The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-09-17
BRYAN AGAIN NOTIFIED.

LINCOLN, NeD., ScpI. S-1 u0 COutAh~ uous welcome Lincoln people and large contingents from other parts of Ne braska gave William J. Bryan on his homecoming eliminated yesterday evening in 2 grand demonstration in honor of his formal notification of his nomination for the presidency by the national silver party. Norris Hum phrey presided at the meeting and in- troduced George A. Groot, of Ohio, chairman of the notification commit tee, who made tho notification address. Mir. Bryan was immediately presented and accepted the nomination of the silver party in the following words:
 Mr Groot, Chairman. and Other Members of the Notification Committee of the Silver Party: beg to reply at this time without the formal ity of letter. The platform adopted by the silver party contains but one plank. and that plank, the plank upon the silver question. Is identical in substance with the silver plank Of the Chicago platform.
 As have already discussed that plank at length, it will not be necessary to enter into any extended discussion at this time I beg to answer the committee that accept the nomt- nation tendered by them on behalf of the sil- yer party in the spirit in which the nomination was presented can appreciate the feeling which animated those who assembled in that convention can appreciate the hesitation with which those assembled there turned their backs upon the party with which they had been associated know something of the strength of party ties, and because was in . position where looked forwardto possibility of like action on my own part. can appreciate the depth of the conviction that led them to place the interests of their country above ths welfare of their party.
 More than year ago. when we were engaged in Q struggle to bring the democratic party to an Endorsement of free coinage. the question was put to me, whether. in case of failure. [ would support the democratic nominee if he were gold standard advocate, running upon . gold standard platform. I never believed that such action was proba ble in the democratic party then, but when those who questioned mo were not content with probabilities, and asked again whether, in that event. would support the nominee, said, as you will remember. that under no circumstances would my vote be given to a man who would, in the executive of- flee, use his influence to fasten the gold stand- ard upon the American people.
 In 1891, on February l2. in Memorial hall, at Toledo, O., at the Lincoln day banquet, the present candidate for president upon the re- publican ticket used the words which I shall now read to you I have found those words published in Toledo paper. and they have been published so long without correction that we may safely assume that they were correctly ness of this report, shall hasten to do him justice by retracting these words These are words which he is said to have used:
 During all of Grover Cleve!and's years sS the head of the government he was dishonor- ing one of our prescious metals, one of our own great products, discreiiting silver and enhan> cling the price of gold He endeavored even be- Ho-o hfa t,n, 2iar 1oRao ,<~t. age of silver dollars. and afterward, and to tho end of his administration, consistently used his power to that end He was determined to contract the circulating medium and denone- tize one of the coins of commerce. limit tho volume of money among the people, mako money scarce and therefore dear He would have increased the value of money and dimin- ished the value of everything else, money the master, everything else the servant"
 Following these lines the republican conven- tion in 1892 declared at Minneapolis that tho American people from tradition and interest were in favor of bimetallism. Have traditions changed in four years? Have interests changed in four years? No, my friends, and yet forget ting the platform of 1888, forgetting the denun- citation uttered by this distinguished leader in 1891, forgetting the platform of 1892 the repub- lican party in convention assembled declared that the American people must forego the ad- vantages of the bimetallic system, to which tradition and interest endeared them, until foreign nations should bring those advantages to them. It is not strange that men who had looked for bimetallism in the republican party should have given up hope and turned else- where for relief The republicans cannot be criticised for leaving the republican party. They have done what every American citizen has . right to do.
 They have done better than our democratic
 advocates of the gold standard have done, be- cause the republicans, when they left tho party, joined with those who had a chance to succeed, while our democratic advocates of the gold standard sought to secure the election Of republican candidates by nominating demo- cratic candidate To show you that the action of the republicans is defended by experience
 and by example let me carry you back to tho period just preceding the war. If you will turn to . book recently published entitled John
 Sherman's Recolections," you find on page liS of the first volume portion of a speech which
 he delivered in congress in lS56 Let me read
 this extract:
 II am willing to stand by the compromises
 of 1920 and 1850, but when our white brethren of the south allow this administration to lead them of from their principles. when they | abandon the position which Henry Clay would have taken. forget his name and achievements. and decline any longer to carry his banner. they lose all claims on me And l say now
 
 | is admitted as free state. cannot act in party association with them"
 There was the distinguished senator from Ohio asserting to the people Of this country | upon the floor of congress that he was willing | to accept compromise after compromise, bus | the time had at last come when he could go | with them no longer: that until certain things | were accomplished he could not act with them
 The situation to-day is but repetition of his- | tory.
 The chairman of the notification committee | has told you that we have to meet to-day . great money trust He is right We are con- | fronted to-day by the most gigantic trust thas | has ever been formed among men. Talk about | trusts in various articles which we produce. l My friends. all these trusts together fall into l insigniicance when compared with the money | trust which has its hands upon our country. Place the control of the standard money of the world in the hands of few great financiers | and times will be good for them, no matter
 what distress may overtake the rest of man- | kind. believe that John c. Carlisle did nos exaggerate the truth when he said, 'The con- | summation of this scheme means more misery | to the human race than all the wars pestt- fences and famine that ever occurred in the
 history of the world"
 | Who does not stand appalled, before misery | like that? Who among you is willing to be . mariner in a cons piracy that has for it's obiece