenV for away from partisan politics, far the best never to beiaTerior.tothe best. S5-2TSS L&J?0 WflS lcft away from the passions of elections, far money known to the commercial nations H 0 mB I?enta makeap. fro the rfjpfotn nf na- fflnTm. allied party seemed firmly committed. (lireat applause, filver at a parity to keep that silver tates, and there is no power to infc- stands, except by before the Senate. and the President i why from the nictation of nartv of the world. (Loud cheering.) It . lfcTJ .r .!. flnd thc decision of this tribunal will vintlnno tn fn mr n r w tLt w;n in tnis encomium which would not with I l,. u A ive work to American citizens (ap- ftLt "J. ?Priatenes aPply not be done, by the President or the Con- leerWs and dries of HnrrB for inleyf) We are now convinced after uiaiurj. oj. vmuuR, wnose nsuits arc as rteonle as impeccable as Bry&fi'S own, whose Now what have wc today? In the V a I UU 1 U.U U &. L. I . - . a ' I AWIll II UUt Ul 1 V. IUUUJ LUL. three years of experience, whatever may Pfencc is just as handsome, whose firat place, we have this extraordinary have been our political relations in the Pwcrs of speech vere formerly just as proposition made. We find the powers past, of the truth of the observation of Bral uaye rougnt many an audi- conferred upon the President of the Webster, made more than half a century ence to tears., to laughter and to f ren- United States to execnte the laws of ago. ion win recau mat ne said: ' , . ,, . j J " "ua io-i congress m inesc iwo uimgs; w nnu That is the truest American policy scssed of a talking devil, and who today, that by thc law of Congress the Presi- wnico ouaii most useiuiiy employ Amen- I ; i1. V ' t iUl iuui i uuui uium see 10 it urai lue mans 01 me can capital and American labor and best bourne froin which po isebraskau seems United States, thc communicatitns be- -sustain tne wnoie American population l.1" iccuing DreaucrumDs i tween our commercial people. sns oe lirreat applause.; g iue opurrowa. j. oat man is ueorge j Kept open; tnat tne mans scan go at all "Agriculture, commerce and manufac- Francis Train. And it must be remea- I hazards. (Applause.) tares will prosper together or fail to- bered that Mr. Tram once ran for the Wo find Congress providing, as be- gemer. equally true also were . the frequency, jUS as air. .Bryan is doing, tween the states, that the President shall woros ot donn yumcy Adams, "inat the I u.u1a ucsei "l ,UIS own. 1 say tnat the execute tne law regarding the free trans creat interests of this agricultural, min- l ticket on which Mr. Bryan is runnine mission of freight and merchandise from ing and manufacturing nation are so for the presidency is essentially his j state to state. We find this power re linked in unison that no permanent cause ?wn, although two other gentlemen have I sistod, and find in the declaration of the ui iirusutrrii iu uuc uj. uium can operate 1"3unuJ muuiioucu in connection 1 party piatiorms maae at ijnicago a state- without extending its influence to the th it one trying to get off and tho ment in effect that the President of the other.' (Applause.) We cannot have other trying to get on. Here, you ob- United States cannot execute the fed- commercial growth and expansion with- serve, is a sort of political cerebus. with al laws; cannot execute the power our uanouai unu maiviauai nonor. i" "i ot ieenng uetween the ca- I conierrea upon nim dj congress ano tne "We cannot have commercial prosperity nine collaterals. Mr. Bryan's predica- I Constitution of the United States, except without the strictest integrity both of nent is not without embarrassment. He j br leae of the governor of the state government ana citizen, (itenewed ap- must ieei as Dewiidered with these two (appiausej. ano tuis is declared, fellow plause and cries of 'That's, right') The appendages as the proverbial cat with citizens mark it well this is declared financial honor of this government is of a like number of tails. He has probably ky a body of people that came together too vast importance, is entirely too sa- prevailed upon Mr. Sewall to stay where at Chicago and declared that they were cred to be the football of party politics. ?e 1S whereas Tom Watson wants to Jncksonian Democrats. (Laughter.) (Great applause and cries of 'Good H00!?