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SENATOR WOLCOTT TO COLORADO REPUBLICANS. In an Eloquent Address Before the State Conven tion He Defends the Course of the Administra tion—He Gives Details of Political History. Below we glvo the text ill full of l Seuator E. O. Wolcott’s s|K*t*4*h before! the Republican state eonveutlou at j Denver oil the 15th: Mr. Chairman. Itulles ami Hrntlemcn: , The state of Colorado It* to Im* con-1 gratulated that this year it can fur- ! nisli one state eonveutlou uutram mcllcd by pledges. or promises, or tie ' necessity of consulting any other or- j gnnization on earth. We meet hen* devoteil solely to the welfare of our • country, and it will not Ik* necessary for us to remain in session three long ; days to quarrel with other inditical or- j ganizatlons over the spoils of office; like hungry dogs over a Ikhu*. We , shall semi the message to the vast j muss of good citizens all over the i land tlint there is one convention In ! Colorado which puts truth and prin- j ciple as paramount, and considers jk> ! lit leal de<*ency ns still one of t lie . factors of gmsl citizenship. The dis graceful and sordid spectacle which 1 was presented at Colorado Spring* . Inst week should bring the blush of shame to every decent cb«-ek. Popu lists who still stand tirin and true in their deration to the Omaha platform, who want s4<> worth of palter money immediately issued to every man. woman and child per capita in the United States: who ltellcvc iu tin* government ownership of railroads, sub-treasuries for the storage of grain, and every other exploded, faded thought which lias died out years ago; Democrats who believe iu free trade, and whose only (M>lley is to attempt to obstruct and destroy every honora ble effort of the ltepublicau party, and the huxtering fragment of the move ment that was originally organized in im earnest desire to better our finan cial condition—finally got in lied t<»- gpther-aml tin* Democrats got most <ff the clothes; and tin* result of it is a conglomerate ticket which pleases nolKHly except the men who are run- \ tiliig ujMin it. DBMO(:R ATI C IN C< lX SISTK XC Y. Democrats hi that convention who two years ago were marching up ami down this state declaring that we must elect Adams, because it would Ik* ruin to hare a Populist in office hi Colorado, art* now advocating tb« election of as 'rotten a lot of them as they could ever put ujion a ticket— and they are the best of tlie ticket. But fortumrtdly, fellow citizens, for their own piece of mind, they bare put at the liend of their ticket a mill) who has been so often defeated by the vote* of Colorado people that when he is defeated again, as he is sure to be. neither he nor the people ’who voted for him will care very much: and between now and the time When be Is to be defeated, the honest voters of Colorado will have time to reflect that never‘in the history of the -state of Colorado have we had prosperity except nailer the Kepuhlhan govern ment. The situation of that party known m the Silver Republican party, aud the transactions at Colorado Springs last week, deserve more than a passing notice.. They are Important as typifying the desperate and Illegal methods to which people an* willing to resort to overthrow the clear will of the majority: and they are luijKjr tant also as sliow’ing that the price of fusion, the-price of a sacrifice of every conviction which they have heretofore advocated, was a couple of offices tip here at the state house. That party. Mr. President, had its origin ns * pro \ test against what seemed to be a great threatened financial wrong, ami the l>est people In tills state, many of them. Joined for a time that move ment. and were engulfed in that wave which swept tlie state of Colorado ♦wo years ago. Some of us then 'l»e lleved. ns we lielleve now. thal The true Interests of bimetallism rested » still in tbe 'Republican party, the mlly party (lint lias done anything In fimrr of silver. Anil gradually, fellow citi zens. our friends who left us came back to us. and. as month after month passed, they have come more and more frequently. They listen no longer to the- pleas of those Jeremiahs who travel around the state preaching a gospel of bate and bitterness, and keeping the decent |>eoplc and captta'l ont of this irprte. both of which we need. They wanted tlie time to ernne when we could again stand together as we have always stood, hut. felVrw •citizen*, when you find a man who has once been a Republican, devoted to these splendid wCtalevements and It* traditions, yon «*an*t make a I>emo <*rat of liiui with ail the resolution* on worth. ATTACK ON FUSION*. Three-fourths of the people who two , years ago were