The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-20

AT Quantico couple OF hundred peo-
pie cheered Mr. Bryan. The crowd at
! Alexandria numbered fully 1900 per-
! sons, and expressed enthusiasm without
stint During the ten minutes the train
remained there Mr.. Bryan made a
! speech punctured by cheers and the
reports of cannon.
Arriving at Washington at five min
utes past four, the train being twenty
five minutes late. Mr.. Bryan alighted
amid the
CHEERS OF HIS FELLOW PASSEN-
GERS
at the far end of the train shed of the
/ Baltimore d Potomac station. The l,5UO
people who were wedged in behind the
train took UP the cheers and their
echoes were heard from the threats Of
fully 5000 people congregaied in the
streets outside 1t was only with the
utmost difficulty that the police were
able TO keep back the enthusiastic
crowd, every man of whom sought
to reach and shake the hand
the local committee and the dele
cation of the congressional COM
mtttee, Mr.. Bryan was conducted 10
his carriage and hurriedly driven TO
the Metropolitan hotel. After a brief
/ rest and luncheon carriages were again
taken and the party proceeded to the
old baseball park where it had beeen
preceded some two or three hours by a
crowd estimated at 10000.
Mr.. Bryan said:
Mr.. Chairman, Ladies and Gentle
men: l am grateful TO you for the very
cordial welcome which you have eX-
tended to me as l return TO the city
in which four years of official life We're
spent.
Il desire to call your attention to two
planks in the platform adopted at Chi
cago, before touching on other matters
contained in the campaign. I speak
of these two planks because
THEY CONCERN THE PEOPLE
who live in the District of Columbia.
The Chicago platform contains this
plank:
We favor the admission of the ter
ritories of New Mexico, Oklahoma and
Arizona into the Union as states. And
we favor the early admission of all The
territories having the necessary popu-
lation and resources to entitle them to
statehood, and while they remain ter
ritories we ho.d that the official APP
pointed to administer the government
of any territory together with the Dis
trict of Columbia and Alaska should
be bona fide residents Of the territory
or district in which the duties are 10
be performed
Let me read another plank: We
are opposed to life tenure in the public
service. (Applause9 We favor ap-
/ pointments based on merits, fixed
terms of office and such an adEninistra-
ton OF the civil service laws as will
afford equal opportunities to adj crti-
zens of a.scertained fitness, except
as otherwise provided by the constitu-
ton of the United States. We are in
favor of a civil service reform that
means something, and not a civil SER
vice reform that permits a president
to sustain a civil service until ne can
get his friends into office and sustain
the service just as he is going out so
as to keep his friends in. applause
We believe in appointments based on
merit and such method of appointment
as will open the offices to men of as
certained fitness
OUR OPPONENTS
are doing as much for US in this cam
paign as we are able to do for our
selves. Naughter) Of all the public
documents recently issued, the most
important one is the letter Just given
to the public, written by the secretary
Of the treasury, from which I desire to
quote this sentence: It is the duGy OF
| the secretary of the treasury, and of
all other public officials to execute i'm
good faith the policy declared by con-
gress,' and mark these words, and
whenever he shall be satisfied that the
silver dollar cannot be kept equal in
the purchasing power with the gold
dollar except by receiving it in ex-
change for the gold dollar. when ex-
change is demanded, it will be his duty
to adopt that course 1 want You 10
mark these words, because in those
words, the secretary of the treasury
tells you that whenever the secretary is
satisfied that it is necessary, he wild
commence redeerning silver dollars in
gold. GaUghter) 1 call your attention
to it because 1 want co
EMPHASIZE THE DECEPTIONS
which have been practiced by this ad-
ministration on the money question.
! (Applause) When this administra ton
advised the repeal of the Sherman law.
you were told the repeal Of the Sher-
man law would remove the difficulty,
and yet as soon as the Sherman law
was repealed, the same authority
which promised relief as soon as that
was repealed, came to congress with
the demand that the greenbaclxs and
treasury notes notes must be retired
by an issue of gold bonds in order to
4 stop the drain on the treasury's gold -
Proceeding with his speech, after a
brief inGermission caused by a violent
gust of wind, Mr.. Bryan said:
The secretary of the treasury in
forms you that if the greenbacks and
treasury notes were all retired so there
would not be a dollar of paper money
10 be presented for gold, yet ie would
be his duty to commence to redeem
silver dollars in gold and to start an
other endless chain that would drain
the treasury. According to the doc
trine laid down by Mr.. Carlisle, you
CANNOT STOP THE DRAIN
on the treasury until you retire all the
silver dollars and leave nothing but
=. gold in the treasury vaults I am glad
THAI our opponents are thus compelled
to expose to the public eye their heart
less, moneyless and criminal policy. ]
am glad that they have told the people
we must have gold alone and thus have
confessed that we are in the hands of
TWO banking syndicates and must paw
them what they want Talk about
monopolies and t1ustsl Here they
propose to establish the most gigan-
tic trust-a money trust-and to let the
men who own the gold dole it out &
the other 100000 of American cifl-
zens. L denounce that policy as more
cruel and heartless than world be the
domination OF any foreign power
Il would rather. as l have said. put orr
army in the hands of a foreign general.
or our navy in command of a foreign ad-
miral. than to put the treasury in the
hands of a secretary who would barter
resist such a financial policy with as;
much earnestneSs as l would the progress