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Newspaper
Mooresville Guide
Location
Mooresville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1896
Page
5
The piece reports factions among business leaders and laborers over free silver, noting critics like Mr Donnelly and Mr Bryan attack bankers and financiers while claiming businessmen are informed and cautious. It argues that capital, finance, and business judgment underpin labor and industry decisions.
Bryan warns free coinage would drive money into hidden places as banks and investors fear a cash drain. He claims business owners worry about a wave of free market policy, causing money to disappear from active use across the United States.
The crowd surrounding Mr Brean reacts as Hoe praises his speech while critics warn that laborers fear free coinage. They say industrial expansion and job plans depend on resolving the money question, tied to Mr Winker's election and a secure business policy.
Georg Groot chairman of the National Gilver party in Lincoln accuses bankers of being enemies of prosperity. He denounces Wall Street and calls for action to shift power from financial interests to labor and farmers amid a September rally at the state capital steps.
The text recounts a September afternoon near the state capitol where Mr. Bryan lauds a farmer labor alliance as the path to victory in November. It questions farmers and workers about assurance of better times and challenges claims that business will revive if bankers and capitalists lose confidence.
The passage argues that idle capital harms workers and that harmony between owners and labor is essential. It contrasts free silver rhetoric with industrial leadership, noting Edison’s rise from worker to mind force and the impact of capital's confidence on employment and rail and farm economies from Lincoln to the East.
A harsh critique argues that skilled mind workers control industry while hands on labor depend on builders and owners. It claims William Jennings Bryan and his platform threaten business, accusing reformers of courting class prejudice to mobilize laborers and farmers against business interests in Colorado.
The Denver News misstates the 1873 and 1878 acts, arguing silver was demonetized. the actual Section 67 preserves the legal tender quality of silver dollars, saving rights accrued under prior laws and allowing payment in silver for debts.
Paul Armstrong analyzes a presidential candidate as a skilled showman, noting the crowd-pleasing grin and magician-like theatrics. The piece criticizes his lack of factual argument, reliance on heroics, and manipulation of audience emotion to mask weak reasoning.
Across the country women form campaign committees under the Woman's Bureau of the national Republican Committee. They distribute literature and influence husbands and relatives to secure votes, with a focus on first voters.
A Kansas creamery manager explains why expanding dairy sales to distant farmers fails. He links city demand, labor unemployment, and high prices to limited cream intake and cautions farmers that industrial growth depends on business minds and national policy rather than popular agitation.
The piece notes unprecedented female participation in a presidential race with women voting in Wyoming Colorado and Utah. It argues intelligent women nationwide see the issue as vital to household welfare, linking protection and sound money to family prosperity and praising the Republican candidate's character and home life.
The Woman's bureau is under the direction of Mrs J Ellen Foster, a noted Des Moines orator and writer and former president of the Woman's National Republican Association. It occupies commodious quarters in the Auditorium Annex, Chicago, away from national committee noise, with capable aides assisting Mrs Foster.
The Cleveland World quotes James Russell Lowell’s dialogue lampooning Senator Jones and his alleged plan to push silver coinage. The verse mocks a mercurial coin whose value would swing with Wall Street, accusing Jones of exploiting the public for personal gain.
In Springfield Ohio on Wednesday Bryan denounces calls to classify voters as a peasantry saying there are no peasants in the United States. He argues all voters are equal and wealth can change hands, calling attempts to divide the people into classes pernicious and demagogic.
The Galesburg Evening Mail quotes Bourke Cochran declaring that a $10 gold piece cannot have 5 cents of its value taken by any government. He argues the dollar should be paid to laborers for their earned sweat without partisan manipulation, across party lines.
The Woman's Republican association is an active group of thinking women allied with Republican principles. It is not a suffrage or moral reform body though many members engage in reforms. they focus on supporting the Republican party and its candidates without using the association for broader reforms.
Mrs Foster's immediate associates are skilled women led by Mrs Thomas W Chace based in East Greenwich R I overseeing New England work. National treasurer Miss Helen Warwick Boswell of New York directs plans from 1478 Broadway with personal visits to New York tenement districts promoting free coinage of silver and Republican votes. Chicago headquarters rely on Mrs Ioster's assistant Mrs Alice Rosseter Willard and Miss Anna Brophy of Dubuque Iowa as chief stenographer ensuring accuracy and oversight across tasks.
Mrs Foster opens headquarters and urges women nationwide to form committees to study campaign issues, promote national unity and protection. Responses span from Oregon to New Jersey as organizers are advised on effective methods and use personal appeal and literature to persuade voters that women’s welfare and children’s interests align with the Republican party.
The St Joseph Herald cites skeptical critique of free wool as failing to sustain economic revival, arguing that free silver did not materialize until after three years of weak wool demand. It notes the Philadelphia Record's shift from optimism to doubt, blaming silver hysteria for reduced sales and idle mills.
The Colorado Springs Gazette quotes Mr. Yeller urging a return to pre 1873 conditions. He dramatizes drastic reversals in rail, agriculture, mining, oil, and population, proposing a gold based money and higher prices on dollars. He calls for undoing modern gains to recreate an older era.
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