Silver Republicans are Republicans to-day. and 95 per cent. • of the people calling themselves Silver Republicans, who went to Colorado Bpefngs a week ago did not Inteud. and do not now intend, to fuse their principles and their future with the Popollst and Democratic parties. The management of a fraction of this par ty saw the handwriting on the wall. They saw that by no decent aud honest method* could they carry flint party with Populism and Democracy, ami so they found It necessary to resort to Illegal and violent method*, and they summoned from another state a polit ical tramp named Towne to come out bar* and tell Colorado people how to run their conventions, and how to name tbclr tickets; a man without following at home, who served one term In Con gress. to which he was elected by a majority of some twelve to fifteen thousand, and having served one term , In Congress, ran again, aud managed to overcome that majority and be beaten by about a thousand votes. He pose* out here a* a Silver Republican, anil when be ran for Congress two years ago the congressional record shows that he ran as a Populkrt and a • Democrat, and aa nothing else. They • got this man to conic out here clothed I with an apparent badge of authority i whirl! was a forgery and a fraud. 1 j want to tell you. fellow eitizeus. for it i* essential, that the iH*ople of lids slate know what the facts are concern ing this violent attempt to seize tin* ! party. Iu July. IN**;, when our chair man. Irving Huwtiert, called the State i ltcpiihlicuu committee together, they were called to meet at the Brown Pal ace hotel, when Mr. Iluwbcrt presented j ids resignation, and Judge Hodges. who has since served us so ably as ! chairman, was elected in his place, j Following that in August, a uotifica ; lion was issued by one \V. 1». Todd. ' claiming that too many proxies were | ' used, and tin* action was not legal, and i he thereii|H>n culled a meeting of tbe ! State Republican committee to meet jon a certain day. They met and as ! Mimed to remove Judge Hodges, and j elected in his poire Richard Broad. Jr.: of Holden, still as a Republican. The | convention met iu September, they ls , sued their call in August for a meet ing of Silver Republicans, and for tin* first time iu thal call, and for tin* first time iu tlmt convention, in tin* whole United States, tin* phrase Silver Re publican’ was us**d. At that conven tion Richard Broad was unanimously elected by the convention of his party, the Silver Republican party, as It* chairman, elected by nedumnt ion. From that day until tin* meeting at t’olorado Springs there was but one official action of that party, and that was iu a meeting a year ago. which was called by Richard Broad, chair man. and iu which his authority was rccoguizcd. and it had not lieen recog nized until tin* meeting last week at Colorado Springs. This election, you will remember, of Broad, was in Sep tember. INI*I, and ou February 2*J. IND7. nine gentlemen In Washington published a declaration to tin* public, in which they said that there should I lx* established a National Silver Re (Aibllcan party and that they recom mended that provisional member of a Mate <*ommllf«*e Im* appointed in tlie different states (they did not say bow), and that these projik* should act here after as a committee pending the eall ' lug together of a National Sllv«* Re -1 publican convention. These nine gen tlemen sai<l that tending tills, they had ! taken the 11 Iter ty* «*f miming Mr. Towne as chairman of th-- Provisional Nntbuj ; al Silver RepuMFau commitiee. THE CIIOR'K OF TOWNE. Enter, in Svptember, some tweney gentlemen or more, representing hut few comimralively of the states in rtie Union, met i*. -Chicago, and this |n**»- vislonal committee proceeded to num .Mr. Towne a* their elmlrman without any nuthority,niU4l named Idm asdtaiir iiimu provisionally nntil a .National .Sil ver Repuldtrun convention *dtt>ul< ‘lk* hereafter caJl**d. and that is tlie «blc and only authority which Mr. Ylmvii** ever had * self erred upon him, and fluit National Silver Republican convention lias never toon called and it will never Ik*, for there are not enoagh lift of them to da ill. That is tlie history of tlie apiiolumietit of this Hum smil «>f Ills authority, and the rmult •*’ Mils illegal iiinl exercise of lliie au thority wasithe awful murder At * "olo rado Springs last week, and fh»* r«»- KiKinsibility, fellow citizens, for ’that tragical event, that awful murder, must always rest at the door ■#/ the violent aril illegal action of lids In truder froan Minnesota. wtw» nsMiiiied to violently Hake possession <#f.a .'Silver •Rcpiihlb-afi 'convention over wJiMii he had uo aru'horit.v. Fellow citizens. I deplore fhift -vio lence, 1 ihqirecate it. as jrwi do. ‘lt is better to suffer tliaii follow violent methods. We liave no synqiathy nvitli it, and yet, my friends, w** uiiMi al ways remeviJlMT that that vras -a miur der. gross ■iiurder. and that the •mur derer. still uißMiuished. was a member and all adherent of that factluu -wtlilch lias been ajnrroprintely named !b.v -tlie press, and Will appropriately g*i flown by name ie the history <if factional polities in •Uolorado as tbe “Mood Convention.