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MAJ. BACON’S STAND.
HE MAXES A STRONG ELEA NOE SIL
VER AS A MONET METAL.
PLANTSHIMSELF SQUARELY IN LINE AND
Declare*' for Free Coinage at the Ratio of 16
to I—A Great Day with the Democrat*
and How the Campaign Start*.
Canton, Ga., July 3.—(Staff Correspond
ence.)—When Major A. O. Bacon and Hon.
H. W. J. Ham took the stump here today
and hoisted the proud old democratic ban
ner for the campaign that is coming, It
was quite enough to remind one of tne
stormy days of the memorable Georgia
campaign of 1892.
It has been a rekindling of the flame of
democratic fervor.
The campaign is on, and to judge from
the zealous manner in which these two
distinguished Georgians put their hearts
into the active battle today and the equally
enthusiastic manner in which their utter
ances were received it is a conclusion read
ily and easily made that the democratic
forces of the Empire State of the South
have not wandered far from camp since
the last campaign, and that they stand
ready to respond to the bugle blasts of the
xnen to be selected leaders in the approach
ing combat.
It has been a great day in Canton.
There have been three rousing political
meetings here. The county republicans
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MAJOR A. O. BACON.
net at the courthouse and took steps to
wards making a campaign in Cherokee
county. The third partyites refused t-o hear
the democratic speakers who had been
booked for the occasion and just as they
did down at Douglasville at the beginning
of the campaign of 1892, tvent off to them
selves, holding a meeting at the old court
house that stands oft on an opposite hill.
Thus, with the regularly called demo
cratic gathering and the meetings of the
other two parties, Canton has been ablaze
with political campfires today, and shining
out up here on these lofty mountains the
lights from these campfires serve to throw
over the state a pretty accurate indication
of the nature of the great struggle that is
to come this year in Georgia.
The republicans remained in the court
house after their own meeting to hear the
democratic speakers ot the day t but the
populists fled to the schoolhouse and had
speeches of their own, unwilling through
apparent fear tc listen to the way in which
the live topics of the day were discussed
bv democratic leaders.
Air. Ururge Brown Speaks.
The county courthouse was fairly crowd
ed with citizens of Cherokee and some
from surrounding counties when Major Ba
con entered, escorted by Messrs. George
Brown, Colonel Newman, Mr. Ham and
others, and the applause that greeted the
party was deafening, attesting the tact that
the democrats of this section of the state
are stiil iired with zeal, and marking their
respectful greeting to the orators of the
day.
Mr. George Brown, of Canton, introduced
Major Bacon to the great gathering in a
very handsome and appropriate speech. He
paid:
“Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the
Convention; The pleasant duty has been
assigned to me of presenting to the de
mocracy of Cherokee county an illustrious
Georgian, who is here by the invitation of
your executive committee for the purpose
of addressing you upon the political issues
of the day.
“It is a question of the greatest impor
tance in the beginning of this political con
test, fraught “s it is with momentous in
terests not only to the democratic party
but to the entire people of Georgia, that we
should have a clear and correct conception
ct the true democratic position upon all of
the great questions that are to be deter
mined by the people at the ballot box in the
coming election. It is a genuine pleasure
in this era of our country’s history—in this
tige in which the average politician changes
his political views as he traverses each suc
cessive sign in the political zodiac—in this
>n which the political demagogue flour
ishes as he was never known to flourish be
fore, and in which political insincerity is
not unfrequently crowned with the reward
of virtue; when the wild and visionary
schemes of the office-seeker is inflicted upon
a susceptible public as a remedy for imagin
ary wrongs and fancied evils—in this age of
political pigmies, it is a lofty privilege to
sit in the presence of a man of sublime sta
ture and of heroic mold. (Applause.) It is a
pleasure to hear questions which effect our
rights and interests and the rights and in
terests of our children after us discussed by
a sincere man of recognized ability, by a
genuine patriot and a real democrat. (Re
newed applause.) It will be our pleasure to
■hear such an address today from a distin
guished citizen of this state, whose public
career and whose private life and character
is such as to commend his views to the earn
est, the patient and the intelligent consider
ation of the people of Georgia. The public
work of our distinguished guest forms an
important part in the history of Georgia.
