The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-11-05
BRYANS CHICAGO CAMPAIGN
THE YOUNG MAN FROM THE
PLAINS OF NEBRASKA
TALKED ALL DAY.
MADE EIGHT Different SPEECHES
SPOKE to Business Men, Laborers and
Women-Held Himself Up as the
elf-Sacrifcing Champion of the
Poor People.

Chicago, Oct 2S.-Twice this after
noon the largest hall in the business dis
trict of Chicago was packed almost to
suffocation with people to hear VIM. D.
BRYAN. Outside, on the lake front and
streets adjoining, unable to gain admit
lance, were crowds that would have filled
the hall twice again. Eight of the large
meetings were addressed by Mr.. Bryan
before midnight in various parts OF the
city. The most important gathering OF
the series was the big noon day meeting
at Battery d armory on the lake front,
and probably next in point OF interest,"
same place couple of hours later. Long
before the hour for the business mems
meeting Battery d was packed. The
seats had been removed from the Dody
of the hall and the audience stood
solidly shoulder to shoulder. The great
Orders that supported the roof furnished
seats for q number of venturesome ad-
mirers, and the galleries We're p packet.
The hall was crowded to its utmost
limit. Gen. G. G. Howard called the
meeting to order Mr.. Bryan received
great ovation.
Gen. Howard obtained the attention OF
the audience by saying that MIR. Bryan
asked one question, whether those pres,
ent were all business men: A thOusi'lu
voices answered yes, and Ill the lull that
followed one mans voice rose clearly as
he said: I'VE mean business. VCheer-
ing) , '+,o
money question. Among other things he
said:
"NIy friends, here is great financial
system resting upon a handful or golu,
and people in foreign land have
string to it, and you don't know ~ wn ant
from under and let your entire CONNER
cial structure collapse. (Applause.l
Tell the people not to be agitated, my
friends; you can not calm the sea by
words; it is as hopeless as it is to at
tempt to calm troubled society by telling
them to be quiet when they know that
catastrophe stands just in front OF them
all the time. (Cheering)
81 want you to note this proposition.
When we talk about wanting more
money, why they tell us there is enough
money in the country, plenty of money
i'm the country. The moment you begin
to argue that there should be more they
will silence you by pointing to the MONEY,
in the banks waiting to be loaned, ana
YOU say: All right, if we have enough
money in this country, now, let us nave
q financial system of our own and they
say: oh, no, no; we can't do that.
daughter and cheers.) -,
"Now. my friends, these are the two
propositions: If we have enough money
now we don't want any money to come
from abroad, because then we would
have too much and nobody wants 100
much. daughter and applause.) Ii
we need money from abroad it is con-
elusive proof that we have not enough
money now in this country, and II we
have not enough now, | assert that it Is
better to have an additional supply come
out of our own mountains and be our
own money instead of borrowing and
then pay it back to the foreign nations
of the world Great applause.)
"My friends. our opponents having
been defeated in their efforts to convince
the people that the gold standard ought
to be maintained, are trying to DO What
we have always sought to do, win the
battle on another issue, and, having won,
carried the gold standard little further.
Now, they are telling you that my elec,,
ton would be menace to peace ana
order. They tell you that l stand .or
lawlessness. / want to say that L stand
not only for the enforcement of every
law. but / stand for arbitration as a
means of adjusting difficulties by
peacable means. (Applause.)
A voice-We will give you chance
next Tuesday. (Cheering)
"Our opponents believe in allowing the
railroads to engage in controversy
with the labor organizations and then
call out the standing army to preserve
order | believe in compelling them TO
submit their differences to boards OF ar
FILTRATION and adjust by peace what our
opponents would adjust by force. (Pro-
longed cheers) ~, .4
"You business men have been told that
e will /
am elected. l want to Tell them tnat
until we find some means of adjusting
differences that arise between labor ana
capital, some system that compels Doth
to 60 before impartial tribunals, you can
expect increasing disorder instead OF IN
creasing quiet. Great applause:) -
Il believe in the court of justice. II
one man differs with another. do not
ask them to go out and settle it by fight
ing it out; | tell them to submit their
case, both of them, to a court and let
the court decide. (ApplauseD
Conditions have so changed that it is
necessary to extend the principle of the
court of Justice to the boards of arbltra-
ton and let them sit in Judgment on the
disputes that arise between the great
carriers of our interstate commerce and
the employees of those roads. | believe
in arbitration, and, my friends. the best
evidence that our principle of arbitra-
ton is lust is to be found in the fact
that not a republican speaker dared to
stand before an American audience and
condemn that plank in favor of >arbi-
tration (Applause)
"They tell you that I will not enforce
the laws. The fear of these people is
not that I will refuse to enforce. the
laws: their fear is that | will enforce
the law. (Applause) They know that
1 entertain oid-fashioned ideas on his
subject and that according to my idea,
the big criminals should wear striped
clothes the same as the little criminals.
Great applause)
Iieve in enforcing all laws against all
classes of society are better friends OF
goats of little criminals and then let big
ones run at large to run the government