* The elilef anxiety of that factional coirvention seemed t n Ik* 'loot ’the people of if be United State* *llOlll4l lim* informed that Brynnisin was notas rampant in Colorado ns It n*«d lo be It Is of Infinitely greater importance tfliat the iHKipb* of the state of t’dice rudo should know thut no merliods were too vlolem or too inegul to overthrow the rights of an h4ine*t ma jority. anil w’e wr«' willing that Inifh The "East aud West should be lnfvirm •Wl flint the small gang of disreputable manipulators who have ilisgraced Tlie Repifl>llean party for years were wlll- Ing to take pot-tuek with Democrats «tr UoiMillstK, or mry other old imrty that would r«*celv»e them. For ray i*irt. ftfflow citizen*. I pray Imaven that that small gang of manipulators who traded and dickered thnt conven tion have forever left the ranks of the Hcfnihliiavi party. For my part. 1 would rather we voukl go down io de feat forever than rest u|>on tlie mn niimlatiou nad managetnent of such a gang, for we do not need them. What was tlie resnlt of that <*onvention. even a* It turned out? 1 take the fig ure* from one of these yellow* Jour nals here In Denver, which stated that there were 13d contesting delegates, that of tin* remaining delegate* 127 went to the Blood convention and 242 went with the Broad convention, which did not propose to fuse with Populists and Democrats. REPUBLICAN* CO-OPERATION. I have no doubt that this conven tion. In its wisdom and by methods which it will devise, will hereafter arrange some plan whereby we may co-operate heartily and In good faith with those Republicans heretofore designated aa Silver Republicans, but who are now able to find all the silver they want In the name Republican. One of tbe presiding officials of this tail-rod convention of Silver Republi cans. in a violent a:nl open dcnuncia- i tion of an honorable citizen of Colo- I rado, denounced him as a liar, aud then followed thnt statement by tbe remark that liars hml uo place in any convention unless it Ik* a McKinley < convention. As 1 read that remark, l fellow citizens, my mind reverted to i the men who have liecn presiding all “ver tills country in McKinley Repub lican conventions. I thought <if the i gallant Senator Spooner of Wisconsin, who led his state to Republican vie- < lory ami to Democratic defeat. I < thought of Senator Allison of lowa, a consistent bimetallist ami frieud of silver, who was at the Brussels con ference lighting for our Interests, and who the other day railed tin* lowa ( state convention of liars, as they were designated by the gentleman at I'do rado Springs. 1 thought of the ven erable and magnilieetit Senator Hoar, as noble a bimetallist as ever lived, himself. 1 suppose, under this deuuu eiatioli. to Ik- enlled a liar, who pre sided over that splentlid body «*f Mas sachusetts Republicans wldeli stood up for their party, tlielr tlag and their goverunmut. I thought of Senator ('handler, that brilliant and splendid senator who lias made the interests of silver Ids own. who stood in the state 4>f New Hampshire in a Repub lican convention. 1 suppose they, too. would l»e called liars who stood up for bimetallism against the world. Then, as 1 thought of that phrase. McKinley Republican, meant as a term of oppro brium. I recalled tin* name of our lie loved President, as able aud splendid and noble and as true an American as ever lived, working for the inter ests of the whole country, unlimited l*y the highest religious principles, typifying the Ik*si ami highest of ' American manhood and American dv- I ilizatloii. Then I thought thut it was ! not two years more that the term of • opprobrium of a McKinley Republican was tlie noblest badge of honor that any man could wear. All these incon gruous conventions, which finally agreed upon everything, seemed to have no principles to animate them, no jKilley to pursue: they seemed t«* rest the whole basis of their apjieal ti> the people niton two foundations, and two only. Tlie first of them was a wholesale ami dlrei*t denunciation of tlie Junior semi tor from Colorado. Fellow citizens, that aitni-k was too personal for ini* to pay any attention to it. But I may pcrhui>s Ik* permit ted to sny iu tills presence, among the I m*oj ile 1 hive, and win is** trust and confidence must ever Ik* The greatest honor that run ever !»