“In early life he consecrated the magnifi
cent powers of his intellect to the service of
his state. He has devoted his life towards
maintaining and promoting the best inter
est of her people and towards promulgating
tne great principles of the democratic party.
He has been a recognized champion of civil
and political liberty. No man has a clearer
conception of the rights and obligations of
the citizens to the government and of the
government to the citizen or a more pro
found desire to preserve those rights and
liberties inviolate forever. (Cheers.) He
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has left the impress of his genius upon the
statute books of our state. In the halls
of legislation he was recognized as a wise,
a conservative and a courageous leader—a
man of strong convictions and one who al
ways had the courage to express them.
Nature has made him a leader of men ayd
his talents have placed him in the front
ranks of the advanced thinkers of the pres
ent age. I refer to that distinguished demo
oiat whom I now present, the Hon. A. O.
Bacon, of the county of Bibb.’*
Mr. Brown’s utterances in praise of Major
Bacon were received with hearty cheers.
The cheering lasted long, and when about to
die out would be taken up again and again.
Major Bin-con Speak*.
Major Bacon was greeted with such an
ovation as seldom marks the reception of
political speakers on the occasion of their
first speech in a campaign.
He had to wait several seconds for the
tremendous applause to die away. He was
confronted by a large concourse of repre
sentative citizens of north Georgia, and the
impress of eagerness and interest was clear
ly stamped on their upturned faces. There
were women and children in the audience,
but for the most part it was made up of old
men whose hairs were white with the frosts
of age and whose faces showed plainly the
mark of intelligence and thoughtfulness.
But they were all warmed with a common
impulse to give Major Bacon a cordial
greeting, and they did it.
When, finally, the cheers were hushed,
Major Bacon proceeded to speak as follows:
“Fellow Citizens—Fellow Democrats: I do
not say ladies, because I included them
when I said ‘fellow democrats.’ (Laughter.)
I come before you completely overcome by
the showering compliments of Mr. Brown,
who has, with a pleasing speech just given
me introduction to this audience. I am grate
ful to my friend Tor his gracious words,
but my own realization of how little I de
serve this praise is, I do assure you, most
embarrassing.
“Fellow citizens of Georgia: I have come
to Canton today to speak to you about pub
lic issues that confront us in these days and
times. I have come at the request, or invi
tation, of your democratic executive com
mittee to speak on behalf of the party and
its principles. I have not come in my own
behalf—l have not come In the interest of
any man—l have come upon an invitation
that simply brings me here to speak for rhe
Interest of the party, an invitation that it
has always been my pleasure to accept when
I could, an invitation .hat I shall always
continue to accept when I can. (Applause.)
“I have come to speak to the all-impor
tant question: ‘Why we should be demo
crats,’ and in proceeding to my task I w’ant
to repeat what I have just said—that I am
not here fpr any attempted display—not here
in my own interests, but here in the hope
of doing my duty in the beginning of a try
ing ca-mpaign. We are in the beginning of a
campaign that will be to try to show that
the democratic party is not worthy of trust.
We are in the beginning of a campaign that
is going to be a frightful clash of men who
formerly fought, under one flag, for one
cause, and that cause the liberty of the in
dividual.
“We are in the beginning of a campaign
in which we will find those who have banded
together to teach members of our grand old
party that they must go forth to worship
new gods and walk through new fields. 1
regret that the time allowed me today will
not.permit of an extended and thorough dis
cussion of the question w'hy we should now,
just as always, trust the democratic party
to give us those rights we feel we ought to
have—those enjoyments we might enjoy
from the general government. All we want
in this country is for each individual to
have a fair chance. The great touchstone
of the democratic party is that it seeks to
give the individual a sovereignty he can
wear beneath his hat. (Applause.)
■•’Whatever imposes upon a citizen burdens
not borne alike by all other citizens of that
government is not democratic.’’
