The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-10-23

to-day was OF interest not only because
of the enthusiastic crowds encountered,
but because of the aggressive nature of
his speeches. At Delphi he refuted the
charge of ex-President Harrison that
when he (Bryan) spoke of those who had
been saving the country for thirty years
at so much per save that he alluded to the
veterans.
On n platform erected few yards from
the home oil Gen. Lew Wallace, he re-
piled in vigorous language to the author
of "Ben Hur," who, in u speech made
some time ago, alluded to Mr. Bryan as
an anarchist. AT Lafayette he defined the
statement of eX President Benjamin Har-
rison made yesterday ut Salem that the
present conditions are that we arc Il BIZ
metallc-,country. He. said that that
statement meant that having been defeat
ed in this campaign on Il gold standard
the Republicans are trying to get under
the cover of bimetallsm and claim that
their platform was IL fraud. There was
II greater absence of yellow badges in all
the crowds day and at every place
where the candidate spoke he had large,
enthusiastic audiences. The same trou.
bic was experienced as was encountered
yesterday in regard to the delaying of
the train Mt different places and the re-
suit was that wheu Tcrre Haute was
reached the train was nearly two hours
behind the schedule time.
Rochester, Ind, Oct. 22.-AIr. Bryan's
first speech to-day was mt Decatur shortly
after O'Clock. Several thousand peo-
pie listened to him for more than quar-
ter of an hour and did not hesitate to
give boisterous approval of his utteranccs.
The crowd was made up of the most part
of farmers, and Mr.. Bryan's speech was
one for farmers. He told them that the
farmers of this country had never endorsed
he gold standard, and called attention to
the meeting of farmers some time ago in
Budapesth, where bmetallism was en-.
dorsed and greetings were sent to the BIZ
metalliSts of America He quoted from
the address of Prince Bismarck to the
farmers Il year ago, in which he said that
the farmers must stand together and pro-
tect themselves from the drones of So
ciety, who produce nothing but laws.
Markell was not down OH the bills fol Il
speech, but II stop was made there and
Mr.. Bryan spoke for five minutes.
He was taken from the car to stand
ut Huntington and he spoke To II crowd
which numbered upwards in the thous-
ands, and which was evidently more to
his way of thinking than some of the
crowds of yesterday.
The people of I.aketon tclegraphed that
n crowd was gathered there, aad II stop
was made just long enough for Mr. Bry-
an to greet the people and shake hands
with those nearest him.
Peru, Ind, Oct. 22.-The public square
in front of the courthouse in Rochester
was we'll filled with crowded humanity
when Mr.. Bryan got there. 1t vas free
silver crowd and the few people who wore
yellow badges looked lonesome.
Mr.. Bryan in his speech quoted from
the Indiana Republican platform of six
years ago, ana referred to the message of
EN-President Harrison of December, 1889.
II want to show the Republicans who
are here to-day that the Republican party
has deserted the position which it has oc.
cupied and, having changed its policy, is
attempting to change the convictions of
the Republicans who supported it when
it was supporting bimetallism. want
90 read to you the platform which the
Republican party of Indiana adopted in
State convention in 1897. Now, mark
the words of this platform, and after |
have read it to you will comment upon
it: we cordially commend the action
of the Republicans in Congress on the
subject of silver coinage.
Mr.. Bryan read further from the plat
form and said: ''In that platform they
commend the action of Congress on the
silver question. In that platform they
point to the action of Democrats who
voted for the decentralization and denounc.
ell those Democrats, and yet to-day when
we stand in the same position that they
stood and we stood after decentralization,
the Republicans of Indiana are asked tn
declare that that is Il good thing which
they denounced six years ago. | want
you to remember that in that platform
they declared that silver legislation had
increased the value of silver, and yet
when we ask TO increase the value of sill
yer they say that we can't increase the
value of silver by law. President Har-
rlson IN Il message sent to Congress on
the first of December, 1890, pointed to
the silver Legislation of 1890 and gave it
credit tor the advance in the value of sill
yer, and said that the advance in the
value OF silver made increasing pros.
perlty among the people, and less some
protectlonist should attribute the pros
perlty to the protective tarif Mr.. Harri-
son, eX'Presldent, declared that it was
net due to the tariff law known as the
Mckinley bill, but was due to the silver
law that added SD, 600, COO Il year to the
currency of this country. And yet the
same eX-President Harrison, who in his
message declared that increasing pros
perty came because of the increasing
volume of the currency, is to-day defend
ing the Republican party in it's attempt
to decrease the currency and destroy the
prosperity of the country You will no.
tice that their platform of 1890 praised
the addition of $5t, 100000 of money to
the currency, and yet the statistics of the
Treasury Department show that we have
in actual circulation $3.50, 900, 900 less this
year than we had two years ago, and in
spite of the decreasing currency the Re