The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-07
Innocent Maidens Dressed in White
and Used to Illustrate the Six
teen-to-One Craze.
BYNUM's SPEECHES QUOTED
AND USED IN THE INTEREST OF THE
WHITE METAL ADVOCATE.
Governor Matthews. Martyr "Gi1''
ShankIin. Green Smith and John
Kern in Charge of the Orator.

part oil the state TO the caDltdl yesterday
was replete with the usual incidents which
have marked his rides back and forth
across the country. Crowds of curious
people gathered at the railway stations to
see the Popocratic nominee. Mr.. Bryan ar
rived at Louisville from Nashville at
o'clock this morning, took breakfast and
was then taken in tow by Governor Claude
Matthews, of Indiana, and the Hoosier sill
yer reception committee, composed of the
Hon. John Gil Shankln, who was mar
tyred" by President Cleveland; Chairman
Martin, of the Popoeratic State central
committee; Alonzo Green Smith, of pugi-
istic notoriety; the ambitious John Kern
and such lesser Popocrat lights as John
Overmyer and ID. f. Allen. This commit
tee towed Mr.. Bryan across the river to
Jeffersonville, where he delivered a speech
from platform on which the citizens had
arranged sixteen girls dressed in white and
one attired in yellow. In his speech Mr..
Eryan said:
Il am informed that your city was laid
out plated by Thomas jefferson. / am
always glad to go into any community
where they have general interest in the
name of jefferson, because we are in this
;ampaign attempting to revive the princi-
iutions of the questions Of to-day.
They called Jefferson an Anarchist and
Iemagogue and a disturber of the peace
and a maniac. They call US Anarchists
md Socialists and disturbers of the peace
md lunatics. You see the word lunatic Is
-ery similar to the word maniac. If there
any difference L suppose, 1t would be
hat a maniac was little more violent
han a unatic They called the supporters
f jefferson a mob and the followers of
hamilton denied that the followers OF JET
The people who opposed Jefferson doubted
honestly, | have no doubt. whether the
people at large would ever be capable Of
exercising the right of self-government:
Jefferson had confidence in the people and
hey had confidence in him. (Applause.) T.
Here the attention of the crowd at
racted to a balloon which was sent up
rom the rear of the audience and the can
u idate. noticing it, said; It rises about as
aDidly as the gold dollar has been rising,
,nly it does not so so far. Further along
his speech he said:
Il have heard that in some of the cities
If Indiana the employers have noutled
heir employees that they would not open
lp business if | was elected. Now my
'rends, if you will look. at the charters 5
ranted to those corporations you will find
hat in not q single case nave the laws OF
indiana authorized the organization of cor
torations for the purpose of running the
overs granted by law you will find there
not a single instance where the laws
ave granted TO the corporations the rgnt
intimidatc their employees in any way
hateVer, and / assert that corporation
which does try to intimidate its employees
as no right to exist in a land Ike ours ours.
purposes and not for political purposes
~ friends, when corporations tell their
mplOyeS that they VIII not open UP il Il
ertain candidate is elected. you want TO
omember this, that corporations are will
ng to attend to business when there Is
NY business to attend to, and if railroad
hops close down 1t is because there Is no
BUSINESS on the railroads, that there IS no
orl for the railroad shops and the rail-
Sad shops will cease when the RAILROAD
business falls off. and we assert that If tn
tupoyes as a whole are not prosperous, If
re farmers are not prosperous, ana the
trmers have to stop raising products TO
i've the railroads business the men viii
ot have anything to do.
The restoration of bimetallism win not
lurt any legitimate business. The election
Of the Chicago ticket viii help legitimate
business. 1t only interferes with the man
Who wants to eat the bread that some
body else has earned. The restoration o.
imetallism will put back in the currency
Z large amount of standard money, and
hen there is more money the people as a
hole will have more money individually.
our opponents go on the theory that the
more you decrease the volume OF money
he more each individual VIII get. 1t is a
lew kind of arithmetic my friends That
may be logic and arithmetic among the
Republicans. They say that the Demo
rats can't read or write, but they always
Omitted that the Democrats were good al
figures. and when they come to figuring
hey can't fool US on that kind OF arith-
metic.
They ask us how this money is to get
hnong the people Money cannot set
et among the people. They tell us 10
pen oGr mills instead of our minis l re-
mind you of the fact that there is no use
open the mills until the people are able
use what the mills produce. (Appause)
{ our people We're able to buy what the
nils produce you could then open the
Mills bat you destroy the consumptive
opacity CT the people and you close the
nills You drive down the products of the
arm and you make it so that the farmer
has not any more than enough to pay
taxes and 10 pay interest and to pay his
lebts and it leaves him nothing to spend
It the stores. and your stores cannot sell
9nything, and then your manufacturers
,annot manufacture anything for your
torekeepers. We want 10 improve ne C n
Hticn OF society By commencing at the bot
ON by increasing the prosperity of the
oiling masses and then there will be pros
,erity to all the branches of society, but if
III start by making the rich richer and
ne poor poorer you will not get any bene-
il out of legislation.