The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-02
MIGHTY MASSES.
Multitudes Continue to ThrOng
to See Bryan In Ohio.
Twenty Thousand People Gath
er at Springfield.
LAUGH AND CHEER
At the Statements Made By the
Nebraska Orator.
GOldbug Worse Than Chinch
Bug or Potato Bug.

| lhOuSanQ people greeted the Democratic
nominee at Springfield and cheered him
| from the time he left his train until the
! police finally fought a way for him to
| the train bearing him to Toledo.
Mr.. Bryan said in part:
| Ladies and Gentlemen: For a few
minutes only I shall occupy your at
teption, because a large portion of my
voice has been left along the line of
travel, where it is still calling sinners
| to repentance. (Great laughter)
i am told that in this city you man
ufacture more agricultural implements
than are manufactured in any other
city of the country. I am glad to talk
to people who recognize their depend
ence upon the farmers of this country
1 have had occasion to talk to some
who imagine the harder up they make
the farmers the better thew would be
off I am glad to talk to you who rec
ognize that the dollars which you re-
ceiVe are earned by those who convert
the natural resources of this country
INTO money; those who till the soil, and
from its fertility springs forth this ma
tiOn'S primary greatness s
AS a matter of fact, the farmers and
the laboring men are the foundation of
society. (Cheers.) Upon this founda-
ton is built the commercial classes and
the hnancier acts as a sort of a roof
over the whole thing. You can take
you can't destroy the foundation with
out running the whole building. Gap
plause.)
Upon the prosperity of the great
producers of wealth whom we call the
masses, as distinguished from the
classes, depends all the prosperity of
this country. If you have gold
standard you legislate the value of
money up and the value of property
down. The very legislation that in
creases the purchasing power of a dol
lar simply enables that dollar to buy
more Of other things How can a dol
lar be made to buy more Of other
things? By making more wheat sell
for a dollar, more corn, more oats, more
potatoes sell for dollar, more of the
products of toll are exchanged for a
given amount of money. Our oppo-
nentS are trying to throw upon prOYi-
dence the fault of our condition. If
a farmer complains that he is not max
ing much on his potato crop they tell
him it is due to the potato bug. If he
is not making much out OF corn they
tell him it is due to the chinch bug. If
he is not making much out of wheat
they tell him it is due to the army
worm. But let me tell you, the gold
bug is destroying more crops than all
of them. (Great laughter.)
1.-The farmer is the most helpless vic
tim of circumstances of all the pro-
ducers of wealth. When he plants his
crop in the spring he does not know
whether there is going to be a flood or
a drOuth, whether there is going to be
hot winds or cold hail He takes his
chances, and, 1 assert, when ne has
taken more chances than everybody
else and survives all the pestilences and
calamities that visit the farmer it is
not fair to drive him between the bulls
and bears of Wall street and let them |
take from him what is left" (Great |
laughter and applause)
THE Democrats of this state have |
done well against great odds. In spite |
of great influences they declared for |
Al
stitution. You met your opponents in |
open conflict and by superiority of |
numbers overcame them. What do /
they do? The very people who have |
been calling silver Democrats "POpu-
lists have been trying to read US out of /
the party for years. When they found |
they could not read US out, instead of !
going out to some other party and Civ |
ing UP the name we have proven our |
right to. they try to go out and take |
the name with them, and call US an |
archists because we don't go with |
them. (App1ause.)
Il understand these gold standard |
Democrats by resolution declared their |
should be the hickory tree. We |
have heard about Satan stealing the |
livery of heaven, but we have never !
before seen men try to use the name |
of that great hero and statesman to un-
do all he tried to do. (Cries of 'GoOd.D |
Talk about Andrew jackson belonging
to the gold bug Democracy (LauSnter);
go back to the time of Andrew Jackson,
and whom had he arrayed against
him? The very men who, after trying
to use the Democratic party for pri-
vate gain and having failed, are now
trying to elect the Republican candi-
date for president by nominating a gold
standard candidate. (Cries of They
can't do IT'D They take hickory tree
for their emblem. Why don't they get
something appropriate? Why don't
they put upon their ballot the picture
of an owl? Laughter.)
Nothing could be more appropriate.
1t looks very wise and does its work at
night. (Laughter) Or, if they don't
ike the owl, take the mole. It is a slick
animal and works under ground all the
time CGreat laughter and applause) |
but they ought to spare the sacred
memory of the man who was the hero
Of New Orleans and whose resting
place. the Hermitage, is the Mecca Of
all who still love Democratic princi-
pies" (Great applause)