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OUR NATIONAL HON OB. k •S& Mr. McKinley, In His Speech to tfje Notification Committee, Says It is Involved in the Cur­ rency Question. "Senator Thurston and Gentlemen of the Notification Committee of the Repub­ lican National'Convention: To be select­ ed as their Presidential candidate by a' great party convention, representing so vast a number of the people of the Unit­ ed States, is a most distinguished honor, for which I would not conceal my high appreciation, although deeply sensible of the great responsibilities of the trust jpid my inability to bear them without»?he generous and constant support of my fel­ low countrymen. "Great as Is the honor conferred, equal­ ly arduous and important is the duty im­ posed, and in accepting the one I assume the other, relying upon the patriotic devotion of/the people to. the best inter­ ests of our beloved country, and the sus­ taining care and aid of him without whose support all we do is empty and vain. Should the people ratify the choice of the great convention for which you speak, my only aim will be to pro­ mote the pubiie good, which in America is always the good of the greatest num­ ber, the honor of our country, and the welfare of the people. "The questions to bg settled in the na­ tional contest this year are aft serious and important as any of. the great gov­ ernmental problems that, have confronted us in the last quarter of the century. They command our sober judgment and a settlement free from partisan prejudice and passion, beneficial to ourselves and befitting the honor and grandeur of the republic. They touch every interest of our common country. Mucli Is Involved. "Our industrial" supremacy, our pro­ ductive capacity, our bitsiness and com­ mercial prosperity, our labor and its re­ wards, our national credit and currency, our proud financial honor, and our splen­ did free citizenship--the birthright of every American--are all involved in the pending campaign, and thus every home in the land is directly and intimately con­ nected with their proper settlement. (Jreat. are the issues involved in the com­ ing election, and eager and earnest are the people for their right determination. Our domestic trade must be won back and our idle workingmen employed in gainful occupations at American wages. Our home market must be restored to its proud rank of first in the world, and our foreign trade, so precipitately cut off by adverse national legislation, reopened on fair and equitable terms for our sur­ plus agricultural and manufacturing products. "Protection and reciprocity, twin meas­ ures of a true American policy, should again command the earnest encourage­ ment of the government at Washington. Public confidence must be resumed and the skill, the energy and the capital of our country find ample employment at home, sustained, encouraged and defend­ ed against the unequal competition and serious disadvantage with which they are now contending. Slust Raise Sufficient Revenue. "The government of the United States --nurstTaisE enough money to meet both its current expenses and increasing needs. Its revenues should be so raised as to protect the material interests of our people, with the lightest possible drain upon their resources, and maintain that high standard of civilisation which has distinguished our country for more than a century of its existence. The income of the government, I repeat, should equal its necessary and proper expenditures. A failure to pursue this policy has com­ pelled the government to borrow money in a time of peace, to sustain its credit, and pay its daily expenses. This policy should be reversed, and that, too, as speedily as possible. "It must be apparent to all. regardless of past party ties or affiliations, that it is our paramount duty to provide adequate revenue for the expenditures of the gov­ ernment economically and prudently ad­ ministered. The Republican party has heretofore done, this, and this I confi­ dently believe it will do in the future, when the party is again intrusted with power in the executive and legislative branches Of our government. The na­ tional credit, which has thus far fortu­ nately resisted every assault upon il, must and will be upheld and strength­ ened. If sufficient revenues are provided for the support of the government ifere will be no necessity for borrowing money ' and increasing the public debt. Policy Is at Fault. "The complaint of the people is not against the administration for borrowing money and issuing bonds to preserve the credit of the country, but against the ruinous policy which has made this nec­ essary. It is but an incident, and a nec- essary one. to the policy which has been inaugurated. The inevitable effect of such a pdjicy is seen in the deficiency of the United States treasury except as it is replenished by loans, and in the distress of the people, who are suffering because of the scant demand for either their labor or the products of their labor. Here is the fundamental trouble, the remedy for which is Republican opportunity and duty. - "During all the years of Republican control following resumption there was n steady reduction of the public debt, while the gold reserve was sacrodly maintained and our currency and credit preserved without depreciation, taint, or