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party. Yet ii Is often the case that the
party machinery or bosses have more to
do with shaping the policy and making
the nomination than the voters them
selves. l am proud to be the nominee of
convention which represented no ma
chine-no bosses but the unpurchased suf-
frages of the voters of this country.
Great applause). A few months ago, the
most sanguine democrat did not believe
that success this fall was more than pos
sihle. The most sanguine democrats felt
that four years of gold standard admin Is
tration had destroyed almost the possi-
bility of success, but the voters of the
democratic party determined to make one
| final fight and determined that if
die the party must, 1t should at least
maintain the honor OF those who believed
in the right of the people to govern them
! selves. (Cheers) The result is just what
1t always is If people lay aside expediency
and seek to do their duty and accept the
| consequences. In trying to do right the
democratic party won a possibility of
| success, which It never could have hoped
for If 1t had consulted expediency.
| (Cheers) They told US we must not dis
| turb the harmony of the party. Every
| time we made speeches in favor of the
! free coinage of silver. we were told that
| we were disturbing the harmony Of the
! party and If we spoke emphatically they
! tried to read US out of the party. They
| called us everything and tried to make
| US pledge ourselves to abide the decision
| at Chicago before we could go into the
| convention. l, for one told them that
! whenever they would bring a pledge that
| the gold standard democrats would take,
| 1t would be time enough to ask free sill
! yer democrats to make pledges. (Cheers)
| | stated in answer to an inquiry that l
would not support for President
a man who would in the presidential
| chair continue the present financial policy
and mortgage the United States to Eng
| liSh bondholders. (Applause) 1 said it
because 1 meant it. l may be wrong in
| my judgment, because none of us are in
| fallible, but my judgment is the only
Judgment that can control my conduct
| (Applause) Now, when the Secretary Of
| the Treasury denounced me as a popu-
| list and SAID l had said l would not sup
| port the nominee, | replied that I did not
expect him to support the nominee #
| the nominee were a free silver man. The
time came when he was put to the test,
ana the only difference between him and
| me was that l was candid enough to tell
I the people / would follow my conscience
and he tried TO control a convention and
then bolted when he failed to do 1t.
Great applause)
Il have sent him no letter begging his
support. Oaughter). The highest COM
pliment he can pay me is to oppose me,
! because then the world will know the Sec
rotary of the. Treasury whom 1 appoint,
| If / am elected, will be as different from
him as l can find. (Cireat APPLAUSE. l do
not dispute the right of any democrat to
vote against the Chicago ticket if he
thinks it's success will imperil the coun-
try, but what / ask is that these men who
have been pretending to be democrats
shall now, when the democratic party has
been rescued from the peoples spoilers,
leave the name and not attempt to take
that name with them into disgrace. loud
cries of rightly They call themselves
true democrats. No true democrat ever
nominated one ticket for the purpose of
voting for another. Great cheering). We
have this contest to meet and we are pre-
pared to meet it. We have a cause that
appeals to the intellect of those who think
and to the hearts of those who feel, and
we are willing to place that cause in oppo-
sition to the cause which merely appeals
to the pocketbook." (Cheers)
Mr. Bryan then went over some of the
arguments on the money question used
by him before, and continued IS follows;
II denounce the idea some seem to have
that the government has a right to lessen
the volume of money. but no right to in
crease it. l denounce as false and infa-
nous the doctrine that the government
has the right to starve the people by TAX
ing their money from them, but has
power to feed them by increasing their
supplies. When they tell you that you
ought not to invoke legislation for the
purpose of increasing the volume of the
currency, tell them you are following the
examples set in 1873 when the money
owning classes invoked the power of leg
islation to strike down a portion of the
nations money in order to raise the value
of the other portion. Great cheering)
If they can appeal to the law to take away
some of the money you had, why can you
not appeal to the law to place you back
where you were? (Applause) Some are
afraid if we pass a free coinage law there
will be such an enormous increase in the
volume of our currency that we won't
know what to do with it, you can't read
a speech made by our opponents, but you
will find contradictions in 1t and one prop
osition will answer another. For instance,
a man will say If we had free silver it
| would give the mine owner profit of 100
per cent when he took his bullion worth 30
cents to the mint and had it converted into
| a dollar and 1t Is a terrible thing to let
him make that profit. After he has worried
about that he will tell you as a matter of
| fact that the law adds nothing to the
value of the metal under the free coinage
of silver and 80 cents of bullion will only
be a 50-cent dollar. Both these statements
cannot be true. If you convert 50 cents
worth of bullion into a 50-cent dollar there
is no profit to the mine owner. And If the
mine owner makes a profit by converting
| 30 cents worth of bullion into one hundred
| cents then there are no 50-cent dollars.
Then you will hear that under free coin
| age we would be flooded with silver until
money would be so cheap we would not
| have any use for it, and when you have
been frightened as badly as you can be
that way, they will tell you this cheap
| money will run the dear money out and il
will take fifteen years with our mints rum
ming at full capacity to make money
enough to take the place of gold, and that
will make money so scarce that a silver
dollar will be harder to get than a GOLD
dollar Oaughter.) You can't have too lit
tie and too much all at once"
In conclusion, Mr.. Bryan said: mot
dollars worth of gold would leave this
country under free coinage, until those
who held 1t felt they were benefited by
letting II CO. But I do not admit gold
would go to a premium. ] believe under
free coinage gold would come here instead
of going away, and the only way TO stop
the outflow of gold is to adopt the bimetal-
! ism, and raise the price Of wheat and
| cotton and pay our debts In produce in
stead of gold" Great applause)
/ at,gel H.