•* conferred ufHm me that 1 can s**n*l through you a message t«» these conspirators that. Mltkvmgli they have been for some time digging my polltiml grave, that when they have dug it as deep as lbty like, and have put me l;i it. ami have covered tin* earth over it. they never, never can write '•renegade’’ rrtsive It. The other policy anti plat form t>f this convent ion apparently was the ih*clnmtloii that people who i -voted the Republican ticket were gol<l standard people, tiutl those menda cious yellow Journals who have kept millions of dollars out of Colorado, continually publish tin* statement that our conventions are conventions of gold standard Republicans, l am sick and tired of I’inrt stale lii*. There art not twenty iik*ii in flu* state *>f Colo rado of any party who are for tlie gold standard, and there are no better silver people *ni earth than the Repnb lieniiM of Colorado. There Is not one t»f us who does* not lielleve that tire welfare and -pros|H*rlty of the world must ever rest in the rehabilirnthm of silver ns n -standard of value ■equally , with gold, annl you mn't send u r«*i►- j rosentatlve to Washington who won't Ik* found fighting for that principle in 1 season nnA out of season. Il is nrue i that some members of out parts' do not agree with us. It is equally ’true I that some 'Democrats do not -agree with the Democrats of Colorado upon that qnesTsm. Take (Sornmn of Mary land and "Brice of Ohio, and Murphy of New Tsifk. ami Smith of New Jer sey, conirt them as Democrats there they are -proud to Ik* named to Dem ocrats ttrare. Many of Iflie im*mbt*rs of tin 1 Kcpub- ' lican party don't gt> as far an -*<• do— but I tell you. fellow i*itfzeTiK. ifbc man who stands tru«* to his jirlneijni's and his party. :utid fights within h rf«>r r<*<*- ognltioti *f what he knows 3s tiglit. Is lMiuud to m:in. If he is right.. We have won iu tmiii3' other battles, h think I>erhnps b iis proper that I slnalid say a word. astU lmt a word, to this con vention oa rtiie subject of tbekilmetal lie comnihisioii to Europe, .tmin after I left jtm iu tbe fall, we Tißleii a meeting in 7#ee**mlM*r at the ojK*ning of the Neimte nff flu* Cnitc*) Status of the ! Kepublicau nielli Iters of the ‘Senate, ami they imciiimously agreed tlmt that plank in the>Kt. Ikmils platforn. which pledged the party to an attempt to re store hiiuHtullism to intermit i4ina 1 agr4*ement was n plank which ought to Im* 4*arrinl out iu the utimoa goo< 1 faith. Owing tto suggestions of Theirs, and some efimmiini4*ations wdfJi tin* Presidenf-elrrrt. Mr. MrKinlpjr. 1 was .request***! by flu* I'resilient (no> then ‘i'resldent. bin -elect) to conic t* S’an %on. where 1 bad a long and extvnileil tatlk with him. He was then, ns In* is now. and as lu* was through crery day he served in Congress, a bimetallist. In favor under adequate protection of theiusc of the whlite metal. And it was at his suggestion, fellow eitizeus, tkat I tmik my first trip abroad. EUROPEAN OBSERVATIONS. I wunt to France, and to Berlin. an«l to I«ondon. 1 found In France a splen did and hearty deal re to co-operate with the United States In some method to bring back a restoration of silver. 1 found In Herman/, among those highest in authority, an equally strong desire, although not backed by as strong a public opinion, in favor of tbe restoration of bimetallism. I found in England, among the best and high est of English statesmen, a strong de sire that by some method this great question might be settled In such a way aa to restore silver to Its parity by some international agreement, and to settle tbe Indian question as well. I came back, and on my way across i the ocean, on my return, the Congress < of the United States, with but three i dissenting votes In either bouse, had i passed a bill authorizing tbe President 1 to appoint a commission to negotiate t for an International settlement of tbe < question. Tbe President saw fit to ap- 1 point me chairman of that commission, t I may say here that tbe President gave i us n«i instructl*ms. except to do our best to bring it about. FRIENDLINESS OF FRANCE. We found iu France most splendid cooperation, and tlie French govern ment s»*nt the strong**M instructions to the French ambassador at Loudon, Baron <*nureel. t*> «*oo|N*rate with us. We hml lengthy aud extended negotia tions with tlu* English ministry, and with tin* English chancellor of tlu* ex chequer And. fellow eitizeus. In the early summer the English government had iutemlcd, and s*i stated their pur pose. to yield practically tin* demands which tlu* French ami English dele gates laid imposed