suspicion. If we would restore this pol­ icy, that brought us unexampled pros­ perity for more than thirty years, under the most trying conditions ever known in this country, the policy by which we made and bought more goods at home and sold more abroad, the trade balance would be quickly turned in our favor, and gold would come to us and not go from us in the settlement of all such balances in the future. The party that supplied by legislation the vast revenues for the conduct of our greatest war, and promptly restored the credit of the coun­ try at its close, and that from its abund­ ant revenues paid off a large share of the debt incurred in this war, and that re­ sumed specie payments and placed out- paper currency upon a sound and endur­ ing basis, can be safely trusted to pre­ serve both our credit and currency with honor, stability, and inviolability. Our Financial Honor Is Sacred. "The American people hold the finan­ cial honor of our government as sacred as our flag, and can be relied upon to guard it with tile same sleepless vigil­ ance. They bold its preservation above party fealty aud have often demonstrat­ ed that party ties avail nothing when the spotless credit of our countrv is threatened. The money of the United States and every kind of form of it. whether of paper, silver or gold, must be as good as the best in the world. It must not only be current at its full face value at home, but it must be counted at par in any and every commercial • center of the globe. "The sagacious and far-seeing policy of the great men who founded our gov­ ernment, the teachings aud acts of "the wisest financiers at every stage in our history, the steadfast faith aud splendid achievements of the great party to which we belong, and the genius and integrity of our people have always demanded this, an|d will ever maintain it.. The dollar paid to the farmer, the wage-earn­ er and the pensioner must continue for­ ever equal iu purchasing and debt-pay­ ing power to the dollar paid to any gov­ ernment creditor. "The contest this year will not be waged upon lines of theory and specula­ tion, but in the light of severe practical experience and new and dearly ac­ quired knowledge. The great body of our citizens know what they want, and that they intend to have. They know for what the Republican party stands, and what its return to power means to them. They realize that the Republican party believes that our work - should be done at home, and hot abroad, and ev­ erywhere proclaim their devotion to the principles of a protective tariff, which, while supplying adequate revenues for the government, will restore American production and serve the best interests of American labor and development. Appeal to the. Plain People. "Our. appeal, therefore, is , not to a false "philosophy or vain theorists, but to the masses of the American people, the plain, practical people, whom Lincoln loved and trusted and whom the Repub­ lican pafty has'always faithfully striven to serve. The platform adopted by the Republican national convention haft re­ ceived my careful consideration, and has my unqualified approval. It is a matter of gratification to me. as 'I am sure it. must be' to you. and Republicans every­ where, and to all our people that the ex-' pressions of its declaration ,of principles are so direct, clear and emphatic? They are. too piain and positive to leave any chance for doubt or question as to theji purport aud meaning. But you will not expect me to diScuss its provisions at length, or in any detail, at this time. It will, however, be my duty and pleasure at some future day to make to you and through you to the great party you rep­ resent a more formal acceptance of the nomination tendered me. No one could be more profoundly grateful than 1 for manifestations of public confidence.^ of which you have so eloquently spoken. "It shall be my aim to attest this ap- appreeiation by an unsparing devotion to what 1 esteem the best interests ot the people, and in this work 1 ask the counsel and support of you gentlemen and of every other friend of the country. "The generous expressions with which you, sir. convey the official notice'of my nomination are highly appreciated and as fully reciprocated, and I thank you and your associates of the notification committee and the great party and con­ vention at whose instance you come for tile high and exceptional distinction, be­ stowed upon me." Hon. Garrett A. Hobart--His Statesman­ like Reply to the Notification Committee. Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Committee: I beg to extend to yuji my grateful acknowledgments for the very kind and flattering terms in which you convey the formal announcement of my nomination for Vice-President of the United States by the Republican nation­ al convention at St. Louis. I am pro­ foundly sensible of the honor which has been done me and through me to the state in which all my life has been spent, in my selection as a candidate for this high office. I appreciate it tho more be­ cause it associates me. in a contest which involves the gravest issues, with one who represents in his private character and public career the highest intelligence and best spirit--of--his party aHxl with whom my personal relations areSuch as to af­ ford a guaranty of perfejgf accord in the work of the campaign