The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-18
Delusive Speeches Made by the Arch
Popocrat ut Charlotte, Sails
bury and Other Places.
SILVER PALACES REHASHED
WORDS OF REPUBLICANS TWISTED
TO SUIT HIS PURPOSE.
yer and Raise the Price of Prod
ucts of the Farm.


Bryan began speaking early to-day after
night of rest in his special train. He left
@ss car at Charlotte at a. m. and was es-
cofted to the Postoffice Park by the
Hornets Nest Rifiemen and local Knights
OF Pythias commandery of mounted men.
There he addressed several thousand peo-
pie, saying in part:
The Republican party has been legis-
tating TO make a dollar dearer and then
tney deny that the legislation has any
morning TO call attention to the conditions
IN the volume OF our money. Now, want
70 assert 1t first, as a proposition that can
not be disposed of. that the money of the
country must keep pace with the popula-
ton of the country and with the industries
or the country (cheers); and that unless
the money doessso we shall find that
dollar rises in value all the time. Now,
when dollar rises in value it simply
means that prices will fall and falling
prices are an injury to the men who pro-
duce the wealth of this country Failing
prices good for the man who has and
wishes to use that money to buy the things
falling in price.
one of Senator Shermans speeches to sup
port his assertion; Continuing he said:
In two years there has been a decrease
!n the amount OF money in circulation of
$3.50 900 00o. Now, my friends, these not
the vaporlngs OF lunatics and cranks Cap
pause These are the statements made
upon the testimony of one of our OPP
ponents. so short a time ago that even
they themselves have forgotten that the
truths they told are still alive (Applause)
What provision does the Republican party
make for the supply of the money that you
need? None whatever. l am not surprised
that even men who have been Republicans
all their lives are now in favor of the free
coinage of silver. (ApplauSe.) | am not
surprised when find that Republicans who
recognize their principles of finance and
apply them to the question, desert the Re
publican party this year when it comes
administration which repudiated by
the Democratic party itself. Great APP
piause)
trs Republicans have made more capital
by denouncing this administration than in
any other way. What do you think now
when the Republicans of North Carolina
become the sponsors S~i1s for the Democratic
surprised that earnest and sincere Repub-
hcans prefer to stand with the Democratic
party in demanding bimetallism which even
the Republican party of four years ago
said was dear to the American people
the Republicans who eight years ago stood
upon a platform that denounced the Demo-
cratic party for its attempt to demonetize
silver join with us to-day in demanding
bmetallsm which has been the historic
policy of the United States until 1873 and
received the support of all the statesmen
Republican Democratic Whig and every
thing-we ever had in this country. Long
and continuous appause.)
HENRY CLAY QUOTED.
LET me briefly. because / have but mo-
ment more. call your attention to what
Henry Clay said in regard to protecting
the volume of money in this country. l
have been told that Henry Clay was the
only presidential candidate who had ever
come here during a canvass prior to my
coming. Let tell you what he said in
regard TO the contraction of the currency.
This speech vas made in the United
States Senate on the goth day of January,
1910: OF all the conditions of society. that
is most adverse in which there is a con-
slant and rapid diminution in the amount
OF TIE circulating medium. Debtors be-
come unable to pay their debts. And have
you had such condition during your life
Property falls'-we have had that condi-
tion also. The market is glutted'-and yet
a gre at party with a glutted market be
fore them demand opening Of the factories
when there is nothing for the factories to
do after you open them, my friepds. Gap
declines and labor is thrown out of en-
poyment, selling becomes enormous and
purchasers become scarce from an unwill-
ingness to make investments with the
prospects of almost certain loss. When
money is rising people want to turn every
thing into dollars, and during that time
we must have stagnation of business.
Failing prices make hard times, and you
general fall of prices. Have gentlemen re-
fiected upon the consequences of this sys-
friends. might be put, to the Republican
party. MIR. Clay adds: have already
the weight of debt. If the currency be
greatly diminished as beyond all example
that has been. how is this debt to be ex
which the debtor relied for his payment
viii decline in value and it may happen
that man who honestly contracted a
debt on the worth of property which had
value at the time sufficient to warrant the
erty and his debt remains unextinguished
mfr. Clay simply described the very con- |
ditions which confront the American peo-
not only refuses to recognize that condi-
ton and bring relief from that condition,
a policy which increases the financial dis
tress Of this country. makes debts harder
charge of the property of the citizen, and
leaves the debt unextinguished to hang
over him still" Great applause)
At Concord Mr.. Bryan spoke for three
depot He Immediately drifted into a free
claim that under silver coinage the silver
holar will be worth but 50 cents he said
IF the minis are opened so that every man
with an ounce of silver can convert it into
money there would be no surplus TO drag
down the price Can the United States
maintain parity The only way to know
e VIII TX y the 10 prce at can sak and u We
would raise the price of those things which
come in competition with the products of
other countries. thereby restoring pros
peritv to the farmer who would then pur-
chase at the stores and make demand
stroy the ability of the producer to sell
the products of the factories you destroy
about opening the mills
AT SALISBURY.
When the train reached Salisbury at |
rs. the larger portion of the population |
appeared to be at the depot. Mr.. Bryan |
was introduced by T. e. Klutz. one of I
those who seconded his nomination at Chi |
cage. The nominee spoke enthusiastically of /
the State he was in and. after referring to |
the fact that Andrew Jackson had been a /
law student in Salisbury, he said THE |
principles for which ! stand before the peo- |
pie are the principles taught by Jackson |
when he was th-l idol. not of Democracy |
alone, but of the great common people |
whom he had all times defended" He +
spoke of Jefferson's history and referred /
10 the fact that Jackson aud Jefferson had |
been the object Of abusive epithets by /
1.-THE noney-owning and changing class
who proclaimed against every one who did |
not bow the knee TO Baal and worship |
the golden calf
Mr. Bryan then spoke in a strain which |
he has used on other occasions. He stated
that he had noticed mothers and wives in
the audience he addressed. crowding about |
the platform. because they especially have
felt the pressure of the gold standard
Living expenses have been reduced" he
said while the debts and the taxes of
the farmer have been help up. If YOU
could enter the homes Of this Nation ard
see how hope deferred has made the heart
sick, If ynu could see parents. who in the