- ?e wants to know where he is Why, gentlemen, in 1832, John C. Cal- t;uuu. ; a.ue Aepuuiicun party nas main-1 io Know wnetner he is I lIUUU uu8-u i tuiivuiiiiou guuier tamed it and is pledged to maintain it a candidate tor the vice-prcsidencv or it una uiuru luuu uuix BIOOU uetween I "ti.iiiii.ui.iu uppeuuix. good faitn and dishonor and when it war South and North will never again uuiist m anotner sectional strife. It does not matter whether the Ameri can cradle is rocked to the music of Yankee Doodle or the lullaby of Dixie, if the flag of the nation is displayed above it; and the American baby can be safely trusted to pull about the floor the rusty scabbard and the battered canteen, whether the inheritance be from blue or gray, if, from the breast of a true moth er and the lips of a brave father, its little soul is filled with the glory of the Ameri can constellation. A new issue between thp West and the East! why, God for d! I am a part of that mighty West I mow its brave, enterprising, pioneer people. I have seen them rescue the wilderness- and convert it into a garden. They haTe been greatly aided by the as sistance of the East bythe-use of .money wmcn represents thc accumulated sav isgs of two centuries and a half of East ern thrift The creat West cannot liro nd thrive without the cordial co-operation and support of the strong East and the East cannot live and grow and thrive as it ought and should without the cor dial eo-operation. friennship and support of the mighty West United, we are a nation powerful for the welfare of nil sections; divided, we are at the begin ning of the downfall of the republic. Nebraska put one star in the azure of the flag, and Illinois put another, but when they took their places in the flag they were no longer the stars of Illinois and Nebraska, but the stars of the great est nation of the earth, shining for the welfare and protection of every section and all the people. they went on, I think, to the amount of $8,000,000,000, and finally the whole structure collapsed. The government would not take them, the paper became absolutely worthless, and when that pa per uecame wortniess it was found, not in the hands of the speculators; no, it was found in the hands of the manu facturers, of the business men, of the workingmen of France. It was on them that the loss fell, because they had ex changed their labor and thoir pnrnin.i for this worthless paper. That is the history of all attempts to juggle with the currency. The loss lands always in the same place, and we can form no ex ception to the great natural laws. in the state of South Carolina to con sider the question whether President Jackson could execute .the law for the collection of tariff, this high protective tariff, and to execute the tariff law in the state of South Carolina. That con vention declared that the federal gov ernment, through its President had no power to execute that federal law in that state without the leave of the govern- ina. do? These people fTJivA llTi thn nnntrnl nf tho oTn,-nmAT. I An AcemfU . . - . r " ' - A - v. V - m J I l.X II 1 I -XA XiaflU 1X11. II.. 1 1 I TT. r. 1 n , i.., v - , uuiuru uui uaiiuiiai uuuui uuu uoer ociore oeen i ment so Inch and unnuestioned. fAnnl nncn i I The Republican party is pledged to main- D0N M- DICKINSON tain the credit of thc government which Let us sec what confronts us Wlnt is intimately associated with its spotless is this free government that we heap uouic auu uuuur, uuu lUIS It Will OO Un der any circumstances and at any cost. "It taxed the credit of the novemmnTit mental expression. TT,. tn il cali themselves Jncksonian Democrats, in the days of the war to its utmost ten- Hshment of the American government ?n 1 SIea? -,lthTe ?ard' Before the sion to preserve the government itself, governments had failed on the face of e-JX i UL.-100-' uuchmhi oroereauen. which, under God. it was happilv en- the earth for the object for which gov- "-j" command of the United abled to do. Following that mi-htv ernments are formed. S ,Stat,cs armies, to establish his military strusrcle it lifted our rrndit h.fhor thnn The theory is that this is th. hnct ft had ever been before and made it government and the only free govern- equai to tne oldest and wealthiest na- meut wmcu ucuieves ior tne people tne largest amount ot nappiness, com fort and prosperity for the greatest number. Now. they had tried pmnnr. 