Here Major Bacon went into a detailed
history of the democratic party, tracing it
from Thomas Jefferson. He said that the
principles of Jefferson would never d.e.
They have been incorporated, in the demo
cratic party and they would live, for the
democratic party would live on and ever.
He said there can never be but two parties
in this country. There never had been but
two main parties, although there had been
many efforts to raise another and plant it
permanently. The two parties that must
live on are: First, the par|y that believes In
individual sovereignty, and second, the oth
er party, that believes in protecting the few
at the expense of the many. He said the
two parties representing these two contrary
spirits in this country today were the demo
cratic and the republican parties.
"Now,’’ said the speaker, “I am told that
there is a liberal element of republicans
here. 1 don’t know you by name, but I want
to say that 1 don’t believe there is one of
you who is a republican by principle. You
are republicans because your fathers were
republicans and they were republicans be
cause of war issues, but the war has been
over so long you can see those issues are
dead. Now, in point of fact, can you be
different from democrats in Georgia? Your
interests are the same. We ai til in the
same boat. How can we be wet ani jou
dry?
"Is there a man in Georgia who can be
benefitted by a party that never seeks to
benefit the section in which he fives?
"I am told there are a good many popu
lists in this county. I am also told that
they have not honored me with their pres
ence today. I am sorry, for 1 wanted to
talk with them In a spirit of reason, of
soberness and of truth. I want to tell them
that there can 'be but two parties in this
country. My friends, tho populists, claim
that they are the heirs of Jefferson. If s®,
they ought to be in the democratic
the party of J-efferson. (Laughter and ap
plause.) The truth is they are not the heirs
of Jefferson, and while they have incorpor
ated many things in their platform that
Jefferson favored, they have other things
in there that would make Jefferson turn
over in his coflin.’’ (Renewed laughter and
applause.)
Here the speaker went into a full discus
sion of the tariff, which took up very much
of his time. He showed how the protective
tariff of the republican party had caused
citizens to pay more for their necessities of
life than they ought to pay, and called this
a tax. His figures on this argument were
very interesting and carried conviction with
them.
"The democratic party opposed this meas
ure,” said Majfr Bacon, “for the democratic
party has always been opposed to giving
certain benefits to a few not enjoyed by the
whole people. Is there a man within the
sound of my voice who will uphold the prin
ciple that a few should enjoy privileges of
the government not enjoyed by the masses?
If not, then there is no man within the
sound of my voice but who ought to vote
the democratic ticket.
“According to the figures of authorities
there are only 7 per cent of the people of
this great commonwealth that enjoy the
benefits of the protective tariff. T:we are
seventy laborers to every owner in this
country. These laborers do not enjoy lhe
benefits of the protective tariff. It is true
that it is an indirect tax, and does not fall
on the individual directly, but, if a woman
pays S2O for a dress that she ought to get
for $lO the husband is $lO poorer, whether
he knows it or not.
“Suppose there was a fellow clothed by
the right of the government to stand by you
every time you bought a hat or a plow and
said the government authorized him to
take half of the money you pay, thus mak
ing you pay twice what you ought. You
would rise in rebellion. The amount of
money that goes out from Georgia on ac
count of the tariff tax amounts to from
$15,000,000 to $20,000,000. It goes to the pockets
of men to whom you owe nothing. Now,
suppose Tor once that the Georgia legisla
ture were to pass a law requiring you to be
taxed to pay in a single year the debt of
the state, which is, I believe, something
like $10,000,000. Don’t you know you would
rise in rebellion before you would pay the
state’s debt this way in a single year? And
yet the amount you would thus pay would
be less than the people of Georgia pay an
nually to these protected men by the tariff
tax.” (Applause.)
“Why don’t you democrats repeal the law
if it (s so wrong?” askjed a republican in
the rear of the courthouse.
Major Bacon: “Good question. If you be-
lieve the law is wrong come with us and we
will all repeal the law. (Laughter and ap
plause.) I care not whether you be repub
lican, democrat or populist if you believe
the law is wrong come, let us all get on the
same safe platform of the democratic party
and we will make one strong pull for a cor
rection of the evils that exist. Come, let
us get in the same boat.”
