The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-10-15
Donor Is "FOr Bryan Now, But
Mckinley in $780,"
SILVER MEN.
Several Towns Show Almost a
Unanimous Silver Sentiment.
At One Place a Mckinley Band
Interrupted Bryan.

Apparently it was a most unanimous
silver aggregation. Mr.. Bryan said in
part: You say that the dollar rising
in value every day is a good thing for
the farmer because when he gets a dol
lar it viii be a good dollar. Put the
emphasis on the when. You say it is a
good thing for the laboring man to be
paid with dollars which buy a great
deal. Remember that the laboring man
is interested in getting a chance to
work before he is interested in being
paid with good dollars. I would rather
trust the laboring men to know what
is good for them than to trust men
who have spent their lives trying to
destroy laboring mems organizations
and who try now to speak for them"
At the little station of Norway sew
eral hundred people were about the de-
pot and cheered the nominee when his
train arrived there. The usual crowds
assem- bled about the rear end OF
the platform at a small country town
greeted the candidate at Powers.
By the time Escanaba was reached
the bright sun of the day had changed
to a bleak cold wind which was to be
! expected in the northern peninsula.
/ This, however, did not deter a large
/ crowd from being present around the
stand built within a hundred yards OF
the depot and the cold apparently did
not chill the enthusiasm of those as
sembled. Here, Mr.. Bryan was pre-
scented with a badge of national colors
/ surmounted by a crown of silver from
a citizen who expressed himself as be-
ing for Bryan now, for Mckinley in
1880"
Mr.. Bryan said in part:
Somebody has said that everybody
knows more than anybody and when
/ we get an opinion of a majority of the
/ people we get as near the opinion OF
/ everybody as you can obtain in govern
/ ments and in this campaign we are
/ submitting our cause to the judgment
Of the American people. have been
/ criticised so many times for travelling
around among the people, but, my
! friends do not know where a candi-
/ date is going to go If you do not allow
/ him to go among the people who are
to vote for him. There is no other place
that I can go and feel at home. If
were to go and visit the headquarters
of a trust they would put me out
If I were to try to make my home
4 with the syndicate that has been bleed
/ ing this government, I could not stay
/ there long. and the people are about
f the only ones to whom 1 can go and
1 not feel that my coming will be unWel-
1 come. If a candidate is to meet the
4 people, he must go to them, or they
| must come to him. and times are SO
! had to come to you do not think it
/ is undignifed for candidate for Office
| to discuss public questions before those
! who are to vote.
Il do not think it is undignified for
/ man to tell the people what he believes
/ in and what he stands for In going
| about over the country I am not beg
! ging people to vote for me have too
| high an opinion Of the right to vote
I have too high an opinion of the intel
! ligence of the voter to ask him for his
. 81 hi
| a matter of personality my friends
! Candidates stand for policies, and you
vote for candidates because you want
the policies for which they stand.
/ stand for an American financial system.
l for the right of the American people
to attend to their own business. and I
am entitled to the votes of those who
| believe with me. My friends. 1 believe
in bimetallism. and believe in it so
| much that am not going to wait until
a gold standard man brings 1t to me
before I have it. I believe that bimet-
I allism is good for the American people,
and believe in it so much I want the
American people to get the benefit of it,
whether foreign nations like it or not.
MY friends, this is q battle between
the standards, a battle between the
single gold standard and the double
standard, between the use of gold as
the only primary money and the use
Of gold and silver as money of equal
power in payment Of debts and taxes,
and YOU have your choice between
gold alone. when you can get the gold,
or based upon gold and silver both as a
foundation broad enough for our COM
mercial fabric to rest upon.
The opposition was out in force when
the Bryan party arrived at Ishpeming.
There was a large crowd to listen to
the candidate but it was not enthusi-
! astic. His speech was applauded but
little. There was big Republican raj
ly on at which Washington Gardiner
was to speak. The Mckinley club Of
the city marched to the Democratic
! gathering Mr. Bryan had concluded
his address and Timothy Tarnsley had
been speaking a few minutes when the
Republican clubs approached. Mr..
Tarnsley, who stood Immediately in
front of Mr.. Bryan, turned to the nom
/ inee. and addressing himself more par
| ticularly to him, said
Il am informed that the band is at
the head Of a so-called Mckinley club.
We are very much obliged to them and
the people who sent them out for this
/ kindly interrup tion, but inside of three
weeks that band viii be playing. if
stin in the same employ. different
tune"
Those about the stand applauded
the statement heartily, and then Mr.
Bryan was taken to his car
At Negau he had time to get on q
platform in the public square to thank
the people for their enthusiastic re-
ceptiOn. He was cheered and applaud
ed until the train left for Marquette
where it arrived shortly before
Marquette turned out all that Mar
quette could to hear the nominee the
most enthusiastic crowd of the day
Russell, editor of the Mining Journal
and spoke in part as follows.
In no campaign since the war have
the people been so aroused to a sense
of national danger as they are aroused
this year. Our opponents tell US this
success Of our cause would mean great