The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1896-09-15
.DnlAN S CAMPAIGN
SPEECHES.
AT COLUMBUS.
His Speech to an Audience Estimated at
10000.

This is the largest audience TO which l
ever tried TO speak. l have had occasion to
talk where the audience filed the house,
but never had occasion to talk where the
audience filled all outdoors. If you all vote
ms you arc now shouting, don't see how
there can be any question about the tri-
umph of free silver In the state OF Ohio.
We have entered upon a campaign which
means much TO the American Leople. II
our opponents speak truly when they de-
scribe what will in their Judgment be the
effect of free coinage, the success of the
Chicago ticket would surely be a calamity
TO the country. If, on the other hand, we
speak the truth when we describe to you
the effects of gold standard, then the
maintenance of the gold standard until
foreign nations come to our relief Is an
evil which cannot be contemplated by those
who love their country.
War on the Gold Standard.
We have begun an unceasing warfare
against the gold standard. The Republican
party, withous declaring the gold standard
a good thing, has declared that the gold
standard must be maintained l call your
attention to the fact that no party in the
history Of this country has ever in ma
tional convention commended the gold
standard It's effects are so bad that no
party has dared to uphold it.
Here Mr.. Bryan went from the front of
the platform to one side and continued his
speech
/ desire to impress your minds with the
fact that the enemywe are fighting in this
campaign is an enemy who has never gone
into an open battle The advocates of the
gold standard have never dared to submit
the gold standard 20 the arbitrament of q
ballot. Every step that has been taken
has been taken by stealth and without the
approval of the American people. When
silver was demonetiZed in 1878, the people
had not discussed it, and persons who were
members of congress and who voted upon
the measure testified that they did not I'M
derstand that the bill demonetiZed silver
Work of Silver's Foes.
When the crime was discovered and the
American people attempted to restore sill
yer to it's ancient place, by the side of gold,
the opponents of free coinage forced the
Bland act upon congress as compromise,
and as soon as the Bland act went into
force the enemies of free silver proceeded to
repeal the Bland act and left nothing in
its place. But the silver sentiment grew
until 1890, and in that year the opponents
of free coinage, being afraid of the passage
of free coinage bill, secured another COM
promise, which was known as the Sher-
man law.
Let me call your attention for one mo-
ment TO that law. In the support of that
measure Senator Sherman made a speech
and in the course of that speech he went
on to say that we required more than $42,
900, 900 new money every year to keep pace
with population and industry, and he adj
Vocated that measure on the ground that
It gave to the people more money, and yet,
in his "Recollections, published only a
few months ago, you will find that Sena-
tor Sherman says that he was in favor of
the Sherman law simply to prevent free
coinage, and that he was willing to vote
for it's repeal the day after it was enacted
If he could prevent the substitution of free
coinage.
John Shermans Declaration.
There you will find the chief supporter
of the gold standard policy in the United
States supporting a bill because it gave
money to the American people and then
declaring that he would have voted for the
repeal of it the very next day. They Sc
cured the repeal of the Sherman law, and
they pretended that when they got that
out Of the way they would restore silver to
its former place There were some who
said that the trend of the Sherman law was
to that end and that we had to clear away
the rubbish before we could build up
good system, and then there were others
who said that if we stood by free silver we
would drive Europe TO bimetallism. But
those who made this argument have proved
that they were not sincere and that their
purpose was to deceive the American peo-
pie.
In this campaign every party in its plat
form so far has declared that the principle
Of bimetallism is better than a gold stand
ard and yet in spite Of these declarations,
you know that there is a body of people in
the United States who, under cover of
friendliness to bimetallism, are seeking to
fasten gold standard upon the American
people
Mr.. Bryan at this point walked over to
the other side and saidE
! have been trying to tell those ether
people some OF the things which / would
have told you if they had not been here.
Now, you VAL lid lcCP.y SLO ;,lc Cfraid
of flood of silver, and there is nothing
that excites my sympathy more than to
find o man who never had enough money
in his life, who has not enough to pay his
debts and does not know where the money
is TO come from to buy food for the next
week. say it excites my sympathy to find
o man like that who Is trembling In his
boots for fear there will be food of money
and it will oYerwhelm him.
The Man Who Fears.
Then there is that good friend who Is
afraid that this country is going to be used
as dumping ground. My friends am
going to tell you something that wifi take
all of that fear from your minds. Fear Is
@ terrible thing to carry around with you.
If there is anybody here who is afraid that
MS ground will be used Tor dumping pur-
poses under the free coinage law, l want to
tell you that / have made calculation,
and that have n little piece Of land near
Lincoln. 1t is five acres In size, and find
that 1t is large enough to dump all of the
silver in the world on and have lots of
ground to spare / have been trying to
raise corn on it, but have made up my
mind TO offer it for dumping purposes, In
the hope that can make more out OF 1t by
renting IL for q dumping ground for silver
than | bava been able In make ont of IL