Voice: “But your boat is too rotten.”
Major Bacon: “Let’s get together and
make it stronger since you agree as to
principle.” (Renewed laughter.)
Voice: “The bottom has dropped out ot
the boat.”
Major Bacon: “But since you don’t deny
that the principle of the democratic party
is right, come with us and let’s put a new
plank in the boat, brother.”
Amid a roar of laughter and applause the
voice subsided.
The Cost of Living.
Major Bacon proceeded:
“What was the increased cost of living
after the McKinley bill was pushed through
the congress of the United States? From
the statistics of the republicans themselves
it is found that the cost of living was in
creased in the United States to $185,000,000.
“If I am wrong in this calculation, 1 live
in this state and intend to remain in it,
and my opponents will have due chance to
correct me on the two or three hundred
stum«s that I intend to speak from during
the campaign.
“Now, the tariff bill that is being put
through congress now is not all I would
have it myself, but it is a step in the right
direction, and I am in favor cf going that
way. If we can’t go quite as fast as I
would like to go I am in favor of going
slow. Surely I am not in favor of going
the other way, or of going in no direction,
but standing still. Whatever there may or
may not be in that tariff bill, one thing is
certain, there will go with it a tax on in
comes.” (Great applause.)
Amid the applause there were many in
terruptions, which Major Bacon threw aside
by saying: “I am telling the truth, and I
am right and will not be driven from my
opinion of what is right or wrong by demo
crats, republicans or whatnots.”
“1 am not in favor of a state income tax,”
he continued, “for the reason that the in
dividual ’is already taxed for his property.
His income in this state is already taxed.
But as to the national tax, I favor it, for it
is the only way to get a lot of propidty
that escapes taxation.
Loyal to tho Party.
“There are those who will say the d<V,op
eratic party has done nothing for the cFf'i
try, nothing for the relief of the peopJßMt
is a mistake. The party has been at T’.rk
in the Wight direction on many measujhs,
and while it has not done all 1 wanted n|to
do, all I think it ought to do, I want tc«,ay
that if the democratic party, through its
chosen leaders, had done nothing at all lor
the country, if it had done nothing 1 warAed
it to do and all that I didn’t want it t< 6/o,
I would still be for it now and forever for
the glorious nrineioles for which ft arum Apit
t’o the republic.” (Great ’applause.)
The Financial Question.
The greatest excitement of the speaking
was caused by the announcement of Major
Bacon’s position on the financial question.
He did not mince matters at all on t’sis
score. He spoke plainly and to the point.
He had, after arriving at Canton, written
down what he had to say on this line, ;■ nd
asked his audience to bear with him while
he read the few paragraphs of his speech
which bore on this intricate and all-impor
tant issue. He said he did this with a view
of not being misquoted or misundersti .■ d
by any one. He wanted to plant himself
firmly and squarely on this issue and he
wanted the people of Georgia to know ex
actly his stand. Therefore, he read his
ideas as to the money question, and those
views, as read, were as follows:
“I am free to say that, while no n, vn
estimates more highly than 1 do the fa;
portance of the tariff question, 1 think ’pe
financial question of today in no degree
second to it in importance. I do not
it the part of statesmanship to ignorej,
or to depreciate its importance. (Appian I)
The tariff question and the financial
t.on are the two important mutters ‘,V Z
fecting today the welfare a.id happiness iji
the American people. It is a gross wrong
by means of the protective tariff to take
from one man a part of his means without
consideration and give it to another man
for his own private benefit. It is a wrung
none the less gross, by any species ot leg
islation, to make the money in which
a man must pay his debt worth twice as
mu.ch as that same money was worth when
the debt was contracted. Whenever this
is done the creditor gets practically twice
as much as his contract intended he should
receive, and tl.e debtor pays twice as
much as it was understood he would have
to pay. This is a most serious question to
the south, because it is a debtor section.
