EMERSON ON SOUND MONEY SPEECH By Willis Geo. Emerson At Lockerby Hall Grand Rapids, Mich. October 29th, 1896. Publication and Printing: Perry S. Heath Chicago, Ill., October 30th, 1896 SPEECH OF HON. WILLIS GEORGE EMERSON, Lockerby Hall, Grand Rapids, Michigan. October 29, 1896. Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen--I am indeed pleased to meet such a magnificent audience in this manufacturing city of Grand Rapids, noted from ocean to ocean for her culture, commerce and progress. Especially am I pleased to speak in your city in behalf of sound money, protection and reciprocity, under the auspices of the Young Men's Republican Club. I bring you greeting from the state of Illinois, and promise you that she will give a majority of 150,000 on next Tuesday for William McKinley. I am proud to hail from the grand old state of Illinois--a state that gave to our common country in the darkest days of our nation's history, Logan, that matchless civilian general; gave the unconquerable Grant, the tanner from Galena, and offered up as a holy sacrifice the "rail-splitter" president from the Sangamon bottoms--Abraham Lincoln. But to-night I remember that I am in the state of Michigan--magnificent commonwealth--almost illimitable in her resources, unconquerable in her courage, phenomenal in her progress, invincible in her pluck, unswerving in her patriotism, the home of the gallant Alger, and the former abode of that matchless statesman and patriot--the gifted Zach Chandler. Fellow citizens, we are in the closing days of the most momentous political campaign ever witnessed in our common country. He who would question the sincerity or honesty of a political opponent's views in this crusade must for the time being forget the school house on the hill and the high plain of intelligence of American citizenship. KNOWS "COIN" HARVEY.