The Chandler News. (Chandler, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 49, Ed. 2 Friday, August 20, 1897 Page: 2 of 2
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A GOOD TIME
TO KEEP QUIET
That's What the Leading Free Silverites
Said Last Saturday.
ANY ONE CA*N SEE THEY'RE RIGHT
_____
For Once, Anyhow. "No Telling iVhat
the Issues Will Be Next Year."
44 1 he IHree Silver Problem
Will Solve Itself."
WAG
WEAKER BROS Mi
A tree sdver conference was had to. W. H. French seemed to
held at the court house last Sat- agree with Todd. He said that
urday afternoon for the purpose, it looked to him as though the
as stated in the call, 'of ox cluing free silver question woirkf settle
ing views and adopting the best itself. He had never regarded'
methods of educating the people itasthemost important issue
of Lincoln county upon the great and he consented togiveitprom-
question now agitating t he public inence last year only because it
minds and of tiie greatest iin-1 affordfed a ground for fusion He
porta nee to the American peo-: thought it impossible to tell what I
pie. The meeting had been a year would bring forth or what
well advertised and was to begin issues the present free silver
atone o'clock, but a sufficient forces would have to pick ud
crowd could not be rounded up j next year, so he favored keepm-
11U 2:o0. I hen they organized, quiet for the present .J T Har
and the object of exchanging \ per and A. E. Steutsman were
AT GUARANTEED GUTHRIE PRICES.
C. A. Filtsch, - Chandler
c
Just
views was certainly fully carried
out. The committee stated that
one purpose of the meeting was
to organize a free silver league
throughout the county. J. P.
Todd was called on to speak tirst.
He did not approve of agitating
the question now. He thought
it better to keep quiet and watch
the republicans and see if they
didn't make some break. The
people had rejected free silver,
and he doubted the wisdom of
offering the dose again, especial
opposed to present organization.
•J. M. Laws wanted to stick to
tree silvei\ He is a democrat!
and and it is about the only issue :
that he has studied up on aud he
didn't want to tackle anything'
new at his time of life. Charlie
13rownv of Clifton, spoke a very
pretty little declamation, entitled j
"The Great Red Dragon, or The 1
London Money Power." Char-
lie wants the free silver talk kept
up, for he proposes togo to con-
gress on that issue when he gets I
Otk.
This week to the new Egbert
building, on the corner just
south of the public square,
ly in an off year. Rev. Mewmaw J to be a man. Tom Hinchev in-
gave it as his opinion that Todd 1 sisted on his motion to organize '
was right. Still, he would like a si I vet- league, and, as they!
to have some populist literature could not think of any other wav !
distributed, for he had known of to put an end to the flow of talk .
two republicans being converted his motion prevailed, Then tliev !
)\ means of pop books. L. E. , had a time electing officers. No
1 ay ne favored an immediate or- one seeded willing to serve and
gamzation. He wanted everv- it look t.im for once for the. office
every-
body to understand that the Lin
coin county free silverites were
still on the war path. P. I).
Stout did not object to organized,
active work, but he did object to
regarding free silver as the
greatest issue. He is for fiat
money—greenbacks, if you
please—and is for free silver on-
ly as a step in that direction. He
believes that with silver down to
4ti cents and wheat reaching for
a dollar the free silver question
will solve itself and the ''reform-
ers" will be minus an issue un-
less they change holds soon. He
was in favor of letting the silver
question rest and take up some
straight-out, old-fashioned popu-
list issue, llis speech brought
County Clerk Geo. Smith to his
feet. George slid into office on
the free silver wave, /uid he don't
want to see the tides go out too
far, so he plead for them to hang
on, even if silver went to 10
cents, so long as the nation could
be saved by an election of free
silver county officers. That was UJW3U,
the only issue they had ever been prosperity
able to fuse upon, and he didn't where
propose to abandon it without he hooted
it took linn
to find the man. When they got
nearly through W. H. Smith dis-
covered that they-were electing
populists to all the places, and he
read the riot act in the key of D.
This took effect aftd they elected
a democrat as treasurer. liy
this time the room was nearly
empty and the meeting adjourn-
ed, nobody caring whether it
ever met again or not. The pops
had the advantage all the way !
through, for in case the 1 ree sil-1
vor business went under they
had the government ownership
of railroads to in 11 back on,"while j
the democrats had abandoned
everything when they went off I
after Willie Jaybryan. It was
made very plain, too, that when
the democrats found the free sil
vor jig was up the pops expected
to swallow them,at one gulp. No
explanation of the contrast be-1
tween the prices of silver and
wheat was attempted, and not-
withstanding the statements of
Jones and Stewart and * Leedy
and Briedenthal, the idea that
was perched any-
on this continent was
We Have
Bargains in
Dry Goods, Clothing,
Boots, Shoes, Notions.
Furnishing Goods, Etc.
Come and see us.
NEW : YORK : STORE
bst
s mmamum. itiirmn.Ti araan
Farm Loans
at.
First Block Nortb of Post Office,
Chandler, - Oklahoma
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Gilstrap, H. B. & Gilstrap, Effie. The Chandler News. (Chandler, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 49, Ed. 2 Friday, August 20, 1897, newspaper, August 20, 1897; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc116960/m1/2/: accessed April 23, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.