The main addresses of the day
were the speesh of Got. Riekards in
opening, and an exhaustive paper on
the "Silver question and the evils of
monometallism," read by Wharton
Baker, the Philadelphia editor, at
the evening session, before an audi
ence of 7,000 Gov. Riekards said,
in part:
"We do not meet as Republicans,
as Democrats, or as Populists, but as
American citizens zealons fer the
right as God gives us to see the right,
and earnest in the advocacy of sound
financial principles. The masses of
the people in the East as well as in
the West, have grown distrustful of
the financial ability of a class of
reasoners whose policy has invited
the most far-reaching disasters that
ever overtook the business interests
of our country or paralyzed the en
ergies of our people. Every proph
ecy made by the gold men has been
discredited by the progress ef.events
and evry prediction made by the
silver men has been venhed in the
colossal misfortunes that have visit
ed our land. The logic of the situ
ation demands a reversal of the pub
lic judgment and it will come. The
argument of the single standard ad
vocate has matured from a gilded
theory into a condition that ought to
appeal with irresistible force to the
candid observer of events. Existing
conditions, reflecting the misfortunes
of the business world upon every
phase of our industrial and social
life, have stimulated a demand on
the part of
the masses for a better
knowledge or nnanciai propositions
that self-interestB may be respected
at the polls.
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