The record-union., 1896-09-17
A Unique Reception rendered Him
at Asheville.
Tells the People of the South That
Under Free Coinage of Silver
More Gold Would Come to This
Country Instead of Going Away
and That the Only Way to Stop
Its Outflow is to Adopt Bimetal-
IiSm.

people this morning to see the Demo-
cratic nominee. The train on which Mr..
Bryan made the journey from Lexing-
ton, KY, reached the Southern Railway
station at $50 a. m. Excursion trains
from all the surrounding districts had
brought in carloads of farmers.
Escorted by the Reception Commit
tee Mr. Bryan was conveyed to a stand
erected in front of the Courthouse. He
was introduced by Ex-Governor Robert
l.. Taylor, who is a candidate for the
Gubernatorial office this year. On the
stand were Chief Justice SnodgrasS and
Judges Beard, Caldwell. McAllster and
Wilkes Of the Supreme Court of Ten
nessee and Judge Clark of the United
States District Court. Estimates of the
size of the concourse ran as high as
20, 600
Mr.. Bryan was loudly cheered and his
speech was frequently applauded.
IN NORTH CAROLINA.
ASHEVILLE On. c., Sept. 16.-Will-
lam J. Bryan never received a recep-
ton more unique than that given him
to-day in this famous mountain resort.
Reaching Asheville at 3 o'clock, East
ern time, accompanied by q delegation
from Knoxville, a Reception Committee
from Asheville and by number Of
prominent North Carolinans, he was
met by a great cavalcade of men and
women mounted on all kinds of horse
flesh, from spirited thoroughbreds to
hard worked mules. Mr.. Bryan was
conveyed to the Battery Park Hotel in
q gaily decorated carriage drawn by
four horses, and with him and the MEM
bers of his party galloped the mounted
escort.
Cutting short the luncheon, the party
proceeded again under escort of the
horsemen and horsewomen, estimated
to number more than thousand, to a
Iatural ampitheater near the Southern
Hallway depot, where the candidate
addressed an immense audience. Peo-
pie from Buncombe County and in fact
many other points in the State, largely
swelled the Asheville contingent. The
sides of the hill on which the concourse
was gathered were a solid mass of hu-
manity, numbering perhaps 80, 900. Mr..
Bryan was introduced by Hon. Locke z.
Craig. The enthusiasm shown was of
the heartiest kind. Mr.. Bryan said in
part:
II have reason for coming to North
Carolina, which is personal aside from
my interest in the electoral vote of this
State. It was the State of North Caro-
lima which at Chicago. before I became
a candidate, before my own State had
taken any formal part in presenting
my name-it was the State of North
Carolina which by resolution decided to
give me the unanimous vote of the
North Carolina delegation in that Ma
tional Convention. (Cheers) 1 appre-
n 20 fn
to do me, and therefore it gives me great
pleasure to come among these people
whom they represented and give what
assistance I can, if any assistance be
| needed to secure the electoral vote of
this State for the free coinage of silver
at 16 to 1. (Cheers) I am glad the
canvass of this State opens in this
county, which was the home of one of
the grandest public men given to this
nation, not alone by North Carolina, but
the entire country Senator Vance
Great applause) He was man whom
/ delighted to honor, and 1 am glad I
stand among his neighbors and friends
advocating the cause he so eloquently
advocated"
Mr.. Bryan then went over some of
the arguments on the money question
used by him before, and continued as
fellows:
Il denounce the idea some seem to
have that the Government has a right
to lessen the volume of money, but no
right to increase it. Some are afraid
if we pass free coinage law there will
be such an enormous increase in the
volume Of our currency that we will
not know what to do with it. You
q ia hxy
ponents but you will find contradic-
tions in it, and one proposition will an
swer another. For instance, a man
will say if we had free silver it would
give the mine owner a profit of 100 per
cent. when he took his bullion worth
fifty cents to the Mint and had it con-
verted into dollar, and it is terrible
thing to let him make that profit
After he has worried about that he will
tell you as a matter of fact that the
law adds nothing to the value of the
metal under the free coinage of silver,
and fifty cents worth of bullion will
only be a fifty-cent dollar. Both these
statements cannot be true. If you con-
vert fifty cents worth of bullion into
fifty-cent dollar there is no profit to
the mine owner and if the mine owner
makes a profit by converting fifty cents
worth Of bullion into 100 cents, then
there are no fifty-cent dollars.
Then you will hear that under free
coinage we would be flooded with sill
yer, until money would be so cheap we
would not have any use for it, and
when you have been frightened as bad
~ as you can be that way they will tell
You that cheap money will run the
dear money out, and that it will take
fifteen years with our Mints running
night and day to make money enough
to take the place of gold, and that will
make money SO scarce that a silver
dollar will be harder to get than a
gold dollar is now" daughter.)
In conclusion Mr.. Bryan said: Not
dollars worth of gold would leave
| this country under free coinage, unless
| those who held it felt they were ben
Gifted by letting it go. But do not