The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-06
But Manages to Hold a Large
Audience More Than an
Hour.
REFERS TO THE NEW TICKET.
Says the Indianapolis Convention Was
Held in the Interest of
Mckinley.

MILWAUKEE, WIS, Sept. 5.-William
]. Bryan reached the Northwestern station
here at lilo this morning, and was met
by Ex-Governor Peck and Willis c. Silver
thorn, Democratic candidate for Governor
OF Wisconsin. Owing to good police
arrangements the crowd gathered at the
station was prevented from rushing on
the platform as at other places visited by
the candidate, and Mr.. Bryan, leaning on
the arm of Ex-Governor Peck. had clear
space to his carriage. Chairman James
w. Murphy, United States Collector of
Internal Revenue for the Eastern District
of Wisconsin, and the other members of
the Milwaukee escort committee, who had
met Mr.. Bryan at Kenisha, fell in behind
and entered the carriages reserved for
them. The crowd at the station numbered
several thousand. and Mr.. Bryan was
cheered in his progress along the plat
form. The route by which he was taken
to the Plankinton Hotel was lined with
people and there was occasional applause,
which grew to an almost continuous cheer
as the Plankinton was approached. The
street in front of the PIankinton was
packed with people, and when Mr.. Bryan
appeared on the balcony they manifested
their feelings in loud yells. Mr.. BRYAN
made a few remarks and was frequently
interrupted by cries of approval. After
wards he held a brief reception in the
parlors of the hotel.
A rain storm had a bad effect on the
meeting addressed by Mr.. Bryan at
National Park this afternoon. A tenn
porary stand had been erected in the
center of the half-mile racetrack. within
the Dark, and at 2:40 o'clock when Mr..
Bryan arrived at the ground, two and a
half miles from Milwaukee, about 5000
people were gathered about it. Many
people had left when the rain began to
fail and those who remained hoisted
UNI brellss and decided to stick it out.
The rain became a steady downpour Just
as the meeting was called to order and the
intended preliminary exercises were cut
short. In fact, there was nothing OF a
PREDATORY character done beyond the pre-
sentation of Mr.. Bryan by Judge Silver
thorn, the Democratic nominee for Gov
ernor. be simply presented the young
Nebraskan as the next President of the
United States, and the crowd cheered as
the latter arose 10 address it. Mountei en-
chair, with local committeeman hold
ing an UNI brella over his head, Mr.. BRYAN
addressed the gathering. He spoke more
rapidly than usual and said at the outset
that he would not make long address on
account of the condition OF the weather
but when the clouds broke and the sun
came out. Mr.. Bryan was encouraged to
go on and spoke more than an hour. He
said:
Ladies and gentlemen: Ihave spoken under
various conditions, but don't believe | ever
SPOKE IN the rain before to people who were
held by mere idle curiosity. [Laughter.l 1
am not going to talk long, because it would be
cruel to you TO have to stand out here in this
rain, but am going to talk just enough to
Keep my engagement and hope the weather
Will be better tonight We are engaged in a
campaign in which you are interested, because
II the money question is OF such great i'm
portance that the fnanciers feel justified in
laying aside all party lines to look at what
they consider their interest, then believe the
masses OF the people are interested enough to
lay aside party lines and look liter their in
The Republican platform declares the Amer
lean people must stand by and undergo a gold
standard until the civilized nations take pity
on us and release US from our sufferings
There are people who are afraid this Nation is
not big enough to run itself. But the people
who lack confidence in American institutions
are not the people who produce the wealth of
America. If the gold stand Ia I'd is good Thing
why did the Republican party pledge itself to
get rid OF II? Is there anything too good for
the American people? If the gold standard is
good, the Republican party ought to pledge
itself to keep il regardless of what the other
nations say or think. If the gold standard is
not good enough to keep, it is bad enough to
get rid of, and we ought TO 90 it without wait
ing for ANYBODY else's help No man can saw
the gold standard is a good thing and stand on
me Repuollcan platform Ii he Says the gold
standard is bad thing then he must put him
self in the attitude OF making this Nation de-
pendent on foreign nations or else come into
our fold and declare for the unlimited coinage
OF gold ana SILVER at the present ratio of 16 10
L without waiting for the aid of any other
nation. lG-eat applause.1
we know not only what we want, but how
we are going to get it. We have not only
q policy which we can proclaim, but one we
can defend. We are opposed to the gold stand
ara because IT is bad, because it has ruined the
commerce OF this country and has been de-
strucive of the interests Of this country, We
think any standard which gives rising dollar
and falling prices; that makes the money
owner great and the producer small, or as the
republican candidate for President expressed
II at Toledo some FIVE years ago. "a policy
when makes money the master and all else
are opposed to sticking to it any longer [Ap-
plause.l
We believe bimetallism will restore the par
Ivy between money and property. You hear
people talk about the parity between two kinds
or metal. The difference between the adyo-
Gates OF the gold standard and the adyoca ties
OF olmetalllsm is largely this, that the advo-
cate OF the gold standard is all the time talk
ing about the difficulty of main tanning the
parity between two kinds of dollars, while the
Dlmetd1IlSt is Gaining attention TO the fact that
under the present system we are not maintain
ing the parity between dollar and the prop
erty which dollar will buy [Cries OF good ~
The gold-standard advocate is more con-
cerned about a difference of per cent be-
tween two dollars than the difference of 100
per cent in the price in q dollar now and
twenty years ago. People tell you the Ameri-
can dollar is so much better than the Mexican
dollar, because it will buy two of them. You
tell him when an American dollar will buy
two Mexican dollars IL will buy two bushels of
wheat, but the time will come when Mexi-
can dollar VIII buy three bushels of wheat
You say you want dollar good. How good?
So good that you Can't get hold OF II?
fLaughterl
They tell us the laboring man is interested
in the gold standard, because he wants a
dollar 70 buy as much as possible. The labor
ing man is more interested in having the OPP
portunity to earn a dollar. We have hard
times and falling prices, which are hard on
the laboring man. Laboring men know that
when legislation makes it more profitable for a
man to lock his money up in vault and
gather in the rise in its value he will do that
instead OF employing labor in the develop.
ment of the resources of the country. There
is only one way to open the avenue to business
and thus give employment TO labor, and that
is to restore enough standard money in the
country TO justify man in spending his
money in enterprise instead of locking it up.
They talk about ffty-cent dollar. l never