Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-10-16

est man in the Country are the men who do
not uroducc a liar IN wealth and the only
regulations are the men that produce il all.
If You are for the fee aud unlimited coinage
Of silver then vote for William ]. Bryan. Gap
plAuss.)
Gentlemen, you who have been Republicans
lei me say TO you, the machinery of the grand
old party has fallen into the hand. of a gang
of lard pirates. The great mass of the Repuh-
licars are all right. They are sensible and
patriotic American citizens have no ahrs.
for the mass of the Republican party. They
are not rcpudiatnrs. they are not anarchists
they are misguided, that is all Blinded by
partsanship. 80 fnr as am concerned have
studied this question as best | could | don't
claim to be an authority on political science,
political economy or anything of that kind
am student l am studying the question
| am searching for the truth. ! have Joined the
army OF reform and for the rest of my life
propose to fight for the rights of men. Great
applause) If live as long as my father did.
into the coffin of the gold monometaism
CHEERS and applausc)
They tell lis that this is not moral question
But when we see. travelling across the barren
plains and Rocky Mountains. thousands OF our
best men, leaving their families to the care OF
friends and neighbors and starting out looking
for something to do by which TO earn food fol
their families, gentlemen it looks to me like
| a great moral question. When we see the idle
and the hungry men standing upon the street
corners when they should be at work earning
Il livelihood for their families. it looks very
much like moral question. When we know
that, working in the workshops and upon
| farms are thousands of children who have to
aid in the support of the family when they
| should be in school, it certainly becomes a
moral question Salaries of school teachers re-
duced, school houses closed and the financial
condition of the school district in a depressed
condition, II is Il moral question. / suppose |
| am what the world would call sinner but If |
was Christian and should vote for the gold
ticket and when come to die should be SO
fortunate as 10 have my soul waited away to
| the realms of eternal jog, | should want to en-
ter Paradise with a mask on. | would never
want to face him who 1890 years ago turned
| over the tables of the ShylOck and the Scheen-
les in Jerusalem. (Cheers and applause.)
The Republican party is holding ghost dances
throughout the country. (Applausc.) They
talk Of the dead. and with their backs turned
to the rising sun of progress, their eyes fixed on
! dead past, they are marching in solemn pro-
cession like ghosts of departed wisdom Zap
plause
why a gentleman in Olympia was talking
about the silver party being dead. He talked
about il in both prose and poetry. He said that
the silver rarity was dead and his little epitaph
that he put upen the tombstone was like this
Here lies my little baby,
1t neither kicks or hollers,
1t lived but twenty days
And cost just forty dollars
(Laughter0
That was the epitaph that the gold standard
men put upon the death Of the silver party; but
third day Of November you will read sonnet hing
like this:
" Here lies my gold bug baby,
1t early met its fate;
Too bad it had to go,
But twas born four years too late.
Mark Hanna carried its coffin,
Mckinley dug its grave;
And all the wealth of Wall street
Our darling couldn't save.
1t passed away in silence
1t neither kicks nor h0llers;
1t lived but four and twenty months
And cost ten million dollars
CHEERS and applause.l
George III and the British government ell
deavored TO fasten taxation without representa-
lion on this government and they met
GEORGE WASHINGTON AND THE CONTINENTAL
ARMY.
The slave power of the South endeavored 10
fasten slavery upon this government and it met
ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND THE GREEN
BACKS,
And the trusts and Eastern syndcates bond
holders and combinations who are trying TO
enslave the American people by gold mono
metalism have met
WILLIAM }. BRYAN AND FREE
SILVER!
(Cheers and applause.)
/ thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for your at
tention. If there is a goldbug here who would
like 10 ask any questions will gladly answer
him. tNo questions were asked.)