The sun., 1896-10-10
BROADSIDE FROM DEPEW.
sPENKs IN CHICAGO TO THE BIG-
GEST MEETING OF HIS LIFE.

crowded the Coliseum tonight and heard DR..
Chauncey NJ. Depew deliver an address on the
issues OF tho day. Two or three thousand, un-
able to gain Ndmittance, were turned away.
The Doctor was escorted from the Audito-
rum to the Coliseum, a distance of eight miles,
by the Mckinley and Hobart Bicycle Club and
the employees of several railroads.
Mr.. Depew was late In arriving. and It was
o'clock before his face was the plat
form. His appearance was greeted with cheer
ing which could not be controlled by the
Chairman for fully ten minutes.
The New York orator was introduced by Eden
G. Dewitt of the Marquette Club. under whose
auspices the meeting was held. In opening his
address DR.. Depew said:
This is the largest political gathering have
ever seen. wonder II anybody Eot away3 I
witnessed to-day two processions," tho
speaker went on. "One of them repre-
sented the business mon and intelligent
laborers American citizenship. all marching
for Mckinley and sound money. The other one
which we passed on the way down looked like
Coxey's army after they had reached Washing
ton"
Mr.. Depew then continued in part as follows:
Chicago was burned to tho ground in 1871.
II took two years to ready relations to the
business and credit Of the country Then came
the crime OF 1873 by which silver was demone-
tizcd and tho United States went upon a gold
standard. Twenty-t three years have passed and
Chicago presents tho most marvellous object
lesson in the story OF finance in the history OF
gold standard BY which to measure all
other Kinds OF currency. and all the prod uct OF
the farm aud factory. of brains. and of labor"
Mr.. Depew then expressed his grat tication at
having had as an escort the wheelinen. who,
with tho commercial travellers. he said. are al
most unanimously for Mckinley. sound money.
and prosperity. On all other questions the peo-
tions which will affect the life of the nation or
the honor Of the country. The last three cleo
"but when the lunatics and theorists and ex-
perimenta!ists got possession OF the Democratic
at Chicago and droye % b out nine
cation, and when they maue their alliance with
the IDIOT asylum at st. Louis. the safety OF the
country demanded that sane men, without re-
gard to previous party affiliations should COM
bine and save the honor and business OF the
ReferrIng to the "crime of 1873" Mr.. Depew
said the criminals were Senator Stewart, Sena-
tSem SF ongs lie must SUSPEND upon tRs same saoMs
every living member of the Congress OF 1873,
both in the senate and IL ,, the House; because
Monticello and take out the bones OF Jefferson
from their tomb and hang them as nn exhibit
Hermitage for Gen. Jackson's skeleton; to
Marshted for Webster and TO Ashland for
for Benton. and TO Auburn for William H.
Seward. FOR they. either 10 "a or '53 or '?3
spoAs for sGvssd the demonstration of sill
THE criminals are: All tho Presidents from
jefferson 10 Garfield: all the Cabinet officers
from Hamilton for scores of years down.: all the
mighty men OF debate from VI dison. Webster.
Clay. to Lincoln and Blaine. And who are their
Judges and executioners2 This famous spike
team. which ia careerng and cavortirg about
the country: the wild bronco OF Nebraska in
brok en- w inded. Puritan nag from Maine at the
wheel. and his mate, the untamed colt from
Georgia. trying not to pull the wagon. but to
We have absolute liberty in this country of
political freedom and religious liberation. and
.ktft1 flr
OF this new religion. who see salvation in ~ TO /.
When Columbus discovered America ten ounces
the Pilgrim Fathers landed on Plymouth Rock
thirteen ounces OF silver were equal TO pne of
Brush from the country and created a free
and independent republic they declared
that the standard Of value between silver
to one Of gold. When We ask Mr.. Bryan why
he repudiated Columbus and tho Puritan Faith
ers and the founders OF the republic. why he
proclaims that the Government must say that
sixteen ounces OF silver are equal In value and
ounce OF gold for the products OF their farms.
| the output of their factories and their labor.
ting half value and a fraudulent return to tho
farm. the manufacturer. and the wage Garner.
his answer Is Times have nav changed since the
inston: a ~, vv,., o,.,
revolution. They seek to overthrow all the eI-
perience and all the wisdom OF the past. to en-
ter upon a wild career OF constitutional and
tiiiable unless the wrongs are beyond remedy
by tho people. The Popocratic Convention pro-
Court OF the United States as It now exists un-
der the Constitution: to prohibit tho issue of
bonds to carry ON the Government and main
tain its credit; to destroy the sacredness of pri
vate contracts between individuals now
guaranteed by the Constitution; To destroy the
standard Of value upon which is based the SOL
venCy and credit of all civilized nations; to de-
base the currency and Issue fiat money.
"Ihcre are two places in this country where
all men absolutely equal: one Is the ballot
box and the other the supreme Court. Bryan
make il the creature OF the party caucus when
ever new Congress comes in. because IL Cecid-
ed the income tax to be unconstitutional. 1t
decided not that an income tax Is unconstitu-
tional. but that the law passed by the Popo-
cratic Congress was unconstitutional, or. in
enough TO frame a constitutional law.
"Abolishing the Supreme Court would not
| party. The Declaration of Independence guar
antees To every citizen life. liberty. and the
The Government came into this city and per-
mitted the railway trains TO move. they were
simply carrying out that provision When a
| hundred or n thousand men in mob stop rail-
road trains ali over the country; that mob is
destroying the equal rights, Of millions OF peo-
Pile to life, liberty. and the pursuit OF happiness
and IT Is the duty OF the Government to clear
the highway and let the people move
Mr.. Bryan. passing through Chicago night
| before last. advised the workingmen to wear
| Mckinney buttons and march in the procession
Of tho day to keep from being discharged by
made 300 speeches and in them has charged
! that employers are COerClng their employees.
| say this is u monstrous slander on the worrying
! people of this country. There Is absolute free
| dom among railroad men, and that know. No
| President no superintendent, no manager con-
trolls attempts to control heir political action.
There are $4,000 employees In the Now York
| Central system. OF which am President. go
| out every year upon the stump to speak for
| what believe 10 be right which is the Repub bill
| can party, and for protection and sound money.
| Every one of my fellow employees knows that
| he can vote against my politics and talk against
my politics and work against my politics. As
| one OF the largest employers OF labor in the
United States in my Official capacity. as n
| laborer upon the payroll and as liable to be
| dismissed as any OF the others by the Board of
Directors. resent, ! repel this insult to tho
| manhood and the Independence OF the working
| ingmen of the Snlted States"
Mr.. Depew laid the hard times and panic to
| the threat and limited execution of free trade
and the assault upon confidence by the action of
| Mr.. Bryan's party IN holding up the Govern
ment and refusing supplies, preventing its
| having adequate revenue and mpering wth
| the currency. The remedies he proposed were
| To get out of the woods and into tho roads that
| lead to market and TO employment
CAN ENGLAND AND RUSSIA AGREE7