upon them, aud to co-operate with us, and it was only upon tlu* receipt of the uulooked for and tuicx|M*ctt*d message from India, through Sir James Westland, who be lieved that the future of India should rest upon the gold standard, that a negaevt- answer was given us. We did what we did. as bulking aud tending to a future settlement of this question, which, fellow citizens, is as sure to bo settb-d by some international agree ment. if tlu* Republican party remains ill power, as we are lo see to-inorniw. Such '. nleinent was helped, and fur ther* d and advanced by our mission, ami <<> mistiest aud meanest attacks that were mmlc upon us-—which were reoopied and republished In Eugllsli (taper- -were at lacks which came from Bryanites in tlu* west, who were so afraid that we would succeed in doing something, and that Bryan would not give us tlu* credit of it. that they tried to «!• ?• at us by every method iu their |»ow* r. And tlmt is their interest ill the restoration of the white metal. I nodi'-taml by tin* public press that this Mr. Tow tic saw lit to ridicule that coni! "ion ami its work. I supimstul when we finished our labors, wldeli I hope and trust may he tif value to the world hereafter, there might not lie eiitin agrciMitcnt upon the subject, aud 1 hud reason to expect that possibly sonn bumptious little whiffet fnun Min nesota would think that negotiations with M. liitc. the great French premier, devotrd to hliiictitlllsm. with tin* lead ers f tlu* bimetallic for*-***; in Her liltin', with Mr. Balfour, tin* leader in tlx* ilouse of <"ominous of England, a devo id bimetallist, and Lord Alden lintn. at whose suggestion tin* first con feree e was called, would be a foolish interview, atul iut«*uded to fool tin* |H*4)pl* and not inti tuled to hear fruit. But 1 am very glad that such foolish and illy criticisms of tlu* serious work <if a serious commission ennu* from souu* jay in Minnesota, who knows ver> little about tlu* question. THE REITBLICAN ISSUES. Tin—-, fellow citizens, an* the only issue-, apparently, whleh tin* Denui ertit.' patty is able to present to tlu* votci* «»f Colorado. \V*» have, however, as a Republican party, other Issues which we intend to present, and upon wliVh we propose t«i tight our battles. Ureat mid paramount a* is tlu* silver question, there are. fellow eitizeus. Other vital and iiiiimttniit Issues, nii tion.d and international, iu which lie* Republicans of Cohmulo propose t*» ■ take a baud. t ' I _• it'.. Colorado, my frh*a*ls. was setth-il by 111** lies! erow«t 4 4 people that ever lived. They niitu' suit here, aud Imvi* lN*eii coining f<»r the last, thirty years, from the New states. N>vv York. OhbK Jowa. Wiscousla and .Miuiiesetti. sph*n<lhl citizens, siju'ting out tifl**r the war. prompted by that restlessness «hicli caiiu* wh«*u s<i many officers wild sohllcrs wisre intis j tered out. :tn<J se*»king to find sonu* J tiew flehls I'«b- 'tlielr industry. It has : been up by as spl**«did and ' tine ami hctdlligent a population as • e\4*r sellb*d j\ stall*. V«m g»* into the miniug eaitifs* of Hit* state, and you ) hml more «-*ollcgo grailiitites and Intcl ligeut men .m piopottloll to t&ie poptiln i »d than you find anywhere else in the United States. Tliost* people wert* Republican*.. Republican to tlu* back bone, l»*«Wh«e tlicy luul intelligence and hive**! their Mug. and hrve of coun try, and lliey are <*omiug ibnek. \\’«* have gtit rt-sotirces that iu> utlicr state ‘ in the Uaakm has. Tln*re k not a sin gle pitfv iff land on tlu* f4*n-stool that lias gut more mineral resources Hum t ilorniln Buis. iiu-Itiding g*ild and sil ver. We lutV4* tiiori* 4*oal developeil tluia the -state of I'eimsyfivania. our oil Acids jiiul our iron »lep<isits — the i lieet linWl 4*ver kisse«l by Hod's sun* -hlne—evmrytiling eottspin-s to make • dorado tfilu* most frultfi#: and most pi imperials anil most sph*ntiid slat** in the Union These pcoph* living in Colo tailo are l>»*gltining to s**e that this Marling liNte anil denunciation of ev ■ ybodjr v\th*» does not tigrvs* with us. keeps **ajihM! aud friend* out. aud i l.eepa from us that respciT to whleh • >ur mnnhotsl aud womaiihiuid are en titled. So far as the RcpulJlii inis of • '•doranlo are <*oiieeriu*il. wo iVo not pro pose to put «J9tr heads in a hole in tin* mound, and -neglect to si*** that tlu* sun F liright and tlu* skies are hiltu*. ami that Hod reiiSis. aud (lie Rrpuhlican [i.irty fa* going lo bring us prosperity. THE DIVHLEY TARIFF. We inteud to Juin the procession our selves, and as a party we have given tin* people some issues upon which we are ready to take our statu!. The first of them was the Ditigley tariff meas ure, which was passed by the Repub