which is before us. It is sufficient for me to say at this time that, concurring without other serv­ ices in all the declarations of principle and policy embodied in the St. Louis plat­ form. 1 accept the nomination tendered to me with a full appreciation of its re­ sponsibilities and with an honest pur­ pose. in the event that the people shall ratify the choices made by the national convention, to discharge any duties which may devolve upon me with sole reference to the public good. Let me add that it will be my earnest effort in the coming campaign to con­ tribute in every Way possible to the suc­ cess of the party which we represent and which to the important issues of the time stands for the best interests of the people. Uncertainty and instability as to the money questiou involves most se­ rious consequences to every interest and to every citizen of the country. The gravity of this question cannot be over­ estimated. There can be no financial security, no business stability, no real prosperity where the policy of the gov­ ernment as to that question is at all a matter of doubt. Gold is the one stan­ dard of value among all enlightened com­ mercial nations. All financial transac­ tions of whatever character, all business enterprises, all individual or corporate in­ vestments are adjusted to it. An honest dollar, worth 100 cents ev­ erywhere. cannot be coined out of .r>.'! cents' worth of silver, plus a legislative fiat. Such a debasement of our currency would inevitably produce incalculable loss appalling disaster, and national dishonor! It is fundamental principle in coinage recognized and followed by all the states­ men of America in the past, and never yet safely departed from, that there can be only one basis upon which gold and silver may be concurrently coined as money, and that basis is equality, not in weight, but in the commercial value of the metal contained in the respective coins. This commercial value is fixed hv the markets of the world, with which the great interests of our country are neces­ sarily connected by innumerable business ties which cannot be severed or ignored. Great and self-reliant as our country is! it is great not alone within its own bor­ der^ and upon its own resources but because it also reaches out to the ends of the earth in all manifold departments of business, exchange and commerce and must maintain with honor its stand­ ing and credit among the nations of tin? earth. The question admits of no compromise It is a vital principle at stake, but it is in no sense partisan or sectional. It con­ cerns all people. Ours, as one of the foremost nations, must have a monetary standard equal to the best. It is of vital consequence that this question should be settled now in such a way as to restore public confidence here and everywhere in the integrity of our purpose. A doubt of that integrity among the other great commercial countries of the world will not only cost us millions of money, but that which, as patriots, we should "t reas­ ure still more highly--our industrial and co in mer cia 1 sup re m a cy. My estimate of the mine of a pro­ tective policy has been formed by the study of the object lesson of a great in­ dustrial state extending over a period of thirty years. It is that protection not only builds up important industries from small beginnings, but that those and all other industries flourish or languish in proportion as protection is maintained or withdrawn. 1 have seen it indisputably proved that the prosperity of the farmer, merchant, and all other classes of citi­ zens, goes hand in hand with that of the manufacturer and mechanic. I am firmly persuaded that what we need most of all to remove the business paralysis that afflicts this country is the restora­ tion of a policy which, while affording ample revenue to meet the expense of the government, will reopen American workshops on full time and lull-handed, with their operatives paid good wages in honest dollars. And this can only come under a tariff which will hold the interests of our own people paramount in our political and commexeial systems. The opposite policy, which discourages American enterprises, reduces American labor to idleness, diminishes the earn­ ings of American workingmen, opens our markets to commodities from abroad which we should produce at home, while closing foreign markets against our prod­ ucts, and which, at the same time, stead­ ily augments the public debt, increasing the public burdens, while diminishing^ the ability of the people to meet them, is a policy which must find its chief popu­ larity elsewhere than among American citizens. J shall take an early opportunity, gen­ tlemen of the committee, through .you, to communicate to my fellow citizens with somewhat more of detail my views concerning the dominant questions of the hour and the crisis which confronts us as a nation. \ With this brief expression of Hiy^.np- preciation of the distinguished honor that has been bestowed upon me, and this signification of my acceptance of the trust to which 1 have been summoned, I place myself at the service of the Re­ publican party .and of the country. \ SOUND MOSEY. age and confidence to all. for when that is done the money now unemployed, because of fear for the future and lack of confidence in investment, will quickly appear in the