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4 THE BgILY GLOBE IS PUBLISHED EVERY DAY AT NEWSPAPER ROW, COR. FOURTH AND MINHBSOTA STS. SUBSCRIPTION RATES, ii: • üble in Advance. Dally nud iiusiilny, I'er Month .OO Dally und Sandny, Six Month! $2.75 Daily and Sunday, One Venr - $s.Oi> Dally Only, Per Month - .4O Duily Only, Sis Months $2^5 Daily Only, One Year ?4.00 Sunday Only, One Year ----- $1.50 Weekly, One Year fI.OO Address all communications and make all remittances payrble to Tile GLOBE CO.. St Paul. Minn. Complete files of the Globe alw?.ys kept en hand fop reference. TODAY'S WEATHER. WASHINGTON, Jan. 12. — Forecast for Thursday: Minnesota— Partly cloudy weath er; warmer In northwest portion; variable ■winds, becoming southerly. Wisconsin— Generally fair; colder in south ern ,ukJ southwest portions; brink northerly winds, becoming variable and diminishinc;. North Dakota— Fair, probably followed l>y light snow: warmer in southeast portion; south) rly winds. South Dakota — Partly clcudy weather; s.uth erly winds. lowa Fair, preceded by snow in the south eas( portion; northerly winds. Montana — Generally i'air; southwesterly winds. GENERAL OBSERVATIONS. L T nited States Department of Agriculture, ireau, Washington, Jan. 12, <;ms ]>. in. I. ical Time. S p. m. T.'ith .Meridian Time.— Observations taken at the same mo :»(in of time at :■-!! stations. TEMPERATURES. Place. Tera . Ti a St. Paul 24 au'Appelle 18 Duluth 22 Minnedosa 12 Huron 20 Winnipeg C Bismarck 12 Williston 26 Buffalo SG-5C 21 Boston 18-52 a 2S ;:• jrenne 24-28 Edmonton 18 Chicago 38-55 Battleford 18 Cincinnati 66-68 Prince Albert IS New Orleans 60-76 18 New York 40-46 Medicine ii.it 20 Pittsburg OiJ-GG i urrent 18i DAILY MEANS. leter, 29.84; mean temperature, 27; relative humidity, T.s; wind at 8 p. m,, north; weather, cloudy; maximum temperature, 2.<; minimum t< mperature, 25; daily range, 4; amount of precipitation (rain or melted snow) iv- last twenty-four hours. 0. P. P. LYONS. Observer. «<«» — FOB SMALLER CONVENTIONS. The Brooklyn Eagle, which is one of the ablest and most thoughtful expo nents of true Democracy in the coun try, has raised the question whether national conventions might not be made much smaller than at present With sain to party and to the public. Taking for its text the burning of the Coliseum at Chicago, which was built for the meeting of the last national ] 'emocratic convention, it asks whether such enormous structures are neces sary for the future to accommodate the delegates of the people; and whether the great crowds thai now attend the nomination of presidential candidates' as delectable shows do not tend to lower the tone of politics. These crowds, says the Eagle truly and expressively, are "the terror of statesmen, the bur den of managers, the hotbed of cranks, the harvest of demagogues and the op portunity of corruptionists. The idea that only by bigness and enthusiasm can representative results be assured is error. National committees are hin dered by the folly consequent on the unruliness of these big bodies—hinder ed before and after they meet." Start ing from this premise, the Eagle recom mends that both parties should 'adopt a rule limiting- the representation from each state in national conven tions to the same number as it has ' senators and l 'preservatives in con gress, instead or doubling the number as now. This would reduce the size of nati< nal conventions one-half, and by just so much would add to the dignity and importance of the delegates. It would cut in two the unwieldy conven tions that now assemble, and assist an orderly and expeditious transaction of their proceedings. What the Eagle says is true, but it is scarcely more than half the entire truth. The great trouble with national conventions is not the size of their membership, but the habit of indis criminate admission granted to the fol lowers of the leading candidates. This assembly of packed galleries, to raise pandemonium whenever the names of particular candidates are named, this attempt to win by yelling and infernal din, ihis idea of sweeping delegates off their feet and out of their senses by placing them in the center of a howling mob or madmen, is a graver evil than the size of the convention itself. We nould very well afford to have a con vention of 900 delegates or more, but the difficulty and the disgrace come in v.-hen there are from 10,000 to 15,000 i spectators admitted. If this practice is to be continued, It matters little whether the delegates are a few more or a few less. They are lost sight of !n the vast whirl of the mob that sur rounds them, led in partly by curiosity and partly by self-interest, frequently hired by*the managers of various can didates to create a semblance of en thusiasm, and always a hindrance and menace to sound reason and the sober transaction of the people's busi ness. Tho first point of attack in the way of reform, it seems to us, is the ad- ! mission of spectators by ticket, as at present, to the full limits of the audi torium provided. The national con vention should choose for their place of meeting some hall which would just acommodate their delegates and the members of the press. All others should be excluded. If national conventions ere to become once more deliberative bodies— bodies having judgment and a v/ill of their own, met to determine upon the best policy and the best men to lead their parties before the peo- | pic— they will have to put a stop to the present practice of turning them selves into a national circus and at- j tempting to bring about or defeat nom intaions by the mere power of noise. We agree entirely with the Eagle's itfea. as to the size of conventions. A delegation equal to the state's repre sentation in congress would be amply sufficient, although such a change will ! probably be difficult to bring about. ! This is not because the advantage of it will not be appreciated, but because of the singular Lur.g«r that there is I for the empty honor of becoming a delegate to a national convention. There are so many men in each state with whom such an appointment an swers instead of a more honorable and lucrative job, and whom the politicians are delighted to placate and reward by attaching to the lapels of their coats the delegate's badge, that a reduction in the number of these places will meet with strong opposition. It seems to us, however, that the main thing is to secure the exclusion of the claque from national conventions, and then attack ' afterward the far simpler and less threatening question of the size of the various state delegations. A. JUST AWARD. No verdict ever rendered by a jury in St. Paul was received with heartier approbation and satisfaction than that which mulcts Lieut. Bahe In the sum of $3,250 for false arrest. This award of damages was made on behalf of the men whose detention without cause, whose insults and whose stripes appealed in vain to the police force and to its official head