Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1896 — BIG ROW AT THE END. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

BIG ROW AT THE END.

SECRETARY CARLISLE SPEAKS IN CHICAGO. Free-Silver Advocates Create a Beene at the Meeting—They Fire a Volley of Questions at the Speaker—Police Take a Hand in Affairs. Carlisle at Chicago. Secretary of the Treasury John G. Carlisle addressed an audience in the Chicago Auditorium for nearly twp . hours Wednesday night on the financial question. , , Gold was down on the program, and had the platform. Silver was down on gold and had the fun. Altogether, says a correspondent, the address of the gold advocate was as near a Harvey-Horr debate as the friends of the white metal could make it. And itj-anly wanted a little more warm blood and a little less police to end in a row. Mr. Carlisle had held his long and august form in the vision of the people for two hours when the silver men began. Then the lights went out and that ended the incipient debate. They began this way. Mr. Carlisle had just thanked the people for listening to him. Col. J. C. Roberts, a prominent member of the People’s party and one of thg editors of the National Bimetallist, who had stumped the South for Mr. Carlisle in the days when the Secretary talked not of gold but of silver, arose in his seat, and, in a voice that was heard above the din of

cheering and other noises, demanded the attention of the chairman, M. J. Carroll, who had called upon Secretary Grady to read a resolution thanking Mr. Carlisle for having accepted the invitation of trade unionists to address them. “I desire to ask Mr. Carlisle,” said Col. Roberts, “to answer one question.” “Sh-h-h-h-h,” said the people, and Mr. Carlisle did not turn his retreating form. M. J. Carroll, who had not called for short words of testimony in closing, jumped up with the resolutions in his hand. “Whereas-—he began. “Why don’t you let the speaker answer the question,” shouted another man, rising in an excited little group, “Whereas ” “Mr. Chairman, why don’t you ” The “whereas” seemed to have it and the resolution, which advised all the workingmen to read Mr. Carlisle’s speech and voted him unlimited thanks, was read, although for the rising din it might as well have been Weyler’s proclamation. The groups of silver men, who were intent upon asking the question, were noisy anfl belligerent. But two policemen had <sol. Roberts in their eyes, and found him and conducted the Populist to the rear. Chairman Carroll finally managed to put the resolution of thanks to a vote. There were thunderouk “yeas,” but the “noes” would have carried any ordinary caucus. Little whirlpools of turmoil were forming in different parts of the house, and the policemen were kept busy. The crowd, too, was moving homeward. “Hurrah for Eugene V. Debs, anyway,” yelled a silver man. This called forth a vigorous response. “Hurrah for John G. Carlisle,” shouted a gold man in the gallery. The “house” was plainly “gold.” By this time the police had circulated their rotund forms quite thoroughly and the belligerents were quieted. The question which they wanted to ask. and for which Col. Roberts rose, related to Carlisle’s speech in 1878,-when he pronounced the demonetization of silver “the most gigantic crime of this or any other age,” which would “ultimately entail more misery upon the human race than all the wars, pestilence and famine that ever occurred in the history of the world.” The silverites had fun earlier in the evening by distributing the following tribute to Mr. Carlisle, until the police stopped them: “John G. Carlisle, of Kentucky, after a lifetime devoted to the free coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1, was suddenly converted in 1893 to the gold standard in order to secure a seat in Cleveland’s cabinet. “He now comes here, fresh from the banquet tables of the Wall street gold bugs, to tell the idle and starving workingmen of Chicago how they may be successfully robbed by the gold bugs fbr the next four years.”

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