channels of trade. Our creed embraces an honest- dol­ lar, an untarnished national credit, ade­ quate revenues for the uses of the gov­ ernment. protection to labor and indus­ try. preservation of the home market, and reciprocity which will extend our f o r e i g n m a r k e t s . -- ' Recent events have imposed upon the patriotic_ people of this country a re­ sponsibility and a duty greater than any since the Civil War. Then it was a struggle to preserve the government of the United States; now it is a struggle to preserve the financial honor of the government of the United States. Then it was a contest to save the Union; how it is a contest to save spotless its credit, Then section. was al-rayed against sec­ tion; now inbu. of all sections can unite, and, will unite. ti> rebuke the repudiation of our'obligations and the debasement of our currency. * , McKinley's Speec%so the Foraker Club Giving a Resume of the Issues of the Campaign. Canton. O.. July 11.--It was less than aii hour after adjournment of the-Chi­ cago convention when the Thirty-second- Ward Foraker Club of Cleveland arrived in Canton 300 strong, with their wives and daughters. _They marched at once io Governor McKinley's residence. After President D. II. Lucas had" made a, pre­ sentation address Governor McKinley said: "Mr. President. Ladies and Gentlemen and My Fellow Citizens: It gives me very great pleasure to welcome you 'o my home city and to my home, and I ap­ preciate. more than I can find words to express the honor and the compliment of this call. I thank you for your con­ gratulations and the assurances of sup­ port which you make for the great prin­ ciples for which this year the Republican party stands. (Applause.) I congratu­ late you upon having for your name one of the most illustrious of our statesmen in Ohio, Joseph Benson Foraker. (Ap­ plause.) "My fellow citizens, recent events have imposed upon the patriotic people of '.his country a responsibility greater than the Civil war. Then it was a struggle to pre­ serve the government of the United States; now it is a struggle to preserve the honor of the government. tCri.-s of "Yes" and applause.) "Then it was a contest to save the Union: now it is a contest to save spot­ less its credit. (Great applause.) Then seetion was arrayed against seerion: now men of all sections can unite. and will unite, to rebuke the repudiation ol our obligations and the debasement of our currency. (Applause.) "In this contest patriotism is above party and national honor is dearer than any party name. The currency and cred­ it of the government are good now. and must be kept good forever. < )ur trouble is not with the character of the money that we have, but with the threat to do-, base it. We have the same currency that we had in 1892. good the world over and unquestioned by any people. Then, too. we had unexampled credit and pTos- pority. Our difficulty now is to get that money in circulation and invested ill productive outerprTael which furnish em­ ployment to American labor. (.Great ap­ plause.) "This is impossible with the distrust that hangs over the country at the pres­ ent time,and every effort to make our dollars or any one of them worth less than 100 cents each only serves to in­ crease the distrust. What we want is a sound policy, financial and industrial, which will give courage and confidence to all, for when that is done the money now unemployed because of fear for the future and lack of confidence in invest­ ment will quickly appear in the channels of trade. (Cries of "You are righty ma­ jor," and applause.) "Gentlemen, the employment of our idle money, the idle money that we al­ ready have, in gainful pursuits will put every idle man in the country at work, and when there is work there is wages, and when there are work and wages there are consumers, who constitute the best market for the products of our soil. Having destroyed business and confi­ dence by a free-trade policy, it is now proposed to make things still worse by entering upon an era of depreciated cur­ rency. Not content with the inaugura­ tion of the ruinous policy which has brought down the wages of the laborer and the price of farm products, its advo­ cates n,ow offer a new policy, which will diminish the value of the money in which wages and products are paid. (Applause.) Against both of these we stand opposed. "Our cwed em lira cos an honest dollar, an untarnished national credit, adequate revenues for the uses of the government, protection to labor and industry, preser- vation of the home market, and reciproci­ ty which will extend our foreign mar­ kets. Upon this platform we stand, and submit its declarations to the sober and considerate judgment of the American people. (Great applause.) I thank you again for this call and greeting, and it will give me very great pleasure, ladies and gentlemen, to meet you all personally." (Aplause.) WORDS OF LIVING TRUTH. Patriotic Wisdom Culled from Mr. McKinley's Speeches Upon Questions of the Day. The American people hold the financial honor of our government as sacred as our flag, and can be relied upon to guard it with the same sleepless vigilance. Not content with the inauguration of the ruinous policy which has brought down the wages of the laborer and the price of farm products, its advocates now offer a new policy which