The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-10-15
TALKED A BLUE STREAK FROM
MINNEAPOLIS TO THE CITY
OF DULUTH.
ANOTHER MEETING OF THE FA|R SEX
Was Addressed-Also Spoke to a Big
Meeting of Laboring People-Pre-
scented With Writing Material
to Sign the Silver Bill.

Duluth, Mimi, Oct. 13.-Tvhe private
car Idler, bearing w. j. Bryan, with his
party, rolled into the Northern Pacific
station in this city shortly after o'clock
and the candidate made two speeches
here tonight. The days campaigning
tour had covered the route from Min
neapolis to Duluth and at every station
of worthy size along the line Mr.. Bryan
spoke to goodly crowds. Upon his ar
rival in this city he was met by re-
ception committee and, with Mrs. Bryan,
was escorted to the st. Louis hotel for
dinner. He was then driven to the
Lyceum theater, where he addressed an
enthusiastic meeting of women. Thence
he proceeded to the car barn, which was
packed to the utmost with laboring men
of Duluth. Here he was presented with
the last utensil necessary for the signing
of a silver bill when it should reach him,
silver ink bottle filed with the fluid nee
cessary for the purpose.
Charles A. Towne introduced Mr..
Bryan at both meetings in a neat speech.
Mr.. Bryan told the women that dol
lar could not be compared to yard
stick, as claimed by the supporters of
the gold standard, and in the ten minutes
during which he spoke devoted himself
almost entirely to the discussion of the
yard stick proposition along the same
line pursued by MIN many times before.
AT the meeting in the car barn Mr..
Bryan said, in part:
Ladies' and Gentlemen-It gives me
great pleasure to advocate our cause
anywhere, but it gives me special pleas
ure to advocate our cause among the
people of Minnesota, have laid aside diff
ferences on minor questions and joined
in supreme effort to wreSt this govern
ment from the hands of those who would
make the people hewers of wood and
drawers of water. 1t gives me pleasure
to defend that cause in a state where
democrats, populists and silver republic
cans have united on state, congressional
and electoral tickets.
'My friends, too often in the past those
who have labored for common purpose
have counteracted each others efforts
because they have gone in different Or
CARNATIONS and supported different can
didates, but in this campaign we are
welding together those three divisions
of the great army and nowhere has that
welding process been more effectual than
in the state of Minnesota. l am glad to
come into this state. | am glad to be
where the reform forces have joined in
the nomination of so grand man as
their candidate for governor, John Lind.
| am glad to speak in congressional dis
fr,. xtyhn f1,n 1,nH fob n
up and are following the leadership of
to gallant champion as Charles A.
Towne. My friends, when history has
recorded, as | believe history will re-
cord, the success of this movement in
favor of bimetallism; when upon the roll
of honor has been inscribed the names of
those who have been most instrumental
in carrying. this cause to a successful vic
tory, | believe that your townsman,
your candidate, your congressman will
find his name high up among those to
whom honor will be paid.
''Thele are crises in the affairs of ma
tons upon which much depends. There
are hours in the lives of men which are
the turning point and upon the decision
there may depend, not only the future
of the man, but often much depends OF
the welfare of the nation, and when the
time when Mr. Towne himself had to
stand true to his convictions or abandon
them in order to remain in association
with the party in which he was reared,
when that time came he did what
every noble man must dO-followed his
convictions. no matter where those con-
victions led. My friends, when he did
that, when he cast his lot with those who
believed in the money of the constitu-
ton, when he sacrificed those party as
sociations which had been dear to him
and started out champion of the cause
of the people, l believe he rendered a
decision which will prove as beneficial
to his countrymen as it proves honorable
to him and | am glad to be in this dis
trict to hold up hands and tell you who
assemble here, those who vote in this
district, that Charles A. Towne can bet
ter afford to go down to defeat than you
can afford to allow his cause to suffer
ought to be interested in his success III
this election l want to add, my friends,
that if there are any here from other
districts in this city that you should feel
an interest in working for the success of
those who stand for the free coinage of
silver 1t is useless to have president
who will sign bill unless you have
congress which will afford him an oppor-
tunity to sign bill, and in this cam
paign, while we expect not a bare ma
iority, but an overwhelming victory, we
must always remember that it is pos
sible that the action of congress may de-
mend on the vote of single member and
that member may be elected by a single
vote in his district, and | beg you to
remember the responsibilities that rest
upon YOU in an hour like this and leave
no effort undone to get a majority in the
house and to give a majority in the SEN
ate, as well as to elect a president in
favor of the free coinage of silver with
out waiting for the aid or consent of
any other nation.
A voice-Yon won't veto it, will you?
Mr.. Bryant will not but want you
to have two-thirds, if possible, in both
houses so if by any chance l should veto
it l want you to have enough votes to
pass it over my veto. But, my friends,
you need have no fears about my views,
which are in harmony with the platform
on which / stand have been taught
to believe that platforms are guides to
those who are elected. You may rest
assured that everything in that platform
I believe in, and that no power on earth
will prevent me carrying that platform
out so far as my ability may go. l de-
sire to thank organized labor in this city
for having completed the equipment so
that I am now prepared to sign the bill
whenever it reaches me without depend
ing on anybody else for pen or inkstand
Or ink. The gold pen and the silver
holder and the ink presented tonight
I. ffra,