The effect is to practically double the debt
without increasing the consideration for
which the debt was contracted. When this
is done one-half of what is taken from
the debtor is wrongfully taken, and when
from a debtor section twice as much as
is due is thus exacted, bankruptcy and
impoverishment must follow, fills is what
has occurred with us. As the value of
money by contraction and by the demoneti
zation of silver lias gone up, the maiket
price of property has gone down in the
same proportion. The man who contracted
indebtedness within the safe limit of one
half the value of his property has found
that property to shrink in market value
until the amount of that debt exceeds toe
value of that property and he has become
insolvent without neglect or fault on his
part. Under such conditions it is impossi
ble for any business to have any reasona
ble prosperity, and adversity and rum must
overtake a largo portion of all enterprises.
In consequence, business enterprises winch
would otherwise have been prosperous have
failed, honorable and capable and indus
trious merchants have become brankrupt,
fortunes have melted away, homes have
been broken up and honest men have be
come idle for lack of work.
"Is this an overdrawn picture? Let those
shut their eyes to it w'ho will, but the truth
of it is attested by the experience of every
community in Georgia. I think they make
a great mistake who say that in the finan
cial status everything is all right, and that
nothing more is to be done. The people
know that great evils do exist, and they
can have no confidence in the correction
of such evils by those who deny their ex
istence. The physician cannot be relied
upon to heal a disease when he denies that
his patient is sick. The pilot who declares
that the way is all clear and safe cannot
be trusted to save the ship from the rock
that lies in the midst of the channel. There
fore, I say that the tru,e course for the
democratic party is to say and cry alou-l
that the evils do exist, and that the party
intends to correct them, and will correct
the’m. And I say further in the utmost
earnestness that these evils were brought
upon the country by the republican party
and not by the democratic party, and that
the democratic party will correct them.
"There was never a thought of the de
monetization of silver until the republican
party, in 1873, then in control of all three
departments of the government, withou.t
warning to the people, struck the silver
coin from the money of the country, al
though silver was then actually at a pre
mium over gold. From that day tint’d
March 4, 189’3, the democratic party has
never been in control of the government.
Within that time there had grown up many
changed conditions in the commercial
world, and many democrats who are in
truth ardent bimetallists, have remained
in doubt and hesitation as to the safe course
to pursue in restoring silver to its legitimate
place in the coinage as the money of final
payment. While some of us may think
these doubts and hesitations unreasonable,
the democratic party is not to' be con
demned because in so important a matter
the many differing views of honest demo
crats as to details have not been reconciled
In the short time which has intervened.
“Democrats who agree in the end which
Is to be reached, differ as to the road
which will best lead to it. Some of us be
lieve that the great depreciation in the value
of silver bullion as measured by the gold
standard has been mainly due to the fact
that the chief function of silt er has been
denied to it, to-wit: its right to coinage
and use as money of final payment, and
further that the restoration -of silver to
the right of coinage would promptly ad
vance the value of silver bullion, if not
to its former standard, to a close approxi
mation of it.
“The great problem upon which the dem
ocratic party ip now engaged is how shall
the coinage of the silver dollar be resumed
in such manner as will preserve the parity
between the silver dollar and the gold dol
lar? The preservation of this parity is
demanded in the democratic platform which
is, and should be, the law to every
democrat. Even if this requirement were
not in the platform, this parity would be
an absolute necessity. No man who under
stands even the A B C’s of finance
er political economy favors a
depreciated silver dollar. I desire
to say for myself that I would not favor
any silver dollar which is not on a parity
with the gold dollar in its purchasing power.
Parity means equality, and parity between
a silver dollar and a gold dollar means
equality in purchasing power. How shall
this parity be secured? Some think that
the future coinage should be on the basis
of 16 to 1, some on the basis of 18 to 1 and
some on the basis of 20 to 1.
