The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-10-16

Grand Rapids, Mich, Oct. 15.-Wil-
liam j. Bryan addressed tonight, in this
city, one of the largest audiences he has
yet spoken to during the campaign.
There were three meetings arranged for,
one ut Campau Square, one at Powers
Opera House, where he addressed the wo-
men of Grand Rapids, and the other at
Lockerby Hall. The address made at
Campau Square was short one and in it
there were no new features
While the speech to the women was not
tue principal one, i'll regard to size, Mr..
Bryan made it of special interest in his
arragnment Of Republican leaders. He
put Col. Robert G.. Ingersoll, Murat Hal
stead, exPresident benjamin Harrison
and Secretary of the Treasury John G..
Carlisle in the same category us Steven
sons "Jekyll and Hyde His denuucia-
ton of them was scathing and bitter. 1t
was as follows
eve cannot afford to cngraft upon
Government II bad system even though we
could get temporary benefit from it.
The best thing that parents can leave to
children is just government that robs
nobody for anybody clscs benefit.
''Now, in our discussion of the money
question we can prove our cause in many
ways. We can apply principles well
known to this question and by the appl-
cation of those principles make the subject
clear, but it is not sufficient. We can
prove our cause by authority and there is
not II position which we take in this cam
paign but what we are able to support
that position by authority of the most
eminent Republicans in this country. 1t
will be remembered few years ago there
was Il great deal of talk about character
play. TO not know whether | ought to
call it character or two characters, but
it was CDR. Jekyll and Mr.. Hyde You
will remember that the same person ap-
peare1 at different times in different
characters One time the man was good
man, benevolent. kindly disposed; Mt
another time the same person was Il mean
man, william. seeking to take human
life. My friends, we have the character
of Jekyll and Hyde illustrated we'll when
we come to discuss the silver question
because we can cite to you n number of
men who have been both Jckyll and Hyde.
We can cite II number of men who have
been kindly disposed and interested in
the public welfare Mt one tine and at
another time, when they have been sup
porting system that means more mis-.
cry, according to Mr. Carlisle, than all the
wars, pestilcncc, and famines that ever
occurred. | want to call your attention
to two or three persons who have said one
thing ut one time AMI another thing at
another time on the question. Our oppo-
ncnts have been able 10 bring into the
campaign all the movable guns they have
enlisted on their side and are sending out
throughout the country IL great many
pieces of artillery, aud one of the abiest
speakers they have sent out is Col. Inger
soil, who brings to this money question
his grent ability as an orator Mr.. Ingcr-
soil is now using his great weapon, ldi-
Guile, against silver. Let me show you
what he once said on the other side of the
question and, my friends, he will have to
talk Il long while before he can answer
| what he has said on our side, and / think
| 1T is fair for us to assume that we still
| have with us all those who have not been
| able to answer themselves. Here is what
| he said i'll Il speech made some wears ago
| to the farmers and is published in pam
| phet form by G.. 5. Baldwin, 1874 Madison
street, Chicago
.'He says: For my part | do not ask
any interference on the part of the Gov
eminent except to undo the wrong it has
| done. do not ask that the money be
made of nothing. | do not ask for the
| prosperity born Of paper, but do ask for
| the RECOMMENDATION of silver. Silver was
| sition upon every solvent man, a fraud
upon every honest debtor in the United
| States. 1t assassinatcd labor 1t was
done in the interest Of avalce and greed
and should be undone by honest men.
| The farmers should vote only for such
| men as are able and willing to guard and
advance the interests of labor.
| My fri ends, that is what he said when
| be talked to the farmers some years ago.
what he said then was true. 1t was true
then and it is true now. The silver of
this nation was excluded from the land
by law that was never discussed by
mankind. No one Will claim that the
American people ever demanded demon
citation of silver and yet, my friends,
that law, passed secretly and in the dark
has been on the statute books ever since
We have modified it to some extent, but
we have never been able to undo it.
49, gu VIII notice that one of the most
| distinguished journalists of this day, one
| of the most eminent men in his profess
sion, Gr Murat Halstead, is doing all he
can to maintain the gold standard in this
country. Let me read what he said on
the 9Th or October, 1877. ] take this ex-
tract from n letter of that date from the
New York journal Of Saturday, October
10th. In that letter, nineteen years ago,
Mr. Ualstead said:
"tThis British gold policy was the
work of experts only. Evasion was essen
tial to success in it and possibly because
coin was not in circulation and being out
of public view could be tampered with
without attracting attention. The mon
ometallic system of the great creditor ma
ton was thus imposed upon the great