The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-08
BRYAN SAILS INTO HARRISON.
QUOTES THE EX-PREsIDENT'S Ut
TERANCES ON SILVER IN 1890.

Trend of Prices to the Silver Leg
isIatiOn Rather Than the Mckinley
Tariff-DemOcrats Who Are De-
serting the Party CIassed as In
consistent.
indianapolis, Ind, Oct. wv. j. Bryan
left this city at S:1S O'Clock this morning
on Pan Handle special. He arose at $50
o'clock feeling fresh and rested. and took
breakfast with Mayor Taggart and Pri-
Vate Secretary Davis. A large crowd was
waiting at the Grand hotel, and when the
candidate appeared he was greeted with
cheers. He was at once driven to the I'm
ion station, where another large crowd
had assembled. AS the train pulled out
there was round of lusty cheers.
Upton, Ind, Oct. 7.-Noblesville Witness
ed the opening of William J. Bryan's sec
ond day of campaigning in Indiana. Ac-
| companying Mr. Bryan to-day are Gov.
! Matthews National Committeeman
! Shanklin, Parks Martin, chairman of the
state democratic committee, John w.
Tomlinson of Alabama and other promi-
I nent democrats. NOblesville is a banner
| republican town in a stalwart republican
|
| nounced that they would have a Golden
| rod parade at the Bryan meeting When
| the train arrived just the clocks were
| striking nine, the parade was not in evil
! dence, but the number of people who wore
! golden rod in the crowd Of 5000 gathered
at the station was sufficiently large to be
! noticeable. Mr.. Bryans sympa thiZerS
were numerous, however and cheered fire.
| quently. Hon. Theodore p. Davis, chief
| justice of the Indiana appellate court in
! troduced Mr.. Bryan.
In his speech Mr.. Bryan brought out
! ex-President Harrison and contrasted his
| attitude on silver now and when he was
| in the white house. He said This cam
| paign is resulting in more political
| changes than any recent campaign. We
are told that the democratic party is los
| ing some of its prominent men. We are
| told that the democratic party must SUI
| ceed, if it succeeds without the support
of certain former democratic leaders, out
| we rejoice that if we are to lose demo-s
| Gratis we are also to gain from those
who have heretofore acted with the re-
publican party There is this difference
between those who go from us and those
| who come to u.s. those who go from US
advocate what the democratic party has
never advocated before--the gold stand
| ard, while the republicans who come to
| us come because we advocate the same
bimetallism that the republican party has
| advocated. Great cheering) The repuD-
| iicans are able to act with us without
changing the convictions of life
time, while the democrats who go
| from us have to desert all that has been
democratic in the past. Cheers. Not
only was the platform of the republican
| party declaring in favor of bimetallism
| four years ago, but the leaders in the re-
| publican party were advocating, four
| years ago, what they denounce now. The
republican candidate for the presidency
so late as 1891, made a speech at Toledo,
! in which he denounced Mr.. Cleveland's
! policy, and said that by contracting the
| currency he had made money the master
| and all things else the servant. The re-
| publicans who act with us can take the
! report filed by Secretary Rusx in 1890 and
/ they can point TO page 8, where Mr.. Rusk
shows that the effect Of silver legislation
! on the prices of a product and also adds
| that the rise in the price of silver has
! raised the price of farmers products. II
| rising prices with the farmer were good
! then they are good now. You did not
| hear at that time this talk about rising
prices hurting the laboring men,
! (Cheers). You have a distinguished
| citizen here in this state who was presi-
| dent during the time when Mr.. Rusk sent
| in his report, and on the first of December,
| 1890 President Harrison sent a message
| to congress- in which he used these words:
| The enlargement of our currency by the
| silver bill undoubtedly gave an upward
| tendency to trade and had a marked effect
| on prices. But this natural and desired ef-
feet Of the silver legislation was by many
enormously attributed to the tariff act
| There he went so far as to put aside those
! who att empted to credit the Mckinley bill
with the effect that had come, and attrib-
uted that effect to silver, and yet when we
say that legislation can affect the price of
silver they say we do not understand any
thing about the subject. Great cheering)
If we had never known anything about the
subject we could find out a great deal
about it by reading those speeches made a
few years ago by republicans which they
are sorry now they ever made" cloud
cheering)
Cicero heard the candidate for a
minute and the next stop was
at Upton, reached at $40 o'clock, wheree
between 5000 and 5000 people had assem-
bled. The local committee had to take
Mr. Bryan through a stable filled with
horses to reach the public square where
the speaking took place. The speech was
short and upon familiar lines.
Logansport, Ind, Oct. 7-Several hun
dred wagons and carriages were drawn
up on the outskirts of the crowd gathered
in an open field where Mr. Bryan del!v-
cred a speech this morning at Kokomo.
The assemblage was large, numbering
probably 1900 people. Mckinley senti-
ment was strong, and many people in
the audience wore yellow slips OF paper.
similar to those Mr. Bryan saw at places
in West Virginia, each bearing the name
of the republican candidate and there
were cheers for Mckinley all long the
route taken by Mr. Bryan from Kokomo
Junction, where the train halted, to the
speaking ground, several hundred yards
distant.
The audience was fairly enthusiastic.
Joseph Heron, chairman Of the Howard
county democratic committee, introduced
Mr. Bryan, who spoke chiefly upon the
Oft propounded questions "If the gold
standard is a good thing for the American
people, why Is II that the republican par
ty has pledged itself to get rid Of the
gold standard? If the gold standard is
not good enough to keep, then, my
friends, is it not bad enough for us to
get rid of it?" loud cheernR)
Logansport, Ind. Oct. 1.-TWO great po-
ltical meetings were addressed here this
afternoon by Mr.. Bryan. On the arrival
Of his special train at noon, he was es-
,crtod bf.a baudq and Qilvar of,,I.