“Grave questions are presented here
which democrats should consider, not for
division and strife among themselves, but
for consultation and agreement with each
other. The proposition to resume the coin
age of the silver dollar at the ratio of
20 to 1 increases the value of the silver dol
lar 25 per cent. If it be true, as many
believe, that silver, measured by the values
of property, has not depreciated, but that
gold has appreciated, it necessarily follows
that to increase the value of the dollar
25 per cent is to add 25 per cent to every’
debt, public and private, in the United
States. If a man owes a debt of $1,600 it
is the same thing as if the government re
quired him to pay’ $2,000 to discharge that
debt and the same is true as to every other
private debt, amounting in the aggregate
to many millions of dollars. If silver has
not depreciated when measured by prop
erty values, a ratio of 20 to 1 m the silver
dollar adds 25 per cent to them all. The
state and county and municipal debts in
Georgia amount to $20,000,000. These debts,
although in the names of the state and
the counties and the towns, are to be
paid bv the people. The ratio of 20 to 1
adds $5,000,000 to this indebtedness, and the
people of the,state must pay that also.
“We now have 400,000,000 of silver dollars
at the ratio of 16 to 1. Are they to remain
outstanding and are we to have another
issue of dollars in circulation containing
25 per cent more of silver, and are the two
coins to be of equal or of different, value?
If the measure of the value of the dollar
is the quantity of silver which it contains,
then, necessarily, they must be of different
values. By what calculation is 20 to 1
ascertained to be the ratio by which parity
will be secured between the silver and the
gold dollar? If the present bullion value of
silver is to control, the ratio should be
nearer 30 to 1 than 20 to 1. If the recoinage
of silver is to enhance the bullion value
of silver, by what abstruse calculation is
it ascertained that such enhancement will
secure paritv between the gold and silver
dollar at 20 to 1, but will not secure it at
the ratio of 16 to 1? (Applause.)
“I repeat, these are grave questions for
the democratic party to consider and .to
decide. But it must be apparent that the
coinage at any ratio greater than that in
the present dollar is fraught with the
greatest difficulties and with the greatest
injustice to the debtor classes, and that,
in consequence, every’ resource of states
manship and every device of (inance should
be exhausted in the effort to restore the
coinage of silver at 16 to 1, the same ratio
as the 400,000,000 of silver dollars now out
standing. before resort is had to any dif
ferent ratio. Theory can never solve the
question. Practical experiment can alone
ascertain the ratio *at which parity between
the gold and silver dollar will be found.
The part of wisdom and of justice is in
making the experiment at the present
ratio and .to make it as promptly as possi
ble. If that fails to show the parity—the
equal purchasing power—between the two
coins it will ba time enough to try another
ratio. I repeat, no sensible man wants a de
preciated silver dollar.
“The democratic congressmen from Geor
give voted for the seigniorage bill, by’ which
$50,000,000 would be coined at 16 to 1. Every
congressman who voted for that bill com
mitted himself to that extent to that ratio.
“But. while these differences of detail do
exist, it is folly to talk about dividing the
democratic party’ on account of them. I
repeat the democratic party is a bime
tallic pni’tv. The platform of tho party de
clares fc,“ bimetallism in the most emphatic
language. Mt. Cleveland avows that he is
a bimetallist. The differences which exist
are not as to whether silver should be re
stored to the right of coinage. All agree
that it should be coined on equal terms
with gold, and the only question is, how
can that be best and most safely’ done?
“But be the differences on this question
great or small, they, should in no man
ner slacken our allegiance to the democrat
ic part”. That party is anchored by the
great fundamental principles of the gov
ernment. Upon it alone have we rested our
confidence in the past. To it alone can we
look with hope for the future. (Tremendous
applause.)
Air. Ham Turned Loone.
When Major Bacon had finished his
speech Colonel Newman, the well-known
.humorist of the mountains, took the stand
and made a speech introducing the next
speaker o f the day, Hon. H. W. J. Ham,
of the county of Hall.
He is the same old Ham the boys used
to shout themselves hoarse at when he
told his funny stories and he has a supply
of a great many new ones, though his
same old ones catch the crowds now just as
they did two years ago.
He held his audience spellbound for a
long time and they shouted and applauded
when he finished for many’ minutes.
