The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-10-14

DcSitu oulS IllOTulLS Oh his
actual work for this weeks campaign
The special s'Idler'' was pulled out of
Minneapolis with the Bryan party aboard
Mt O'Clock and in IL short time the citi-
Zens of the small towns on the Northern
Pacific road between the twin cities and
Duluth were listening to free silver doc
trine as proclaimed by the standard bearer
of that principle. Shortly after O'Clock
the little city of Anoke was reached and
Mr.. Bryan defined the Democratic plat
form in threc-minute speech. He told
the several hundred people who gathered
about the car steps that he believed in
that platform from one end to the other
A similar story was made at Elk River
and ut that place many of those gathered
about the depot did not hesitate to ex-
press their preference for the Republican
nominee. A bunch Of McKinleyites had
assembled at one end of the depot plat
form and chccred loud and long for the
Republican candidate.
Mr.. Bryan spoke from Il stand erected Il
few feet from the railroad tracks and
made two.minutc speech. A majority
of the crowd cheered him and seemed to
try to overcome the demonstration of
their political opponents
AT the little station of Big Lake n few
farmers welcomed the nominee. A flag
with Il shovel handle us the staff was
waved enthusiastically in front of Mr.
Bryan by an excited stalwart farmer as
the nominee spoke.
Little Falls, MINI Oct. 13.-The CITY
park of st. Cloud was well filled when
MIR. Bryan arrived in that city about II
o'clock this morning In his speech de-
livered there, Mr. Bryan took occasion to
give Charles a. Towne, candidate for
Congress, n helping hand and to tell the
people they had splendid opportunity
to help bimetallism by voting for Mr.
Towne. He said in part:
81 want you to be lust rs earnest RI
send Congressman who is all right as
you are to elect II President You have
a splendid opportunity in this district.
In these latter days have found many bad
Democrats and so many good Republicans
that have found that Il Republican who
is right is n great deal better than II Dem
ocrat who is wrong OF all the Republ-
cans who are acting with us in this cam
paign, there is not one who deserves more
credit than that distinguished advocate
of bimetallism who is now in Congress
andswho will be your member again un-
less you are false to your own interests
ana the interests of your country. Why,
my friends, | would rather have one man
than TO have sixteen of the Democrats
whom we have driven out of the party by
trying to do right. But instead of giving
sixteen Democrats for one Republican
they have reversed the ratio''
Staples, Mimi, Oct. 13-Yellow badnes
with the name of the Republican candi-
date for the Presidency were much in evil
dence when Mr. Bryan emerged from his
special car mt Little Falls and began to
speak from platform Il hundred wards,
from the railway track. There was no
shouting for Mckinley.
Mr.. Bryan repeated the story he told at
the Minneapolis women's meeting about
the gold man who had no gold, and con-
tinued:
"You talk to a Republican about hi.
metallism and he will tell you he is lust
| as good n bimetallist as anybody, but when
you come to see what kind OF. II paper thew
print you will find his yellow Will cron
out.
"Our opponents say the real reason WHY
| gold is so scarce now is because there is
| agitation about silver They are telling
us that the silver craze is dying out and
yet it is so much alive that it has scared
| the gold out
my friends, isn't it a frail system that
crumbles in the presence of discussion?
Is nOC Tile BOlu standard II failure if it
can't live in campaign where free coin
age is discussed. If you will give us sill
yer we will give them Il foundation that
won't slip out the moment you talk about
the gold standard. The trouble is, nv
friends, the gold standard advocates dare
not proclaim the results of the policy they
advocate. Let them instead of wearing
yellow badges print on Il card: 'We are
American citizens, but we think this ma
tlon is not big enough to attend to it's
| own business, and then go out and face
the condemnation of their fellow men,"
(Wild applause.)