The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1896-10-13
AT INDIANAPOLIS.
The Republican Annex Ticket Re-
ceives Proper Share Of Attention.

| AT INDIANAPOLIS.
The Republican Annex Ticket Re
ceives Proper Share Of Attention.
The Outpouring of the people al
indianapolis was most extraordinary
and the crowd was estimated at 60, 600
The speaking was In the State House
grounds, and Mr.. Bryan was introduced
by Governor Matthews. He said:
This city enjoys the unique distinc.
tion OF being the birthplace and the
deathbed of a so-called party. (Great
and prolonged cheering and laughter.)
1t calls itself the National Democratic
party when 1t does not expect to carry
a single county in the whole Nation.
lCheers and laughter.) 1t calls itself q
Democratic party when it was organ
lied for the express purpose OF electing
a Republican candidate for President.
| Great cheering.)
If 1t was big enough to justify a
name, would call It a stupendous
fraud. But 1t is too small to be called
stupendous. daughter and cheers. 1
| will call 1t a transparent fraud.
(Cheers.) 1t was the first political con-
vention ever held in this country where
the members of the convention nomi-
mated a ticket that they did not expect
to vote for, and the first place where
men have received nomination and
don't want to be voted for. Cheers and
Iaughter.) The minority plank at Chi
cago opposed free coinage on the
ground that it would interfere with
international bimetallism. daughter
There could be no clearer evidence Of
intended deception than is found in the
fact that the minority at Chicago when
they had things all their own way,
rnnnA iatn6 tho ,,1o o,lr
there and came out in favor of gold
standard instead of international bi.
metallism.
My friends, l am willing to meet an
open enemy in an open field and concede
to that enemy all the rights and priv
ileges of open warfare, but when our
opponents call themselves advocates of
sound money and want to fasten upon
us an unsound financial system, when
they call themselves the advocates of
honest money and then deal dishonesty
with the American people when they
say that they are members OF Demo-
cratic party, and yet employ speakers
and openly say they are going to vote
the Republican ticket, that party does
not deserve to be treated like an open
enemy in this campaign. Great cheer
ing.)
My friends, L have no criticism to
make of any man who believes that the
election of the Chicago ticket would de-
stroy this country and who in that be-
lief votes the Republican ticket, but,
my friends, to find man who wants
to elect Republican ticket and then
has not the courage to bear the odium
of advocating it, is an entirely different
matter. Great cheering.)
"Give it to Bynum," cried voice in
the crowd.
"If you want to know what that dis
tinguished citizen"-continued Mr..
Bryan.
distinguished" came from the
crowd.
Mr.. Bryan: The gentleman suggests
extinguished citizen. Great cheering
and laughter.) But l will say distin-
guished, because he has "a past, wheth-
er he has any future or not. daughter
and cheering.)
II you want to know what he said
about the gold standard, let me read
from his speech in favor of silver in
1885: Again the advocates OF gold ap-
proach us with open hands and smiling
countenances, but fear with dagger
concealed beneath their coats"
(Cheers.)
Ah, my friends, he understood the
nature of the animal before he began
to associate with 1t. CHEERS and laugh
ter) He is right in his description.
The gold standard never fought an
open fight. My friends, instead of say
ing now that we will adopt bimetallism
and drive other nations to it, he says
that we will stand by the gold standard
and allow other nations to drive US
away from it. Cheers and laughter
[ might quote to you what Mr.. Bynum
quoted in that speech from Mr.. Ingalls,.
Now, note the language quoted from
Senator Ingalls,.
Mr.. Bryan quoted several paragraphs
from MIR. ingalls,, beginning: mo en-
during fabric Of national prosperity
can be builded on gold" and followed
the quotation with these remarks
'Those are the words of the distin-
guished Republican Senator and those
words are true. Gold is arrogant, ty-
rannical in times Of peace, and it de-
serts any nation in time OF war and
never Is friend when friend is need
ed. (Cheers.) And yet our opponents
are insisting that we shall maintain
this gold standard until foreigners
como to our relief"
The rest of the speech was devoted to
q discussion of the silver q tion on
lines familiar to readers of i4ls previous
addresses. When he was nearly
through, people in the audience called
out: Hit Bynum again." "Give it to
Cochran"