lican Cougress two years ago. a meas ure whleh not only is bringing pros perity to our country and Increased revenues, hut Is building up commer cial enterprises everywhere, a hill which has done mon* for the wi*st titan any bill which has ever been passed. I liap|M*ii4*d to Ik* a member of the committee of fiuuuee. and I call »i«*ar testimony to the fight we had, crowned with complete victory, which Ims given us a duty ou the hides of owr western cattle, for which every cattleman In the west Is grateful. Our wool was protected with a duty with the result that to-day there is not a wool man In Colorado who does not feel the beneficent result of that turlff measure, which has revivified and built up agalu American Industries and protected American lnl>or. I regret to say that I was the only member of the Colorado delegation w ho had the con science to vote for It. Then came our traubles with Culm. I>o you remember how that President of ours fought for the lives of those ir>o.ooo reconcentra doea, and bow tbe thing that weighted his heart and burdened bis mind was the saving of hnmau life? Do you re member how day after day and week < .•iftor wi'tli Democrat* :ir:«l Populists assailed ldiu. how (Very yellow Jour-*' mil tint her** published their llltliy carl- ! enturcs. denouncing tin* President mid i < ridiculing him. how lie Mood true to * the jieople: how, being a ChrlKthin 1 man. a man of courage. hut a man **f « peace. nhliuring war. hut übhorlng mi- « righteousness more, he stood like a stone wall against war, until it became a necessity, ami then he Invoked the nod of battle and led us to glorious victory. The 1 tetuoerats tried to em barrass the administration by compell ing him to recognize the independence of the Insurgents. ,\s near as we can i find out. there are not really any more insurgents in Culm than there are "Blood Silver Republicans" in Colo rado. Then eamc the revenue hill. The war was upon us; we felt the time had come, and the President felt the time had come for us to embark 111*011 this war of humanity, the greatest the world has ever s**en. and by far tin* shortest, and it became necessary to put our hoys in the Philippines, and our soldiers in the Held, and to equip our navy aud buy new ships. The li nance committee took hold of it and prepared a I*lll with uniform multi farious taxes, all burdensome, but none .heavy, ami after wrangling aud disputing their issues, we carried out that part of the measure. And then we provided that in order to raise this tuoncy there should l»e .‘1 per rent, bonds Issued, not gold bonds, as lias been announced and announced again and again. These bonds are payable in lawful money, lawful money only, and if we shall have bimetallism, or any other standard of value, these bonds, by their terms, are payable In that: they are legitimate colli bonds, payable In lawful money. It «“eined to us the wisest method of raising the motley. We proviil***l that they should not go to tlie hanks, and they should not go to syndicates, ami they should not g«* to the highest bidder, bill they should be offered all ovr the country, and that the smallest subscribers should be iirst satisfied. I am proud to say that the .S"ihi subscribers got practically all of the bonds, aud that there Is not a state in tin* I'nion where citizens have mil subscribed for them largely, aud that the citizens of Colo rado have taken a very respectable number of tin 111. TIIK SEIHXIORAHE AMKXDMKXT Now offered the Ih’inoeralx the fur ther amendment that the seigniorage in the treasury should be coined. It was the most remarkable amendment that was ever heard of. They pro vided that 111 place of these bonds 100 million dollars of legal tender notes should be issue*). Now, fellow citi zens. I want you to g«» back with me one minute to tin* silver question. Kv **ry man ami every woman who is a bimetallist, bases Ills or her faith in bimetallism upon the theory that they an* believers in hard money, gold and sliver, tin* money of ultimate redemp tion. They an* bitterly and unalter- ably opposed. except the Populist wing of tin* party, win* *l** not care much for silver, h* paper money un less It Inis gold or silver l»nek of it. and. fellow citizens, if tills Demo cratic amendment laid been adopted, it would have been the most cruel aud fatal stroke Hint could have been ad ministered to the cause of silver and bimetallism, or that could be devised in the miml of iiiuu. for it would have given us l.'Si million dollars additional circulation, which we claim Is tin* rea son why more silver should be coined, but i1 would have given it to us in pa per money: there would have boon no gold or silver back of it. and you never could have