The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-02
Speeches Mt cIarksburg.

unIlI nearly b O'Clock this morning the.
magistrate refused to comply with their re-
quest, and Mr.. Bryan was not held.
Speeches Mt CIarksburg.
The first speech made by the Popocratic
candidate to-day was from the balcony of
the hotel at Clarksburg. He said:
As go about from place to place I find
n great variety in the manner in which the
receptions are arranged, and to-day / find
something new here. / believe this is the
first place where they have brought the
I6-to-I idea into use in arranging the horses
Tor the procession. (Applause.) This 16-to-1
idea has been set forth to-day in the ar
rangement SO that we have sixteen white
horses and one yellow horse. IApplal1se1
That was all right. but what pleased me
more was that the number of goid-standard
advocates seemed to be so small in this
community that they had 10 get a silver
man to act for the one gold man in the
to be well understood. 1t used to be that
people did not know what II meant and
they would ask If it meant that the govern
ment would coin sixteen silver dollars for
every dollar it coined in gold. Others would
want to know whether 1T meant that the
government would redeem every gold dollar
with sixteen silver dollars. and some gold
standard people thought it meant that the
government would give sixteen dollars to
rot mean any of these. Somebody thought
II meant that it would be about sixteen
times as easy to get a dollar under free
coinage as 1t is now. fAppiause.) There
is some truth in that. Then there are some
who say that 1T means that every free
silver man shall try to get sixteen others to
vote with him this fall. {Appiause.) But
/ don't care how you define it, as long as
you understand that under free and urlim.
lied coinage at, 10 to ] sixteen ounces OF sill
Yer shall equal one ounce of gold in the
payment OF a debt, and in the making of
money SO that anybody who wants money
can get gold or silver and have the bullion
converted into coin and use that coin. We
want. as the boy said, free silver and more
of it,"
At the fair grounds Mr.. Bryan made a
lengthy speech, saying among other things:
who have so kindly presented me with this
Gavel. made from the wood of the house
IN which Stonewali Jackson was horn. TAP
plauSe.) We are far enough removed from
II ut war between two sections of this coun-
try to give to the general on the Southern
side that credit for military genius which
was denied in the bitterness of strife. /
can rejoice that the valor shown on that
side gives a guarantee that in any future
struggle the North and South shall stand
SIDE by side prepared to drive back any in
vaders. or to guard and carry forward the
greatest country on earth. (Applause.) /
shall be glad to pliec this among the other
me mantoes which | have received as / have
gone from section to section. and thank
again those who have been kind enough to
I'll us remember me-"
Mr.. Bryan then spoke on the financial
question. following closely his former
ley this way.
Il want to compare what the Republican
candidate for President said this year with
what he said six years ago in regard to
the necessity for an increasing circulation.
You will find In his letter of acceptance of
this year this Statements: 1t is not more
money We want. What We want is to put
the money we already have at work Let
me compare that with what he said six
years ago. when, instead of having a de-
creasing volume of currency, We had an
increase OF about $24, 900, 900 every year.
AT hat time they were trying to substi-
tut4 the Sherman law for the Bland-Alli-
son act. The Bland-Allison act put in cir
c~nlation about $24,0 0 900 every year, so
that the circulation was increasing and not
decreasing, as ii is now. Let me read you
what the Republican candidate, then in
Congress, said in regard to the necessity
for an increasing circulation: Il Will not
vote against this bill and thus deprive the
people of the country and the laborers and
the producers and the industries of my
country. of $50. 600, eoo annually of additional
circulating medium
A voice: ''He did not know Mark Hanna
then" daughter and a~pplause.)
Mr.. BryanEnMy friends. what change
Then he desired to Increase the amount of
money in cireuiation among the people.
hat you have enough and you
/ insist that when a man Changes
his mind he ought to have reasons for it
that he is willing TO give to the American
plause.) / am not insisting that a man
who has an opinion at one time must al
men insist that it is an evidence of wis,
dom TO change their opinion ana then have
the evidence depend on the mere change,
without saying anything TO justify the
change" f~Applause.)
A voice: Give it to Grover daughter
and appiause.)
Mr.. Bryan-sNo. my friends. am not
going to say one word against the Demo-
cratic President. / am going to leave his
tory TO record that the man who went into
office with an overwhelming majority went
out OF office supporting a ticket which did
not carry Il single county Ia the United
States. fApplause.) The ticket which has
the support of the administration will not
even have the advantage of having died
an honorable death. tApplause.) Because
II was put in the field by those who did not
intend 10 vote for Ii. and was only put be-
fore the people TO deceive them and to
furnish "a ticket for those few Democrats
who object to the Chicago platform and