1 . T t 1 A - - ors, lougmg ausomie power ot legisla tion, the execution of laws, and nil judgment upon laws in one man. and it failed; the people were oppressed and made serfs. They tried then oli- garcliy, a government ot manv men; it laueu ior tue iiurjjot's ior wiucu it was founded: so that all monarcbv and oil evetonis nml nrorr rmiihl? ; X i j ! f I lunlinK thni l-lomnti lI.nlltlAH 1 party ever wont out of nmvnr,.hl' v. world nad iaiiea. wnen our fathers tlUfa"11-1 uuu so magnificant a record as th RonX fmoii the Umte,tl States of America Piau lican party. (Cries of 4Thnt' y.tuli UHU. H"1-. 13 "M1"": lu lamny or Our great war debt was mnw ti,nT' tions. (Appiausc.j thirds paid off, our currencvunn,,Pst nn;,r I wnat w?s P0. V1 Prt of the t j a . . . x ""wi i rnrnrnmnnr n' nn nrnmivnc nofmnimnnf our creaic untarnisned, tne honor of tho ? V- i union unsulliod. thn ,nL tJ, 1 which promises a republican dt demo- terial conditions stronger than it had gSc tEWtaWhhS ever been before: the workin-mnn hot- .l!5i-x"was tms " t,stabii.shed a tions of the world. (Applause and cries of 'That's right.') It is pledged to maintain uucorrupted the currency of the country of whatever form or kind that has been used by national au thority. It made the old greenback as good as gold and has kept it as good as gold ever since. It has maintained everv form of American money, whether sil ver or paper, eonal to "rl. nna ;t tt-;ii not take any backward step. (Great ap plause and cries of 'Good, good.') No r which left the Repub- hcadquarters in the capital of South Car olina, in the first place. (Applause.) On the same day he ordered the two most powerful ships in the American navy to Charleston harbor. Next he or dered the troops of the United States available on the Atlantic coast to con centrate within striking distance of South Carolina. (Applause.) And he sent word to John C. Calhoun, .not bv public proclamation, but in private they had been good friends before: he said: "You tell John C. Calhoun that if he persists in this treasonable advice to his state, by the internal, I will hang him No New Sectional Issue will be era ted. SENATOR THURSTON. My fellow citizens, there are othef sons yet why the loyal peopl of country snouid stand together atj tunc. Senator Tillman of Sostn 7oI- fore. with nroneritv in ovorv n,rt nf th "uura.'UH: powers ot tnat legislature by tunc. Senator Tillman of fiostn xore, witu prosperity m ecry part of the J a written constitution-thus far, Mf. I Una, chairman of the committee on Labor Needs an Unvarying .and Re liable Currency. FRANK S. BLACK. CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK. "No man's labor of yesterday or last year can be preserved, except by some X.-X? X 1 ruiiruseuiauve or lOKen ot it. and money is the almost universally adopted agent ior mui purpuae. looming in xne wona should be so anxious as labor that the token which represents it should be un varying and reliable. who can preserve until tomorrow the labor of to day? It cannot be done, and the only means of securing its benefits is to re ceive and preserve some token which shall stand in its stead and which may be used as future needs may require." And further on the speaker said: "If a man is robbed, it is a crime and he may have redress. If a bank fails and pays him only 53 cents on the dollar, it is a misfortune, and he is not yet without hope of recovery. But if he votes away 47 cents of every dollar, it is his own fault, and he has nothing to condemn but his own folly, which will remain with him much longer than his money." Jugglers with the National Credit. CHAUNCEY DEPEW. "Bryan and Sewall and Watson pro claim a revolution. These jugglers with the national faith and national credit with business and prosperity, with labor and employment are recklessly endeav oring to precipitate one of those crises in which capital and labor and homes and wages are inextricably involved. The right of revolution is divine, hut it must have supreme justification. Under our constitutions and institutions and laws as they exist there is before us in the promises of the Populistic leaders nothing but an invitation to embark upon that sea of repudiation and dishon or which has wrecked every nation and every people that ever embarked upon it This revolution promises to destroy the Supreme court, to prevent the issue of bonds and the use of the credit of the country for any purpose, to debase the currency, to issue, if need be, irre deemable naner and fiat mnnpr. nd tn destroy the validity and the inviolability of pnntrnotn hntwnnn Inilit-iMol. T proposes to seize the railways and the BU1 Bry,aa. niay his tribe decrease! telegraphs, to enter