got gold or silver buck of it unless you borrowed the money to put it there. And that is a pretended bimetallic suggestion from tin* Populist aud Democratic parties. Their amendment on seigniorage was good, and twelve Republican senators stood firm in insisting upon it. and in conference after conference be tween tin* committees of tin* Semite and tin* House, finally the House gave way. aud this hill now provides that i’ll* 1 seigniorage shall l»e coined, and •flint is the lirst direct legislation wo "have had respecting silver sine** a Democratic Congress repealed tin* pur- K-liasing clause *»T tin* Sherman hill. EFFECT OF TIIK WAR. And then wlint happened, fellow **ili v.etis? The war was upon us. and the Democrats were rabid, and the Popu lists, tlint the war should be com menced at once. Soldiers laid to be paid, revenue had t*» Is* raised, tin* bill was all ready for passage, the amendments had been voted upon. With three nolde exceptions, to which I shall call attention, every Democrat and every Populist, and every assist- : nut Democrat voted against the rev**- | otic bill entirely. There were three im*n. Senator Morgan of Alabama. Senator Turpi** of Indiana, the lender of tin* Democratic caucus, and Sen ator Mantle of Montana, who put their country above party ami voted to give our President and our country the revenue to carry on tlie war. You will notice in all those little, miserable, factional conventions, that they have I men currying oil here at Colorado Springs, they hid their heads in shame ami *lld not dare mention tlx* fact that they voted to prevent the coun try from having the revenues to carry oii the war. Then came the Hawaiian question. Whatever doubt any man might have had on the Hawaiian ques tion. the developments in the Philip pines demonstrated to every intelli gent man that we should have this important coaliug station and |x»rt on the roadway to the west for tin* devel opment of the country which we might hereafter hold; and the only op position to tlie purchase of Hawaii, with the exception of one or two votes, came from the votes of Demo crats and Populists. And this con gressman up here in the First district made*—l don’t know whether he made a speech or not. hut lie published a speech. In which he showed that this country had gone to the devil If ever we touched the Ilnwalla 11 Islands; that It was the entering wedge that had knocked the Monroe doctrine and the Ten Commandments, and every thing else, and that our country was a dead duck If we ever took Hawaii. I have no doubt that in the coming congressional campaign that speech of his irtll be extensively circulated, though not { by him. HUNDRED DAYS’ ACHIEVEMENT. Then came this most wonderful war of three months’ duration, less tlmn n hundred days. 111 which wo not ont.\ , conquered i* great r.ilhin. but b. ! which, :ix v\T*. we commanded the rt ! spe-t of every civilized country on i rarth. I am proud to say that 111 this contest, which at times was threat ened with great international compli cations, the men of Anglo-Saxon blood and language stood together. I notice that 1 do not hear as much about •’Cousin Ed" as I used to do. Tills war, which swept a great navy from tin* seas, which ended an ancient peo ple, which developed the fact that American officers ami American sol diers rise always to the duties that are Imposed upon them, developed tin* vast resoiir****s and the character of tin* people, n:ul tin* wonderful tri umph of Dewey, modest and coura geous, present***! to the country tin* greatest example It lias y**t seen of naval ability and administrative abil ity. He stood out tlu*r«* for weeks with in* soldiers, with nothing but Ids licet, and lie maintained order, ami protected from the insurgents the lives of foreign citizens and tin* safely of Manila. He displayed wonderful ability in governing those Islands, as well as in capturing them. Before tin* news of Ids victory was hardly cold tin* two most luffuciitial men in tin* Democratic party. Mr. Bryan at Omaha and tin* chairman of tin* mi tional executive committee. Mr. Jones, of Arkansas, a gentleman of character atnl (*ourag** and standing, both open ly and officially declared that tin* pol icy of the Democratic party must be against holding those Islands, and must b<* against further expansion or acquisition of territory, and in favor of giving them hack t*» Spain. In tin* face of such utterances, tin* state ments of assistant Democrats at Col onulo Springs do not cut much figure. New vistas are opening before us; our flag is marching thousands of miles nearer tin* Occident, ami Its honor must I*** maintained wherever it goes. Wc have a part t«» play among the tui tions of the earth, and