The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-08-27
Fully 10000 Assemble at
Rochester to Hear Him.
Shows the Inconsistency of the
Gold Mems Position.
THEY ARE NOT CANDID
Pretend Silver viii Help Them
But Don't Want 1t.
Three Audiences Of Nearly g.
900 Addressed at Erie, Pa.

Rochester, N. z, Aug 27.-The Bryan
party left Syracuse at 1890 yesterday
and reached Rochester at 2:15. The
only stop was at Lyons, where a crowd
of $50 reinforced by a band, demanded
a brief speech and Bryan responded.
The greatest crowd of the trip in
New York surrounded the Rochester
depot and followed the party to Brown
square. There platform, flag-draped,
stood in a picturesque spot under trees.
Several thousand people were gathered
in the grove, a large sprinkling Of la
dies with bright cOlored dresses and
parasols giving color to the scene. In
the streets and on the four sides of the
square were solid lines of carts and
carriages crowded with people. The
area of humanity stretched back of the
platform so far that more than half of
the would-be listeners secured only a
view of the speech in pantomime and
on the outskirts, hundreds were COM
ing and going, so probably 10000 had a
sight of the man of the day, though not
more than a fourth of them could hear
him.
Bryan was presented by ex-Secretary
of State Frederick Cook. Bryan spoke
as follows:
1T will not be possible for me to oc-
cupy any great portion of your time.
The train which carries me from you
will be due in about three-quarters of
an hour. But it is not necessary that
candidates should do all the talking.
When I am through, Mr.. Carmody Will
address you and I beSpeak for him
your close attention. am the candi-
date for the highest Office in the gift
of the people of the greatest nation of
earth today (cheers), and as the can
didate for that position I appear before
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frages, because they are yours and no
one has right to tell you how you will
use them, or to beg you to present
them to him as a gift. You are free
men. The ballot is yours to use for de-
Tense of your rights, for protection Of
your interests and for the welfare of
society. How each of you shall use
his ballot is for you to determine. Our
government rests on the intelligence
and patriotism of the American people.
We believe they are capable of self
government. We believe no question
ever has arisen that no question is be
fore them now, and that no question
ever will arise which is too great to be
submitted to the common people of
America. (Great applause.)
Whenever find a man who says
the money question is a complicated
question I generally find a man who
thinks he has made a speciality of COM
p1icated questions. Whenever I find a
man who thinks the money question
too deep for the people. I generally find
a man who thinks it is just about deep
enough for him. Whenever I find a
man who tells you not to bother about
financial legislation, I find a man who
wants to take upon himself all the suf-
fering and to do your thinking and
your acting for you. But whenever I
find such a man am afraid I find a
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be sure he does not neglect himself.
(Great laughter) There is one thing
like about advocates of bimetalHsm.
Whenever you find a man who believes
in the immediate restoration of the
free and unlimited coinage of gold and
silver at the present legal ratio of 16 |
to 1, without waiting for the aid or con- |
sent of any other nation on earth you |
find a man who tells you he believes |
that that policy will be good for him !
self and also believes it to be good for |
others also. like that sort of candor. |
Ask a farmer why he wants bimetal- |
ism and he says: Because its good for l
me- Ask a labOring man why he wants |
bimetallism and he says he thinks 1T |
will be good for him. Ask a business
man why he likes bimetallism and he |
says: I make my living out of those |
to whom I sell, not out of those from |
whom I borrow. Therefore, bimetaI- |
lism is good for me, because it enables !
the people to buy what have to SELL |
You ask a professional man why he |
favors bimetallism and he tells you it's |
because his business rests on producers |
of wealth and that he cannot pros
per unless producers prosper. But you
ask a fnancier why he is in favor of
gold standard and what will he tell !
you? Does he say because it's good |
for him? You never heard one of them
not 1rrJ,4 \ aT~
of these financiers why they want
gold standard, some Of them will tell /
you free coinage of silver would be
good for them, but they do not want |
anything which is good for them. They
say they want a gold standard because
it's good for somebody else; they want
it because it's good for the farmer; be-
cause it's good for the laboring man
and good for the business man. You /
tell them these people are willing to
risk bimetallism and then these ffnan- /
ciers rise to the full height Of their
moral stature and say the people must
have the gold standard and they ram
the gold standard down the threats of
the people whether they want it or not,
because they love the people. CLaugh-
ter)
Now. my friends, do you believe this
is their reason2 (Shouts Of "No.")
am afraid it is not. When I find
man who says he wants a thing be-
cause it's good for him. think he is
2 pretty natural sort Of a fellow But !
when see a man who wants to do /
something for me against my will and
tells me he is only feeling for me I
am careful to see he does not reach me.
daughter and cries Of Hit em.") |
Now, my friends, why is it these fnan-
ciers, so many of them, insist that free
coinage of silver would help them, but
they do not wish it because the gold