The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-28

Erie, Pa, August 27.-Notwithstand-
ing the three long addresses and the he If
dozen short speeches which he had made
| yesterday, Mr.. Bryan plunged into the
battle again and this morning spoke from
| the balcony of the Reed House to 1000
| people assembled in the street and oppo-
| site park.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bryan had been enter.
tanned at the residence of Otto Germer,
Jr., and at 1920 they drove to the hotel
where they held reception. He was
afterwards escorted to the balcony, where
| he received an ovation from the crowd in
| which workingmen seemed to be in n ma
| jority.
The party left Erie for Buffalo at 10: 49,
Mr.. Bryan devoted himself to the perusal
of Mr.. McKinley's letter of acceptance
When asked if he would give his views
| upon the letter Mr. Bryan said:
II have read the letter. I do not care
to make any comments on it. 1 suppose
! it can be considered the golden text of the
| Republican lesson.''
Buffalo, August 27.-Apparently the
| entire population of Buffalo turned its
| footsteps tonight toward Music Hall,
where candidate Bryan addressed 1000
| people, as many as could be packed within
the four walls, while unnumbered thou
sands filled the neighboring street.
Mr.. Bryan was escorted to the hall by
the "Cleveland Democracy" the city's
Oldest party organization, and by ward
clubs carrying torches.
| Mr.. Bryan on being introduced ex-
| pressed his qualification over the large
| gathering and added:
| 81 shall carry back to the people OF the
West the news-not the news, either, be-
cause it is no longer news-that the Chi
cago platform is supported and endorsed
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! all the toiling millions of the East as
well. Great applause).
"While platform covers a great many
| questions necessarily, because there is no
time when there is but one subject, but
VIII lie there are various planks and vari-
Gus policies, there must be one supreme
issue, and in this campaign there is q
! supreme issue. The issue is made be
tween those who believe in gold stand
ard and those who oppose gold stand
ard. There is no middle ground; those
who are not with us are against us.
| There is no place between the lines for
| people to stand.
| 1--WE must judge people not by their
words but by their acts. Our opponents
! tell us that we must try and secure an
international agreement and that they
want to maintain gold standard until
other nations will help us let go it.
! "The Democratic party is opposed to a
gold standard; not only opposed to it, it
is unalterably opposed to it. 1t is SC
much opposed to it that it will not per-
nit the American people to be bound by
it, though every nation on earth shall de
mand it. We did not achieve independ-
ence for the purpose of bowling to the
yoke of any foreign nation.
! 1.-The arguments in favor of bimetallism
are directed toward the intellect of the
man who thinks and to the heart of the
man who feels. The gold standard argu
ment is directed to the pocketbook of the
man who wants to live while others die.
Who in this nation will defend the gold
standard as good thing9 And if no
party has arisen in more than n century
of progress, If no party this year has
arisen that tells the American people that
the gold standard confers blessings upon
the human race, who will say that we
must keep thing that is bad until for
eign powers shall take pity upon us and
relieve us of the BURDEN,