The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1896-10-17
Mr.. BRYAN COMPARES
HIM TO GOLD LEADERS.
INCERSoLL AND HALSTEAD
What Thcy Have said Contradicts what
They Arc Saying Are Political
Chnnge Artists From One
Side to the other Like Circus
Acrobats-tsivca Advice
to Wolverines.

GRAND RApDs. Mich. Oct. iG.-Wil-
liam J. Bryan last night addressed in
this city one of the largest audiences
he has yet spoken To- during the whole
campaign There were three meetings
arranged for. one 40 Campau square.
one at Powers Opera house, where hc
addressed the women OF Grand Rapids
and the other at Locllcrby hail.
While the speech TO the women was
not the principal one, in regard TO size,
Mr. Bryan made it Of special interest
in his nr1aignmcnt of Republican lead
ars. lie put Colonel Robert G.. Inger-
soil, Murat Halstead. cN-Prosidcnt
Benjamin Harrison and Secretary OF
the Treasury Carlisle in the same cate
CORY as Stevenson's Iekyli and Hyde.
His denunciation of them was scJth-
ing 1t was as follows:
1T win he remembered that few
years ago there was q great deal OF
talk about character 80 not know
whether ! ought TO call it a character
or two characters IL was Dr
Jebyll and Mr.. Hyde. You Will re-
member that the same person appeared
4
ters. One time the man was n good
man. benevolent, kindly disposed; ut
another time the same person was a
mean mar, villain, seeking 10 take
human life.
MIR. Ingersoll is now using his
great weapon, ridieule, against sil-
yer. Let me show You what lac
once said ON the other side OF
the questioo, and, my friends, he
will have TO talk long while before he
can answer what he has said on our
side, and think It is fair for us to as
sumo that we still have with rs all
those who have not been able to am
swer themselves
Here is what he said in a speech
made some years ago TO the farmers,
and is published IN pamphlet form by
G.. ). Baldwin, lsi Madison street, Chi
cago. lie says: For my part ! do not
ask any interference on the part of the
government, except TO undo the wrong
| Il has done | do not ask tnat the
money be made ont of nothing ] do
not ask for the prosperity born Of pa
per, but | do ask for the rcmonctiza-
| ton OF silver. Silver was demonctiZcd
by fraud II was an imposition upon
every solvent man, fraud upon every
honest debtor in the United States 1t
assassinates labor. IL was done in the
interest OF avarice and greed, and
should be undonc by honest men The
| farmers should vote only for such men
as are able and willing 10 guard and
advance the interests OF labor My
| friends, that IS what he said when he
talked TO the farmers some years ago,
and what he said then was ttie. II
was true then; it is true now.
"Thc silver of this nation was eX-
cluded from the land by law that
was never discussed by mankind. No
one viii ever claim that the American
people ever demanded the demonetiza-
tion of silver, and yet, my friends that
! law, passed secretly and in the dark,
| has been on the statute books ever
since We have modified IL to some
extent. but we have never been able to
undo It. Nou win notice that one OF
the most distinguished journalists of
this day, one OF the most eminent men
in his profession, Mr.. Murat Halstead,
is doing all he can 10 maintain the
gold standard in this country
Let me read You what hc said on
| the cath of October, 1877 ] take this
extract from letter OF that date from
the Now York journal of Saturday
| October 10 In that letter, nineteen
years ago, Mr.. llalstead said: 'rhis
British gold policy was The work OF
experts only Evasion was essential
70 success in 81 and possibly because
coin was not in circulation, and being
ont OF public view, could be tampered
with without attracting attention
The monometRllic system of the great
creditor nation was thus imposed upon
the great debtor nation without de-
bate Murat ilalstead called il 2
British policy. II was British policy
II Is q British policy to-day, aud what
/ we ask is 10 replace the British policy
| with an American financial policy
But win go 10 larger men. John
| c. Carlisle. who, to-day, stands as the
4 representative Of those Democrats who
/ believe in gold standard, spoke on
this subject in 1875 and he said: This
contest must not cease, and Will moi
( cease, until the industrial classes are
/ fully and finally emancipated from The
/ heartless domination Of syndicatcs
| stock exchanges and combinations oI
| money-grabbers IN this country and II
! Europe That is the language, my
| friends. OF John q. Carlisle in 1873
And he went even further than that
He suid We win pass measur,
after measure of relief and II IN,
President vetOes these measures ant
we cannot pass them over his veto. AZ,
| win put them IN the appropriation eil
| with the distinct understanding that j
the people can get no relief the GOV
crnment can get no money
do you know of any more emphati
condemnation Of the system than that
And yet. my friends, that heartles
domination still continues. The in
dustrial masses have not been cmanci
pated
Let me read from the Republican
platform in lsss, upon which BenjamiI
Harrison was elected President of thl
United States. In that platform / iinS
these words; The Republican part
is In favor OF the use OF both gold an,
silver as money, and eondems the polic'
of the Democratic administration Ia ~
efforts 10 demOnetize silver
During the day, Mr.. Bryan spoke a
a dozen Michigan towns. At an stop
made during the day the yellow