upon a vague and Akac n,ght rom a deep dream vast system of paternal government and And saw within the moonlIKht of his roo. to destroy those elements of American Making it rich and silver-like In bloom, liberty by which the government governs A" angel wrIHng in a book of gold; least and the individual has unlimited Exceeding gall had made Bill Bryan bold, opportunity for industrial business, pro- "l,?? i?. tbJrooin, ?e Mld.:. fessional and political honors and emolu- Whf8 wer'dest thou? The T,sIon ra,9fJ hx- ' , , . . . x, . And, with a took of what he might expect "No one has ever doubted the wis- Answered. "Their names who'll set It la dom of the fathers of our republic. A the neck." century of experiment has abundantly "And am I one?" asked Aboo. "I doa't and overwhelmingly justified their fore- kno3" , .,. sight, statesmanship and patriotism. ?? iw$n n.Kn i Ab?u sP?k rmore loS' They saw the horrors of the French Bnt ePTlly stU' and sa!d- 1 pray revolution, and they made up their minds -Write me as one not liable to err." to guard their country against the ex- The angel wrote and vanished. The nerf cesses of temporary madness. They night created the executive and the legislative came again with a great November light, branches jof the government and made Ancl Bnowea the names of those knocked gal- tfB wTTSftn, , 3 (K Ai,i w Anl Dm Bryan's name led all the restl ..... ..... vx .HI WUU I tney enacteu a written constitution un- THE .ROOSTKIt HE WORE OX HIS HAT. Come, pause for a while in your play, . . x . My boy. And put down your ball and your bat. Attend to nie well "While a story I tell Of a man who was tempted to stray. And the rooster he wore on hlshat05. This man was a laborer skilled, ily box. Contented and happy thereat; For his job was 'secure. And his wages were sure. But his heart with a longing was fllled, r. x Mr hoy. For a rooster to wear on his hat.' One day some demagogues came, (For demagogue read Democrat b And spouted and braved In behalf of free trade. Till they set all his fancy allame. ily bor. For a rooster to pin on his hat. He whooped like an Imbecile loon. My boy. For a candidate fussy and fat, "Whose Inflated renown . Soon collapsed and came down? And It felt like a punctured balloon. On the rooster that sat on the hat. Now his partisans float In the soup. My bor. Along with the bill thev begat The cuckoos all sigh For their vanishing pie: And the rooster Is sick with the ronp, Poor rooster that rode on the hat And poverty sits Jn the seat. My boy "Where competence formerly sat, And tho laboring man, . Through this fatuous plan. Is now left with nothing to eat But the rooster he wore on hhYiatf Then take warning and never forgst, A My dot. Free traders are blind as a bat. Their promise of good Is adversity's food. And the laborer long will regret ,, , My. boy. The rooster he wore on his hat. Indianapolis JonraaL ABOU BILL BRYAN. A Effect of Inflation. SENATOR LODGE. Well, -it is'easy to mark up prices man can go over his stock of coods in the morning and mark them np with a blue pencil; but you cannot go over the salaries and the wages of this country with a blue pencil in the morning and mark them up. During our war. when we had an in flated currency and prices rose, the aver age price of commodities rose S9 per cent; labor rose about 40 nor nnt. There was a net loss to labor of about 50 per cent, a net reduction of wages to that extent Labor always, in case of a depreciated currency, lags behind oth er prices. It is inevitable; all historv and all experience shows it. They tried it in France in the last centurv: thpr tried the inflation of -the currency to the last extent. You read the his'torv of that period; you find in the debates of the French convention at the time of the Revolution which resembled a frond deal, in many respects, the convention at unicago you Und it constantly said: We are so great; France is so nnworfni so civilized, so free, that she can raise the price of money, she can mnintnin any system she wants." And they issued the assignats based on the public land; there was land behind them all; they were r-ot 2.srejy irredeemable paper; der which the executive and the legisla tive branches must act, and then they createa mat new leature ot government, that palladium of the rights of the peo ple and the permanence of our institd t:ons. an independent judiciary, a court which could say to a wild Congress: 'You have overleaped the boundaries of the