a few months ago. The Globe rejoices that the in dividuals who were so grievously out raged have followed up their legal rem edy, and it hopes that no device may be valid to save the property of the offending officer from this just claim upon it. If Lieut. Bahe is beyond the reach of public opinion, or of any other influence that would cause him to moderate his policy as a member of the police force, this verdict will at least stand as a warning to him and to others that unoffending citizens cannot be arrested and clubbed in St. Paul with entire impunity. We return the thanks of the whole community to this jury for its excellent work, which could not have been improved unless it had gone,' in its estimate of dam ages, to the full limit asked for. Incidentally, we may observe, that this is a very fair measure of the judg ment passed upon this administration by the citizens of St. Paul. It was by no means Lieut. Bahe alone who was on trial in this case. He was the only one against whom legal proceedings would lie, but it is his official superior, Mayor Doran, as the supreme head of the police force, against whom the righteous indignation and severe cen sure of the public is directed. This is the case in which Mr. Doran refused to interfere. These are the circum stances that were laid before him by the injured parties, fully corroborated by a committee of reputable citizens, and his reply was that he could do nothing. What he did do was to retain Lieut. Bahe on the police force after this transaction was thoroughly venti lated, and thereby he placed upon his course the stamp of official approval. In reality it was Mayor Doran as well as Lieut. Bahe who was on trial in the court on Tuesday; and, insensible as he appears to be to the censure of good citizens, and open only to be mov ed by the applause of bad citizens, he can hardly fail to appreciate the force of the fact that, on the merits of the case, a jury was unanimously against him. There was no division of opinion as to the fact that damages were due to the plaintiff, and the only question which the jury had to decide was as to the amount. We do not believe that twelve men could be found in St. Paul, outside of office holders or political henchmen of the mayor, who would have rendered, upon the evidence, any other verdict than that which has been returned. This is what our people think, because they are decent, law observing and liberty-loving people, of the present administration. It is an opinion that may possibly penetrate the pachydermatous mayor and give him a bad quarter of an hour when he comes to consider what it means for his future. A SICK KEVEME FIND. The statement «of the state treasurer for December bears out the prediction of the Globe, mad*? when the Novem ber statement showed that fund over drawn Sn-i.OOO, that the deficiency was bound to increase. December shows overdraft of $IS~>,4GI. By March the bulk of the railway tax will have been paid in. In 1896 that source yielded $1,090,510. It is estimated that it will yield $1,100,000 for the fiscal year end- Ing next July. If payments have been made proportionatels' to those of prior years one-fourth of this has been paid, leaving a possible $850,000 or $900,000 to come. Deducting the overdraft leaves about $700,000. To this there is to be added the state tax of 1.5 mills, levied for 1898. which on the valuation of $583,000,000 will produce $874,500. Of this valuation $478,472,054 was on real estate, the levy on which will produce $717,703. But the amendment to the law pro viding that payment of half this tax may be deferred from June to Novem ber will cut this revenue for IS9B in half, leaving some $350,000, without al lowance for delinquencies. We have then for the remaining sev en months an income of about $1,000,000 to meet what remains of unpaid appro priations made In 1897 for the fiscal year IS9S, amounting to $2,023,795. The November and December statements, with their respective deficits of $54,000 and $155,000, indicate very clearly that all convertible balances from '97, if any, and all income received from IS9B have been used up; and tho recent ac tion of the state board of trustees of insane hospitals, convened to see where expenses could be cut, indicates that* neither income already realized nor that anticipated will be sufficient to prevent this deficit from growing larg er until the year ends. Allowing the income from gross earnings to reach even $1,250,000, and adding to the $350, --000 coming in from the half of the real estate tax the $150,000 from the tax on personalty, we have a total of $1,750, --000 to meet appropriations aggregating $2,023,79:". leaving a probable deficit July 31 of at least $274,000. The reason for this is not difficult to find. It lies in the heedless, reckless profligacy of the legislature of 1897. It surpassed that of 1895 in extrava gance, that body having exceeded the inccma with its appropriations and left a heritage of $164,074 of deficit for the year 1896 to its successor. It must be understood that each legislature makes appropriations and levies tax«? 3 for the two fiscal years following that in which THE SAINT PAU£, GLOBS: THURSDAY, JANUARY 13, 189 8. it meets. The session of 1895 provided for the years 1896-97, that of 1897 for 1898-99. When the session of 1897 met it should have found revenues suffi cient to carry the treasury through to July 31, 1897. Instead of that, either because of excessive appropriations by the legislature of 1895 or of its own j prodigality, that legislature added to I the expenditures of 1897 by making immediately available appropriations amounting in the aggregate to $626, --743.23. Of this the general bill carried $?.52,174.15, including the deficiency of $164,074.15.. and sundry bills carried the remainder of $274,569.08. In addition to this the revenues of the year 1898 were mortgaged to pay $76,520, and those of 1899, $76,600 to pay sundry bills of 1597. On the adjournment of the legislature there was a general chorus of praise for its economy. It had levied a tax of but 1.5 mills, and its general bill car ried but $843,000 for 1898. The trick in this is found in the standing appro priations, those which run from year to year and do not appear in the biennial bills. They find their parallel in the continuous appropriations of congrc-sg. The standing appropriations amount yearly to $1,103,770. The tendency to increase these standing appropriations appeared in the addition to them of $55,800 by the last legislature. Here is where we find the sufficient cause of the sickness that now afflicts the reve nue fund and for which there is no present cure. That is only to be found in a deficiency appropriation by the next legislature and a permanent rem edy in the more careful selection of legislators this fall, men who have some conception of the trust given them, the source of revenue, and who do not believe that reckless and indis criminate squandering of