The Saint Paul globe., 1896-09-13
OVER 10000 EAGER PEOPLE AP-
Piled FOR THE 5000 SEATS
AVAILABLEs
THE BOY ORATOR TAKEN TO TASK
Bryan's Blundering Financial PHIL
osOphy Disposed Of by .Cockran.s
Crisp and Clear Reasoning.


tickets Of admission had been applied
for. AS 1t was out of the question for
all of these people to hear Mr.. Cock
ran' an overflow meeting was arranged
at Battery D. and this place was
jammed 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 pend
ing his arrival
No man who ever spoke in the An
ditorium had larger audience than
Mr.. Cochran All seats were taken
fully thirty minutes before the time set
Tor the commencement of his address.
In the aisles. men sat upon the floor
and every available foot of standing
room was preempted.
William A. Vincent, Of the league.
was chairman of the meeting and made
brief Introductory address which was
well received, but which faded in COM
parison with the warm welcome ex
tended to the orator of the evening.
Mr.. Cockran's address was received
with great enthusiasm. He spoke as
follows:
1t has ben said by some that Mr.. BRYAN.
much, but l do not join in that criticism
IL may be that the redundancy of his
speecnes tends to swell the vote Of his on
ponent. but it also, tends to make clear to
the American people the issues for which
ne stands in this campaign. That issue
which he somewhat beclouded by the garb
OF argument and philosophy which he as
sumed at Madison square, emerges sinister
and distinct from his recent address During
the one hundred speeches which he has scat
tered over the length and breadth of this
shores OF the Atlantic, there has been one
underlying idea, from which heehasenever de-
parted and which he has repeated every time
that idea was that the legislation of this
country on financial subjects and for the
last twenty-five years, has been dictated by
number OF foreign lenders and has been in
tended to oppress and despoil the American
people. He has declared In every speech that
the attempt to establish gold standard in
this country. which was successful in 1873,
is conspiracy against the prosperity of
American citizens; that it should be resisted
by American freemen las they would resist
an attempt to invade the sanctity of their
homes and an attempt to destroy their wives
and their children. ana he has always in
sisted that the one predominant issue In this
campaign. oovershadowing all others. was the
necessity of accomplishing the emancipation
of the people of this country from the domi-
nation of foreign Shyfocks.
The establishment of the financial inde@
pendence Of the United. States has been the
theme Of the eloquence of the 1oquacious
young gentleman who has been nominated
by the Populists for the presidency in their
own convention at st. Iouis, and in the con-
vention which they captured here In Chi
cago few weeks earlier. (Applauss.l Now,
I believe no one will dispute that thfs is a
fair statement of the issue, as Mr.. Bryan
himself has defined it, and it is an issue
which presents question to the American
people such as never before has been pre-
sented to a free and intelligent and vir-
tuous electorate. 1t Is an issue as TO whether
our government is a success or failure
whether the constitution of the United States
is the glorious fruit of human wisdom anc
human virtue, or whether 1t is shameful r.
MONUMENT OF HUMAN FOLLY
and human deprayity. (Applause,) Whether
1t should be preserved as the best defense
for human rights, or whether it should be
destroyed as an obstacle to human progress
LIS Mr.. Bryan's statement true that for
twenty-five years the people Of this coun-
try nave been groaning under an oppressive
system Of laws, fastened upon them by for
elgn shylocks, through the perfldy and cor
ruptlon OF their own representatives?
Ihen, this government has been the pol-
iuteo souree 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 which was rapturously
appiauded in the convention at Chicago. the
tablished by a set Of foreign money lenders
more rapacious than those whom the Saviour
OF mankind scourged from the temple in Jer.
usalem. Tnen this government of the people
is not government by the people but gov
ernment directed against the best interests
0 ftne people, Then it's establishment was a
monstrous Derversion OF a successful patri-
QUO movement; its preservation by the sacrf-
nee OF countless thousands OF heroic lives
was crime and a mistake condemned nv
man and accursed of God. 1t should have
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earth, when the hot flame of civil war Tanned
lts foundation and threatened its existence.
(Great applause.)
Now. we love our country for what she
has been; we. who glory in her for what
sne is We who cherish her for what she
Snail De mere. and now part COMPANY with
Bryan and the Populistic horde that nom
mated him. The Democracy Of this countrv
whose cardinal faith is confidence in the ca
pacity OF the people to manage their own af-
Iairs. viii never admit the failure of our
part nor act with candidate who prosecutes
campaign on assertions which are 4 libej
upon the splendor Of our prosperity: upon
te te 81 ofory y- OF our upon the vir
lzens, the majesty of our republic
My friends, it is an extraordinary thing
| oeneve an unprecedented feature in the
history of free institutionsEthat an issue of
this character should be rendered to the peo-
pie, who must decide 1t by their own votes
and who, in deciding it.s must pass upon their
let US see what the grievances are of which
MT. Bryan complains; let us see what are tha
Iacts TO which he points In order to Justify
tne extraordinary assertion that the repuhIic
which Washington founded which JefTerson
enlightened, which Jackson administered
which Lincoln saved, has resulted in a scheme
2. Ss. oppression and spoliation which Mr.. VIII
nam Jennings Bryan must put at end
cannot discover of what he complains un-
less 1t be that the crime of 1873. as he de-
scri6es it. has worked mischief irreparable
Iteo New York, for his speech of acceptance
ne placed before the people of the country
ms views in calm and deliberate language
as to the grievance under which thew were
alleged to suffer and the remedies he nre
scriDed for them. He told us first that he
favored the RECOMMENDATION of silver. which
$lzS per ounce. Then he told us in the neyt
breath that he believed In the coinage Of a
dollar which was cheaper than that which
now circulated, so that debtors could satisfv
the claims against them in coin OF lower
purchasing power. 1 took occasion in an
swerng his speech to PROFOUND to him a
question Of the gravest moment, and I have
yet to hear an answer to 1t.
The newspapers of this country. and even
the chairman of his committee in an in
terview dictated in this town, declared that
candidacy was the statement that a debase-
ment Of the coinage would necessarily WORK
reduction in the rate of wages paid to
in the address which he delivered to the labor
organizations here last Monday that this
question would be treated as one of the
most important arising out of his canvass
and | challenge any man -sRepubIican' Dem
ocrat or Populist-to show me one word in
which he undertook IN explanation to the
laboring classes of this 6euntry. as to the
effect upon their condition or the
DEBAsEMENT Of Tf3E COINAGE
which he advocates. 9appfause., And INV
friends tell you nsw 5tfzt he never viii
answer it. because he never can (An-
pIause.l IL Mr.. BRYAN should claim tI,a4 -.