Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-22
BRYAN'S INDIANA CAMPAIGN
lie Winds Up His Day with Three Mon
ster Meetings at Fort Wayne,
QUOTES BUTTERwoRTH ON DEBTOR NATION
Tries to show from Onto Orntor's
speech that "Crcditor Nations of
the World Make Money
from Gold Standards"

talking In Indiana, spoke to three big
meetings In this city tonight.
Starting out early this morning MIR. Bryan
attacked the home Of the enemy in Indiana.
Wayne county is the banner republican
county of the state and Richmond is the
stronghold of Wayne county. There were
yellow badges at both OF the meetings that
Mr.. Bryan addressed and shouters for Nc
Kinley were numerous. There were. how
ever. a great number OF silvertcs in the
crowds and they yelled loud and often for
the democratic nominee. In his second
speech Mr. Bryan declared that not untll
a man is willing to give up faith in the
American institutions and go back on the
Declaration of independence could he vote
for the republican platform. In his first
speech at Glen Miller park Mr.. Bryan said:
The republican party processes to continue
the present financial system, which means
a continual issue of bonds, a continual de-
crease in the volume OF currency. Your
own townsman, who became one of the
great statesmen of this country once spoke
in the Forty-third congress against the pol
Icy of contraction, and we today are de-
claring against the same policy of contrac-
supply of money would bring prosperity and
progress and enterprises, and we assert
the same thing today We assert that an
Increase in the supply of money will reverse
the grinding conditions under which we
nave suffered Tor the past Few years anu
the position which we take must be APP
proved by anyone present who Will study
the money question without putting before
his eyes enough gold coin to blind himself
from the proof.
The second speech was made at the Hotel
Westcott, and here the wearers of yellow
had congregated cnmasse.
The train bearing the Bryan party ar
rived in Cambridge nearly an hour late.
| nve-minute stop was to have been made
| there but Mr.. Bryan was taken in a car
! riage to the fair grounds, where he spoke,
! and. as a consequence twenty minutes more
| was added to the wrong side of the schedule.
| At the fair grounds the nominee encoun-
| tered a crowd which numbered up into the
| thousands. and he was unable to leave his
| carriage to gain the speakers stand. He
| spoke from the drivers box for three min
| utes asking his hearers to study the money
| question, and then vote as their conscences
| dictated. Mr. Bryan spoke in Louisville
| Ind. this afternoon to a crowd numbering
several thousand.
SLAP AT HARRISON.
Mr. Bryan spoke to a crowd of several
thousand people at Rushville for fifteen
minutes from a platform erected in va
| cant lot near the center OF the city. For
| the first time during his campaign in In
diana Mr.. Bryan. at Newcastle, referred to
eN-President Harrison stumping the state
| in the interest of the republican nominee.
| He said that eN-President Harrison was
| denounced Mr.. Clevelands administration,
| on the ground that he had tried to demone-
tie silver and that today the former presi-
dent was stumping the state, trying to get
| the republicans to endorse Mr.. Cleveiand's s
| financial policy and that the policy of the
last administration was worse on the money
| question than the first administration, but
such a change had come over the American
leaders that they wanted the American peo-
| pie to submit to the policy which they de-
| nOunCpd eighty There
| large and enthusiastic crowd and they ap-
plauded vigorously when Mr.. Bryan declared
he could prove his position by evidence de-
Quoted from republican sources.
MuBcie was a hotbed OF politics when
Mr.. Bryan arrived there shortly before 3
o'clock this afternoon. Every man, woman
and child wore a badge, and every man.
woman and child shouted for his or her
candidate There were counter demonstra-
tions. An hour after Mr.. Bryan reached the
town, william ID. Bynum was to speak to
the gold democrats and in the evening the
republicans were TO listen to w. ]. Camp
bell, eX-president of the Glass Blowers as
sociation. All three meetings were widely
advertised. On either side of the street.
those who wore the yellow Mckinley badges
were lined and they shouted for their favor
ite as the carriage containing MIR. Bryan
passed by. 1t was a distinctively Mckinley
crowd in the city and just as distinctively a
Bryan crowd listened to the nominee at the
ball park. There he faced an assemblage of
several iuOuSbnu ana nearly every person
he could see had the name of the candidate
printed on a slip of white paper and fast
ened over the hatband, and there was moth
ing TO disturb the harmony of the meeting.
On the way back to the train. the demon
stratlon for Mckinley was renewed, but
was checked to a great extent by the shout
ing of the crowd of silverites who marched
about the vehicle.
DEBTOR NATION NOTION.
cheering crowd of humanity. to the
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the candidate at Anderson. when at 4:30 he
arrived there. Out on the open prairie a
stand had been erected. In his speech Mr..
Bryan quoted from speech made by ex-
Congressman Butterworth as follows
"'If it be said the United States cannot act
alone the answer is that conditions are such
that she must give notice that she will
act with England If the latter consents,
otherwise she will act alone. We are the
greatest debtor nation on earth, hence it
may be that we must start alone If at all
and creditor nations will speedily Join us for
their own protection in re-establishing BIZ
metallism. II the United States does not
start alone. OF necessity, gold monometallism
will be so firmly entrenched behind the
ramparts OF wealth and power and the mass
Of the people be so helpless that bime metalism
will be postponed generation, II not for
ever. The plain citizen Will be encouraged
with the pleasing delusion that the bare
contemplation of the beauty and unchange-
is far preferable to the enjoyment of
silver dollar in his own pocket and that
the only honest dollar is tha one that buys
the largest quantity OF his land his labor
and the product Of both" And Mr.. Bryan
added Thus, my friends, you will find
great republican denouncing the gold stand
ard, pointing to the fact that creditor ma
tions of the world are seeking to keep Il
because they make money out of it,"
There were short stops at Alexandria
Summittville Marion. Bluffton and Fair
mount and at each place Mr.. Bryan received
hattering receptions. The crowds were
| large and enthusiastic. At one of the In
diana towns Mr.. Bryan was presented with
glass stylus by the Glass Workers as
sociation, made in the national colors and
OF beautiful designs.
William Jennings Bryan addressed three
monster meetings tonight in Fort Wayne.
Tho first was at the Wayne hotel and when
Mr.. Bryan spoke from the balcony of that
hostelry the big double plaza In front was
packed to such an extent that windows were
broken in by the crowd II was several
minutes before Mr.. Bryan could make him
self heard and when he did get to the talk
ing he was often stopped by the applause.
The next meeting was at Princess rink,
and that large edfce was packed to its
doors Here, too the crowd was demon