The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-13
And He Was Forced to speak Mt Bat
terry Id After Talking to Vast
Crowd in the Auditorium.
BRYAN GIVEN A SCORING
IN RHETORIC THAT EVOKED Ap-
PLAUSE FROM THE MULTITUDE.
The Popocrat's Wild Assertions and
An Unanswered Question.

CHICAGO, Sept 12-Hon. W. Bourke
Cochran, of New York. spoke at the Audi
torium tonight under the auspices of
the Honestmoney League The seating ca
pacity of the hall is 5000, and over a, 900
tickets of admission had been applied for.
AS 1t was out of the question for all of
these people to hear Mr.. Cochran an over
flow meeting arranged for at Battery
ID, and this place was damned to the doors.
Mr.. Cochran was not able to reach the
battery until late in the evening, owing
to the length of his Auditorium address,
and local speakers entertained the crowd
pending his arrival. No man who ever
spoke in the Auditorium had larger audi
ence than Mr.. Cochran. All the seats were
taken fully thirty minutes before the time
set for the commencement of his address.
In the aisles men sat upon the floor, and
every available foot of standing room was
pre-empted.
William A. Vincent, OF the league, was
chairman of the meeting, and made brief
Introductory address, which was well
ceived, but which faded in comparison with
the warm welcome extended to the orator
OF the evening. Mr.. Cockran's address was
received with great enthusiasm. He spoke
was follows
MIR. Chairman. ladies and gentlemen-It
during his canvass, has been talking too
much, but l do not join in that criticism.
speeches tends to swell the vote of his OPP
ponent, but they tend also to make clear
to the American people the issue for
which he stands in this campaign. That
issue, which was somewhat beciouded by
the garb of argument and philosophy
which he assumed at Madison-square Car
den, energies sinister and different from
his address. During the one hundred
speeches which he has scattered over the
1anp OIL An
has been one underlying idea from which
lie has never departed and which he mas
repeated every time that he addressed his
fellow-citizens, and that idea was that the
legislation of this country on financial sub
has been dictated by a number of foreign
money lenders and has been intended to
He has declared in every speech that the
attempt to establish gold standard in
this country. which was successful IN 1919.
Is conspiracy against the prosperity OF
American citizens that it should be resist
ed by American freemen as they would
resist an attempt TO invade the sanctity of
their homes, and attempt to destroy their
wives and their children, and he has al
ways insisted that the one predominant
issue in this campaign, overshadowing all
others, the necessity of accomplishing
the emancipation of the people Of this
country from the domination OF Foreign
! Shylocks.
lis Mr.. Bryan's statement true that for
twenty-five years the people of this coun-
try have been groaning under an oppres-
sive system of laws fastened upon them by
foreign shylocks through the perfdy. and
corruption of their own representatives?
Then this government has been the poll
luted source of vicious laws: it has been
an engine in the hands of foreign enemies
for the oppression of American citizens;
for. to use the language that was raptur-
ously applauded in the convention at Chi
try has been established by set of for
eign money lenders, more rapacious than
from the the empe ct
then this government of the people is not
government by the people, but govern
ment directed against the best interests CT
the people. Then it's establishment was a
monstrous perversion' of a successful
patriotic movement; it's preservation by the
mistake, condemned by man and
been allowed to perish from the face of the
earth when the hot flame of civil war
Tapped it's foundation and threatened its
existence. Great applause.)
PART COMPANY WITH BRYAN.
Now, we who love our country for
what she has beehive who glory in her
for what she is-we who cherish her Tor
what she shall be-here and now part
company with Mr.. Bryan and the popu-
listic horde that nominated him. The
Democracy of this country, whose cardinal
faith IS confidence in the capacity of the
people to manage their own affairs, will
never admit the failure of our copstitu-
tonal system. We can have neither part
nor act with candidate who prosecutes a
campaign on assertions which are a libel
upon the spendor of our prosperity. upon
the glory OF our achievements upon the
virtue of our people. the patriotism of our
citizens, the success of our government
the majesty of our Republic. Great APP
My friends. it Is an extraordinary thing
l Relieve an unprecedented feature in the
history of free institutions that an issue
Of this character should be rendered to the
people, who must decide it by their own
votes and who, in deciding it. must pass
uEop their capacity to administrate their
affairs. Now, let us see what the griev-
ances are of which Mr. Bryan complains;
let as see what are the facts to which he
points in order to justify the extraordinary
assertion that the Republic which Wash
ington founded. which jefferson enlight-
ened which jackson administered which
Lincoln saved, has resulted in scheme of
oppression and spoliation to which Mr..
II cannot discover what he complains of
unless It be the crime of 1873 as de-
Scribes it, has worked mischief irreparable
to the people of this country. When he
visited New York for his speech of ac-
eeptancee. he placed before the people of
crate language as to the grievances under
which they were alleged to suffer. and the
remedies which he prescribed for them.
Then he told US, first. that he favored the
reconciliation of silver, which would
ounce: then he told us in the next breath
that he believed in the coinage of a. dollar
which was cheaper than that which now
the claims against them in coin of a lower
purchasing power. j took occasion in an
swering his speech to PROFOUND to him a
question of the gravest moment, and I have
yet to hear the answer to it
The newspapers of this country and
even the chairman of his COMMITTEES, in an
interview dictated in this town. declared
that the one question which hurt Mr. Bry-
ans candidacy the statement that the
debasement of the coinage would neces-
sarfly work reduction in the rate of
wages paid the laborer. (Applausel Now.
i expected in the address which he delv-
cred to the labor organizations here last
Monday that this question would be treat
ed of the most important arising
out of his canvass, and / challenge any
man-Repubican, Democrat or Populist-
to show me one word in which he under
took an explanation TO the laboring masses
of this country as to the effect upon their
which he advocates. tApplause.) And
my friends. tell you now that he never
will answer it, because he never can. zap
plause.1 If Mr.. Bryan should claim that
the coinage of a dollar of baser material
than that which lis the standard of
value in this country would bring the
standard of the silver dollar to a parity
with gold, then there would be no sense
whatever In his agitation: Ii would mean
nothing, we would all be just where we
are tonight and this disturbance of the
atmosphere by hundred speeches
delivered in different parts of the country
would have been a useless agitation of air.
Mr.. Bryan disposes OF this entire question
by saying that the men who propounded
y are agents al syneicates. friends of