The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-11-03
HAS SUNG HIS LAST SONG
BRYAN ENDS HIS CAMPAIGN IN A
TOUR or NEBRASKA.

observing yellow Badges on HIS Auditors,
He Said it Was the Color of Straw, Which
the Farmer Got, While the Gold Men Got
the Wheat-Has Defended His Views
from the Atlantic to the Missouri.
Lincoln, Neb., Nov. "A keen east
wind blew fiercely through the crowd
of enthusiastic people at Hastings.
Colonel Irish came in just before Mr..
Bryan left and the republican meeting
began when the silver meeting was
over. People had gathered from far and
and of them, mostly farmers, made up
the assemblage that greeted with wild
cheers his appearance on a temporary
stand. The audience was plainly in
sympathy with his views and showed
its intensity of partisan feeling in shrill
shouts. Gold badges were few. White
ribbons bearing the word Bryan" in
two-inch letters were pinned on the
hats and breasts Of men, women and
children.
| Mr.. Bryan said: "I have been alb
sent from the state some two months
and I have been reading in republican
| papers that there were certain repub-
licans in Nebraska who thought this
state was too far west to furnish
president. | have heard it stated that
some republicans out here thought that
man did not know anything about the
money question unless he lived in New
York, where he was surrounded by a
London fog all the time. I heard that
there We're some republican farmers out
here who thought prices were not low
enough and they were going to try to
continue the gold standard so that oats
would go down to five cents a bushel.
Well am glad to find that these re-
publicans did not tell the truth in their
dispatches. daughter and applausel J
| am very much gratified to find so
many people testifying to their faith in
bimetallism by coming out to-day and
doing what they have been doing all
over this country-using their voices
until their voices are hoarse.
Since | left Nebraska, I have been
as far east as the Kennebec and I want
| to tell you that, no matter what the
papers may say, there is silver SEN
| tfment in Massachusetts and Maine
that Is as intense as in Nebraska
| (Cheers.) When I have found a man
who lived upon money and whose
money was increasing in value under
a gold standard I have generally found
an advocate of the gold standard,
whether he was in Nebraska or Massa-
chusetts but when 1 found man who
worked for his living generally found
man who sympathized with you in
your struggles. (Cheers.)
My friends, we started out to fight
| this campaign on a. great issue, and
our opponents pretended that they
We're perfectly willing to meet us In the
fight, But they had not gone very far
until they tried to get away from the
money question and get on the tariff
question, but when they tried to talk
| tariff they found that the people want
ed to put a prohibitive tariff on foreign
| financial policies, before they discussed
the rest of the schedule. They found
they could not bring the tariff question
into this campaign until after they had
settled whether or not this country has
a right to attend to Its own business
and have financial policy suited to it's
own people (Cheers)
The republicans have in their plat
form endorsed the financial policy of
the present administration and that
means more bonds and less money.
while our policy means more money
and less bonds. After our opponents
had found themselves driven from ev-
cry battlefield uron which they dared
to fight, then in the closing days of
| this campaign they have attempted to
resort to fraud and to forgery and you
have found iii these communities let
ters purporting to have been written
by the chairman of the populist COM
mittee asking you to save the state
ticket and sacrifice the national ticket.
II am authorized to denounce the let
ter as a fraud and a. forgery by Mr..
Edminston, whose name is signed to it.
But the fact that they resorted to these
things shows the desperation of their
cause If they had a cause which ap-
pealed to the people of this country it
would not be necessary for them to re-
sort to fraud out here, and to intimida-
tion and force wherever they can re-
sort to that anywhere" (Applause.)
Mr. Bryan then reverted to state is
sues and spoke in advocacy of Cover
| nor Silas A. Holcomb's candidacy for
reelection. Continuing. he said:
1--WE are not seeking votes under false
| pretences So far as am concerned
have tried to present before the people
from the Missouri to the Atlantic coast
the issues of this campaign. 1 have
tried to defend bimetallisrn. Now, on
this last day, when I come back among
the people of my own state, l want to
be frank with them. 1 want to say to
them, if there is a. man in Nebraska
who thinks this nation is not big
enough to attend to its own business
do not want his vote because / stand
for an American policy for the Ameri-
can people, and If can help it, we will
not consult any nation as to what ou1
financial policy shall be. (Cheers.)
'If there is anybody in this state
who believes that the honor of the
nation is safer in the hands of syndi-
Gates than it is in the hands of the
people themselves I do not want that
persons vote because l cannot carry
out his ideas. If there is anybody who
believes with that eminent divine
that the trouble in this country is over
education among the farmers sons
do not want his vote because that is