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THE ALLIANCE-INDEPENDENT. 5 earned with his old revolutionary heroes. (Applauso ) Here they trained for the service. He went ty the front and stayed in the service over four years, even doing service after li e surrender of Leo. At the tloseofiuo war he went to the paym sicr, sta ed the circumstances, an l ask d him to give him what pay he w.s er.ii led to. tie then went back io u'u dis rxt and they re-ch.cted him to ouugi-ss. Toe re weio some very mean uicn ,n the dis trict, t-omo wii when ne was wounded in battle, held a great joll li cation bo- ret cause no was rcporieu ciea 1. let none of these men were mean enough to raise such charges against him. Thai was reserved for meaner men of a later da'e. don't refer to Judge Crounso of course. He kuows nothing about this only as he reads it in iho papers.' Tho General then wan cd to know w hy Judge Crounse should repeat the chirgo that ho was worth half a million after he had stated t'-at ho wa not worth one-tenth of a m llion. Was his word worth n.ji i.i ' I forgot to state" exclaimed to speaker, "that I had some money -w f),ick in '02. i had money enough '. iiy tho expenses ot my regiment to Washington. And 1 never got an thing back foriteither." (Applause.) Judge Crounso said at Beatrice that the republican paity had dropped rao Well, the pople didn't drop me (Great cheering ) By a majority of 60,000 they asked to have mo re-elected, and they sent members of tlie legislature to Lincoln pledged to re elect me.4 And what then? The railroads came in and bought up enough to defeat me, bought them up like cattle, and you know it, and Judge Crounse knowj it loo." Referring to tho Judge's insinuations ab.'iit his house in Washington ho said Yes.it vi as a good investment. Tho land inci eased in value, no built a nice house on purpose to be able to rent it to a supreme judge. He had to put a little mortgage of $16,000 on it but that didn't ma ter. But why should such things bo brought up here agaiist him? Then facing about toward Judge Crounse witn a wonderful look of mingled tri umph and indignation he shouted 'Thank God J dge there's no railroad money in it!" a?id the walls fairly shook with the storm of applause. Itefemr.g again to tno money ques tion the General said theory of aseven- tv cent dollar amounted to nothing. It was tho stamp of ttfe government that gavo vaue to the dollar. He wanted Judero Crounso to state what disaster ha-1 come from the free coinage of sil ver for nearly a hundred years after tho foundation of the government, Who bad asked to have silver demonet ized? Had the people demanded it? Jackson and the Eider Harrison favored silver, and held very near the same views on finance that the peoples party holds to-day. These republicans are verv much afra d thev will do some thing to benefit the owrers of silver mines in the northwest. But they think it is all right to protect the owners of iron and coal mines in Penn sylvania and make them millionaire. (Applause.) He said if Mr. Crounse had asked somebody besides a banker, he might have found out something of the real situation of the farmers wno are strug gling under the awful burden of mort gages. Those same farmers in Hitchcock county are now selling their wheat at 40 cents per bushel less than cost of production. Here time was i ailed and as the General took his seat there was long continued applause. At the close of Van Wyck's speech quite a number left the nail as it was getting late in the afternoon. Judge Crounse then began as follows: 4,I have been highly entertained and amused by the remarks made by my friend. I am a native of the empire s'ate. I am almost sorry to say my friend is also. I feel called upon to defend the pat riotism of New York from the asper sions of their ignonrnious atd coward ly Colonel. I raised a regiroeut there, and there was not anything said about their being paid either in gold or green backs. In their name I refute the charges made by the craven, cowardly colonel. (E sses ) I say cowardly, be cause no brave man would speak of his m?n as ho has. If his men had the spirit he described, I could have taken ten men with broomsticks and whipped the lot of them." He then proceeded to ridicule and abuso Van Wyck further. Ho tried to maki it appear that Van Wyck had not shown himself a patriotic uni"n man at the opening of the war, that I e had favored the division of tho union, etc. All these charges were greeted by hiss es from the crod, hundreds in tho audience joining In the hissing. He theu said he would take up tno Generals rai'road record. Tie unfolded a paper to read and as soon as tho crowd saw what It was, the cry ot -oiate Journal" went aud there were jot rs and laughing in all parts of tho hall. Ho read an account of Van Wjck's voting for the Cincinnati and South ?rn rail road bill whiv h gave permission to make very high rates etc. lie sa'd free silver would give us sixty cent dollars and drive out all of our seven hundred million of gold. Then his time expired and tho dubato closf d. Dozens ofmei, many of them soldiers, rushed forward to grasp Van Wyck's hand aod cheer for i ho urand old sol dier, while Crounso with a few friends left the hall as soon as he could. COMMENTS. Tho above is the fullest and fairest report to both sides that has been pub lished. It is made up from copious notes taken by the editor of The ALU-ANCE-lNDEPENDENT. We have aimed to give a fair statement of tho ideas set forth on each side, and to givo tho most important statements voibatim. There can bi no dispute as to Van Wyck's complete victory. He successfully refuted Crounse 's at tempts at argument, and ho met the Judge's cowardly personal attacks by manly statements that carried convic tion to the minds of the people. Crounse's face wore a hard and scorn ful look, and he spoko in a sneering voice. He showed that ho was utterly devoid of sympathy with tho common people. He tried to convey tho im pression that most of the mortgages on Nebraska farms were put their by rascals to beat capitalists out of their noney. He had no word of sympathy with tho producers, but words of praise and defense for such men as Cat negie On the other hand in every feature of the old Gen eral's faci, in every one of his awkward gestures there appoired an over-powering earnestnes9, an elo quence that carried tho people by storm. Men who had como theru deeply prejudiced against Van Wyck went away to work for him with all the:r micrht from now till election. 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