The herald., 1896-10-11


tariff, reply to them that until they
put prohibitory duty upon foreign
financial policies am not willing to talk
about tariff on any other article. Gap
plause.)
AT BRECKENRIDGE
At Breckenridge Mr.. Bryan spoke from
the rear platform Of his car to good
sized crowd. He was introduced by #.
c. Gibbs as the next president of the
United States, and said:
Ladies and gentlemen: Whether my
friend here will prove his right to be
known as prophet will depend some
what on the result of the election. am
introduced as the next president of the
United States. but, my friends, that can
only be so declared at the ballot box. 1t
is possible that the result may be deter
mined by the vote of one state, and it is
possible that it may be this state; it is
also possible that the result in this state
will be determined by the vote Of one
citizen. These are not proba bilities, but
I am speaking Of possibilities, and in
such times when great interests are a.
stake and the result may turn on one
vote it is important that every citizen
shall carefully weigh the matter before
casting the vote. CA voice-Can you
give us a word about the plank in your
platform that condemns the president
for enforcing the law?)
Mr.. Bryan-Our platform does not
complain of any enforcement of the law,
and no man is afraid of my election be-
cause he is afraid 1 will not enforce the
law. What they are afraid Of is that
will enforce the law against the big
violators Of the law. (Great applause
and cheering).
AT ST. PAUL
The Bryan party reached st. Paul a
few minutes before o'clock this even
ing and was taken at once to the Ryan
hotel for dinner Old soldiers were in
cluded in the escort that greeted them,
and large crowd gathered both at the
depot and the hotel to get view of the
candidate. The main meeting of the
evening was that in the big auditorium,
the seating capacity of which is 5000.
but tonight contained not less chan 1000
others, who had crowded into every
available space. Before the speech
made by Mr.. Bryan, Louis Nash, for the
local labor organizations, presented
him with a silver pen and an address
on silk. expressing the hope that this
pen might be used in signing the free
coinage bill that they hoped to pass.
Besides the meeting at the auditor
ium. meetings were held at the Market
hall and at Paul Martins opera house.
where Mr.. Bryan spoke more briefly.
At the auditorium the candidate was
introduced by s. L. Pierce of this city.
His speech was we'll received, and at
the close the crowd followed the nomi-
nee rather than stay and hear a speech
by Ignatius Donnelly, who followed.
At the auditorium Mr.. Bryan said in
part:
Before addressing myself to the SUBJ
ject in hand. desire to express to the
organized labor of this city my CRATE
full appreciation of the gift which they
have presented. 1t is gold pen with a
silver holder, and If I shall be elected by
my countrymen to be the chief execu-
tive of this nation, that pen and that
holder shall be used to sign free COIN
age bill And I am glad the pen with
which my signature shall be affixed is
the gift of the laboring men, because,
men Of this country-and more than that
the laboring men of all this world-are
interested in the restoration of silver to
Its ancient place by the side of gold. I
would not favor the free coinage Of sill
ver did I not believe 1t would be bene-
fetal to those who toll, because, my
friends, my political philosophy teaches
me that there can be no prosperity in
this nation unless that prosperity be-
gins first among those who create
wealth and finds its way afterward to
the other classes of society.
My friends, when government is prop
erly administered there will be no rail-
road wreckers to make themselves rich
by bankrupting those who put their
confidence in them; when government
is properly administered there will be
no representative of a coal trust sit
ting by every fireside to exact tribute
from those who desire to be protected
from the cold Of winter; when govern
ment Is properly administered there
will be no syndicate fattening out of the
governments adversities after they
have brought those adversities upon the
government for their own benefit; when
government is properly administered
there will be no corporations which as
sumo greater authority than the power
that created them; when government
is properly administered it will recog-
| nize those fundamental principles set
forth in the Declaration of Independ-
ence.
We have made the money question the
paramount issue in this campaign and
yet our opponents are not satisfied to
meet this question openly. They have
never been satisfied to meet the money
question. The advocates of the gold
standard never fought an open fight in
all their lives and never will. You ask
me why they don't. I will tell you.
Shakespeare explains it: THAT it is the
conscience that makes towards of men. -
and the conscience of the advocates of
the gold standard tells him his policy
enriches some, but it is the curse to the
great masses I said the advocates of
the gold standard had never fought an
open fight. I repeat it. The advocates
Of the gold standard are not fighting an
open fight in this campaign. Before the
Republican convention did you hear a
great many people talk about the pos
sibility Of having two yard sticks? Did
you not hear them talk about gold be-
ing the only money for civilized ma
tions? Did not you hear them talk about
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