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Newspaper
Lamar Register
Location
Lamar, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1896
Page
7
Selden P. Spencer argues against free silver and Bryanite policies, asserting gold as the superior basis for currency. He warns that 50-cent silver dollars would force gold out, debase credit, and cut wages, urging support for McKinley. He cites historical monometalism shifts and contrasts national practices.
The passage outlines arguments against free coinage of silver at a one to one ratio, stating it would be harmful to labor and business. It asserts every dollar is equally good as gold, and emphasizes government control of currency and credit as essential to financial stability.
A satirical poem by John Kendrick Bangs in Harper's Weekly mocks a political candidate whose speeches miss the mark. It describes a figure whose boastful rhetoric travels the globe and returns to defeat him, ending with a somber dirge for his party.
Co BE Dugger of Decatur county Georgia was carried over the forty foot Oceana falls while bathing but escaped unharmed.
William Jennings Bryan will skip handshakes in Chicago over three days as part of a campaign tour. He endures frequent grips from silver supporters. the Chicago group orders a restraint for October 23 to 30, while he travels by special train to at least thirty seven Illinois towns and delivers twenty speeches in Chicago.
A Jacksonville report says the Dauntless, sought by federal officials after dockside munitions transfer at Palm Beach, continues landing more arms and men for Cuban insurgents. It has reportedly completed two landings and is on a third voyage, using a Turtle Harbor storehouse fifty miles away to conceal transfers and coal supplies to extend its absence from port. The vessel remains bonded from a prior trip and aims to evade custody until a five trip contract is arranged.
Madji Rahsian, a Christian Turk aboard the La Gascogne, described the August massacres in Constantinople. He said about 30,000 Armenians were killed in three days, with wagons of bodies and dumps of corpses into the sea. He reported the cries of the wounded went unanswered.
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