Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1896 — BIG ROW AT THE END. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

BIG ROW AT THE END.

SECRETARY CARLISLE SPEAKS IN CHICAGO. fcwMlTef Advocates Create a Scene •t the Meeting—They Fire ■ Volley of QnMtlona at the Speaker—Police Take a Hand in Affairs. Carlisle at Chicago* Secretary at the Treasury John G. Carlisle addressed an audience In the ChijCago Auditorium for nearly two hours Wednesday night on fee financial question. L Gold wa* down on the program, and pad fen platform. Silver was down on j|«U and had, fee Tda: Altogether, says in correspondent, the address of the gold Kvocate was as near a Harvey-Horr dets as fee friends of fee white metal toould make it 1 And it only wanted a jlittla more warm blood and a little less police to end in a row. 1 Mr. Carlisle had held his long and august form in the vision of the people for two hours when fee silver men began. Then the lights went out and that ended fee Incipient debate. They began this way. Mr. Carlisle had just thanked fee people for listening to him. 00l J. 0. (Roberts, a prominent member of the People's party and one of the editors of the national Bimetallist, who had stumped fee South for Mr. Carlisle in- the days whoa fee Secretary talked not of gold tmt 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, *rho had called upon Secretary Grady to read a resolution thank>ag Mr. Carlisle for having accepted the Invitation of trade unionists to address them. “I desire to ask Mr. Carlisle,” said OoL 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 word! of testimony in closing, jumped -up with the resolutions in his hand. “Whereas-—” he began. “Why don't you let the spenker 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 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 tisve- been Weyler’s proclamation. The groups of silver men, who were intent upon asking the question, were noisy and ibelligerent. But two policemen had Col. 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 thunderous “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 « «ss>owd, too, wsa'sasTiog 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 IS7B| 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 sllveritcs had fun earlier in the ate to Mr. Carlisle, until the police stopped them: | “John G. Carlisle, of Kentucky, after a lifetime devoted to the free coinage of ■liver at the ratio of 16 to 1, was sud--denly converted in 1893 to the gold standard in order to secure a seat in Cleveland’s cabinet “He how 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 for the text four years.”

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