The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-02
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was the paramount issue of the campaign
and gave his familiar explanations of why
he claimed that it was simple question.
Continuing, he said; My friends, l do
not know what these gold standard advo-
Gates might have said in your presence,
but 1 know that some of them have tried
to say that the New York financiers would
| make a great profit out of free coinage,
but that they don't want TO allow them
selves to make that profit (Laughter).
When they tell me that the tinanciers
would profit by free coinage, then, my
| friends, make up my mind that the time
has come when the masses of the people
could pay back a debt of gratitude, which
they have been longing to pay for twenty
years these hnanCiers tell us that Tor
twenty years they have been legislating
for the good of the people-even to the
neglect of themselves. l do not think that
we ought to permit them to make this
sacrifice for us always. Daughter). And
when they tell US that the free coinage Of
silver Will help them, then l say my
friends, we have a chance now tn get
even, because we will give them free coin
age and let them enjoy it to their hearts
content" (Wild and prolonged applause
and great laughter).
Maintaining, as he has done in previous
speeches, that free coinage would be good
|
ness man, Mr.. Bryan said that there was
no Tyranny more CALLING than the tyr
amy of plutocracy; no tyranny so des-
potic as the tyranny of those financiers
who attempt to rob men of their right
to vote and act because they have signed
their names to a note"
Continuing, Mr.. Bryan said: Il want
to call your attention, my friends, to this
unique situation. You had speaking in
your midst to-day man who says he is
going to vote for the republican ticket
because, fMr Cochran, who spoke here
| to-day, has openly and boldly declared
Lis intention of voting the republican
tlcket-and yet, a man who openly
! says that ne Is going to vote the reDub-
! lican ticket is sent around over
! the country by men who call
themselves sound money demo-
| Gratis, and who pretend to be
supporting another ticket. (Applause).
1 am not criticising Mr.. Cockrans de-
claration that he will vote the republican
! ticket; but | ask you whether, in all the
history of this country you ever knew
| political party to employ a man to make
speeches under its auspices when they
knew that he was not going to vote the
ticket which they We're going to vote for.
| applause. I call your attention to
show you what a transparent fraud the
| boiling democratic organization is. 1t
has all the characteristics of a gold bug
republican except courage to vote for the
republican ticket. l call your attention
to another thing, and that is that instead
of declaring themselves gold
standard men they call them
selves advocates of sound money, because
they are ashamed to use the name even
| that describes their position. Great ap-
! plause) Instead of saying they are for
| gold, they pirate about an honest dollar,
when they know that the gold dollar is the
most dishonest dollar in the land to-day
| and they love it most when il is most dis
| honest" Great applause)
! The speaker talked of settling the tariff
| question by international agreement, a ia
! miliar feature of his address; ridiculing
| the republican platform money plank
| through that comparison and made this
! we'll known statement that those who
| have grown rich by the sale of bonds were
! the first to repudiate President Cleve-
| lands policy, adding that the people were
the ones to come to the Presidents rescue
and stand by the American foreign pol
icy"
THE gold standard is a tyrant in time of
| peace" he said land coward in time of
| war. The gold standard rules with a rod
| if iron when it has control and at the
very moment of danger it deserts like a
traitor and goes to fight for the country
| enemy" Great cheering)
In conclusion, Mr.. Bryan said MY
! friends the results of the campaign can
! not be determined until the vote is count
| ed. l may be defeated, but | shall find more
| Joy in being my own master as a private
| citizen than I would find in being some
| body's servant rather than the peoples
| servant, if elected. My opponents say that
! it is undignified for me to go chasing about
! over the country trying to secure an cleo
! ton ! have done nothing in this campaign
! that l am ashamed of. 1 do not go before
the people begging them to vote for me. 1
have gone before the people and if
my strength holds out, and l believe it
will, l am going before the people until
election day telling them what 1 stand
for and to give them the platform upon
which I stand, and to tell them, if elected,
! I will carry it out and then l am not
/ going to urge them to vote not as I may
want them to- but l am going to urge
each citizen to vote as he wants to. If 1
am elected I want to feel that / have be-
hind me the desires, the purposes, the
hearts of the majority of the people of
this country, and then, my friends,
promise you that I shall carry out that
platform, 1 care not what may come"
Great cheeringO
He concluded at 9I5 o'clock, and
at midnight his special train left
for Charleston, w. Va, where
he IS to speak tomorrow morning
Mr. Bryan has finished the preparation
Of his letter, accepting the popuist nomi-
nation. It will probably be made public
IN St Louis.