People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1895 — THE YOUNG ROMAN. [ARTICLE]

THE YOUNG ROMAN.

Allen W. Thurman Denounces Secretary John G. Carlisle. Hon. Allen W. Thurman, Chairman of the Ohio Democratic state committee, on being asked what he thought of Mr. Carlisle’s speech, said: “To all those who are conversant with the history of the subject it is simply laughable to think that the great secretary of the treasury, in defense of the administration and sound money, has been compelled simply to make the same speech that has been made by the Hon. John Sherman each year for the last twenty years. It is almost a dead copy, and has been answered over and over again, until the people are weary of it. The same dishonesty pervades it as does the copy from which it is taken, but in the case of Mr. Carlisle it is worse, because he pretends to be a Democrat and then states that Democratic senators, among them my father, voted for the act of 1873. He is trying to create the Impression all the while by his statements that they did this with the full knowledge of what the bill contained, when he knew every one of the senators and representatives (including the grand old Beck from his own state, whom he now tries by misrepresentations to help bolster up his own traitorous position) denied in open senate that they had any knowledge of what ho tries In this speech by fraud to make people believe they did. As, for instance, Judge Thurman said: 'I can not say what took place in the bouse, but I know when the bill was pending in the senate we thought it was simply a bill to reform the mint, regulate coinage, and fix up one thing and another, and there was not a single man in the senate, unless a member of the committee from which tho bill came, who had the slightest idea that It was even a squint toward demonetization.’ 1 “Senator Beck said: ‘lt (the bill demonetizing silver) was understood by neither house of congress. I say that with the full knowledge of the facts.’ I "Nearly every member of the senate and house made similar statements. . Why did not Mr. Carlisle tell the whole 1 truth? Can people believe such a man honest? | "Do you think the speech will do the silver cause any harm?” , "Well, as I said before, Senator Sherman has been making it for twenty years, and the silver cause does not appear to bo growing any less; and, more, I suppose that Senator Sherman will make the same old speech at the Republican convention.” j Ex-Senator Thurman Is quite ill at present and unable to keep up with the > silver question, which be and bis son ' discussed for years together, and on ! which they fully agreed.