People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1896 — Gold Bugs Decline. [ARTICLE]

Gold Bugs Decline.

They Will Not Meet Win. P Smith In Joint Dleeneeion on tliedime of the If ay. War P. Smith from Indianapolis, who has been stumping the county all week, reports Bryan gains in every township visited by him. On Gifford’s Ranch, peopled by 140 tenant families, two-thirds can be put down for Bryan and Home Rule. At Egypt Thursday night the gold bugs had imported a judge

from some neighboring county to meet Mr. Smith in joint discussion. An eager crowd waited Sthe debate with manifest impatience. At 7 p. m. the judge appeared with his grip filled with documents, loaded for “Bar”. After while, Smith came upon the scene, when a consultation was held and it was agreed that Mr. Smith should make the first speech. Smith took the floor and proceeded to make the opening address, which consisted of a clear statement of the stock arguments of Carlisle, Bynum and Harrison, and a logical deduction therefrom, which showed their inconsistency so clearly that at the expiration of an hour, when Mr. Smith proposed to yield the floor to the judge, said judge politely declined to attempt an answer, whereupon Smith went on and talked an other hour, and then the meeting adjourned. Mr. Smith, when he first came into the county, received notice, that there would be some one at each meeting to answer him, but this is the only occasion when any one appeared, and this one “appeared” not to be spoiling for a fight after hearing the unanwerable arguments in favor of honest money. ■