Birmingham state herald., 1896-10-02

Make This Sacrifice
 for us always. Oaughter) And when they>tell us that the free coinage of sil- yer will help them. then I say. my friends, We have chance now to. get even, be- cause we will give them free coinage and let them enjoy it to their hearts content" iWild and prolonged applause and great laughter)
 Maintaining, as he has done in previous speeches, that free coinage would be good for the farmer. the laborer and the busi- ness man, MT. Bryan said that there was no tyranny more gallng than the tyran- ny of plutocracy; no tyranny so despotic as the tyranny of those financiers who attempt to rob men of their right to vote and act because they have signed their name to a note"
 Continuing, MT. Bryan said:
 ''I want to call your attention, my friends, to this unique situation. You had speaking in your midst today by a man who says he is goingro vote the re- publican ticket (beeause Mr. Cochran, who spoke here today, has openly and boldly declared his intention of voting the republican tickeD; and yet man who openly says that he is going to vote the republican ticket is sent around over the country by men who call themselves sound money democrats, and who pre- tend to be supporting another ticket. (Great cheering) l am not criticisng MT. Coekrans dec,aration that he will vote the republican ticket; but l ask you whether, in all the history of this coun- try, you ever knew a political party to employ a man to make speeches under it's auspices when they knew that he was not going to vote for the ticket which they said they were going to vote for? (Ap- plause)
 My friends, I call your attention to this to show you what a transparent fraud the bolting democratic organization is. 1t has all the characteristics of goldbug republican except courage to vote for the republican ticket. call your attention to another thing, and that IS that instead of declaring themselves gold standard men, they call themselves adyo- cates of sound money because they are ashamed to use the name even that de- seribes their position. (Great applause) Instead of saying they are for gold they
 Prate About an Honest Dollar,
 when they know that the gold dollar is the most dishonest dollar in the land to- day, and they love it most when 1t Is most dishonest" Great applause)
 The speaker talked of settling the tariff question by international agreement, a familiar feature of his addresses; ridieul- ing the republican platforms money plank through that comparison, and made his well known statement that those who have grown rich by the sale or bonds were the first to repudiate CleVe- lands policy adding that "the people were the ones to come to the presidents rescue and stand by the American Tor eign policy. "The gold standard is tyrant in time of peace" he said "and a coward in time of war. The gold standard rules with a rod of iron when 1t has control and al the very moment of danger it deserts like traitor and goes to fight for the countrys s enemy" Great cheerlng).
 In conclusion Mir. Bryan said My friends, the results of the campaign can net be determined until the vote is count ed I may be defeated, but l shall ma more joy in being my own master as private citizen than I would find in being somebody's servant rather than the peo- ple's servant if elected. My opponents says that it is undigniffed for me to go
 chasing about over the country trying to secure an election I have done noth- ing in this campaign that l am ashamed of I do not go before the people begging them to vote for me. I have gone before the people, and if my strength holds out, and I believe 1t will, am going before the people until election day, telling them what I stand for and to give them the platform upon which l stand, and to tell them, If elected, I will carry it out, and then am not going to urge them to vote, not as I may want them to- but am go- ing to urge each citizen to vote as he wants to. If I am elected want to feel that I have behind me the desires, the purposes, the hearts of the majority 'of the people of this country, and then, my friends, promise you that I shall carry out that platform, I care not what may come" (Great cheering).