will diminish the value of the money iu which wages aud prices are paid. Our trouble is not with the character of the money that we have, but with the threat to debase it. We have the same currency that we had in 1892. good the world over, and unquestioned by any people. Then, too, we had unexampled credit aud prosperity. The platform adopted by the Repub­ lican National Convention has received my careful consideration. and has my un­ qualified approval. It is a matter of gratification to me. as I am sure it must be to you and Republicans every­ where and to all our people, that the ex­ pressions of its declaration of principles are so direct, clear and emphatic. They are too plain and positive to leave any chance for doubt or question as to their purport aud meaning. The employment of the idle money we already have, in gainful pursuits.' will put every idle man iu the country at work, aud when there is work there is wages, and when there are work and wages there are consumers who consti­ tute the best market for the products of our soil. The money of the United States, and every kind and form of it, whether of paper, silver or gold, must be as good as the best in the world. It must not only be current at its full face value at home, but it must be counted at par in any and every commercial center of the globe. What we want is a sound policy, finan­ cial and industrial, which will give cour­ BOLTING NEWSPAPERS. A SILVER CATECHISM. The Detroit Free Press publishes the following: . . , , a • .1 . In my judgment an association of men envineift in ? business and otherwise should be formed in this city without delay, whose duty it. should' be to write or procure to be. written,' a large number of tracts treating solely the question of sound money, to contain not more than l.OtKt words each, and to 1(0 printed in large type and upon good paper. These should be distributed, or be ready for distribution by the middle of August, and copies should lie placed in the hands of every wage-earner aud farmer iu the state of Michigan. They,would best subserve the purpose if drawn up in the form of a catechism, of which I append a specimen: Q.--What is the fundamental conten­ tion of the free-coinage advocates? A,--Tliift the amount of money in cir­ culation has* been decreasing since the demonetization of silver, and that this decrease has caused a general fall in prices. Q.--Is it true that the money supply has been decreasing'.' A.-- It is not. Q. What are the facts? A.--As far as the I'luted States is con­ cerned there has been „an enormous in­ crease. In 1 StiO the money ii\ circula­ tion in this country was .$442,102,477; in 1S72 it was $738,309,349; by the treasury bulletin at the beginning of the present mouth of Jtilv it was $1,301),725,- 2< Ml. Q.--What does this show? A.--It shows that our money supply has increased 24(1 per cent, as compared with 18ti0, and 104 per cent, as com­ pared with 1S72. (}.-- Has the monev sup >ly increased faster than the population? ' A.- Very much faster. ( J . How do you prove this? A.--By dividing the total money in circulation at each date by' the total population of the country :it the same date, and thus finding the circulation per capita. Q.-- What does such a process show? A.--The per capita circulation of the United States on July 1. INti.O. was .$14:0(1: on July 1. 1872. it was .$18.7(1; at the beginning of Jtilv in 1890 it was $21.15. Q.--But has not the money supply of the world at large been decreasing? A.--On the contrary, it lias been in­ creasing rapidly. Q.--How is tliis proved? A.--Ry the statistics of new gold prg : duetion. Q.---How large has this production been? A.--The reports of the director of flic mint, which are acknowledged authority, show that from 187.'? to 1804. inclusive, the world's total new gold production has been .$2,52(5.834.000. Q.--Is this new product of gold in­ creasing or decreasing? A.-- It is increasing with enormous ra­ pidity. Q.--Give the figures. A.--In 187.'$ the world's gold produc­ tion was $90,200,000; in 188(1 it was .$10G.4.'{<).800. In the veur 1890 it was •$1 IS,849.000. In 1894' it was $180,626.- 100. For 1893 the exact total is not yet compiled, but is closelv estimated at $199,500,000. Q.--What does this mean? A.--It means that the amount of gold annual!'.' added to the world's money supply has more than doubled in the last twenty-three years. Q.--Rut has not the issue of silver with full coinage privileges cut down the total annual addition to the world's me­ tallic money supply? A.'--It lias not. Q.--Why?' A.