public money is statesmanship. SHORT BUT BRIGHT Continued front I-'irst rage. the gold standard; it was favored by tin- Idle holders of idle money. To understand a man's opinon of the moi 5 quesion, it was necessary to und< rstand his interest. He had ofton heanl of, bul had never yet met those reputedly self-sacrificing individuals who could subordinate their own pri vate interests to the good of the peo ple at large. With cutting satire Mr. Bryan ridiculed J. Pierpont Morgan in this connection. Mr. Bryan scored the Indianapolis monetary conference for insisting' on the maintenance of the single gold .standard after it had been repudiated by i)J per cent of the Ameri can voters. "Until we have an independent finan cial policy, we are bu>t the province of that nation which cracks the whip over us," he continued. Mr. Bryan referred to the recent de cision of the Minnesota supreme court in the Steenerson rate case, and said it seemed to him reasonable and fair — the application of common sense to a common carrier. Returning to the gold standard and its supporters, after this brief digres sion, in' said: "Toll them that we shall do' by day what they <li<l by night; that we shall ur.do by law what they did by law." Loud calls for "Donnelly" at the close of Mr. Bryan's speech were responded to briefly by the -Nininger middle-of the-roader. He said he did not come to make a speech, but to enjoy one, and after hearing it, he wanted to say that lie had heard all the great orators of the English tou^ue on both sides of the Atlantic— Gladstone, Parnell, Balfour and all of them— and when compared with Mr. Bryan, they were like the old fashioned single-barreled fowling piece with a gatlhig gun. There was only one orator whose voice charmed him more, and that was the voice of a lady. (Up roarious applause.) Not the single lady who is to become a double lady, but a married lady, Mrs. W. J. Bryan. If he will withdraw, we will all get to work and nominate her and elect her. 'There is some hesitation in certain quarters," said Mr. Donnelly, "about the proposi tion that all bimetaliists should unite to support Mr. Bryan, but it is not be cause people are not ready to follow the Democratic party. I am reminded of the man who read the epitaph on a tombstone: '■ 'When this you see Prepare for death and follow me' "Underneath it he then inscribed: " "To follow you were not content. Until we know which way you went.' "The Democratic party reminds me of Milton's picture of sin at the gates of hell. Western bimetaliists are fearful lest the Western lion from Nebraska will be gobbled up by the Tammany tiger of the East. It would be a work of supererogation for me to endeavor to add to the eloquent argument that has preceded me." Mr. Donnelly then briefly denounced the conspiracy of the money power, and it was nearly 11 o'clock when the big meeting finaily broke up. DR. PINE'S IXTRODICTORY I>a 5 s an Klo«ineni Tribute to tlie Hl metallic Champion. Dr. Pine, in introducing Mr. Bryan, spoke as follows: During the great civil war which resulted In the overthrew of negro slavery, which had existed prior to the birth of the republic, and which was upheld by a ma jority of the pulpits and secular papers of the country, I shouldered my musket at the call of President Lincoln for three hundred thousand more. I enlisted for three years, or during the war. and, with other atoms of that great army, endured the hardships and privations of real war, and the prison pen. But together, without faltering in the struggle for liberty and justice, we marched and fought and waited patiently for the dav.-n of peace, which came at last. And so when the gigantic struggle of 1830 was thrust upon the American people like a thunderbolt from a clear sky; when the once great Republi can party in convention assembled at St. Louis had parted from its moorings: when the last vestige of Lincoln Republicanism had j been tampered with by that body: when tho I golden calf set up by the organized money lenders of Europe had been adopted as a party symbol, then it was that we, hundreds of thousands of life-long Republicans, de serted that rotten Hannaized corruption— that corruption-stained old ship of the Republi can party. It was then that tens of thousands of battle-scarred warriors who had fought the battles of liberty mere than thirty years ago and had received their miserable pittance In greenbacks, which were then worth but 40 | cents, enlisted again to aid a gigantic and incessant battle against the plutocratic an archists of this country. Of the six and one half million voters who formed our grand army, no deserters could be found, and the trend of events that indicate that Cleveland's panics and McKinley's prosperity are as like as straight lines of equal length, justify the prophecy that two millions more will be add ed to cur cause within the next year. I j deem it one of the greatest pleasures of my life, as an ostracised Lincoln Republican, to announce to you, my neighbors a.nd friends, the brilliant champion of the toiling in dustrial classes of this country, the Lincoln of today, our beloved William J. Bryan, of the • United States. (Great and prolonged cheers.) MR. BRYAN'S ADDRESS. Brilliant Exposition at the Theory of the Silvorltes. Mr. Bryan then said: I want to cccuny such time as it may be proper to detain you in the discussion cf a question which must be confessed to be of great importance, no mat'.er from what stand point you look at it. Tho subject of bun? a!- I lism is a subject which the American people I have been considering to a greater or less ex- I tent for some twenty-four years, and I de sire, if possible, to make ths subject so plain and so well understood ihac those of you who billevc in bimetallism will -be able to pre sent your arguments with force and effect to your neighbors; and those of you who do not believe !n bimetallism, will be able to know why you do not accept our doctrine. There is much ignorance upon this subject, or, to use a less offensive term, much lack of knowledge. A man may be learned in some things, and yet know nothing about ! otner things. A man of far less general in formation may know much more about a sub ject which he has studied than another man much better informed may know about it i if he has not studied it. Sometimes you find j financiers who set?m to imagine that a man j engaged in the handling of money must neces sarily understand the money question, and that a man who has not much money to han dle must necessarily he ignorant in regard to yie money question. A man was once making a speech and made some remark upon the subject of money, and a farmer under took to correct it. and he said to the man: What do you know • about this subject? iou have not handled. sl,ooo in ten ye^s." A man may study the subject to find out why it is that he hafc not more chance to D2 »ale money, and a man may handle so much that he has no concern or reason to in vestigate