we propose to do a man’s duty. It Is for us to li< Ip unbind tin* shackles of tin* enslaved and iln* oppressed, ami b ad tin* inarch of progress aud of civilization. Tin* Republican party gave this country tin* homestead law. which opened up th«* \V» st t<> s •ttlemcnt; tin* Republican party freed tin* slaves; iln* Republican party has ever stood foremost in eve y measure for the uplifting and bench*- lag of mankind, and its work will not be done as long as there is further work for this nation to do in tin* a*l vnncenient of civilization 11 ml of Chris tianity. As against this policy tin* Democracy Inis so far developed on in , tcrmitiomil questions only a policy of obstruction and of Interference. They wait until the Republican party advo cates a measure, and then tight it unitedly aud vigorously. The Democ racy stands about the garbage barrel looking for something that smells bad. and then loss it around In tin* hope that it may taint tin* air. That is what they are doing today oil tin* conduct of this war. DEFENSE OF THE WAR. War is horrible: it Is grim-visngod: it means death and suffering, cruel suffering. Our war lias been conduct ed with less loss of Ilf** proportion ately in the time it has been conducted, by sickness and by wounds, than any war that lias ever been conducted, nml far less than our civil war. There have | been serious mistakes, undoubtedly, made. We had a handful of regular troops: we had to employ additional commisxaiics and quartermasters from civil life, unskilled in business and un trained to those particular duties. We shipped our troops to •» *o»r : d zone, un known to us. to which they were not acclimated, and there wen*, undoubt edly, cruel mistakes no suggestion of Jobberv. no suggestion of thieving. 110 suggestion of dishonesty b’’t sugges tions. undoubtedly true, of ineoini>c- 4 teiicy in many directions. They Are ’ Inevitable in any country that has only, a small standing army at in* outset ofv a contest. They arc Isang investigated. The perpetrators of them, if they arc guilty, will be punished, hut you ran no more becloud Hi** Republican party | with them than you can prevent iln* sun dissipating tin* mists of tin* morn lug. In all ililm glorious future which the Republican party is to be called' upon to shape and define, we of Colo rado propose to take a man’s share When, on the lltli of last month, early In the iiinrning. tin* Colorado regiment, together with a California regiment? and tin* Eighteenth infantry, all of , whom had been lying for days hi , trenches half tilled with water and , under tropical rains, were ordered to charge the old fortress at Mnlntc, they J started to cross the Rio Clngulon breast deep in its waters, and charged furiously up the hid amidst a rain storm of bullets: win'll Private Phenix. who was the first of ih«* Colorado troops to reach the flagstaff, hauled down tin* 1 Spanish flag and was about to raise tin* American flag in its place. In* was , killed by a Spanish bullet, and Private Holmes look tin* flag and gave It to the breeze, they shed undying lustre upon the prowess and courage of Colo rado troops. But. they did more, far more. The flag that slipped from the dying hands of Phenix and was un furled by Holmes was the flag of our whole country. Emblazoned upon its azure field were forty-five stars, a star for every state, and a state for every star, and their heroism will forever typify tin* patriotism which animates tin* hrtststs of Colorado people, not alone for Colorado, hut for their com mon country. This convention, by Its ticket and hy its platform, will send the message to our brothers at the East that hut**, inislM*gotteu hate, has no place in our breasts; that our patriot ism is broader than the confines of our state boundaries: that, reunited and hopeful and undaunted, the Republic ans of Colorado still keep step to the mush* of the Union. A Tin* S»»er. The cost of sandpapering a car prepara tory to painting has been reduced to about half Its former amount. It Is said that ISO square feet of surface can In* finished in two and one-half hours. Tin* machine by which this is done is u small air motor, carrying on the outer end of its shaft a wooden disk, to w'hlch the sundpaper ta clamped by u light brass ring. It Is sus pended from an overhead track parallel to the side of the car by means of an air cylinder four or five feet long and so small In diameter that the air pressure on the piston is Just sufficient to balance the weight of the machine. One man ralsea and lowers the whole outfit with ease. Of 1.900 housewives in Almelo. Holland, who were consulted as regards- the desir ability of abolishing night work for bait ers, but ten favored the measure.