The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-10-23

Dg ille lnUldld republican convention
in 1890. Concerning it he said:
'sThe Republican platform which /
have read in your hearing commended
that silver bill as long yet prudent
step toward free coinage, and yet when
we tell you that free coinage is a good
thing our opponents tell us we are
lunatics and cranks and idiots.
Laughter) If you would. six years
ago, brag about a long step toward
free coinage, why don't you brag when
we want to go the whole distance all
at once? Great cheering }
YELLOW BADGES SCARCE.
''The only barbecue town on earth"
was the principal inscription on the
posters announcing the Bryan meeting
at Peru, and a big political barbecue
was in progress when the Democratic
candidate, escorted by long process
sion, reached the grounds. A for
midable list of free silver orators had
been engaged for the occasion. includ-
ing Senator Teller. Senator David Tur-
pie and ex-Congressman LATE Pence
of Colorado, and these made addresses
after Mr.. Bryan had spoken, and con-
tinued his journey toward Terre Haute.
=. H. Shiveley, Democratic candidate
for governor was also present.
Between 5000 and 10000 people were
in attendance, and great cheering be-
gan as Mr.. and Ms. Bryan appeared
on the platform. A noticeable feature
of the occasion was the absence of the
yellow badges that had been displayed
so prominently through Ohio and other
parts of Indiana where the Nebraska
man spoke. There had been detection
in the Democratic ranks at Peru and
Mr.. Bryan'S remarks We're mainly to
I those who had decided to leave the
party. To them he said in part:
THE PRoDIGALS.
when you leave the Democratic
party in this campaign, L want you to
leave knowing what ii means Do not
think that you can leave US this year,
the greatest fight that Democracy has
had for half a century-do not IhlnK
that in the presence of the most dan
gerous enemy, you can desert and then
come back next year. and take a posi-
ton of command. You cannot do it,
my friends. (Cheers.t Ae I.elil As4io
leaves the Democratic marty in its
great fight this year to restore the gov
eminent to those old foundations lald
| by Jefferson and Jackson, need not
expect TO come back until he has fully
atoned for the sin chat he commits this
year. (Cheers.) The Bible tells us that
when the prodigal son got tired feeding
the hogs and CO me home, his father met
MIN with open arms and killed the
latest calf for him. Well, my friends,
want you to understand that the
prodigal son who leaves the Democratic
/ household this year and goes off to feed
the hogs Qaughter), when he comes
back he has got to come with the
understanding that he must saw wood
long while before he gets to the
| table. Oaughter) AS one of the
speakers in Michigan said, when he
comes back, We will say: XIII the
prodigal: the calf has returned -
SILVER REPUBLICAN VS.. GOLD
DEMOCRAT.
The gold badges were likewise few at
Delphi, where Mr.. Bryan spoke briefly
| TO between 5000 and 5000 people. He
I told them TO vote for ex-Republican
James Beadle for congress, and said
it was better to support by tne ballot
? silver Republican, than one who had
formerly been a Democrat but was
now running on q gold ticket.
A crowd numbering in the peighbor-
/ hood of 10000 was addressed briefly by
Mr.. Bryan at Frankfort, but it was
not to be considered in point of size
beside the tremendous audience that
had gathered at Lafayette. 1t was, in
fact, three separate gatherings All IN
| the courthouse square, and Mr.. Bryan
made three speeches from the same
platform, one from each side. At least
% 900 is the aggregate of the as
! semblage. Mr.. Bryan in his speech had
something to say about the position of
General Harrison in this campaign.
He said:
i want to ask you to consider for a
moment the position taken by the lead
! ing advocate OF the other side, eX-
President Harrison. l think I am JUS
titled in saying that, of all the sup
porters of Mr.. McKinley's election, Mr..
Harrison is the ablest and most dis
| tinguished. He made a speech yes
terday in which he tried to show thu
impossibility of there being a double
| standard, and yet Mr.. Harrison was
elected president on a platform which
| denounced Grover Cleveland for try
ing to demonetize silver. (Cheers.) He
tried to show that it was impossible
! to have two yardstickS, and yet he
| ran four years ago on platform that
declared that the American people
from tradition and interest favored
bimetallism. which means a double
standard (cheers); but, worse than
that while he opposes the double
| standard he is trying to run on two
| platforms this year He said in his
speech yesterday. The present condi-
lions are that we are a bimetallic
country. and yet the Republican plat
form of this year says that we must
! maintain the present gold standard.
! (Cheers.) If we are a bimetallic coun-
try. why did not the platform say that
we must maintain the present bimetal-
lie standard? And yet, while the Re
publican platform declares that we are
at present under a single gold stand
ard Mr.. Harrison states that we are
under a bimetallic standard. (Cheers. }
las does u mean, my friends? 1t
means that, having been defeated in
this campaign on the gold standard,
now, as the election approaches, they
ere trying to get under cover of hi
Emetallism and claim that their plat
form is false" (Cheers.)
WILDLY ENTHUSIASTIC.
AT Linden Mr.. Bryan spoke to a
small gathering.
Charlottesville came next, and here
the nominee encountered one of the
most wildly enthusiastic audiences of
the day. although it numbered about
5000 only. The speech of Mr.. Bryan
there was devoted in part to answering
the charge made by General Lew Wal
lace. resident of the town, that he
(Bryan) was an anarchist. He de-
Tended the Chicago platform from the
charge that 1t was anarchistic.
La Doga turned out about ] DOC
crowd The assemblage at Greencastle
stretched away off into the darkness
and could not be estimated for that
reason. It was very enthusiastic.
1t was reserved for Brazil, the we'll
known mining center, to exceed in
demonstrative appreciation of the
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