Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1896-10-16
BRYAN TALKS ~ GRAND RAPIDS.
Dny TRAVELLING Through Michigan
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Dny Travelling Through Michigan
Ended with Three MIS- Speeches.
GRAND RAPIDS Mich, Oct, l5.-Wiliam
J. Bryan tonight addressed in this city three
meetings, one at Campau square. one at
Powers opera house. whore he addressed
the women OF Grand Rapids, and the other
az Loakerby han. At the first meeting he
spoke to as large crowd as could wedge
ifself tn at the junction OF four streets, and
" Is safe TO say not one fourth of those
present could hear the free silver standard
bearer The speech at Campau square was
short one and in 1t there were no new
features The speech to the women Mr..
Bryan made of special interest In his arraign-
ment Of republican leaders. He put Colonel
Robert c. lpgersoll Murat Halsteal, eN-
President Beni8irin Harrison and Secretary
Of the Treasury Carlisle In the same cate
CORY as Stevensons Or. Jekyll aud Mr..
Hyde His denuncation of them was scath-
ing and bitter He said:
We cannot afford to cngraft upon our
government a bad system, even though we
best thing that parents can leave to chill
dren Is just government that rohs no
body for anybody elses benefit. Now in
our discussion of the money question. We
CDn prove our cause In many ways. We can
apply PRINCIPLES woll knGvn TO this ques-
ton and by the ap LEGATION of those prin-
vlplcs make the subject clear, but that Is
not sufficient. We can prove our cause by
which we take in this campaign bat what
we are able to support that position by the
authority Of the most eminent republicans
few years ago there was great deal of
talk about character-f do not know
| whether | ought to call II character or
two characters-but II was Dr. Jckyll and
Mr Hyde You wiz remember that the
different characters. one time the man
was n good man, benevolent, kindly dis
| was mean man. villain seeking to take
human life. My friends, we haze the char
| acter of TclSyll and Hyde illustrated well
when come to discuss the silver qucs-
| ton, because we can cite sou to number
OF men who have been both Jekyll and
! Hyde
SPEAKS IN HIS NIGHTSHIRT.
Mr. Bryan began the day early. speaking
at St Ignace at $50 from the rear Of his
| car. He was wearing only his nightrobc.
| trousers and overcoat. BY the time the train
| reached the straits OF MacSinac Mr. Bryan
| had emerged from his stateroom attirel I'm
shirt more suited to the etiquette OF Mich
| igan. The train taken across the etraits
| on a barge and at Macknaw at I o'clock
! Mr. Bryan declared that a dollar with the
stamp of the United States was worth 100
cents the world over. The candidate spoke
| briefly at petosky. CharcvoiX and Eellaire.
| At Travers City he spoke for half an hour.
| He promised that as the campaign proceeded
| he would do more work every day than on
any day preceding It,
After leaving Travors City. the next stops
| we're Walton and Manton. At Manton the
| cheering was led by little girl, who thoH
turned on a man who wore nat indicative
! of his allegiance to the gold standard and
| scathingly rebuked him. Mr.. Bryan re
marked that probably the little one could
! make better argument than the gClditc
| to which the republican replied that nc
arguments were needed, but that money
| talked"
YES 1t does" replied Mr.. Bryan" hut II
| does not vote" and the crowd CheCrcd the
| statement enthusiastically.
| Twenty minutes was the time allotted for
| Mr.. Bryan at Cadillac Here, as at all other
stops during the forenoon. the yellow badges
| Of the gold standard advocates were con.
| spiCuous
\ ten-minutc stop at Reed City. thirty
minutes at Big Rapids. twenty minutes al
| Howard and brief stops al Greenvlle. Beld
! ing and Ionia concluded the train speaking
| ~