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And Eagerly Listen to His Utterances
at All Points During His Trip
Through the State.
BIG CROWD At CHARLESTON
FIVE THOUSAND MORE PEOPLE
THAN GATHERED TO HEAR BRYAN.
Graceful Tribute to the Republican
Presidential Nominee-Speech at
Cincinnati Tonight.
necial TO the Indiananolis Lournal.

| Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
CHARLESTON, W. Va, Oct. 6. = West
Virginia. or, at least that part of the State
contiguous to the Chesapeake & Ohio rail-
way, turned out to-day to hear General
Harrison. From Ronceverte to Charleston
every station had a crowd anxiously wait
ing to see and hear the ex-President.
There were many men in these crowds who
had never voted anything but the Democrat
ic ticket, but from their demeanor one
would be led TO suspect at least tenn
porary transfer of allegiance to the Repub-
lican party on the part of most of them.
The most respectful attention marked these
assemblages. At Ronceverte, where the
first stop was made, General Harrison
spoke briefly. Referring to free silver, he
said:
THE word free is very attractive, wher-
ever we find ii. 1t was great word with
the colored people during the war, and has
been since. out there are not many thlhSs
to which you can attach it, The good Lord
who made this world and put us In it didn't
make many things free. Water and air are
free, but he ordered it, as to almost every
thing else, that would have TO work for
it-get it by some toll by the sweat of the
brow. All this talk about free silver does
not mean that you are going TO be allowed
TO pick it up somewhere You will nor
find 1t scattered about the roads. If you
get it you will have to toll for it.
AT the close of the war story was
to each colored man forty acres and
mule That was deceptive statement, and
the colored man found he had to work out
his own way. He was free to Work-there
was nothing else free.
IF we should coin silver free-if the
United States should say to every man who
had silver, Bring it TO our mints, and every
41212 grains we will stamp as a dollar. and
Let you take it away with .you,' so far as
you and / concerned we will get
one of these dollars unless we work for it.
The idea that the people want a cheap
dollar is a false idea The man who earns
an honest dollar wants an honest dollar
in payment Let us have good dollar and
let us keep at home as much work as We
can by a protective tariff.
At Anderson, General Harrison spoke
briefly on the silver question. At Hinton
there was another large crowd. and the
General spoke ten minutes, combining his
remarks chiefly to the silver question. He
concluded by saying:
Your interest is to have n good. fixed.
staple money that you can deal with and
count on year in and year out-the kind
of money that you can take and put in
old stocking. if you want to. and hide
it under the bedtick and keep it there a
year and when you take il out find just as
much money as you put in. That kind of
money is honest and true. That is the
kind of money the laboring man is entitled
to. and that man who would put off any
other kind Of money upon you however
is the enemy of the workingman.
At Montgomery the General referred to
the tariff question, and contrasted the pres
ent condition under the Wilson law with
that under the Mckinley law. He said:
Mr. Bryan voted for the Wilson bill.
Indeed 1t was extreme free trader
that he made his first reputation He tells
you now that things will be very good
when you get free silver He tod you they
would be very good when you got
free trade. Under the first approach of
free trade the Democratic Congress could
make they have been very bad. Mr.. Bry-
\, not I jn1< n Shpd n
tion with you as a prophet
Referring to his own personal relation to
the campaign. General Harrison said:
.'It is not because of any personal inter-
est that / appeal to you. I am candidate
for no office. l have been fully honored
by the people of this country, but / owe it
to them to give them the best opinion /
have. based upon my experience and any
knowledge I may have gained ! have but
one wish in my heart: That this country
that you and I love shall be prosperous
that prosperity shall go to every home and
that every workingman may have the best
possible returns for his labor.