the subject at all. In order to un derstand or to argue, we must have some point on which we can begin. We must com mence at some proposition which all accept, an 2 I nt t0 com m<?nce at the foundation and build up in the discussions of this ques tion, and my first proposition is that all men are created equal, If that proposition is not true, in the sense in which it is used in our government, then my foundation is false, if all men are not entitled to equal rights before the law and all stand with respect to government on the same level, then I con rcren,^ f ° u '\ daticn of my argument is er roneous. If there is a person here who dis «fVTTrt i a l! , aro creat "d equal and should a d , . c( J u t al b efore the law. then I cannot ex ™AJ • ? a K Sre , e t0 bimetallism, because bi metallism is buHt upon that solid foundation. L';,°n^ i i' lt there is a Person in this nr m,° m £ ,° C 3 not beI >eve in the doctrine of equality before , the law. then I say that ™' *; hat , evei ; h , e ma >- ™» himself, to what ever party he belongs, has no business to h«Prt n« C 0!£ try Where the government is h f« P v, the -f rnciple of equality before hen ,m rH ? ' ' 3U me " aro Created *W*l. then no citizen has a natural right to in %L& SS^SSS!" "* f ° UOWa * 3 a IF ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL son n h^ W . °n" yo ? assert thai an >- one per admTttinS tw® r ° y - this Proposition without admitting that he is out of harmony with LVh'u"^ ? nder which he "v*s. If tJc" 'each JuL^u? ? f a B™*" ll *** to pr 0 : lib»rfv ™rt in 1 1 the erj J°- vmc 'nt of life and HDert}, and in the pursuit of happiness then obte^tff* dCfend any law vh| ch laVfor its ovw \notlfer Vl "ff Of ° ne ° irizen an advantage o\cr another citizen. The great questions ?vhen°^eT^ "? nOt di » k ' Ult ™» VhlX t ?L f- c anal >-zed and the principles shal m K t°o" . theUl Ul "3 f >- S tood. "Thou " a n( £ *, teal »s. recognised as a command frrce,! hvi sanet ' oned morals and en- c ' cc , d J&J**- If I tell you that no man nag a rigiit 'to go out en the hiehwavs imi e^rVb^wM anclh , cr ma "' wgriou^ay h ; "?- » a!J '' ept that l make lt broader, mh v f m 01 '°- r J ßht to rob °y law than i G -i? n ) ,] >y t f T' er ln day or night - And iV'i Trcpnv h T y ° U that the gold standard r mnte i y I . aW and that those who lOVe it most love it best because it is easier to steal that way than to steal in the eld- Sl 'n,n W ¥\, (A ?- Dlau -se-) DMi't misunder stand me. I don't mean to say that every s. 1 fig as a saiHs? B I -\ beheve ia because they prefer to have the commandment which I have given to you violated. Now, taking as our funda mental proposition that government shoufd not enact laws for the benefit of a FEW AGAINST THE MANY, 2L tO tat b £ beneflt : °f one against some one else, let us sec if wo can apply this doc trine to the subject of money What is an honest dollar? Now you hear a great deal den", tfn' 1 Tv dD " ar ' but you don * any d br^i» n ? f , t lt 'v or a definition of it from those who talk about it most. Ask one of the advocates of a gold standard what ho regards as an honest doHar, he will look wise, and he tells you that by an hones; dollar he nVans sound money. And you then ask him what he means by sound money. He then looks * I l ule . Wlscr - if it is possible for him. to Hn°iinr W il'- - an , d l ays lt means an honest dollar It is hard to get him out of the circle, bu-t if you get him to deiino it, he will say that an honest dollar or sjund money i 3 money that when melted loses none of its vo, UP /.nn v ■;r^. ing ,P° t test '" that l 3 what h? a , ?• th, 0 , noting pot test." That is his test for determining whether monty is sound or a dollar is honest. I want to show you that that definition is not correct. It leaves out of consideration the greatest and most important thing in a dollar. Purchasing power is immaterial to it Supposing that all the nations in the world should get together and decide upon the gold standard and agree upon our dollar as a unit. They then decided that we had too much money, and got together 99 per cent of the money and sunk it in the ocean what would be the result? We would still have an honest dollar. Supposo also that instead of contracting the currency you expand it; sup pose you had agreed upon the dollar as the unit of standard and somebody would find a way to make one hundred times as much what would be the result? Why if Y ou melted it you would not lose anything but it would be honest according; to tho definition given by the advocate or the gold standard The definition given by the gold-bug omits the most important thing in a dollar— pur chasing power. The definition given does not include purchasing power; therefore wheth er the dollar buys much or little, 'it is an homst dollar, providing, you can melt it with out 1088 He segma to bo ignorant of the fact that that characteristic is a law-given characteristic. Why can you melt a gold tt^thlUK a ' lOSS t ? Because >-o« can foin It without charge, If you charge five cents e -M <1 COI V Crtin s a piece of sold bullion into ,?pnl T h and y ° U Inelt v up - > ou IOS€ five, tents. They seem not to understand that gold can be melted without loss simply be cause the law says that you can coin it into money without charge, I heard of a de bate which brings out this idea. We had two men discussing the question, and the gold bug said the gold was the only good ™T!£t ° b^ Ck his #f t 6m «»t he asked that jou put one thousand dollars in gold ln your thS °" e^? usand d °"ars cf silver and one thousand dollars In paper in your house \our house then ,bums,down. the gold would be melted, the silver would be melted and the paper would be burned. The silver would be wortn but one-half its former value the gold would not lose its value at all while the paper would be gone entirely. 'There fore, he said geld would be the best money. The other fellow then took for an illustra uon one thousand dollars In gold, one thou sand in silver and a like amount In paper currency, on beard a ship, and the shin would sink. The gold would go to the bot torn, the silver would go to the bottom, but the paper would float, therefore the naner would be the best money. There is just al good sense in that argument. The law s W v substance, if a man puts gold akd sih-er in his house, and his house burns and the 8 1 a " d u Silver is melted, he can take tht Bold and have it recoined. without loss and i the silver you will have to take to some n and turn It into spoons. If you h?d a law ! under which we could take silver to the mint and have It coined at a certain price wouM you sell it to any one for half pHro' 6f course not. Go out among your neighbors buy all they have to sell for iust half what H can be sold for in the market Then turn around and sell it for full price. ThVe is a good profit in it. mere is THERE IS MILLIONS IN IT. So, my friends, I come to mv definition It is net an original definition. ' The