The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-27
Applause.

Rochester, August 26.-The BRYAN
party left Utica at 1890 and reached Ro-
chester at 2:15. The only stop was at
Lyons, where crowd of $50, reinforced
| by a band, demanded speech and Mr.
Bryan responded.
The greatest crowd of the trip in New
York surrounded the Rochester depot
and followed the party to Brown Square.
The platform, flag-draped, stood in pic
turesque spot under the trees
In the streets and on four sides of the
| square were solid lines of carts and car
riages crowded with people. The area of
humanity stretched back of the platform
so far that more than half of the would
be listeners secured only view of n
speech i'll pantomime and on the outskirts
hundreds We're coming and going so that
probably 20, 600 people had n sight of the
| man of the day, though not more than a
fourth of them could hear him
The party had only an hour in Rochester
and 1T was a race against time to catch
the New York Central train for Buffalo.
whence the party was to be taken by a
special train to the meeting of the Demo
| cratic clubs at Erie, Pa. Mr. Bryan in
his speech said in part:
II am candidate for the highest Office
in the gift of the people of the greatest
nation of the earth to-day. (Cheers) And
as candidate for that position / appear
before you.
Our Government rests on the intelli-
gence and patriotism of the American
people. We believe that they are capable
of government. We believe that no
question has ever arisen, that no question
is before them now, and that no question
| ever will arise which is too great to be
submitted to the common people of
America. Great applause). Whenever l
lind u man who says that the money ques-
ton is complicated question, generally
find man who thinks he has made n
speciality of complicated questions
Laughter). Whenever find a man who
thinks that the money question is too
deep for him, generally find a man who
thinks 1T just about deep enough for him
Continued laughter).
Whenever find man who tells YOU
not to bother about financial legislation
find II man who wants to take upon
himself all the suffering and to do your
thinking and your acting for YOU But
when find such man / am afraid that
find man who, when he acts for YOU,
VIII be sure that he does not neglect
himself. Great laughter.)
There is one thing that | like about
the advocates of bimetallism Whenever
you find man who believes in the imme-
date restoration of free and unlimited
coinage of gold and silver at ethe present
legal ratio of 10 to ! without waiting for
the AID or consent of any other nation on
earth, you find n man who tells You that
he believes that the policy will be good
for himself and also believes that it will
he good for others also. | like that sort
of candor. Ask n farmer why he wants
bimetallism and he says because it is
nj fnr ALL IL
he wants bimetallism and he says that he
thinks it will be good for him. Ask a
business man why he likes bimetallism
and he says Il make my living out of
those 70 whom / sell, not out of those
from whom | borrow, therefore bimetal-
llsm Is gcod for me because it enables peo-
pie TO buy what I have to SELL You ask a
professional man why he favors bimetal-
lism and he tells you it is because his
business rests on the producers of wealth
and that he cannot prosper unless the
producers prosper
But you ask a financier why he is in
favor of the gold standard and what will
he tell you? Does he say because it is
good for him? You. never hear one of them
say that. Uaughter). If you ask these
financiers why they want gold standard
some of them will tell you that the free
coinage of silver would be good for them
They say they want gold standard be-
cause it is good for somebody else; that
they want it because it is good for the
farmer, because it is good for the iaboring
man and good for the business man. You
tell them that these people are willing to
risk bimetallism and then these financiers
rise to the full height of their moral stat
ure and say that the people must have
the gold Standard and that they will ram
the gold standard down the throats of the
people whether they want it or not, be-
! cause they love the people. daughter and
cheers.
Now my friends, do you believe that
this is their reason? Shouts of MOI.
am afraid it is not. When find man
who says he wants thing because it is
good for him, l think he is pretty nat
ural sort of a fellow. But when / see
man who wants to do something for me
against my will and tells me he is only
feeling for me, am careful to see that he
does not reach me. daughter and cries of
Hit 'em againO.
1--WE believe in the immediate restora-
ton of bimetallism, that is in the opening
of our minis TO the free and unlimited
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