The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-10-15
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BRYAN AT ST. CLOUD.
Spoke to Park Full of People-Put in
Good Word for Towne.

Littlefeld, Mimi, Oct. 13.-The little
park of st. Cloud was well filed when
the presidential nominee of three par
ties arrived in that city about IL a. m.
In his speech delivered there Mr.. Bryan
took occasion to give Mr.. Charles A.
Towne helping hand and to tell the
people that they had splendid oppor-
tunity to help bimetallism by voting for
Mr. Towne. He said, in part:
"My Friends-The paramount issue
of this campaign is the business ques-
ton. Our opponents are always talk
ing about business interests. | wish the
great mass of the people would recog-
nize the Importance of politics as much
as the financial element do. Whenever
you bring up any question which con-
Germs them they always tell you it is Il
business question to be interfered with
by politics. Then, my friends, the rest
of the people can afford to make bust
ness out of politics for once. Our oppo-
nents always mean business and the
reason why they have succeeded in con-
trolling is because they meant business
while the people out here would be will
ing to accept anything that the party
said was all right. They are not willing
to do it now, but they have done it in the
past; for twenty years the same influ-
ties. The financial influences of New
York have written the platforms of both
parties, and in every instance they have
written platform that leans toward BIZ
| metalism and that nominated candi-
dates who leaned toward the gold stan
dard.
"My friends, / think Prince Bismarck
gave expression to Il very important
| sentiment. Talking to the farmers of
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stand together and protect themselves
| from the drones Of society, who produce
nothing but laws. | believe Bismarck S
classification is a proper one. He puts
the drones on one side and the bees on
the other, and my friends, the drones
have always found fault with the bees.
A voice-Hurrah for England.
| Mr.. Bryan-There is the first republic
can | have seen this morning. laugh
teri
Another voice-You do not have to
have n magnifying glass to see him.
| daughter and applause.)
| Mr.. Blyan-I am glad there are a few
of them left because, you know, it must
always be satisfying to man who stands
on the republican platform, as they are
getting to be so few, that he will draw
Il high price when they come around and
want him for a museum.
| My friends, II you believe in free sill
yer, if you believe in the money of the
constitution, if you believe in an indepen-
dent financial policy for the American
people, you must have not only presi-
dent, but senate and house of repre-
septatives. No bill can become a law
1 until it is signed by the president and no
bill can be signed by the president until
it has passed both houses. Then, if you
are in earnest, l want you to be just as
earnest to send congressman who is all
right as you are to elect a president. You
have Il splendid oppol tunity in this dis
trict. In these latter days | have found
so many bad democrats and so many good
republicans that / have found that re-
publican who is right is great deal
better than democrat who is wrong
OF all the republicans who are acting
with us in this campaign there is not
one who is more distinguished than that
advocate of bimetallsm who is now in
congress and who will be your member
again unless you are false to your own
interests and the interests of your coun
try. Why, my friends, we would rather
have one man like Towne, who is re
publican, with us than to have sixteen
of the democrats whom we have driven
from the party by trying to do right
But, instead of giving sixteen democrats
for one republican, they have reversed
the ratio"