ifin!' "on which I give you of an honest dollar , a definition which can be found in the work rt e B V^/ rPUt f le Writ l r of " o!itical economy v.nw ever wrote on public money since 1573 ! cannot find in the old writers of political economy any difference upon this sub ect \.hat would be an honest dollar? A dollar whose purchasing power, not its purchasing power today when applied to one article bu' tae dollar whose average purchasing power Is che same yesterday, today and forever. That would be an honest dollar, and that is ! the only kind of ■ honcst'.doilar that there ever ! was is or could, be. ...If a dollar rises in j purchasing power, the man who owns money and contract payable : in dcllars, profits by he rise. If If falls :in purchasing newer tiit?n that man lcsrs^nd tho man who" owes money makes the profit Why is it that as an honest dollar is defined Way by those who believe in the goia standard that it is made to describe- a dcila.r which rises in val ue It is because the 'definitions have been made by these wio profited by rising dollars i We have risirs 4° nar3 ,-tcday. We condeirn t.ie geld standard because it gives us a ris ing dollar, a dollar of jncrer«;ng purchasing power. I tell ycu tfcjft a rising dollar is a ' aldhonest dollar.'. I place myself upon a j foundation that no man, dare assail. (Cheers) ' Last summer, a y.ear ago. we who were stand- I mg upon the Chicago platform were accused by our opponent of not hiving proper re spect for the courts. •. We deny that any thing we had sa£d cr Gone shewed a lack cf respect for the fcurts)' but those who were advocating, the g*old stipdard tried to make it seem that wo were not respecting the I courts es much as we ou;;ht. \ Pud that ' there has been deck.rd in ihis st.vp by the j supreme court a case known as Johnson ' against St. Paul City Railway company. Mr. Rrvan read ?. short extract from the decision and, continuing Raid: Now let no anarch:?;, rise up to o"spi!tr> what your court has said about a rising dollar. If you rfad the de cis'en that the court not only declared that the DOLLARS HAVE KI33N in purchasing pewer. but bid dec'aretl that unless the piaintiff wculd redcoa the verSi t to $4,C00 tram $4,500, the judgment wov.'J ho reversed. Here is an argument made in taa supreme court decision of your own state, I and I believe the decision was a unanimous one. In determining whether a judgment was too large or not, It o-Jght to be taken into account that dollars buy more new than they used to buy. I hope that hereafter no gold bug will array himself against the highest court of the state of Minnesota. If the dol lars have risen in their purchasing power, and that fact is v/orthy of being considered, wnether judgmen: was tco large, then my friend is it not worth while to !lnd out why the dollar has risen in value? Is it not worth while to find out why? Who was it that made that dollar? It has been done by law therefore injustice has been done by law. The increase in the purchasing power "of the dollar has made a man pay more than he agreed to pay, and has enabled the man who held the note to collect more than he had a right to collect. I want to ask you what in morals is the- difference between allowing a man to take or to have in the first instanca what he is entitled to. and then going to him ank taking a part of what he has saved and making a law that raises the purchasing part of a dollar that he mus" pay, and enables you to collect the same number cf dollars, I but dollars of greater purchasing power to I his harm and detriment. If you went and I took his property by force you would fee I called a thief! But if you make a law to take it by law ycu are a financier. (Applause.) Now, bimetallism is not a recent inven tion. Bimetallism is not an experiment. Bi metallism is an old established principle. It has existed for thousands of years, and if any of you who advocate bimetallism have been frowned down as men who were trying to bring some new order of things, let me give you a few propositions to submit to your opponent. Bimetallism, is the old thing, and gold standard is the experiment. We had bimetallism for eigthy-or.e years in the United States. From 1792 to 1873, and yet in all that time there never was a political party of any name that ever condemned it in national convention. Do you know of any other policy j that lasted that long without some party de nouncing it? You cannot say that the people did not know of the gold standard because for fifty years England had the gold stand ard, and we had the double standard, and no great man from Washington to Lincoln preferred the gold standard while we had the double standard. Wo adopted the gold stand ard without any party asking for it. Do you believe that our government changed frcm one to the other without knowing it. Tha change was made without the American peo ple knowing it. We abandoned blmotallism and substituted the gold standard without the American people knowing that it was b? ing done. Xot only did congress do this with out the knowledge of the people, bu: < ;>n gress did it without the members of con gress knowing what was being done. Now you say that is not possible. Well, it was done, and I think I can show you that it is not impossible, oven as a matter of reason. We were not using at that time cither gold or silver. We were using paper. Tho bill was to codify the mint law. The members cf congress stated that they did not know when the bill passed, that the bill demonetized silver. Blame, who was then bjk aker of the house, said he didn't know it. Others said they did not know it. If anybody tells you that it is impossible to get a bill through congress without the members or congress knowing what the bill contained, you ask him who put section 22 in the Ding ley bill. Members of all parties examined it, read it and talked about it, and yet it. passed the house and the senate and was signed by tho president, and then they asked WHO PUT SECTION 22 in that bill? My friends, that is not the strangest thing. Not only was the change made without the public asking it, or with out their knowing it, or without congress knowing it, but for twenty-three years ex periment under the gold standard was so disastrous that no party of any name dared to approve of demonetization in any plat form, or dared to say that the gold standard was a blessing to the American people. Sometimes you find advocates of the gold standard who were shocked that any man could believe in free coinage. And yet tho man who defends the gold standard is de fending a thing that, after twenty-three yers of experience, could only muster 132,003 voters in the United States who liked it. Only one party in the history of this nation ever declared in a national convention for a gold standard, and that was the party known as tho National Democratic party. It polled 132,000 votes. Many of them by mistake. (Applause.) Take the political history of this