The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-07

standard instead of international blnetdl-
lism- My friends. am willing to meet an
open enemy in an open field and concede
TO that enemy all the rights and privileges
of open warfare. but when our opponents
call themselves advocates of sound money
ard 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 peo-
pie, when they say that they are members
openly say thew LleV are going to Vote the Re-
publican ticket that party does not de-
serve to be treated like an open enemy
in this campaign. Great applause and
STRIKES AT BYNUM.
MY friends I have no criticism to make
of any man who believes that the election
of the Chicago ticket would destroy this
country. and who. in that belief, votes the
Republican ticket but, my friends, TO find
man who wants to elect the Republican
ticket and then hasn't the courage to bear
the odum of advocating it, is entirely
different matter. applause ana a voice:
Give it to Bynum.) If you want to know
what that distinguished citizen-( voice
distinguished. } The gentleman suggests
extinguished citizen. Great applause and
laughter), but j will say distinguished be-
future or not. daughter and applause.) If
you want to know what he said about the
goid standard d. let me re- read from his speech
gain the advocates of gold approach
us with open arms and smiling counte-
nances, but fear with a dagger concealed
beneath their coats (Applause) All my
friends, he understood the nature of the
animal before he began to associate with
it. He is right in his description. The gold
standard never fought an open fight. 1t
carries the knife of the assassin and does
its work behind the mask of burglar. 1t
is not an open enemy, never was and never
Will be. Great applause and cheers.) Now,
see. see how well ne understood them. He
said: Oh, they say. We want silver; we
are bimetallists. but want honest
dollar. Suspend coinage and we will drive
England, Germany and other nations to
bimetallism, and then the price of silver
bullion will appreciate and our dollars will
be worth a hundred cents. That is what
he said in 1885, My friends, instead of say
ing now that we will adopt bimetallism and
drive other nations to it. he says that
will stand by the gold standard and allow
other nations to drive us away from it.
applause and laughter) ] might also
quote to you what Mr. Bynum quoted in
that speech from Mr.. ingalls,. Now note
No enduring fabric of national prosper
ity can be builded on gold Gold is the
exchanges of nations are affected by it;
its tendency is to accumulate in vast
masses in the commercial centers. and to
move from kingdom to kingdom in such
volumes as to unsettle values and stir up
the finances of the world 1t is the instru-
ment of gamblers and spectators and the
idol of the miser and thief. The object of
so much alteration. it becomes naughty
and sensitive and shrinks at the approach
1t always disappears at the slightest
alarm: it begins to look for refuge: it flies
at peace. War makes it a fugitive No peo-
pie in great emergency ever found a
faithful ally in gold. 1t is the most coward
ly and treacherous of all metals. 1t makes
no treaty that it does not break. Tt has
no friends whom it does not sooner or lat
er betray. Armies and navies are not
maintained by gold. In time of panic and
calamity, shipwreck and disaster, it be-
comes the chief agent and minister of ruin.
NO nation ever fought a great war by the
aid of gold. On the contrary. in the crises
of greatest peril. it becomes an enemy
more potent than the foe in the field. But
secured. gold reappears and claims the
fruits of victory.
Those are the words of the distinguished
Republican Senator and those words are
true. Gold is arrogant tyrannical in time
of peace and it deserts any nation in time
OF war and never Is friend when friend
SHOW me a man who thinks that this
Naton cannot survive unless it draws on
british capital; show me man who
thinks that our financial policy ought to
have for it's object the borrowing of money
abroad, and l will show you man who
would make the people bow their necks
to foreign oppression and observe whatever
upon us tGreat applause and cheering.)
MEXICO VS.. TURKEY.
Our opponents tell us that if we favor
free coinage and introduce it here that we
will go to the standard of Mexico WHY
don't they tell us that if we maintain the
gold standard we will approach the stand
ard of Turkey, which also has gold stand
ard? Great applause) 1 see, my friends
that the ArmenianS have been called An
archsts by those in authority in Turkey
and 1 suppose that means that they are in
favor of bimetallism and have raised their
voice against the gold standard In Turkey
Great applause a1id laughterD They call
A1ln .l1i Cfc-
posed to allowing foreign nations to send
in a financial policy, and then compel US
Great applause) But I was thinking to-
day, as / saw the people who lined the
streets, as | looked into the faces of those
members of the various clubs who escorted
US from the depot to the hotel and / Won
dered, my friends, if these were Anarchists
how the patriots of this country would look
if they could get them in a body once and
gaze upon them. tremendous cheering
and applause) And, my friends, if those
have assembled in similar meetings
throughout the country were really enemies
of their country. 1 would like to know
how you would save this country from its
enemies. Great applause) Why the men
who insist on doing legiSlating in time
of peace never fight any battles in time of
who call you Anarchists when you insist
on having hand in legislation. but III
say: oh. Anarchists, save our property
because you know we cannot afford to
hght- (Wlld applause and cheering. Voices:
Hit Bynum again., Give it to Cockran.)
II think from the expressions which
have heard that / can safely leave him
with you. and am sure that he will get
nothing more than he deserves. Great APP
piause and cries Of Give it to Cochran;
We'll attend to Bynum.)
Having secured two platforms four years
ago almost identical and having secured
nominees equally satisfactory, the New
York fnanciers have sat back and said
They are both gost' men; they are both
good men,. fGreat applause and laughter)
Either one would be perfectly safe Con
it this year. They got the st. Louis plat
form all right. but somehow they missed
their calculations when they got to Chi
cago. This year they only got one plat
form which is all right according to the
Wall-Street idea, and this year they don't
say, Both good men, U.aughter.) They
simply say: One is a good man. the other
a dangerous man.. a dangerous man
Great applause and laughter and cries of
You don't look like IT'D
Now, my friends. why do you suppose
that those New York fnancIers do not like
our advocates of free coina ge? / can under
stand it. All that say IS that while
they good anybody else they are
no better than anybody else. and they do
not like to be put on the same level with
common humanity. Great applause) We
say that they have their rights. like any,
body else, and rights superior to 10 one
selves and to think for themselves but
they have no right to vote for anybody else
to think for anybody else, or to act for
anybody else. Great applause.) We say
that they have Il right to use their money
in a legitimate business way. but we deny