The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-18
bRYAN'S MISTAKE.
He lima Eines He Is Savior Talking
to the Common Pcople.

RALEIGH n. c., Sept. T.-This city like
the rest through which the candidate
passed, drew from the surrounding country
III order tc augm ant the crowds to meet
Mr. -irNan. Masses + ark was well flied
with admirers of the nominee. They cheered
him enthusiastically when he appeared
on he platform. Mr. Bryan WAS in:co-
duced by H. w. Aver, nominee for State
Auditor on the Populist ticket Mr. Bryan
said:
Il am informed that the Republican na-
tional committee has sent circulars TO va
rloHs fellBlous papers and organizations
say threatens these religious organiza tons
II we have the free coinage OF silver |
want you TO remember that the Republican
party, and the Republican speakers and
the Republican candidate most Of All
these have denounced the Democrats for
to say to you that the Republican party is
doing more in this country to-day to ar
ray class against class than any party that
ever existed in the United States Cap
pause The Republican Lorty Is appealing.
to every class or nearly every class, and
attempting to array that class against
and tell him that the gold standard gives
him a higher-priced dollar for his wages.
without telling him that it also makes ii
impossible for "a very large number of men
who want to labor to get chance to earn
one of those high-priced dollars. Cap
plause).
''Out in our State the Republican commit
tee of one of the counties appealed to the
schoolteachers, trying to show them that
a gold standard was a good thing for them
thereby trying to set the schoolteachers
they have appealed to the church organiza-
lions and church papers, and are now try
ing to array them against the free coinage
of silver. Well, / could stand any appeal
made by the advocates of the gold standard
to almost any class better than appeal
made made to the preachers and teachers of re-
lglon; III there IS one thing that the
church people Of this country could afford
to array themselves against it is the
gold standard as it is being advocated by
the American people at this tirae AN
plause) And yet the Republican party is
appealing to church people to take their
How things have changed in the last
eighteen hundred years Look at the peo-
ganda in the United States. Look at the
bondholding class and the money changer
glasses, the brokerage classes of New
York, who are trying to fasten a gold
standard upon the people of this country
not openly. but secretly and in disguise
and then turn back eighteen hundred
threw the same kind of people out of Ills
temple because they had made His house
tnink that these people come and appeal
10 the ministers of the gospel and the
church papers to save them from the wrath
10 come. daughter and applause)
!, My friends, when certain ministers of
the gospel denounce the great mass of
people who stand behind. free coinage when
these ministers have denounced these adj
v.ocates, of free coinage and have taken
their places upon the side of these great
agSregatonS of wealth | remind them that
when the Saviour here it was the
common people who heard Him gladly
the very people whom these ministers to-
day call Anarchists and Socialists (Great
applauSeD My friends when / fiud-there
are not many of them but they are quite
conspicuous-when I find these men cast
ing their lot upon that side and exhaust
ing abusive language in their description of
the great masses Of people of this coun-
try. feel like saying TO them that if they
viii take their chances with Dives / will
risk my chances with Lazarus. Great APP
plause.)
This money question is a question which
concerns every one of you and Won have a
right TO consider what has been done and
what will be done and decide whether Won
want 10 support the present financial policy
or not. When prices are falling and money
Is rising a man can better afford to lock
his money up in a vault and gain the rise
than invest his money in property and risk
a loss in the value of the property You
are making the property not worth having
and everybody is trying to turn property
into money. And while the gold standard
lasts that condition must remain and times
must be hard and hard times means more
idle men. means more destitute men
and more destitute men means at
last more criminal men; and yet
the gold-standard men appeal TO the min
istrv 10 increase crime" Great applause
At a. m the party left for Goldsboro.
n. c.. where Mr.. Bryan speaks tomorrow