e a
kindness I can never repay; and remember, whenever you are in want, you
will find in me a true friend,' at the same time giving her his name
and address.

"Taking her child by the hand she turned to go, but pausing at the
door, said:

"'God bless you, gentlemen! Accept the heartfelt thanks of a poor,
friendless woman for the kindness and courtesy you have shown her.'
Before any one could reply she was gone.

"A silence of several minutes ensued, which was broken by the
proprietor, who exclaimed:

"'Gentlemen, that lady was right, and I have sold my last glass of
whiskey; if any one of you want more you will have to go elsewhere.'

"'And I have drank my last glass of whiskey,' said a young man who had
long been given up as utterly beyond the reach of those who had a deep
interest in his welfare, as sunk too low ever to reform."

SPEECH AT DECATUR, INDIANA, SEPTEMBER 22, 1896.

The occasion being a rally in which the Hon. B. F. Shively, candidate
for governor, and John R. Brunt, candidate for congress, had spoken
over three hours.

The Indianapolis Sentinel said of Mr. Bogardus that "he held the
closest attention throughout, and closed _amid great cheers and cries
of go ahead_."

MR. BOGARDUS SPOKE AS FOLLOWS:

Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen:--That phase of the money question
which is before the American people today and upon which we will vote
in November is merely shall we, or shall we not, open the mints to the
free and unlimited coinage of silver as they are now open to the
coinage of gold. Concurrent with, and as a part of the phase, is the
declaration that when the metals are so coined that the money made
therefrom shall be treated equally under the law, and that the
Democratic idea of equal rights to each and special privileges to
neither, shall be again incorporated in our national laws. A great many
rash, and it seems to me foolish things, are being said concerning the
independent bimetallists of our country, to charge the free coinage
people with being repudiators and anarchists, is but to put the party
making such false statement in the position of a base misrepresenter,
and sooner or later the charge must slap its maker in the face. There
is no doubt in my mind, but that there is a party in this country who
is advocating repudiation, but it is not the Democratic party; it is
the Republican party that is advocating it. Webster says repudiation is
the act of rejecting or refusing. If a pa