The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-10-08

enforcement of law. So far as that crit
lclsm is directed against me as a candi-
date, F.! assert what l have asserted be-
fore, that there is not citizen in all this
land who believes more thoroughly in
the enforcement of every law on the stat
ute books than l do. (Applause.) And
my friends, if by the suffrages of m!
countrymen l am made the chief execu
tive OF this nation | will promise YOU thal
VIII so enforce the laws that some of
my critics will come and on their knees
beg to have the laws not enforced. pro
longed cheers) Let me suggest to you.
my friends, reason for the opposition
of some of those opponents which the!
themselves do not suggest. They op
pose our platform, not so much because
it declares for free coinage-they can
cause that, instead of summoning an
army to settle labor troubles that we
shall have arbitration to settle them.
Great applause) They say we are not
in favor of law and order. | say that
we are the ones who desire peaceable
solution of all questions and they are
the ones who always appeal to force and
deny justice when they do it. (Applause.)
But the worst part of all this opposition
is that the men who attempt to destroy
labor organizations and to make the Ia
boring men defenseless are the men who
in this campaign are attempting to use
the votes of laborers themselves to
overthrow their rights. Great applause.)
Do you find these railroad presidents
complaining about arbitration planks ?
No, they did not criticise that, because
arbitration appeals to the sense of JUS
tice of ninety-nnc e-hundredths of our
not dare to attack the arbitration plank
and yet, my friend. that arbitration
plank does more to account for the vio-
lent Oppositinn Of the railway president
than all our platforms together. Cap
plause.)
"There is another plank in there that
they will find fault with. but they don't
say much about it, and that it the plank
where we protest against government by
injunction and in favor of the bill that
passed the senate to protect people who
are arrested for contempt. Why did
they not crticise that plank? Because
the bill which we endorsed in our plat
form passed the senate of the United
States without opposition enough to Sc
cure roll call. The bill is just. 1t
gives trial by jury. and those men dare
pot oppose the justice of the measure.
md therefore seek some other excuse
Rpon which to oppose the principles of
bur platform, and then they attempt to
join with the railroads in that OPPOSE
ton. (Applause1
CA voice-"That's Mark Hanna.'O
Nov, my friends. | don't want
my demonstrative silver advocate to
attempt to coerce his employees. As
the nominee of those who favor silver.
want to say now that the silver advocate
who coerces his employee is no friend of
mine. because | want no vote that is not
rightly mine. When | want the vote
of laboring men do not go to their en-
ployer and ask their employer to deliver
the votes. (ApplauseD Our interests
appeal to the individual. and we are will
ing to rest our cause with the voters of
the United States iApplause. If our
opponents had a cause which appealed to
the hearts of men they would submit
their cause and leave it to the conscience
and judgment of the workers. But
when they resort to force. when hey re-
sort to coercion, they confess that their
cause does not appeal to the people and
must be forced upon the people. We
are opposed to the gold standard. We
have declared war against it. 1t is Il
ter and we give no quarter (Applause.)
If the gold standard is right, we ought
to have it. If the gold standard is
wrong, then no combination of money
changers here or abroad shall fasten it
upon the American people. Great ap-
plausc) Our opponents say that we are
advocating free coinage because we want
to benefit II mine owner. They can not
truthfully say that. because the republic
can platform declares that the double
standard is a good thing. and information
al bimetallism will help the mine owner
Just as much as Independent bimetalism.
(Applause)
"The free coinage of silver is not detri-
mental to the laboring man. If the pol
ices for which we stand were injurious
to the laboring man | would not ask for
their adoption. because | believe of the
laboring man. as | believe of the farmer,
that there must be prosperity between
those two classes before there can he
prosperity throughout the country. Cap
plause)
II have been able in the last few weeks
to carry the standard of our party into
the country where they said there was
no silver sentiment and everywhere |
found the same sentiment that is mani
tested here
Mr.. Bryan practically made no
speeches ut overflow meetings. which
had been addressed during his stay in
Music hall by Il number of priminent
lp'ul ilN li'l'lH uID'ui'' WI
the platforms and expressed his gratifi
cation at the extent of his welcome. but
did not enter into any prolonged discus
sion of the money question. Then he
was promptly escorted over to Coving-
ton. where he addressed big meeting.
The nominee will leave this city for st.
Louis at G:30 tomorrow morning, max
ing number of brief stops en- route.
Huntington. w. Va. had openly boast
ed that it would give the democratic
nominee the largest crowd of any city I'M
West Virginia. and whether it kept its
promise or not. it certainly did turn out
a great crowd. who enthusiastically
greeted him. Excursion trains from
points in Kentucky. Ohio and West Nir-
ginia helped to augment the crowd and
many came from outlying districts by
wagon and on horseback.
An old house in large lot had been
torn down in order to give the nominee
n chance to speak near the center of the
city. From platform erected here he
spoke after being introduced by Hon. j.
+. Holt, candidate for judge OF court OF
appeals.
At 2:3O the party left Huntington.
short stOps being made at Russell. Green
up. South Portsmouth. Masseyville. An-
gusta and New Richmond. NY. At
zach place Mr. Bryan was introduced toI
those gathered about the train, and at
each place he declined to talk. but in
trOduced Congressman Mcmillan, whol