The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-10-11


rived IN this city early this morning.
There was hitch in the railroad arrange,
ments at Aberdeen and MIR. Bryans car
was delayed in that city several hours. n
crowd OF early rising enthusiasts there
routed him out of bed ut ) Il. m. Mr.
Bryan made IL short speech and then
went to bed and slept until s O'Clock, when
Fargo was reached. Mr.. Bryan had
breakfas here with Senator Roach and
the reception committee Mt the Hotel
Metropole. At 1915 he went to the base
ball park and delivered IL speech of half
an hour
At the baseball grounds n large crowd
had obtained admission to the enclosure.
On the platform, placed in Il conspicuous
place, was the somewhat historic eagle
belonging to the more historic Bud
Reeves, who once made II canvass for Con-
Sress, mounted on Il white horse, wrapped
i'll the American flag and with II stuffed
eagle perched on his shoulder.
Mr.. Bryan plunged at once into the
linancia questions of the campaign, re-
peating in large part his arguments made
III former platform speeches, and adding:
II want you TO remember that we who
advocate free coinage ut 16 to 1 are the
only people who have Il financial system
that they are willing to put before the
American people. Our opponents propose
nothing; thep opposeevcrythinp (Ap-
! plause.) We want free coinage of silver
as we have of gold, unlimited coinage of
silver rs we have of gold, coinage mt the
ratio which now exists between our gold
ana silver coinage and that of any for
elgn nation. tApplause) What do our
opponents say? Do they elaborate II sys-
TEN? Not at ALL They are simply OPP
| posed to our plans DO they know what
. = nOO1 for thn 4 &
why don't they tell us? Well you say
that their refusal to speak of and elabo-
rate plan is due to ignorance? Do you
| say that men who do not know what
ought to be done, ought to lead in the
doing of that which they do not know
anything about? (Applause) If, on the
other hand, you say that they know but
won't tell, l tell you, my friends, that
you ought to have no confidence in those
who have no confidence in you. applause
and three cheers for Bryan.) We not only
know what we want, but we know why
! we want.it, and we know how we are 90
ing to get it. We want bimetallism and
when we say bimetallism we tell YOU
what we mean by bimetnllism
"Why do we want it? Because. nv
friends, there is not enough of gold to fur
nlsh the standard money upon which
our money is based. (Applause). Our
opponents say they have Il sound fnan-
cial policy. J deny that you can build Il
/ sound financial policy deny that yol,
can build sound financial policy upon a
gold basis. Ask them where the gold is.
Ihey tell you how much there is ir the
Federal Treasury, how much in the ma
tionai bank vaults. Then they guess ut
the amount III other banks and they leave
about half of it unaccounted for. (AD-
DlHllSp \ SIX thpn, lnx,- 81 -
IS in the country and they say about
S60D, 600, 600. Ask them to point it ont
ana they may be able to point out $500,
OOo, OOO. Ask them where the rest is and
they tell you that is what is called the
invisible supply of gold in the country.
(Great applause and cheers) Do YOU be.
lleve you can erect Il substantial structure
on an invisible base? (Applause) You
cannot do it, my friends, because it is
invisible. Well, i'll sight, we have some
thing like half OF the estimated gold in
the country, but, friends, the gold in
sight is either in the Treasury or in the
national bank vaults or in the State bank
vaults. Suppose you need some of il &c
pay gold contract, how can you get ii
On such terms rs the holders are willing
to charge. (Appause.) The gold stand
ard means in its final analysis that gold
VIII ONLY be legal tender money in this
country because, my friends. YOU cannot
have two kinds of money in this country
and have one kind good enough for tn,
bondhodcr and the other kind goot
enough for the rest of the people CAP
piause Our silver must be good enough
to pay all our debts with it or il will soor
cease to be good enough to pay any debt.
with (Applausc.) The gold standard
carried to its logical conclusion, means
That all legal tender money except gold i.
is to he abandoned and that whenever vo,
have debt To pay you must go around
and find gold, no matter how hard it i.
for you to find it. (Applause More thar
that, the financial policy of the Republi-
can party not only coutem plates gold a.
the only legal tender, but it contemplate.
bank notes as the only paper money
You put the control of your legal tender
in the hands of few fnanciers and youl
paper money in the hands of an organi
cation of bank and then, my friends, al
the people will have to do is to bend theil
backs little lower to bear the additional
burdens which will be placed upor
them Great appause)
AT breckenridge, Mr.. Bryan spoke from
the rear PLATFORM of his car to good
sized crowd He was introduced by +. c.
Gibbs, rs the next President of theUnitet
States, and said:
Whether my friend here will prove hi.
right to be known as II prophet will de
pend somewhat on the result of the cleo