--In 1873 the world's gold produc­ tion was $9(5.200.000; its silver produc­ tion. $81,800.000; total. $178,000,000. Last year the production of gold alone was $199.500,000. Speech to tlie Laboring Men. At the railway station, in Canton, on July 22d. as Mr. McKinley was about to take the train for Cleveland, an as semblage of workingmen called for a speech. In response Mr. McKinley re­ ferred to the object of his visit to Alii a nee, and said: All of us are interested in the wel­ fare of our country, because in the wel fare of our country is involved the indi­ vidual welfare of every citizen. If our great country is prosperous, then the peo­ ple are prosperous. What we all want --no matter to what political organization we may have belonged in the past--is a return to the good times of years ago. We want good prices and good wages, and when we have them we want them to be paid in good money. [Applause and cries of "You are right."] Whether our prices be high or whether they be low. whether our wages be good or whether they he bad. they are "all the better by being paid in dollars worth 100 cents each. (Tremendous cheering.] If we have (rood wages they are better by being paid in gold dollars. If we have poor wages, they are made poorer by bo- being, paid in gold dollars. If we have low citizens, what we want more than anything else is to keep our money equal to that of the most enlightened nations of the earth and maintain the credit and honor of the government of the United States. [Great applause.] We are the greatest country in the world--greatest in our freedom, greatest in our possibili­ ties. greatest in our opportunities, and we are too great to taint our country's honor or to cast suspicion uppn the credit or obligations of our government. [Ap­ plause.] How tlie Old Thing Works. . New York Post: A barber in this city handed a bullion dealer who hap­ pened to be iu his shop on Saturday a Mexican silver dollar, and asked" liiin what he would give him for it. He re­ plied that the', bullion value was 5:5 cents, and that he would take the dollar from him at that price, to which the barber re­ plied: "You can have it. I gave my customer a hair-cut, shampoo and shave, equal to 73 cents; he handed me this dollar; I gave' him a quarter change; so I am out 47 cents on the transaction." The bullion dealer answered: "That is just what will happen every day if we go on a silver basis." The shop was full of people, who all loudly declared that they would vote for McKinley and sound money. Principle Above Party for Nearly 200 Democratic Editors. Up to date 199 Democratic newspapers have bolted. By locality the following showing is made; New England. . ~" Connecticut--Hartford Times, Bridgeport Farmer, Meriden Journal, New Britain Herald, Hartford Telegram, New Haven Register, New Haven News, Waterbury American, Windham County Reformer, Litchfield Inquirer. Main--Lewiston Sun. Maehias Union. New Hampshire--Manchester Union. Rhode Island--Providence Journal, Provi­ dence Telegram. Vermont--Bennington Reformer, Brattle- boro'Reformer. . Massachusetts--Boston Herald. Boston Slobe. Boston Post. Fltchburg Mail , Hoi- yoke Free Press, Lowell Times, North A-dams Democrat. Milfprd Times, Spring­ field Uepubiicau. Lowell; Star. Salem News, Pittstield Journal, . . (Gardner News. Middle States. iNew York--Harper's Weekly, New York Handel's . Zeitung, .New York Sun. New York Times. , New York Herald. 'New York World, New York Staats'Zeiti ing, .New York Post. New York Irish-American. Brooklyn Citizea,' Brooklyn Ragle* Buffalo Courier. Buffalo Enquirer. UtTca Observer. Troy press. Albany Argus, Syracuse Herald, Syracuse Courier,' Yoitkers Cassette. Buffalo Demokrat. Rome Daily .Sentinel, Hornells- yil le Times, t Ishkili News. Cohoes Dispatch, Penn Yau Democrat. Pougiikeepsie Enter­ prise, PoughkeepsSe News-Press, Rochester Post and Beobacheter, t 'oruihg Democrat, Syracuse News, Qgdensburg Advance, Fort I la ins Standard, BingUamtou Herald. I en-nsyivania--Philadelphia Record. Phil­ adelphia Times, Philadelphia German Dem­ ocrat, Easton Express, Easton Argus, Northampton Correspondent. . Pottsvil le Chronicle. Erie Herald, Wilkesharre Waeeh- ter, Doylestown Democrat, Lock Haven Democrat. Chambersburg Vallev Spirit . i r « u i i i ^ » o i M i l i t t-onnellsvll le Courier. McKeesport News. A1 lent own Item, Philadelphia Neue Welt. \ \ i l l iamsport Sun New Jersey--Jersey City News, Elizabeth Herald, Trenton True American. Trenton rimes. Newark News, Newark Sunday Call . Newark Deutsche Zeitung. l loboke'n Ob­ server, Harrison Record. Soii iervll le .Mes­ senger, Somerset Democrat. Tlie West. Il l inois -- Chicago Chronicle, Chicago Staats-Zeltung. Chicago Abendpost, I'eoria Demokrat, Peoria Herald. Memlota Repor­ ter, Ottawa Free-Trader. Indiana -- Lafayette Journal. Wabash Times, Indiaribpolls News. Seymour Demo­ crat. Iowa--Davenport Der Demokrat, Daven­ port Democrat, Sioux City Tribune. Bur­ lington Yolksfreund. l ies Moines Anzelger. pes Moines Reform. Davenport Tribune, Waterloo Tribune, Dubuque Ilerald, Mar- shalltown Statesman. Sigournev Review. Michigan-Detroit Free Press. Lansing Journal. Detroit Abenilpost, Detroit Yolks- blatt . Lake Linden Times. Minnesota -St. Paul Globe. Nebraska--Butte Gazette. Ohio-Dayton Times. Dayton Yolks Zeit­ ung, Columbus Dispatch. ' Zanesvil le Ger­ man Post. Cincinnati Yolksfreund. Cleve­ land Waecllter and Anzelger, Cincinnati Yolksblatt . Sbutli Dakota Sioux Falls Argus Leader. Sioux City Tribune. W isconsln -Milwaukee Journal. La Crosse Chronicle. Milwaukee Seebote. Manitowoc Pilot. Watertown Wcltburger. Milwaukee Germania. Milwaukee Friedenker, Rll l ire- lander Herald. Kau Claire Leader. Sheboy­ gan National Democrat fGeruiau), Prairie du Chieu Courier. The South. Alabama--Mobile Register. _ Montgomery Advertiser, "Hinning 11 a in N e w s, 11 u n t s v i He Tribune. Delaware-- W.'mington Every Evening. Wilmington State. Florida--Key West Equator Democrat, Jacksonville Citizen. HuntsvlUe Tribune. Georgia--Atlanta journal, Savannah News Macon Telegraph. Kentucky -Louisvil le Courier-Journal. Louisvil