The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1896-08-28

eeggvtt 70 bryan. free Hllvff AID thi
newly-converted apostle or tne ne.
idea, Brother Lentx7 (proione.d az az
plause) There IL another ob,cctior
pa you ever stop to study the person
nel OF the convention that nominate.
NJ. Bryan? "a volce-"Which conven
90 not know how many CONVEX,
sions ne has been nominated by. Flrr
ne was nominated by the Dan,oorati
convention at Chicago. Then ~ srs
nominated BY the Populistic conventio
Pt Louis. Then he was nominated b
me nilver convention at 81. Louis: an,
tnen ne was nominated by the Nati6na
convention, or Endorsed, or somethInl
81 mat sort. But. however Il may 81
~. bIyen was nominated by both IN,
Democratic and PopuiIstic couventionr
and they will represent the great mas
81 the Few people who support him a
me gouA. Great cheering and laughter.
VINO were the prominent actors ii
tnoge conventiona7 Who were the ner
mere representing constituencies AM
Claiming TO have q new light abou
nlniancesY Who were the profound con.
htltutionnI lawyers and the wise firan.
caers 81 these bodiesY i want 10 read
you Few or their names that thought
OF To-Day a. came up here. And / wan
70 ten you that q proposition, without
meaning to disparage those people al
Az tnat comes from them. TO AFFECT me,
y not going 70 meet With my approval,
gvr VAN yours 4 think. until we hear
what other people think about II any
now. tCheefipg,l Well ,there was GOV.
ernor Altgeld (great laughter and cries
or tanB hlm.'), and "Pitchforie'f TiII-
man lrenewed iaughter.j And along
WIN them rs the next chief actor on
that side or the convention was this
man. who, when last heard from. was
threatening ito blow the Iiyera ana
lights" out of the Federal troops II
Cleveland should send them into Texas
rs ne had sent them Into Chicago 10
suppress the riots there. refer to Gov
srnor Hogg. (Continued applause and
i9ughterl Altgeld. Tlllman and Hogsl
tRenewed applause and Iaughter.l
And then. when the Populists Assem-.
pIed the chief instrumentalitics for good
there were Cyclone" Davis from SUI
phur Springs. Tex. Iong continual
laughter) He made at least three
speeehes az every session OF the con-
Venuon, and he was ably seconded by
stump Ashley and "Buffaio" Jones.
1Ha Commonweal" Coxey, and last but
not least. Mary Ellen Lease. G.ong
continued applause and lauRhterl
There you have II. Senator Hill OF New
YORK, Governor Russell of Massachu-
sets, and men OF that character. men
OF that ability. men of that record. mon
OF their BELIEF tried in that convention
70 keep u from making the fatal mis-
take Il did make. but all in vain. The
voles, u not the brains Of that conven-
and the Buffalo Joneses and the Mary
Ellen Lenses. prolonged cheering and
Now, my feilow-citlxens. would
rather take the Judgment of John Sher-
man ON financial proposition than the
Judgment OF Mary Ellen Lease. (Great
applause and laughter.) ] would rather,
on profound constitutional or imam
cial question follow the leadership of
BENJAMIN Harrison than that Of .Pitch-
FORK Tillman. Continued laughter and
applause) would rather trust Cow
ernor Bushnell than Governor HoRg
tcheeringl. no matter how fat he may
be. Continued cheering.) And 1 would
rather follow the leadership OF the gal
lant Governor Mckinley dong contin-
ued cheering), with all these great rep
resentatives of sound money. sound
protection. sound patriotism and sound
everything else. supporting people con-
trolling him. (More cheering and ap-
plause.)
Now. my fellow-citlzens. don't you
think, Just on the face of the case, that
the issue ought to be decided In our
favor. Continued applause.) Well, L
think so.
And yet am going to talk with you
about this issue little bit; not very
long. 1t Is pretty warm here this after
noon. (Voices ofa"Go on.") Well, Will.
You are not done with me yet. / am
going to talk with you about that Issue
for a little while. notwithstanding what
has been so well said by Senator Sher-
man. want to talk to you about II in
the first place to tina end that we may
IA mi nd fnu tl,nt hat
] am a little bit particular about that
because 1 read, day or two aRo-and
1t took me day or two to do 1.-THE
speech made by "the boy orator of the
Platte" when he was notified In New
York. 1t occupied eight columns In the
Cincinnati Enquirer, close print. read
every word of II. and when got done
with II thought knew why he was
called the boy orator OF the Platte
Geography tells us that the Platte
IL very peculiar river. They say 1t Is
a thousand miles long and only six
inches deep. uong continued laughter
and cheering.l
As I closed the reading of 1t. had
another thought about him. said.
out loud, MIR. Bryan made himself by
one speech. and now he has unmade
himself by one speech" (Applause.)
No man will ever be made president
Of the United States upon that speech.
tRenewed npplause)
What Is the nature of this case? There
Is n great effort being made to create
the impression that the Republican par
ty has changed Its pasltion In regard to
this matter. That Is not true. The Re
publican party has not changed
tCheering.) II Ia more explicit In Its
declarations this year than ever before
because the circumstances were such as
to require more explicit declaration:
but the Republican party has declared
ihis year for identlcally the same things
Il declared for In 1893. l know; I was
there; helped to make both platforms
tApplause.l Senator Teller was there
100, both times. He came, in 1892, before
he committee on resolutions, demand
ing that we insert In our platform q
declaration for free silver. We said
No" We said. THE Republican party
believes in bimetallism, in the sense
that both gold and silver shall be usef
Al standard money, and in favor of ar
International monetary conference L
bring that about. but the Republican
party does not believe In single silver
standard monometallism. and we ara
therefore, against your free silver prop
,sition." Applause. We refused to Civ
lim hIs declaration. He did not expect
10 get 1t when he asked for II, and h,
was not surprised when we refused 1t
know he was not, because he told m,
ae was not.
Four years passed. was again OF
that committee. So was he. We as
Sembled to prepare a plank upon tn,
financial, as upon every other question
He came before US with another de
mand for free silver. We answered hin
10 1S06 MS we had answered him Ii
1852. hut Senator Teller said. "Unles
you give me what I ask. free silver.
bolt this convention and the Republic
an party" We said to Senator Telle