coun try, and what do you find? You find that in IS9C, after wo had the gold standard for a little more than twenty-three years, the Dem ocratic party declared against tho gold stand ard and in favor cf independent bimetallism, and stated how it wanted free and unlimited coinage of 10 to 1 without waiting for the aid cr consent of any other nation. You may oppose the doctrine if yo want to, but that one Democratic platform that could not be construed both ways in different parts of the country. As scon as the president was elected, he asked authority to send a com mission to Europe. To keep the gold stand ard because it was a blessing? No! To get rid of it, because it was a curse. Why should we send a commission to Europe to get rid of a gold standard if it was a bless ing? The man who advocates the gold stand | ard has to do it in spite of all the history of the United States. I will go further. Pos sibly our people are not intelligent enough to know what is good for them. Possibly twen ty-three years of experience are not sufficient to enable us to determine whether the gold standard is good or bad. If you insist that our people cannot bo trusted in patriotism or in intelligence, I will get some evidence from across the ocean that ought to satisfy you. France has had tho gold standard for twenty years. When our commission went to Europe, France at onco joined and asked with ours for • England to use bimetallism. Some people say the Germans are in favor of tlu; gold standard. I have very often heard the gold people say that the Germans are so favorable to sound money. Yes, they are in favor of sound money. Let me call \our attention to what has been done in Germany, In the spring of lS9r>, the popular branch of the Ger man assembly passed a resolution declaring in favor of international bimetallism. Why did those people representing tho masses of the German people declare in favor of inter national bimetallism if the gold standard had been a blessing, which they had for over twenty years. Rut the Berlin chamber of commerce immediately met and passed a res olution that the gold standard was all right. What doea it mean? It means that in Ger many it is the same as it is here. Tho masses cry out for bimetallism, but the financial man wants th<» gold standard. Our commission went to England, and what did it find there? It found a sentiment In favor of bimetallism. It found that the labor organizations were sending petitions to the English parliament asking it to make concessions to bimetallism. The commission found that the agriculturists were petition ing the government to make concessions to bimetallism. Wi;hin a year a report has been filed and read in this country largely by this time, a report signed by ten out of four^en members of an agricultural com mission, appointed by a gold standard gov ernnVKlt to inquire into agriculture, and they reported international bimetallism as a relief to the farmers of England. If you want to know what the gold standard has done in Ireland, read that pamphlet by the venerable Archbishop Walsh, and see the harm done to tho Irish people. There is a sentiment in fa vor of bimetallism in England, and that sen timent was so strong that our commission:- ra sent back word saying ihat they were fiope ful .something was going to be done. My friends, there Is a sentiment in favor of bimetallism. Net among the silver miners, but among tho farmers, the laborers, the merchants, the people who have been produc ing the wealth. But you will tell me that England did net join with us. No. If you read the morning paper of Sept. 23 you found that en the day before there was a confer ence of the bankers of London at the clear ing house iv London, and you found that that conference passed by unanimous vote "a protest against any concessions being mado to bimetallism, and every man attending that, meeting \v;<s pledged to secrecy. Those who were present, a mere handful of peoplo. so small that they could be confined within I the walls cf a clearing house, protested I against concessions being made to bimetal lism and were heeded by their country: de- j dared that the English government could not do what lhe commission asked. The gold standard has never been indorsed by the pro ducers of wealth in any nation. It has never c*nmended itself to the producers of wealth. Tha gold standard was conceived in avarice It was fastened upon this country without the knowledge cf the pccple, and, as ninny ! believe, by fraud. It has been continued for twenty-three years by deception, and never j fought an open battle in any country in all i the history of the world. (Applause) You may think the Indictment severe but I I say it is true. The world dees not want the i gold standard and there are ppople who do ' want it, and I will tell you who they arc, and why they want it. We have them In every country, and if ycu understand the furda mental principles which underlie these many questions, you are able to understand who wants the gold standard and why he wants it. In the first place, let rue prove ir by illustration. Many people imagine that the money question is a deep and intricate ques tion, so complex that people canrot urd.-r --atand It. None of the great questions of i government are intricate They are so cim- I pie that the whole people can understand ■ them if they will study them. Hsn on this menpy Question, you will find people i who will yay that, if they want a suit of clothes m?.de. they will go to a toiler. If they want a pair of shces made they go to a shoemaker, and if they want to know nny tblcg about money they go to a financier. Dn you know a judge who Is so just, so up right. £o unbiased, that you would be willing to try a case before him if he was a party to a i.i:it? Ard yet th?re are Hnaaclera wlio j assume that the whole world ought to bo i v.illirg to let them try a case in which thy , are parties on one fid? and humanity is the ; party en the other Bide. I want to make th;; principle so single that no person can mis understand it. I don't know What the papers ' rray have said abrut ire during the cam- j pci£"n here, but I want to say that I never ; boasted that I was a precocious child, and j yet I will say that as I lock bock over my j boyhood days, I cannot remember a time that I was so young that I did not have sense to know that when one end of a teeter beard goes up the other goes down. (Laug ter.) The money question Is that simple. When money goes up, property goes down. If ris ing dollars mean falling property, then can not you understand that the man who owns dollars will be Interested in having them rise, but that the person who owns property will be injured by having it fall. To il'.u; trate: Suppose we could imagine ourselves walled In with just enough of wheat to last a year, and it was divided iuto two piles, one piie owned by one man and the other pile owned by another man. One pi'.e would be burned. The supply would