le I'ost, Louisvil le Times. Louisvil le Anzelger, Lexington Herald. Shelby vil ie Sentinel. Frankfort Call . Frankfort Capital . Russellvil le Ilerald (weekly!, Maytield Moni­ tor (weekly). ShelbyVllle Sentinel ( .weekly!, Owingsvll le Outlook (weekly). Mount Yer- non Eagle (weekly). Sheperdsvil le Pioneer (weekly). Louisiana--New Orleans States. New Or­ leans Picayune. Louisiana Democrat. Maryland- Baltimore Sun, Baltimore News. Mississippi Jackson News. Yicksburg Post, Canton Till ies, Greenville Times. Missouri--Kansas City Star. St. Louis Arbeiter des Westens, St. Louis Anzelger, St. Louis Ainerlka. South Carolina--Charleston News and Courier. Tennessee--Chattnnoogn Times, Memphis Seiuieter, Nashville Banner, Nashville American. '1'exas Austin Statesman. Dallas News, Galveston News. Galveston Tribune, San Antonio Express, Dennison Gazette, Deu- nison Herald. Yirginia -Richmond Times. Richmond State. Petersburg Index-Appeal, Alexan­ dria Times. Staunton News. West Virginia--Charleston" News. Charles­ ton. Patriot. German- .papers--Chicago Staats-Zeltung. Chicago Abendpost. Louisvil le Anzelger, St. Louis Arbeiter des Westens. New York Staats-Zeitung. Wilkesharre (Pa.) Waecllter. Davenport ( la.) Demokrat. Milwaukee See­ bote, Buffalo Demokrat. Rochester Post und Beobachter. Watertown Wcltbdrger. Milwaukee Germania. Milwaukee I'reiden- kcr, St. Louis Anzelger. St. Louis Ainerl­ ka. Newark Deutsche Zeitung. Peoria Demokrat. Burlington Yolksfreund, Des Moines Anezeiger. Detroit Aliendpost. Zanesvil le German Post. Cincinnati Yolks­ freund. Cleveland Waecllter und Anzelger. Cincinnati Yolksblatt , New York Handels Zeitung, Philadelphia German Democrat. Easton (Pa.) Correspondent. Des Moines ( la.) Reform. Detroit (Mich.i Yolksblatt . Dayton (O.I Volkszeitung. Sheboygan (Wis) National Democrat, Watertown (Wis.) Weltbucrger. New England •*!<) Middle States. . . . (V. South •"( West handle the wealth a^ the bankers,; for ifist' is the real situation ix number of bankers in tr. gether, thirteeu; and the capital which these thirte is if,373,000. The total ai posits in their banks is that these thirteen bankers, paying capacity of but entrusted with $3,400,000 _ pie's money with which to in any manner they ch^ face, ir would seem, that men who have a total paj but $373,000 must be of uprightness and reliability ed by the very people w. live 'and do business wij their paying capacity, " ho are the people wliol thi,s thirteen with so laL money, so much in excess! ing capacity'! .. They nun that city of a total populat In this .case. 'therefore, debtors? They are um> bankers. These!, thirteeu inl U,oOO depositors $3,400,000.1 .Sow. if all that has *beel the rapacity of the creditor i think .of the situation in wij positors have , these poor \ all that has been said about] the wretchedness arid the el dition of the 'debtor class be Of the miserable plight bankers. . , v . ' What is true in Xlockforf true Of the whole country. 1 debtors of. the country ar< and the real creditors of are the depositors, and it is of the bankers of the Uni as it is to the credit of the *. Rock ford, that although they ,_ 30 per cent, on the dollar if 'the -- of ffipe silver at It! to 1 were mad<r™ by paying iheir depositors who liavJ posited gold at 32 to 1- with thei silver at but lfi to 1. none of the b< ors of the City of Roekford, and very few of the bankers in the Ui States, who would have so mucl gain by the adoption of this free s lunacy, have advocated this pc hu h would enable them at one st to Hear so much money. I b i s b r i e f . . . s t a t e m e n t m a k e s i t that all the vilification which has bestowed by Populist orators and papers upon the creditor class of I nited States has been emitted b of totally false misapprehension who the creditors are, and it is sample ol the profound ignorance • lying the whole free silver agitatioJ they have undertaken to descril vanipsres, blood suckers, ShyloeksJ the great producing classes of this try who are its real creditors and] own all the money deposited in] banks and upon which bankers do "ess and upon the borrowing of v. most of the manufacturing and prd tion of this country is carried on. that the Populists of this country . have been claiming to be the friend! the people, have been denouncing tL upon the supposition that the denting tion has been describing the bank whereas, the real truth is. the haul are the debtors and the depositors the creditors. According to that the Populists wc accomplish free silver? Weil, there ai;e in" tlie United O.OOO.OOO depositors in the savings instiij tions of the country, and they own posits amounting to about $5,000,000,0^, If all the people in the United States who can vote, should vote, the total vote cast in a national election would bc t, a bout, 14,000,000; but the largest average!, national vote cast is about 11,000,000 hence, the total number of depositors inf savings institutions in this country large­ ly ouinumbers any ma." rity of votes which lias ever been casi in a national" election. In the single state of Xew York there are 1,700,0(K) depositors in the savings banks of that state. They have on de­ posit $600,000,000. In the state of Xew York there are but about 1.200,(100 vot­ ers; the number of depositors in the sav­ ings banks of that state exceeds the