The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-10-03
BRYAN TALKS TO
WEST VIRGINIANS
He Speaks to Ten Thousand People at
Charleston.
MONEY QUESTION THE MAIN ISSUE
The Speaker Follows Up the Old Line
ofArgument and Claims That the
Republicans Are More Opposed to
the Income Tax and the Anti.ln.
junction Planks Than to Free Silver.

Charleston. Kapawha county. w.
Va, Oct. I'm the chill morning that
sent shivers down the spinal columns
of his audience William j. Bryan be-
gan another day of campaigning at
Point Pleasant. W. Va. Mr. Bryan,
who had left Wheeling shortly after
midnight on a special train, accom-
panied by Governor MacCorkle. Con-
gresham McMillin. of Tennessee; Ma
tional Committeeman McGraw, or
West Virginia. and party of state
politicians. reached Point Pleasant at
6 o'clock.
Hastily slipping on his trousers and
buttoning his overcoat about his
throat, Mr.. Bryan went out on the
platform and made a short speech.
About thousand people heard him.
A reception committee of thirty-five
from Charleston. headed by eX-Gover
nor L. Willis Wilson, boarded the train
at Red House. There was big crowd
there, but it's cheers We're not sufficient
to waken Mr.. Bryan, who had gone to
his berth after leaving Point Pleasant.
Charleston gave the candidate hearty
reception. His train arrived at $40 a.
m. and was greeted by Il big assem-
blage at the railway station. A long
procession escorted the candidate about
the streets, and then to the city park,
where he made a speech to 10000 peO-
pie, in the course of which he said:
II find here upon the platform
Democrats. Republicans. ropulists,
members of all parties who, while diff
fering among themselves on minor
questions, are united in their deter
minatiOn to restore to the people Of
this country the gold and silver coinage
of the constitution. (Cheers.) l be-
lieve that I'm this campaign we are en-
titled to the support Of all political
parties who believe still in a govern
ment Of the people, by the people and
for the people. (Cheers.) We may diff
fer upon the application of fundamen-
tai principles to the various questions
which arise. We may differ in opn-
| ion upon policies suggested by various
parties, but my friends, whenever any
party in this nation denies the ability
of the nation to have such financial
policy as the American people want to
have, the three other questions diSap-
pear and we stand united to vondicate
the right Of f-government
AMPLE EXCUSE.
"Those who have been Republicans
in the past, those who have voted the
party was organized find ample excuse
for departing from that party this
year Go back to 1888 and you will find
that the Republican party declared for
gold and silver as standard money.
and even went so far as To denounce
the Democratic party for trying to de-
monttize silver (Applause) Read
that platform. adopted by the Repub-
lican national convention of 1883 and
see how it tried to turn the indisna-
tion Of the people against the Demo-
! cratic ADMINISTRATION because that ad-
ministration had been hostile to silver
and ON that platform the Republican
| party won the election. In 1882. the
national convention Of the Republican
| party declared that the American peo-
| pie, from tradition and interest were
| In favor of bimetallism.'
| MIR. Bryan maintained that one of the
| best evidences that the silver idea was
the correct one was found in the fact
that all the great trusts and combina- =
tions are against the Democratic tick
ct. He followed up his old line of arg,i-
ment of the basis of the statement
that the Republicans We're not fighting
an omen battle. They We're more op-
| posed. he said, to the income tax, the
anti-injunction and the arbitration
planks Of the Chicago platform than
! they were to free silver. He MAIN
tained, as heretofore. that the money
| question was the main issue and il
should he settled through the operation
Of legislation. He spoke of II dear dol
lar and u cheap dollar. in language
| substantially the same as used hereto
fore, and discussed the law of supply
and demand as applied to- silver. An
other special train was provided by the
West Virginia state committee for Mr..
Bryan's journey to Huntingdon. Gov.
! Mac COrkle accompanied Mr. BRYAN.
| The train left at 11.45 o'clock, eastern
time.
THE YELLOW BADGES.
Ohio, Kentucky and West Virginia
contributed to the throng that heard
| William j. Bryan speak here this af-
ternoon. Excursion trains were run
| from number of places and the
| crowds on the streets of the town before
| the Democratic nominee and his party
arrived had assumed formidable pro-
portions MOuntaineers came in on
| horseback and a-foOt; people were
landed from the riveD steamers and al
together Mr.. Bryan had picturesque
audience as he has ever addressed One
noticeable feature of the ga therng was
the presence of large numbers of men,
yellow paper bearing the one word
Mckinley" So conspicuous were they
in the crowd that gathered about the
speakers stand erected at Fifth avenue
and Ninth street, Mr.. Bryan called at
tention to them in his speech and COM
mented on their color-yellow. His
hearers numbered, according to various
| estimates, between ten and fifteen thou
sand. They were fairly enthusiastic
Mr.. Bryan spoke of bankers who grew
rich on the interests Of deposits and
added: And yet these men who act in
the capacity of trustees are so insolent
that they are now contributing to Re.
publican campaign funds the money
that the people have deposited with
them for security. (Cheers).
But, my friends, this campaign will
demonstrate whether the people are tc
have a government Of the people, by the
people. and for the people. or whether
it is going to be government of syn.
dicates, by syndicates and for syndi.
Gates" (Applause).
The rest of the speech was devoted
to an explanation of the 53 cent dollar
and to statements about impossibilit,
Of the Mexican dollar in America.