Ex Secretary Schurz Warns Against Free Silver Scheme
Ex secretary Carl Schurz addressed a Chicago audience on September 6 amid debates over free coinage. He warned that a Bryan victory and new silver policy would drive gold from circulation, trigger a currency collapse, raise prices, and plunge the economy into a severe contraction with widespread business failures and unemployment. He cited potential panics, bank tightening, and capital fleeing abroad as consequences of abandoning the gold standard.
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Carl Schurz
Secretary of the Interior
Central Music Hall
Chicago
Bryan
Congress
Silger
Reo
St. Louis
Onlwera
Cilver
Mr. Bryan
Europe
Scorca
Heapa
Plain Talk to Working Men on Free Silver Question
A concise argument from the Lumber Trade Journal urging voters to reject free silver proposals. It questions the practicality of silver coinage, explains why silver dollars would not help everyday trade, and instead calls for selecting sound money to revive business and prosperity. The piece appeals to laborers and owners alike to vote against repudiation and support stable currency.
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Bryan
Washington
Philadelphia
United States
Lumber Trade Journal
Bound Debate Praises Gold as Global Standard
Senator William M. Stewart argues gold remains the universal measure of value and wealth testing for the United States. He warns against adopting any other recognized world measure, claiming deviation leads to confusion and economic instability.
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United States
William M. Stewart
Copper and Paper Debate Foretells Money Policy
The argument for cheap silver dollars is not a guarantee of cheap copper dollars. Copper mine owners are not promised relief as the Popocrats push a platform that asserts government's right to issue legal tender paper notes. The notion points to a cheap money paradise drawn by repudiate advocates.
Massachusetts Democrats Nominate Same Ticket Amidst Hall Skirmish
Three separate conventions in Boston nominate the Suma State Tigkat ticket led by George Fred Williams for governor and J C Callahan as lieutenant governor with a deadly accident at Music Hall where James Hughes died after a fall from a fire escape.
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Suma
George Frad Williams
Gilidl
Boston
Shubbub
United States
Deston
George Fred Williams
J. C. Callahan
Joseph H. Potts
Thomas 8. Watson
John D. O'Donnell
Morris LB. Cavanaugh
Bay State
Massachusetts
Chicago
George Fred Wiliams
George Fred
Muse Hatl
Willams
Music Hall
State Central Committee
Hamiljtom Place
Timothy W. Coakley
State Committee
Eitver
Fancus Hall
Palmer
Buckner
National Democratic State Committee of
George O. Prince
Wesleyan Hall
James Hughes
Somerville
Hughes
Thacher Declines State Gubernatorial Nomination
John Boyd Thacher refuses the New York state ticket nomination due to a platform favoring free silver. He explains he was away during nomination and only learned the Buffalo convention’s platform that night. He states he did not expect Buffalo to commit the party to free silver in Albany Rept. 283.
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Albany
John Boyd Thacher
Buffalo
Alleaby
Saratoga
New York
Chicago
Allver
Porter Nominated for Governor in New York Democratic State Meet
Wiber F. Porter of Watertown was nominated for governor to replace Thacher, with Frederick C. Schraub as lieutenant governor candidate. The state committee and Danforth affirmed Porter’s alignment with the Chicago platform and a telegram from Porter supported the claim. Senator Hill was notably absent.
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New York
Wiber F. Porter
Watertown
Democratic State Committee
John Boyd Thacher
Frederick C. Shraub
Lewia
Danforth
Pickets Fire On Militia Scout At Emmett Mine
A scouting party of mounted militia near the Emmett mine on Monday night halted by a picket who fired when not obeyed promptly. Sergeant Hamilton of Company G Cripple Creek was wounded and faces possible amputation. The Miners union held a meeting with Colonel Bogle and others urging peace while President Buyne of the Western Federation urged miners to stand firm and warned against militia actions.
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Ticadville Colp
Emmett
Hamilton
Cripple Creek
Bogle
Buyne
Western Federation of Miners
Feders Lon
Guthering
Tom Johnson's Prize Mile Upends Public Record
The national circuit meet of the L A W opened at the interstate fair drawing over 10 000 attendees the largest in fair history. John Johnson won the mile in 1 47 flat beating prior marks while Welsh sprinter Jimmy Michael scored five miles in 9 51 4 5 setting a new record for a five mile distance. Otto Ziegler suffered a broken arm in heat three of the professional two mile handicap.
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Trenton
John S. Johnson
Tyler
Waltham
Mass
Jimmy” Michael
Michael
Waverly Park
Otto Ziegler
California
American cyclists set 24 hour record in Chicago Coliseum race
The twenty four hour Liegele race ended at 9 pm with Grimm 486 miles 1 151 yards Waller 482 miles 968 yards Shinner 462 miles 567 yards Miller 459 miles 233 yards Myera 427 miles 887 yards surpassing the American mark of 452 miles while the world record stands at 603 miles set in 1893 by Rivelire Also noted the Peary expedition steamer Hope sighted at North Sydney carrying notable researchers and aiming to recover a forty ton meteorite found by Peary at Cape York
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Stidors
Chicago
Coliseum
Grimm
Waller
Shinner
Miller
Myera
Rivelire
Mope
North Sydney
C. B
Peary
Hope
St. Johns
N. B
Halifax
Sydney
Alf Horton
George H. Burton
Massachusetts Institute of Technolology
G. N. Putnam
United States Coast and Geodetic Survey
Ralph 8
Tarr
Cornell University
A. C. Gill
Cape York
Double Tragedy at Bourbon Street Boarding House
In New Orleans on Saturday morning Harry Goldsmith a solicitor, shoots Joseph Goldstein a clothing drummer after a quarrel over a joke. Goldsmith then shoots himself, both men young and unmarried.
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New Orleans
Bourbon Street
Harry Goldsmith
Joseph Goldstein
Goldstein
Goldsmith
Dr. Wood
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Marshall Light CO
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