The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-10-14
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majority of the crowd cheered him
and seemed to try to overcome the
demonstration of their political oppo-
nents.
At the little station of Big Lake a
few farmers welcomed the nominee.
A flag of large proportions and of
home make, with a shovel handle as
the staff, was waved enthusiastically
in front of Mr.. Bryan by an excited,
stalwart farmer as the nominee spoke.
Little Falls, Mimi, Oct. 13.-The
City Park of st. Cloud, was well filed
when Mr.. Bryan arrived in that city
about II o'clock a. IN. In his speech
delivered there Mrs Byran took occa-
sion to give Chas A. Towne, candidate
for Congress, a helping hand and to
tell the people that he had a splendid
opportunity to help bi-metallism by
voting for Mr.. Towne. He said in
part:
/ want you to be just as earnest to
send a Congressman who is all right
as you are to elect a President. You
have a splendid opportunity in this
district. In these latter days 1 have
found so many bad Democrats and so
many good Republicans that | have
found that Republican who is right
is a great deal better than a Demo-
crat who is wrong. OF all the Republi-
cans who are acting with us in this
campaign there is not one who de-
serves more credit than that distin-
guished advocate of bi-metallism, who
is now in Congress and who will be
your member again unless you are
false to your own interests and the
interests of your country. Why, my
friends, / would rather have one man
like Towne, who is a Republican, with
us than to have sixteen of the Demo
Gratis whom we have driven out of the
party by trying to do right But in
stead of giving sixteen Democrats for
one Republican they have reversed the
ratio.
A NEST OF YELLOW-JACKETS.
Staples, Mimi, Oct. 13.-Yellow
badges, with the name of the Repub-
were much in evidence when Mr.. Brya n
emerged from his special car at Little
Falls and began to speak from a plat
form hundred yards from the railway
track. There was no shouting for Me
Kinley, but large proportion of the
audience that listened to Mr.. Bryan's
castigation of gold-bugs had yellow
badges bearing that insignia pinned
prominently on their coats. Mr.. Bryan
repeated the story he told at the Min
neapolis women's meeting about the
gold man who had no gold and con-
tinued: You talk to Republican about
bl-metallism and he will tell you he is
just as good a bi-metalist as anybody.
but when you come to see what kind of
paper they print their badges on Y. IL
viii find it is yellow. Ny friends, tie
Lord has made it impossible for a man
to conceal his real identity. When YOU
find man who talks about liking both
metals and is gold standard man vet
you will find his yellow will crop out
ON all occasions. And most of them
are in the condition of the man in
Nebraska, being gold men without any
gold. Our friends tell us that rold
is the only good money and vet they
can't get the gold when they want
it. 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. NV
friends is not it a frail financial sys-
tenn that crumbles in thep resence of
a discussion? Is not the gold standard
failure if it can't live in campaign
where free coinage is discussed? If
you viii give us silver we will give
them a foundation that won't slip out
the moment you talk about the gold
standard. The trouble is, my friends,
the gold standard advocates dare not
proclaim the results of the policy they
advocate. Let them instead of wear
ing yellow badges print on a card: eve
are American citizens, but we think
this nation is not big enough to attend
to its own business and then go out
and face the condemnation of their fell
low men. wild applause.)