The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-15

,.svaa a. s.ss o'clock. Mr. and Mrs. Bryan
were hurried through the crowd to a car
rage al the home of Captain Dwight
whose wife is q cousin of Mr. Bryan, there
was an Informal recepuon 10 the lddleS Oh
Centralia, who were
PRESENTED TO THE NOMINEE AND
HIS WIFE.
,srhera were several hundred women there
and the affair was decidedly pleasant.
The visiting party was then taken TO the
city park. Preceding the carriage IN Wnlch
Mr. and Mrs. Bryan rode was brass
band ard following were several nun
dreds of citizens on foot The procession
increased in size as it neared the park,
and upon arrival of the carriage at the
pavilion in the center there were nearly
i a thousand people there. The Stanu nau
been draped with flags and bunting for
a the Mason meeting.
and Fairfield had arrived Mr.. Bryan ad-
dressed the crowd briefly,
After referring pleasantly 10 ms li1enos
and relatives in the town, Mr.. Bryan said,
in part:
campaign and the issues are being Drawn
for the contest. ] trust that the issues
involved in this campaign will be clearly
Understood and carefully studied. Parties
are not made to be worshipped. They are
merely the instruments by which we serve
our country. The people are made, not
for parties, but
PARTIES ARE MADE FOR THE PEG
PIE.
and parties can only claim the support of
the people when they are efficient instru-
lnents in the hands of the people of ac-
complishing good.
IN this campaign believe there will be
less Of personalities and more of principles
than in any campaign which we have
taken part in in recent years. The people
are thinking about great public questions
Yoa must not expect that any platform
will contain all you desire. No persons
find in any platform an expression of ev-
erything in which they believe. We must
not expect any platform will be free from
some objections. We select our party, we
select our platform, not in the hope OF
something that is absolutely in accord
with our opinion. but which gives the full
est expression of all of
OUR HOPES AND ASPIRATIONS,
and we take that platform and join that
party which, for the time being, promises
TO give us the best of legislation on the
most important questions. And, in the
campaign, it is conceded on all sides that
the greatest and most important issue is
the money question. 1t matters not
whether YOU believe in the restoration OF
silver or in a gold standard You must
admit that the settlement of the money
question is of the first and greatest i'm
portance. When that is done other things
can be considered. On the money queS-
ton the two great parties have taken po-
sitions directly opposite each other -Four
years ago the positions taken by the Re
publican and Democratic parties on the
money question were identical. The Re
publican party said the American people
from tradition and interest are in favor
Of bimetallism, and the Democratic party
said: We hold to the use of both gold and
silver as the standard money of the coun-
try and the coinage of both gold and sill
yer without discrimination against either
metal
Thus you see that both parties declared
in favor of gold and silver as the money
of the country. -Four years have passed
since these platforms were written, and
these four years have been
YEARS OF MOMENTOUS EVENTS,
and as this campaign approaches the two
great parties line themselves upon this
great question. The Republican party at
st. Louis declared the gold standard |
should he maintained until it could be
changed by international agreement. Note
the language. That platform does not say
that the gold standard is a good thing, be-
cause the Platform pledges the party TO
get rid of the gold standard and SubSti- /
tute for it something better as soon as it |
can be done. But il assumes that this bet 1
ter substitute cannot be received until the |
world shall help. QLong and continued ap- /
plause) The Democratic party met in /
Chicago, and it adopted platform which !
Is in direct opposition to the platform
adopted at ST. Louis. The st: Louis plat
should be maintained until it could be
changed by international agreement until |
something else could be done. The Demo- (
cratic party declared itself unalter2bly OPP /
posed to a single gold standard. ZAP |
plause.) And more than that, the Repup- I
lican platform did not promise you any |
cratic party outlined what it desired to |
have done. II declared in favor of the |
immediate restoration of the
FREE AND UNLIMITED COINAGE
OF both gold and silver at the present legal
ratio OF Is to (applause) without waiting /
for the aid or consent of any other nation.
(Applause.) We also declared that the /
silver dollar should be legal tender for all |
debts, public and private. and that such .
legislation should be enacted as is neces-
karS u prevent LOT The future the demon
etization of any kind of legal tender
money. More than that. the platform de-
clared that the government should eXer-
else the right to redeem its coined obliga-
tons in either gold or silver. The issue is
drawn. and we have our choice in this
campaign between an American financial
system for the American people and an
English financial system TO be forced upon
us (ApDlause.) Those who believe in
running this government on the European
plan should go and legislate with the Re-
publican party. If l mistake not the pa
triotism of the people. whose patriotism
has never been appealed 10 in vain, there
can be but one issue in this campaign, and
but one result (Appiause) If they ask
rs; What about other Questions?' we tell
them that so long as the right of Self-goV-
eminent is in danger
THERE Is NO OTHER QUESTION.
(Applause.) Why discuss things if we be
not powerful enough to act when we have
The poWer2 / want to impress upon your
minds two things. l want you to ask two
questions which ought TO be asked over
and over again in this campaign, each
time with increased emphasis, and the
TWO questions are these:
If the sold standard is a good thing,
why ought we try to get rid of it?
And If it is bad thing, why should
we keep it until some other nation helps
us to get rid Of it?' (Applause.)
There was tremendous applause when
Mr.. Bryan ceased speaking. Even those
who had come TO hear Mr.. Mason joined
in the demonstration of apparent APP
proval.
The visitors were tfen escorted to a
carriage, and amid the peals of bands,
driven TO the railway station where they
took the train for Salem.
Extensive preparations have been made
for the demonstration at Salem tomorrow.
Tie placards advertising announce that
Governor Altgcld viii be there and speak
IN behalf of the national ticket.