constitution and you must bring yourselves within its limits.' They knew from the precedents of liberty behind them that the judiciary can aiwavs ho trusted. There are two places under our constitution where neither wealth nor power gives any advantage to the individual, where the richest and the poorest, the most exalted and the hum blest stand on the same plane; one is the ballot box and the other the court And yet this Democratic and Populistic al liance proposes to destroy this majestic tribunal and make it simply the echo of the party caucus which controls Congress this year and may be driven into ob scurity next." Lincoln (Neb.) News. COME HOME. Integrity of thc Courts. EX-SENATOR JOHN C. SPOONER. "There is another proposition in that platform which ought to strike terror to the heart of every good citizen, what ever his political affiliations heretofore may have been, and that is the proposi tion which even shocked David Bennett Hill (laughter), whom I am faintly hon- fit a. i ing win come out nner a iittie tor sound money, and that is the suggestion that whenever the supreme court of the United States, in the exercise of thn inri diction vested in that tribunal by the con stitution, renders a decision which is not agreeable to Congress, they shall proceed to pack that court in somn wiv ...:!. ...:n . " Mini juuki-s uu win i fierce it, and who will be more complaisant You recollect, ladies and gentlemen that the Snpreme court of the United States is nrnsitmi i.i- .ui.- luiioiii.iiiuii. int.- iiiree suu- divisions of our government, each inde pendent of the other. The executive, the legislative and the judiciary. The Supreme court of the United States has been, from the beginning, an honor to this country; and its line of decision the great men who have been upon that bench shedding luster upon our jurispru dence and upon the jurisprudence of the tvorld, have abundantly vindicated the wisdom of the framers of the constitution in creating it. in making it perpetual and in providing for the inde pendent and fearless action by reason of the life tenure of its judges. "I do not like to hear men cast suspi cion upon judges. Our last reliance is in the integrity, the courage and the in dependence of our judiciary.i When the people are swayed by passion, when Con gress may go wrong, when the Senate, "From Thomas Watson." O! Bryan, dear Bryan, come home with m now. The pops are all ready to run; You said you were coming right beak to ih P'atte. As son as your talking was done. Come'home, come home, Bryan, dear Bryax. come home. Poor Altgeld is dying and Boles has goa flat, Don't talk any more, but come home. O! Bryan, dear Bryan, come home with me now. Why don't yon come home while yon can? Free silver's all right (for thc heathen), that s so. But you can't stuff it down a free man. Come home, come home, Bryan, dear Bryan, oonic home, MeKInlny Is ready to give you a blow, 1 hat will knock yon quJtn flat, so come uume. Lincoln (Neb.) Call. CAMPAIGN NOTES. Is the story true that thousands of laboring men are wearing McKinley but tons who intend to vote for Brvan? We rather guess not The laboring man is not that sort of a hvnoeritn. if we PAN roctly estimate him. and it is an insult to him to say otherwise. Mr. McKinley said: "Good money never made hard times." Mr. Brvan said: "Money can be too good." WW the people of this country have difficulty iu determining which is right? Among the best .speeches being ma&a in this campaign are those coming free that little two-story porch at Canton. It requires no argument t see wh. Bryan and his followers do aot want t talK about protection. It is the mills and not the mists thai millions of workers want opened. Stop the wheels in the head and let the wheels in the machine shops go around. The most pressing money question Id that of wages for the people and a rcr enue for the government Brjan is now being called the businoss killer. He meanders through the Eas making silver speeches and the mills and factories close in his wake. After reading Bryan's wool record in Congress the fanner who votes for him must either have a forgiving disposition or in his wits be on the wrong ide at the non compos mentis boundary line. A farmer's illustration of the uO-eent silver dollar is that it would be like offer ing for sale a calf labeled "This iL twins." and demanding double price for it And still some people pretend to think that farmers are not watching pub- lie auairs.