At the close a resolution of thanks was
passed expressing gratitude to the speakers
of the day for coming to Canton and
speaking as they had, expressing confidence
in their way of handling democratic meas
ures.
The Major Asked Them Not To.
It was the intention of the friends of Ma
jor' Bacon here today to adopt resolutions
endorsing him for the United States senate,
and they were on the eve of doing it, when
Major Bacon asked them not to.
“1 have come up here not in my own
interest,” said he, “and my presence here
is my reason for asking that you do not
give me your endorsement at this time.
It was not the purpose of my trip. I came
to make a speech for the principles of
democracy, and if I have been able to do
anything on earth for the good of the party
I shall rest content with what has been
done in Cherokee today.”
With such a speech from Major Bacon to
numbers of his friends, they’ decided not
to pass resolutions endorsing him.
The county, however, is solid for him it
would certainly seem, to judge from the
reception he received here today.
At the meeting of the democratic execu
tive committee today in this county it was
decided that Colonel Torn Hutcheson is- to
be the democratic nominee for the state
legislature from Cherokee.
REMSEN CRAWFORD.
GARRARD’S CANVASS.
The Gentleman Says Frankly that he Wants
to boa Senator.
Hogansville, Ga„ July 5,-(Staff Corres
pondence.) —“Major Bacon said he went to
Canton to speak for the party, not himself.
He is more honest than I am, for I am
here to speak for Louis F. Garrard, candi-
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LOUIS F. GARRARD.
date for the United tSates senate, and ask
support of his candidacy.”
Such was the opening sentiment in the
speech of Hon. Louis F. Garrard here in
Hogansville today.
He comes out plainly and makes the state
ment that he is running for the senate and
is making no bones about asking favors here
and there. He is waging an aggressive
campaign. He says he means business
and his friends are warming up with in
comparable fervor as they listen to him
from day to day throughout this region of
the state.
Amon.” other things Mr. Garrard said:
“You will indulge me, I know, my’ fellow
citizens, while 1 trace for a moment my
career as a democrat—as a worker in the
ranks of the party. For the past twenty
years nearly I have been at work as best
I could for the promotion of the democratic
party. 1 have bared my breast in the
thickest of the fights and been content to
ask for nothing myself. This is the first
time I have come before the people of the
state of Georgia and asked for any per
sonal favors. I have always been in the
fight for the party. I have tried to work
for the people ana the whole people, a6d
not ask for office; but not many months
ago, when the question was asked who
would be a man for the people to unite
on, representing their common interests
anil no particuliar faction, and my name
was mentioned by generous friends and I
was asked to run for the United States sen
ate, I decided to be a candidate.
Mr. Garrard proceeded to read an editorial
from the pen of the lat? Henry W. Grady,
complimenting him at the time of the pas
sage of the bill, for the work. It was a
handsome tribute of praise to him who was
at the time a young man in the Georgia leg-
said the bill served to adver
tise the state of Georgia from one end of
the continent to the other, for it set her up
as a state that would attempt so bold a
project. It gave her credit and several oth
er states atte’mpted to imitate the move
ment.
"But,” said he, “I will not take up your
time, fellow citizens, to trace my career
since that time. I have always tried to do
my duty to the party and to the people, and
1 will always be found in the ranks hard at
work for them. My record is, at least to
an extent, a part of the history of Georgia,
for it. toucnes upon the vital issues that
have been met by the people of the state
since tne dark days of reconstruction and
doubtful politics.
Hi* Financial Views Given.
“I will move on to the vital questions
that now confront you. Foremost among
them I consider certainly as one of the
most important question to be discussed
the financial situation of the country today.
I want to say that it is idle to talk about
doing anything with silver until we can
work up a demand for silver. The 10 per
cent tax on state banks has not been lost. I
am of the faith that it can yet Im brought
up and passed. It can be tacked on with
many modifications, without changing the
object in view and passed by congress. The
only question is: Will congress do it?
“Fellow citizens, I am of the opinion that
the day has come when wavering policies
of men in offices of trust should not be tol
erated by the people. (Applause.) I believe
that the men we send to congress and the
United States senate owght to be brought to
close account with the people they repre
sent, and I am in favor of bringing them
to a reckoning. (Renewed applause.)
