The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1896-10-09
From Memphis to Nashville the Whole Way
Was Ablaze With Enthusiasm.
No Mortal Man Ever Stirred Tennessee as
his Words Like Words of Inspiration

a foreign financial policy. ZAP
plause.) AS l passed through the
streets tonight and listened to the
exclamations of the people, could
easily believe that I was in CITY SO
near to that sacred spot, the Hermit
tage. (Applause.) l can under
stand why the people of this State.
and especially of this portion of the
State. should feel so deep an inter-
est in the cause which is being
represented by the Chicago plat
form, because, my friends, we are
fighting to-day the battles that An.
drew Jackson fought when he was in
Office. (Great applause.) We find
arrayed against lis the same combi-
nations, the same aggregation of
wealth, with the same abuse against
him, we meet the same intolerance
that he met, we suffer from the
same abuse that he suffered from:
every name is applied to-day to the
advocates of free coinage that were
applied to Old Hickory when he
fought for the American people.
(Great applause.) It has been the
lot of those who have espoused our
cause to be denounced and abused
by those who favor the gold stand
ard. 1t has been the lot of those
who have defended the cause of the
common people to be assailed by
those who doubt the capacity of the
people for self-government, and
would deny to them the right of eat
ing the bread which they earn. (Ap-
plause.) In declaring in favor of
blmetallism We are standing upon
ancient ground. The free coinage
of silver is no experiment. 1t is in
dorsed by the history of the human
race. 1t has the sanction of all the
great statesmen of this nation from
the beginning of our constitutional
history down to 1878. No person
will assert that the American people
abandoned bimetallism after a full
and complete discussion. If YOU
read the records of the time, YOU
Will find that the newspapers which
are so quick to grasp upon any item
OF news, and so ready to spread il
before the public, did not under
stand and explain that the law of
1873 demonetized silver, closed the
mlnts to the coinage of the white
metal, and left us with gold only as
our standard money. Ever since
that day we have been seeking to
undo what was done in the dark.
(Applause.) Ours has been an open
warfare. Ours has been a fight
in which we have had to meet an
enemy that fought from am
bush, an enemy that always fought
behind some false pretense. (Great
applause.) The gold standard never
fought an open fight in this country.
The gold standard never fought a
fight which was submitted to the
people. The gold standard has made
every step in its progress by under
hand means, and has not for one
moment attempted to obtain the
consent or the Endorsement of the
American people. (Applause.) But
In this campaign at last we have the
issue before the people, and we have
chance IN this election to cast our
I ballots for the maintenance of the
standard for the restoration of the
money of the Constitution. NY
=. ShN.tf DOAAONO pO u uly Ill bI6 JUS
tice of our cause that l cannot fol-
one moment doubt what will be the
result when the American people
are called upon to decide this ques-
tion. Our opponents say that we dc
not need any more money. My
friends, that man who talks about
our not needing any more money in
this country is curiosity. 1 have
always noticed that the man who
thinks we do not need any more
money happens to be the man who
has the money. (Applause.) Let
me show you that our f1nanciers
themselves acknowledge our need
of more money. Our financiers re-
ioice at the thought of money com
ing here from abroad. II we have
enough money in this country now.
why should we want single dollar
to come from any other country?
Do we want too much money in this
country? Nobody wants too much
we all want just enough. My friends,
whenever we admit that we ought
to have any money come from
abroad we admit that there is not
enough money here, and when we
admit there is not enough money
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