The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-09-09

| at Greenwood to see the nominee, While
half that number were at Havelock, five
miles from lincoln.
In the afternoon a mass meeting was
| held in front of the state capitol build
| ing A parade composed of Bryan fam
beau clubs and free silver clubs, some in
uniform and some in plain dress, and in
cluding floats bearing free silver devices,
and several men on horseback from neigh
| boring localities formed at City Hall
| square and escorted Mr. Bryan to the
state house He rode with Mrs. Bryan,
| Lawrence Humphrey, chairman Of the To-
cal reception committee. and George A.
| Groot, chairman OF the national silver no.
tihcation committee in an open carriage
gaily decorated and drawn by four white
| horses. As the head of the procession
| neared the capitol grounds, a salute was
fired by volunteer battery. The stand
from which Mr.. Bryan spoke had been
| erected on the north front of the state
house, and was covered with bunting and
the walls of the building were also deco
| rated A large photograph of the demo-
| cratic nominee above the platform was
| rivaled by many Autographs of Mckinley
and Hobart, which some of the republi-
can state off1ce-holders had placed in the
windows of their offices.
Among those who had seats on the stage
were John A. Creighton of Omaha, John
A. Martin of Missouri, who was sergeant
alarms of the democratic national COM
mittee, Gov Halcombe of Nebraska, Ig
natius Donnelly, Chairman George A.
Groot. and a number of the members of
the silver party notification committee.
Five thousand people crowded together in
the hot sun about the stand, and cheered
repeatedly as Mr. Bryan appeared.
He was introduced by Mr. y. e. Brown,
a former republican and president of the
Columbia National bank of Lincoln.
Mr. BRYAN said Ladies and Gentle
IN IA IN a
little while There are others here who
are prepared to discuss the issues of the
campaign in your presence, and am
trying to do as little work as possible.
l think l have been doing my share so
far as time is concerned. (Cries of You
are right) But i want to avoid getting
tired by resting before / get tired, and,
therefore I am going to ask you to listen
to me but short time.
at is now Just about one month since
left Nebraska and turned eastward. 1t
has been an interesting trip. / want to
assure you that the sentiment in favor of
the free coinage of silver Is a growing
sentiment. (Applause) 1t far surpassed
| my expectations in the east, and l found
among those people the producers of
wealth. the farmers and the laborers who
| are Joining with you to free themselves
from the domination of those financial in
huences which have controlled our legis-
| lation and our financial policies. Gap
plause) You will find On the very shadow
of Wall street as bitter hatred of the in
huences from which you have suffered
as you will find among the farmers of Ne
braska (Applanse.) And all through the
east 1 found farmers who had been re-
| publicans who were openly supporting the
free coinage of silver and were asserting
that they had as much right to attend to
| their business as the New York banker
had to attend to his business. applause }
Another thing noticed, and that is the
intense earnestness that characterizes
this campaign. / have not found a luke
warm man anywhere. They have been
for us or against US. And they have been
earnestly for us, or against us. ! am glad
to see that, because, my friends politics
| is a serious business when you confront
such issues as confront the American peo-
ple- now. (Cries of That's rightly We
have had financial system which has
been injurious to the masses of the people;
, we have had financial system which has
brought great gain to those who have Sc
cured it and untold loss to those who have
, | suffered under it; and we are now con-
fronted with a proposition that we must
, keep this system until foreign aid comes
to our relief. applause and cries of 1--WE
will never do it.')
MY friends, we have a right as Ameri-
can citizens to discuss this great, over
shadowing issue and determine, each for
himself, what ought to be done. The re-
, publican platform, without defending a
gold standard, declares that it must be
maintained until the leading nations of
, Europe shall join in a substitution of a
, double standard That is the platform,
, and the candidate who stands upon it has
emphasized that declaration. AS against
J the maintenance of a gold standard, either
for one day or forever, the democratic
, party has declared for the immediate res
toration of the money of the constitution.
} (Applause)
: mot only the democratic party, but
the silver party and the populist party,
both of these, have joined with the dem
ocratic party in making this the para
t mount issue of the campaign. They are
trying to drag in other questions, but,
, my friends, there can be no other ques-
ton until we first determine whether the
people Of this country are able TO have
their own policy, and until we have de-
J cided upon IT, / do not know whether all
of you fully realize the intensity Of the
struggle in which you are engaged. Our
opponents began the campaign by as
: serting that the American people were
not able to establish bimetallism, and
when they found there was a revolt
} among the American people against such
/ a policy they commenced a system Of CO.
ercion and terrorzing, insisting that the
masses of the people even have not the
right to determine what kind of policy
} they want. (Applause)
This terrorism and coercion is mani
2 Tested in two ways. In the first place,
, the heads of many great corporations
: are undertaking TO compel their en-
J ployes to support the gold standard.
l (Cries of THAT Is So" and Shame y
, My friends II the heads Of those corpor-
ations assert the right to control the
: votes of those who work for them, then
2 we have presented to the American peo-
, Pile even a greater question than the sill
? yer question. (Applause) II a corpora
: tion has a right to control the vote of
an employe on one question, It has the
right to control It on every other ques-
, ton. (Cries of Right you are" and ap-
! plause) Those corporations were not
, constituted for any such purpose. They
are creatures Of law. Has the law given
z unto these corporations any such pow
? er?' (Cries of mo, never.'D
Continuing, Mr.. Bryan said; my
: friends, do you think you are under gov
ernment by the people? / want to ask you
what you think will be the result II we