thereby be cut in half. Every bushel of wheat remain ing would bring more money. We have two piles of money, gold and silver. Suppose you destroyed the silver pile and make gold alcne the standard money of the world. Ev ery dollar of money would rise in value. When money rises, a given amount cf it buys more than it did before. The strug gling masses are the ones who produce the wealth, and they are the ones who pay the taxes in time of peace, and in time or war the struggling masses are tho only psop'.e who ever did show a willingness to sacrifice themselves for their country. The strug gling masses who produce tho wealth and pay the taxes of the country are. according to Carlisle, on the one side, and on the other are the idle holders of idle capital. Hero are the three witnesses to point out the very division in society which I pointed out by logic and illustration. Am I wrong to call attention to that division? Is it worse for me to quote the language of Blalne than for I him to have used it? Is it worse for me to quote the language of Sherman than for him to have used it? Is it worse for me to quote the language of Carlisle than for him to have used it? I call your attention to tho fact that In this country, at the very last election. 99 per cent of tho people voted for bimetallism either independent or international, and thai less than one per cent voted for the gold standard. Within three months alter tho election, a convention was held in the city of Indianapolis, attended by men who called themselves financiers, and they adopted reso lutions and what did they say. They said that the gold stanMard should be maintained. Ninety-nine per cent of the people voted for bimetallism and yet in spite of that, these men declared that the gold standard should bo maintained. Well, they say that thi mass of the people cannot tell what is good and must b? taken care of by their Qnan< id friends. That is what happened in this country. I have called ytur attention to what lvil ■!'• ned in Germany, where the Berlin chamber of commerce arrayed itself against tho papular masses of Germany. I know Germans, hundreds and thousands of thin. who are not for tho gold standard, and I p ilnt tho Germans to tho fatherland that there as here, it Is a contest between tho money power and the common people, and they must be on the side of the common people in this country. In England the bankers protested against bimetallism Tiny did not equal tho number of laboring men, farmers and manu facturers who petitio-ned the government. But they had more influence than those who were crying out against the gold standard, and now it is said that while 99 per our people protested against tho gold stand ard, only a year ago, that now we must h iva tho gold standard whether we want it or not. In spite of the fact that 90 per c pie registered a protest against the gold standard, notwithstanding the fact that the president sent a commission to Europe and still holds out the hope that the c >mmis sion's work Is not ended, the influence of tho few is respcted. RENEWEITmOTING. Newspaper Offices at Havana At tacked by Soldier* and Citizens. HAVANA, Jan. 12.— At 10 o'clock this morning- about 100 army officers, incensed by the violent attacks made by some of the local papers on the general-in-chief and the principal of ficers of the Spanish army in Cuba, went to the printing office of the daily journals, La Discussion and Ed Re concentrado, and began smashing the windows and destroying the printing outfit, as well as cuffing the employes. A mob of thousands followed, shout ing "Long live Spain, "Long live the army," "Long live the volunteers," The apeparance at the office of La Discussion of Gen. Garrlche, acting military commander at Havana, and Gen. Solano, chief of staff, prevented more serious outrages. These officers then proceeded to the office of El Di arlo de la Marina, the mob shouting meanwhile "Death to El Reconcen trado" and "Death to La Discussion." But on the appearance of Gen. Par rado the people scattered. At 11:30 large crowds of citizens appeared op posite the office of El Diario de la Marina and began smashing the doors and shouting 1 "Long live Spain," "Long live the army," "Long live the volun teers." The gendarmerie dispersed the rioters. Order was finally established. Central park has been transformed into a military camp. There has been • great excitement among the authori ties, who have taken all necessary pre cautions to 'maintain order. Th.' troops have been ordered into barracks. Gen. Solano will deal most energetically with the initiators of the outbreaks. Tonight the police are guarding the printing offices. At half past 8 o'clock this evening groups of civilians formed again in I the Plaza de Annas in front of the I palace shouting "Long live Spain," "Lonrr live the king." "Long live Wey ler," and "Down with autonomy." The cavalry came up, charged the groups and dispersed them. The reg ular infantry and cavalry now hold the avenues around the palace. In various parts of the city groups of civilians are shouting vivas and "Down with tutonomy." CHICAGO, Jan. 12.— A special to the Times Herald from Key West. Fla., says: The second class battleship Maine, has received orders to hold her self in readiness to proceed to Cuba at an instant's notice. Notice came by telegram tonight. In compliance with these orders Capt. C. D. Sigsbee, commanding the battleship, has made all arrangements to get under way witiiout delay. He has been placed ;n communication with Consul Gen. Lee, who will cable him whether or not It is necessary for him to go to Havana. MADRID, Jan. 12.— Gen. Gonzalos Nunez the new captain general of Porto Rico died immediately after his arrival there. GOMEZ TO BLANCO. NEW YORK, Jan. 12.— T. Estrada Palma haa received a copy of a letter written by Gen. Maximo Gomez, the rebel chief in Cuba, to Capt. Gen. Blanco. The letter says In purt: "You have come to substitute Weylcr. To j a man of your conditions I would ask, as I did in the ease of Gen. Campos: What are your aims and purposes? To exterminate us? It is impossible to do that, and to pre -1 tend such a thing might be little honor to j you. Is your purpose to subdue us? That j is absurd, and might prove a ridiculous at tempt for you. Our determination is well known and patent. Neither extermination nor submission would mean peace, [n view of this fact, I now repeat to you what I said Ho Campos: 'Let this bloodshed be stopped. Let the use of the torcii cease, gen eral.' Spain should not allow Cuba to owe her independence, directly cr indirectly, to outside help. Let the deep abyss between i Cubans and Spaniards disappear by Spain's ] recognition of the Cuban republic. Then there shall be eternal peace. Otherwise, there shall be blood and fire. That would bo the command of our honor and dignity. We would follow it until victory, which always crowns these who fight for justice, settles out fate." CONGRR GOES TO CHINA. WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.