The San Francisco call., 1896-10-10
THOUSANDS CHEER
CHAUNCEY DEPEW
Great Crowds at the Big
Coliseum to Hear the
Orator.
Lays the Lash On Bryan for His
Peculiar Theories as to
Silver.
THAT GREAT "CRIME CT '7s."
To Punish the Criminals" the Ne.
braska Candidate Must Unearth
Some Noted Men.

CHICAGO, ILL, Oct. 9.--Fiiteen thou
sand people crowded THE Coliseum to-
night and heard Chauncey M. Depew de-
liver an address. Two or three thousand,
unable 10 gain admission, were turned
away. The doctor was escorted from the
Auditorium to the Coliseum. distance OF
eight miles, by the Mckinley and Hobart
Bicycle Club and the employees OF several
railroads. Mr.. Depew was late in arriving,
and it was o'clock before he appeared on
the platform. He was greeted with cheer
ing which could not be checked for ten
minutes. The famous speaker was intro
duced by Eden G. Dewitt of the Mar
quette Club, under whose auspices the
meeting WAS held. In opening his address
Mr.. Depew said:
This is the largest political gathering have
ever seen. / wonder If any of you got away.
l witnessed to-day two processions-oDe OF
them representing the business men, Inteiii,
marching for Mckinley and sound money;
the other one, which we passed on the way
down, looked like Coxey's army after they had
reached Washington. [Cheers]
Mr.. Depew then continued in part as
follows:
Some years ago when / was working with
might and main tor the success OF your un-
eoualed Worlds Fair, Chicago adopted me-
AS an adopted son it is a pleasure to be present
in your city on Chicago day. Chicago is an
epitome of the United States. 1t is the con-
centrated expression of the Lille, the energy
and the development of the country. Chicago
was burned to the ground in 1871.
1t took two years to readiust relations to the
esme he e1me ahn oofa Of 1875 by wSch silver
deEonetized and the United States went upon
q gold standard. Twenty-three years have
passed and Chicago presents the most remark.
able object lesson in finance in the history OF
gold as a standard by which to measure all
other kinds of currency and all the product or
the farm and factory. of brains and labor.
Mr. Depew then expressed his gratfhca-
tion at having had the bicyclists as an
escort, who, he said, are almost unnani-
mously in favor of Mckinley, sound
money and pros sperity. On all other ques-
tions they may differ, but they cannot diff
fer on questions which affect the life or
honor OF the Nation. Continuing he said !:
The three last elections were carried by
small majorities, but when the lunaties and
the cranks and experimen talists got possession
CT the convention at Chicago and drove out
nine-tenths of the experienced brains of the
organization, and when they made their alll-
ance with the IDIOT asylum at st. Louis the
safety OF the country demanded that sane men,
without regard TO previous party affiliations,
should combine end save the honor and busi-
ness o f the Nation.
Referring to the s.crime of 1872 he said
the criminals were Senator Stewart and
Senator Jones of Nevada. First, Bryan must
hang them; he must suspend upon the
same gallows every living member of the
Congress of 1873, both in the Senate and
in the House, because they all voted for
this bill.
He must 60 to Monticello and take out
the bones of Jefferson from their tom b
and hang them as an exhibit for his Or
der Of demonstration in 1896, to the Her
mitage for General Jackson's skeleton, to
Marshield for Webster and to Ashland
for Clay, to South Carolina for Calhoun,
to Missouri for Benton and to Auburn for
William A. Stewart; for they, either in
"a or SO or '73, spoke for or advised the
demonetization OF silver. Continuing DR..
Depew said:
The criminals are all the Presidents, from
Jefferson to Garfield; all the Cabinet officers,
from Hamilton to John A. Bates; all the
mighty men OF debate, from Madison, Webster
and Clay to Lincoln and Blaine. And who are
their judges and executioners? This famous
spike team which is careering aud cayortin g
about the country; the wild broncho OF Ne
braska in the lead; the staid, slow-geited,
church-going, Droken-winded Puritan nag
from Maine at the wheel, and his mate, the
. untamed colt from Georgia, trying not to pull
the wagon, but 10 kick the stuffing out OF the
Puritan.
We have absolute liberty in this country of
political freedom and religious liberation, and
so we must view with liberation the followers
of this new religion. When Columbus discov-
cred America ten ounces of silver were equal
TO one ounce of gold
When the Pilgrim Fathers landed on Ply
mouth Rock thirteen ounces OF silver were
equal to one OF gold; when our forefathers had
driven the British Government and created q
free and independent republic they declared
that the standard of value was fifteen ounces
o. silver, to one of gold, When we ask Mr..
Bryan why he repudiated Columbus and the
Pilgrim Fathers and the founders of the Re-
public. why he proclaims that the Government
must say that sixteen ounces OF silver are
equal in value and must be taken by the peo-
pie as equal to one ounce of gold for the prod
ucts of their farms, the output of their fac
tories and their la Dor, when we know that by
doing so he Is only getting half value and a
fraudulent return to the farmer, the manufac-
turer and the wage-earner, his answer is:
"Times have changed since the Revolutionary
War, and Pm not George Washington"
Mr.. Depew laid the hard times and panic
to the free-trade tariff and tam pering with
the currency. The remedies he proposed
was to get out OF the woods and into the
roads that led to employment and mar
ket. The panic had thrown 81, 600 railroad
men off the payroll. This in turn had cut
off the demand for other workers in fac
tories and shops. To restore the old con-
ditions OF prosperity Mr.. Depew asserted
the necessity Of restoring confidence and
assuring stability by the election of Nc
Kiniey and Hobart.
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