The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-09-03
BRYAN At growers HOME
THE BOY ORATOR PRATTLES TO
THE PEOPLE OF BUFFALO,
NEW YORK.
GIVEN A TREMENDOUS EECEPU ON.
His Speech Was Repetition of Former
Efforts, With the Usual Quotation
From Carlislc-Route From
Erie to Buffalo.

of Grover Cleveland, turned their steps
tonight toward Music hall, where Can
didate Bryan addressed 1000 people, rs
many as could be packed within the four
walls while unnumbcred thousands filed
the neighborng streets. The day in
Buffalo had been the greatest ovation
Mr.. Bryan has received in the ''encmy's
country" and the night meeting. which
ended it, showed almost, if not quite. as
many as the notification in Madison
Square garden. Upon their arrival in
the city from Eric at $50, Mr.. and Mrs
Bryan were escorted to the Gcnescc ho-
tel. There they were quartercd in apart
mcnts which had been occupied by Mr..
and Mrs. Cleveland just before the cleo
! ton of the president to his office and
upon the walls of which hung portraits
of the president and his wife.
a reception was held in the hotel par
lors in the afternoon. when Mr.. and Mrs.
Bryan shook hands with Il constant line
of callers.
MIR. Bryan was escorted to the hall by
the Cleveland democracy" the city's old
| est party organization, and other clubs
bearing torches. The line of march was
/ crowded almost as thickly as was ban
ner borne down the line, blazing with
the words a public Office is public
trust" by the Cleveland club.
Hon. Charles +. Tabor was chosen
president of the meeting and when the
lists of vice presidents was read, the
name of Norman T.. Mack, editor of the
only free silver paper in Buffalo. was
cheered almost as enthusiastically as Mr..
Bryan had been.
"A fattering demonstration greeted the
| candidate as he arose to speak. He said:
Ladies' and Gentlemen. Fellow Citi-
zens-l can not express to you the graft
tude | feel when | see the interest of the
people of the Empire state are taking
in the campaign upon which we are lust
entering. | am grateful to the gentlc-
men who have presided at this meeting
and those who have gathered to lend thei,.
enthusiasm to the cause. | shall carry
back to the people of the west the news
not the news either, because it is no
longer news-that the Chicago platform
Is supported, endorsed not by west and
south alone, but by all the toiling mil
lions OF the east as we'll (Applausc.1 |
am aware that in the writing of plat
form it is impossible to suit the opiniops
OIL an; l recognize that people who think
VIII differ and that we often find in Mat
lHh Nk-n do
and we fail to find in platforms some
times a mention of policies which we rc-
gard as important. But platforms are
not written by all of the party; they arc
written by ma jority of a party IAN
plause), and when majority of n marry
writes a platform the others in the marty
must either stand on it or get out of thr
party. (Applause) There is no other
plan known except the rule of majority
or the rule of minority, and it is bet
ter for the minority to be alcnated than
for the voice of the majority 70 Inc , smnl
pressed. (Applause.) You can supnort
those who stand upon the Chicago bat
Tor, although you dissent from parts of
IT, But L stand upon the Chicago plat
form because L believe in it. While n
platform covers a great many questions,
necessarily there must be one supreme
issue and in this campaign there is a su-
preme issue. The issue is made by those
who believe in gold standard and those
who oppose gold standard. There is
no middle ground. Those who are not
with us arc against us. There is no
stand. "
"The republican party does not saw
that gold standard is IL good thing.
There are those who are supporting the
party who believe that a gold standard
IS good thing, but they have not the
courage to risk the issue before the peO-
pie, who have suffered from Il gold stand
ard. (Applause) We must Judge pco-
pie not by their words but by their acts.
Our opponents say they will try to secure
an international agreement and they
simply want to maintain a gold standard
until other nations will help MS TO lnt 90
OF it. daughter and applause.) Can
you trust the people who wrote the ST.
LOUIS platform to restore bimetallism!
Never until you can gather figs from
thorns and grapes from fig trees. Those
who are responsible for the gold stand
ard are not the ones to whom to look for
deliverance. As well might you ask
Pharoah to lead the children of Israel out
of bondage as to ask the republican party
to break the shackles of a gold standard.
(Applause)
THE democratic party is opposed to
a gold standard. Not only opposed to
it, it is unalterably opposed to it: it is
so much opposed to it that it will not per-
init the American people to be bound
by it, though every nation on earth shall
demand it. (Appause.) We did not
achieve independence for the purpose of
bowling to the yoke of any foreign power.
Applause) Let me offer two or three
suggestions for you to put to your OppO-
nents. They are not new questions; !
have suggested them before; / shall sug-
gest them again. In the first place, if
you find a man who is opposed to the
democratic PLATFORM ask him if he be-
lieves in a gold standard; if he says he
does, tell him he is man who is with
out party, because no party in the
United States ever declared for gold
standard. (Applause.) There are peo-
pie in this country who had not studied
the money question until the Chicago
convention; persons who supposed. of
course, because they had been reading
the eastern papers, that the gold stand
ard must be all right, but when they got
to studying the question they found the
arguments which they supported are
based upon the solid rock of truth. The
argument in favor of bimetallism is d.
rected toward the intellect of the man
who thinks and TO the heart Of the man
who feels.
'The gold standard argument is direct
ed to the pocketbook of the man who
wants to live while others die. Great
applause.) Who in this nation will de-