— An ar rangement was today perfected by which Charles Page Bryan, of Illinois, nominated to be minister to China, and ex-Representative Conger, of lowa, minister to Brazil, will exchange posts. There was considerable objec tion to Mr. Bryan's confirmation on the ground that he had no diplomatic ex perience and was not equipped for 30 important a post as that, of minister to China, ir; likely to be during the present I administration, in view of the Euro pean scramble for possessions in China. Mr. Conger was minister to Brazil during the Harrison administra tion and was regarded as one of the strongest and best of our foreign rep resent at llos. The nominations mak ing the?,* changes were sent. ;o tha senate this afternoon, ie is believed there will be no opposition to Iho con- i formation to either gentleman. BRYAJi AND FUSION WILLIAM JENNINGS AND IGNATIUS DONNELLY SPEND A<k HOI X TOGETHER. THEIP CONFERENCE SECRET. THEY WERE BROUGHT TOGETHER BY SOME OF THE LOCAL POL ITICIANS. NEITHER WOULD TALK VBOIT IT. May Mean Dakota (utility Man Warn Asked to Keep Mlddle-of-the Roadera in Line. Will Ignatius Donnelly call the mid dle-of-the-road Pops off to one si Or, if he would, can he? Those are the questions that are in teresting the local silverites, and the of a favorable response to the two questions was what actuated John L. Townley, the chairman of the c >unty Democratic committee, • i a mediator b stween th« out and out Populism and the i cepting liberal church of silverism, in securing- a confen ..,.,, vvm iam Jennings Bryan and [gnatius nelly, the former being to l. ar upon the latter i all hia power? ■ of persuasion in sei s ■, bui the p rsonal infli longr friendship. The •• was had late 5 day afternoon, in fa< t, immedial the close of the r which the X. braska man was s^iv.-n at the Ryan hi tel for ;i couple of hours. When tii»- NTininger Populist arrived, ho did not' come up and grasp the hand of the Lincoln man as did others who to visit at the silver shrine, but lingered in the main corridor, where his presence was obsi rved by mi of the local committee, v, h • ured for the pair the s lor A. The silvi rites want the the-road Populists held in line. They want to elect a silverman in the state campaign of 189S to as many st fices as may be within th They want a united opposition I front the Clough-Van Sant Republic an machine. To secure this, they thought that Mr. Bryan might swing Mr. Donnelly Into line, succeeding in which, the leaderless party would fall of its own weight, or, at least, lose it:-! fighting value. Bui If Mr. I .cyans mission was crowned with success, it was not admitted by either victor or vanquished when the conference of an hour was adjourned, both gentlemen insisting, in response to reporters' In quiries, that their confab had been of a persona] nature, and being old friends, and that sort of thing, you know, it took a good while. .Mr. Bryan, of course, was duly solicitous for the wel fare of his old friend's Intended, and [gnatius, of couse, was anxious to see how William was standing the and tear of continued public speaking and perennial campaigning. But if Mr. Bryan persuaded Mr. Don nelly to turn back Into the fold where there was th' largest anti-Republican army, or in any way triumphed j n se curing from the Dakota county cham pion the concession of apathy in his 1. ad< rship of the true blue People's party voters, it was not promised with that enthusiasm which gave assurance to tin; anxious local bad. rs that their cause was thriving under the benefi cent influence of Mi-. Bryan's visit as far as gaining outside a . a was cr.nci rued. Mr. Donnelly did not seem in the least perturbed over th;' implied threat contained in L. A. Rosing's speech at the banquet in Minneapolis Tv night, when })•■ predicted that any self constituted leader who got in th of the united party would get hurt. "lie was ushered into the secret session with a seeming Intrepidity that, prom ised little hope for the success of per suasions to compromise. And it is stil! a secret uhetl not Mr. F.ryan's subtle blandishments were subtle enough to convince Mi-. Donnelly that the dcfea-1 of th publicans in the state campaign this year, and, with the impetus given by the wiping out of that 50,000 MeKinley plurality, the sweeping of the nation for Bryan in 1900, with the possible side bet of an honorable appointive place, would be sufficient recompense for but the abandonment of a cause repudiated by its own former friends, and with no shadow of a hope of vic tory. GOES TO OMAHA TODAY. Mi-. Ilrynn Will Leave tlie City Tltia Forendon, During yesterday aftenroon's rec ; tion Charles W. Am.-s. win/ is an old friend of Mr. Bryan, extended to tin; Lincoln man an Invitation in attend tin- meeting of the In formal club this evening, but it was declined with thanks, as Mr. liryun is compelled to leave tho city for Omaha this Morning at 9 :3;>. TWO THOUSAND TELEGRAMS. Congratulations Poured in on Hun mi From All Sici«-N. COLUMBUS, <>.. Jan 12.— Senator PTanna has receved over 2,000 congrat ulatory telegrams. All the members of the national Republican committee and many state committeemen and other repn sentative Republicans from all the states and various county chair men are included, among them being the following: Executive Mansion, Washington, Jan. 12. — Mr 3. McKinley joins me in hearty congratu lations. —William McX Washington, Jan. 12. — We are ;ill rejoicing here over your grand bucci ly hap pier than your c.d chum. — C. X. Biles. Washington, Jan. 12. — You will accxjpt my sincere congratulations. C. \V. Fairbanks. West Superior, Jan. 12. — Enough la as ir.<>-.<l as a feast. — W. H. Merriam. Chicago, Jan. 12.— Everybody here ing over your victory. Stocks one-half point higher. I congratulate you. — 11. 11. Kohlsaat. Washington, Jan. 12.— 1 heartily congratu late you upon your flection. — John Sherman. Washington, Jan. 12.— The whole Alger fam ily join me in congratulations. Now you ;\ra elected, 1 wish you would come to W,: ton and give some of the rest of tl chance in the newspapers. — r. a. Alger. Washington, Jan. 12.— Nothing In politics have triumphed with you. Congratulations. — Joseph McKenna. Washington. Jan. 12.— Bells an: ri:ii;in«, bands playing arid the flag is where it was waved at the beginning of the light. I con gratulate the American p- . —R. D. Ilawfcy. Washington, Jan. 12. — Glory to God in tho highest, and on earth peace ami good will among Republicans. — W. K. Mason. Inquiry was m:ido about midnight telegram from Senator Foraker, and the re ply was that none had been received from him. \<>ni i 11 a ( i o 11 n Confirmed, WASHINGTON. Jan. 12.— The senate today confirmed these nominations: Henry X Boy .-r, of Pennsylvania, to be superintend the mint at Philadelphia; I. J. Miniter or In charge of th<> assay office at Dead S. I).; L. A. Walker, meltor of the . office, Rt Helena, Moat