number of voters in that state by 300,- 000. These figures show the utter im­ possibility of any such movement as the free silver movement succeeding in this country, because its success would in­ volve the conversion of more people than have ever voted on one side upon any question in this country, to the abso­ lute belief tlint it would pay them fa set­ tle with the savings institutions iu which their money lies, at 30 cents on the dol­ lar for every loo cents on the dollar they have on deposit. i!Hi I! . '! German new Total bolters Included in above total , papers DEBTOR AND CREDITOR CLASSES. From h Pamphlet Kntltletl "Tlie Silver Snake." What has been said about the merits of the question in a philosophical sense is plain and seems sound, but may there not be other; reasons why silver should be coined at the ratio of 1(5 to 1 V What other reasons can there be? Well, such reasons as those given with respect to the debtor class as against the creditor class. Name some. It is said that the country for the past twenty years has been gradually getting into tiie hands of what is called the cred­ itor class, which is alleged to be a very small proportion of the population, while the great majority have fallen into the debtor class and into the absolute con­ trol of the others. Now it is alleged that these creditors, as a rule, are harsh and. practically owning the majority of the people and able to dictate to them, are "sucking" what is called the "life blood" out of the country. - Who are these terrible creditors who are doing this'.' Name a single class. Well, the bankers aud money lenders, for instance; the "money power," as it 'is called. Then the country is gradually getting into the hands of a class of which the bankers are the representatives, and these "vampires" are sucking the "life blood" out of the country, crushing the energy out of the people and enslaving t h e m . T h a t i s t l i e a r g u m e n t t h e n , i s i t ? Well, you are from Rocklord. 111. Let us take the situation right in Roekford. That city, as we understand it, is the second largest furniture manufacturing place in the world, being next to that of, (Jrand Rapids. Now, if what is said about the terrible class of creditors be true, and if what is siiid about the awful condition of tlile debtor class be true, the trouble must b(Na£__apparent in Roekford as in any other plaee~i$i the country, and there the people who have created the wealth, the workers, are gradually be­ coming the slaves of those who simply , From a Manifesto liy the Illinois Souuil Money Democrats. A national convention convened under the constituted authority of our party has just closed its sessions in the city of Chicago. If entered upon its work by violating all precedents iu the rejection of a dis­ tinguished Democrat as its temporary presiding officer. I t deprived a sovereign state of a voice in its deliberations by unseating without cause or legal justification delegates elected with all the regularity known to parly organization. It refused fo endorse the honesty and fidelity of the present Democratic na­ tional administration. It adopted a platform which favors the free and unlimited coinage of silver by this country alone at the ratio of 16 to 1, and thereby it'repudiated a time-honored Democratic principle which demands the strict maintenance of a sound and stable national currency. Finally, to make it plainer that, al­ though in name, it was not in fact a Democratic convention, it nominated for President one who is not in his political convictions, and has not always been even in his professions, a Democrat. Senator i'liliner Out. Springfield, 111.. July 11.--Senator John .M. J'aimer has come out openly against the' Chicago platform and nominees Bryan aud Sewall. He said today that bu personally knows of 300 Democrats in this (Sangamon) county who will not,, support the ticket, and he thinks lucre are twice thai number who will uot. He continued: "No Democrat, so far as I have been informed, wiil.support the Populist ticket nominated, at Chicago. My own plan is that the Democrats of Illinois, iu co­ operation with Democrats of other states, call a convention and nominate candi­ dates. 1 favor local tickets in all the congressional districts and in all the counties, in order to preserve the Derno- (.ratie organization." . Having thus stated his views as to the course that ought to be pursued the senator Was aslied if he thought there was any danger to be expected from the silver movement, lie replied: "Not a particle. Mr. Bryan will re­ ceive the support of the semi-Populists, called Democrats, the real Populists who are soon to, hold a convention in St. Louis, and those fellows out West who have no conscience in this thing, but who own the silver and want to sell it. We will whip them out of their boots. We Ought to have fought them a year ago, and I wanted to do it. but the people seemed indisposed to move iu the mat­ ter. We will tight them now, however, and give them enough of it. "There is nothing in t<he platform but 16 to 1, and there is nothing in the nomi­ nee but mouth. He is a good talker, he is a line talker, but when that is said it is all said. ' At the same time I think he is the right sort of a man for a conven­ tion of that character to nominate. He suits a gathering of that kind."