The herald., 1896-10-02
THE CANDIDATE
o. THE PEOPLE
Continues His Tour Among
His Friends
COMMON FINANCIAL CONDITIONS
Make the Palace Car System
Impracticable
M'KINLEY'S OLD SPEECHES
Provide Solid Ground for a Free Silver
Argument
M'KINLEY'S OLD SPEECHES
Provide Solid Ground for a Free Silver
Argument
The Virginia Crowds Seem Practically IMAM
imous for Bryan
The Candidate Positively Declines to
"Give It to Grover" Because His
tory Will Make Better
Job Of 1t.
A.soc,at.d Press Special wire

greatest demonstration given William
]. BRYAN in the state of West Virginia,
was tonight paid him in this city. AT the
fair grounds tonight he spoke to crowd
the size of which was only limited by
the space in front of the speaAeu stand
and the distance the nominees voice
could be heard. Neatly uniformed
marching clubs, bands Of music and citi-
zens in carriages and mounted on horses
made up procession the equal of which
the triple nominee has not encountered
in many long day.
The train bearing the Bryan party ar
rived at 7:3O. Between lines Of shouting
humanity the procession moved to the
fair grounds, distance of mile and a
half. Attorney-General Thomas S.
Riley introduced Mr.. Bryan, who spoke
in part as follows:
We are engaged in campaign on
which much depends. have heard since
came into this state that prominent
member of a corporation had boosted
that they had three hundred thousand
dollars to spend III this single state to
prevent the electoral vote for the Chi
cago ticket My friends, in times of
L., Il
interest, money may possibly be expend-
ed In such way as to affect the result
of an election, but in times like these,
when the people are in earnest, money
cannot change the result of an election.
(Great cheers.) AS against corruption
fund we place the manhood of the voters
of the United States. (Great applause.)
AT CLARKSBURG.
CLARKSBURG, w. Va, Oct. 1.-The
Bryan party left Grafton at $50 this
morning, arriving here an hour later.
From the hotel balcony Mr.. Bryan said:
Ladies and Gentlemen-I am not go
ing to make speech here, because
have an appointment at the fair grounds
and I must hasten out in order to catch
the next train. We are running on time
and trying to accomplish as much as
possible, because, owing to the fact that
we have not a great.many daily papers
with us, we have to do more in the way
of public meetings; and then, as the
people are not in good financial condi-
ton, 1t is not easy for them to come
all the way to Nebraska in special cars
to call on me. (Applause.) AS they
are not able to get out there, am re-
versing the process and coming to see
the people. (Applause.)
AS I go about from place to place
find a great variety in the manner Of
receptions arranged, and today I find
something new here. I believe this is
the first place where they have brought
the 16 to l into use in arranging their
horses for a procession. (Applause.)
This 16 to 1 idea has been put forth
today in the arrangements SO that we
have sixteen white horses and one yell
low horse But what pleased me more
was that the number of gold standard
advocates seemed to be so small in this
community that they had to get sill
yer man to act for the one gold man in
the crowd.
Now 16 to has come to be well un-
derstood. 1t used to be thatthe people
did not konw what 1t meant, and they
would ask me if 1t meant that the gov
ernment would coin 16 silver dollars
for every dollar it coined in gold. Others
wanted to know whether it meant that
the government would redeem every
gold dollar with sixteen silver dollars,
and SO the gold standard people thought
1t meant that the government would
give sixteen dollars to every one per-
son. Somebody thought it meant that
it would be about sixteen times as easy
to getty dollar under free coinage as it
is now. (Applause.) There is some
truth In that. Then they say that it
means that every silver man shall try
to get sixteen others to vote with him
this fall. (Applause.) But don't care
how you define it as long as you under
stand that under free and unlimited
coinage of silver at 16 to 1, 16 ounces of
silver shall equal ounce of gold in the
payment of debt and in the making of
money, so that anybody that wants
money can get the silver and have the
bullion converted into coin and use
that COIN We want, as the boy said,
free silver and more of it.
AT THE FAIR GROUNDS
At the fair grounds Mr.. Bryan was
introduced by Congressman. ]. w. AL
derson and spoke as follows
Mr.. Chairman, Fellow Citizens and
Ladies'; I desire to express my thanks
to those who have so kindly presented
me with this gavel made of the wood of
the house in which stonewall jackson
was born. (Applause.) We are far
enough removed from that war be-
tween two sections. Of this country to
give TO the general on the. south side