“We need to get them nearer to the peo
ple. I believe that United States senators
ought to be elected by the people. (Ap
plause.) If not elected outright, I think
there ought to be primaries at which the
question is voted on direct for senators and
the .legislators instructed to vote for them.
1 think It is coming to this, too, in time.
“It has been said that my recent letters
smacked of the politician because I said
that we ought to get from the United States
treasury our share of the spoils. If so then
I honestly confess that I am a material pol
itician. (Applause.)
“But, to return to the question of silver
currency. I am disposed to set forth a
faith about silver that is something unusual
among other candidates and other public
speakers in this day and time.. I believe
that we must get a demand for silver be
fore we can do anything with the metal as
a money metal. I found at Chicago when I
sought to put the repeal of the 10 per cent
bank tax in the national platform, that the
strongest argument I could use was that
it would create a deniand for silver. The
banks would use sliver as their reserve
fund. This, according to their custom, for it
is in Uie first place bulky and hard ‘to han
dle, and the people would not ask for it,
and in the second place it is easily obtained.
The banks, I argue, would hold it as their
reserve fund, the state laws requiring that
they hold from 15 to 20 per cent of their
stock as a reserve cash fund. This would
take up' a great deal of silver and the de
mand would be created.
“Further than this, I am in favor of
giving silver the right of way up to $lO, and
the gold $2.50 pieces and the gold $5 pieces
be drawn in and re-issued in larger amounts
so- as not to contract the issue of currency
and let their place be filled by the coinage
of silver dollars. Ilet silver have free sway
of currency up to $lO. If necessary lot sil
ver certificates be issued in s;> denomina
tions, but let them be redeemable only in
silver coined dollars. All of this, you can
see, would cause a demand for silver. Now,
this is the practical view of the silver ques
tion. It is the business man’s view. It is
the thirig to do without dipping deeper into
the much vexed silver question. It is busi
ness on its very face.”
There was some applause to the outlining
o< Mr. Garrard’s silver ideas and policies,
and he continued.
“The people of the country have no idle
fancies about silver,” said he. “They want
more money and a good, safe money, and
if it is papbr money they will be satisfied,
just so it is good money. Build up a de
mand for silver and the question of ratio
need not be discussed. That is simply a sec
ondary matter.
They Cannot Be Taxed.
“Further than this we need not go with
the silver question. My friends, there is
one recourse for us of the south even if
this scheme does not prove satisfactory.
We can issue certificates and circulate
them and they cannot be taxed. I speak
advisedly when I say that by a decision of
the United States supreme court certifi
cates issued for a sort of local currency,
payable in merchandise and the like, can
not lie taxed. I remember how we had to
issue them in Columbus last year by the
factory there. The certificates were not
taxed. They could not be taxed. The law
is with vs. So, you see, we can get along
all right anyhow if it comes to a pinch like
this.”
As io ilie Tariff.
He did not say much about the tariff.
He said that he could talk for hours upon
it. but that the question had been pretty
well settled by congress. This thing of
making great speeches on the tariff he
thought was out of place. He said that the
average tariff speech of the statesman
going around preaching tariff reform could
be bought for $lO anywhere already writ
ten, He said tjiey used to cost more, but
that they were now selling cheap. “All
you want about the tariff,” said he, “is
the sentiments of the Georgia> state plat
form, which said tax the luxuries of life
and let the necessities go as nearly free
as possible.”
He spoke in favor of the incojne tax, and
thought that the national congress will
have this settled for the people before long.
He said that it would bring relief to many
by the more equitable division of the bur
den of taxation.
This caught much applause from, the
crowd. , , ~ .
He «aid that Georgia had been the first
state to take the matter up and that he
had been the one to write it in the Geor
gia state platform two years ago himself.
After Mr. Garrard Colonel Mobley, of
this city, was called on and made a strong
speech calling for a reunion of all white
men tn the state of Georgia beneath the
banner of the unterrified democracy.
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