The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-10-09
WILLIE BRYAN AS
AN ATTRACTION
He Becomes the Big Card at the Bur.
lington Celebration.
STANDS UPON THREE PLATFORMS
They All Agree, He states, That the
Gold Standard Ought to BE Driven
Out Of the United States and That
Its Place should BE Filled by
Coinage of the I6 TO 1 Ratio.

Coinage of the l6 TO Ratio.
BURLINGTON, Iowa. Oct. Sin the con-
cluding ceremonies today of BurlinS-
tons celebration of the semi-centen-
NAL of Iowa's admission to the union.
William j. Bryan was the principal
attraction. The city was profusely deco
rated and great crowds Of visitors 1llied
the streets. Mr.. Bryan arrived from
Chicago at G a. m. on the special car
which he will have at his disposal Tor
the rest of the campaign, and took
breakfast at the house of John l. Seeley:
At . o'clock Mr.. Bryan was escorted
to the court house, where he held Il
short reception. A parade, in which the
brass bands. mounted and unmounted
organiZa lions, including II numbeB of
ladies on horseback took part, escort I'd
the candidate through the principal
streets to the Coliseum In Crapo Park.
John j. Seeley, who presided, intro
duced him. Several other stands had
been erected in the park, and from
these Mr.. Bryan and others made short
speeches. Mr.. Bryan said:
BRYAN'S REMARKS.
"Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen.
fellow-citiZenS: We are passing
through a campaign which means
great deal to the American people, aye,
more than that. 1t means great deal
to the people of the world There Is
crisis in human affairs. While every
day is of equal length with every
other day, yet into some days vast i'm
portance Is crowded and into the third
of November vast Importance will be
crowded. Upon that day the American
people choose a president who snail &C.
cupy the White House (Cries of Bryan,
Bryan" and applause) for four years.
On that day they select house OF
representatives and on that day they
select legislatures.
Much depends upon the result OF
this election. For the first time In the
history of the United States a party
appears which declares that the gold
standard must be maintained In this
country until foreign nations join us
or permit us to abandon it, Never be-
fore have the American people been
asked to declare in favor of gold
standard. Every step that the gold
standard has taken heretofore has been
taken In the dark and without the con-
sent OF the American people, and now,
for the first time, the advocates of gold
ask the American people to support the
gold standard at the ballot box. Is it
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for the American people, it ought to
be endorsed. My friends. nothing is
too good for the American people, and
If the gold standard will be good for us,
we ought to have it. If the gold
standard will bring blessings to our
people we ought to maintain it, If it
brings cursings we ought to aban-
don it. Great applause.) This is the
question submitted to the American
people l stand upon platform;
yes, stand upon three platforms
which agree on one thing, and that
is that the gold standard ought to be
driven out Ofaithe United States. Great
applause.) and that in its place ought
to be submitted the free and unlimited
coinage of gold and silver at the legal
ratio of 16 to l Applause) without
waiting for the consent Of any other
nation. prolonged applause)
II come today to submit to your con-
sideration some reasons why Repubi-
cans should join with us upon the plat
form which we have adopted. The Pop
ulists have already joined with us. /
Will say Joined with us; they may say
that we have Joined with them, but
] care not how you express it, so we
are together now. Great applause)
a voice: "Hurrah for Mckinley" and
hiSSes.)
WELCOMES MKINLEY MEN.
Mr.. Bryan: My friends I beg you to
refrain from any manifestations of dis
pleasure. / am glad to have that man
here who Is in favor of my opponent.
l only hope there are many such, be-
cause it is to such persons I desire to
express my remarks. My friend has de-
clared his preference for Mckinley. I
nj 10 oil hirv, rry1,f fnIy ;,,In
for: The Mckinley Of 1890 or the Nc
Kinley of 1896. (Great applause and
long cheering) Mckinley said:
But all agree that we must have a
larger volume of money and that the
added volume shall be silver or it's
equivalent, based on silver" At that
time we were putting into circulation
about $24,OOO,00O a year under the Bland
act and Mr.. Mckinley advocated the
Sherman act on the ground that it
would increase the amount of money
to be put in circulation among the peo-
pie. I'VE propose to give to this coun-
try what the gentlemen upon the other
side Of the house could not do, what
they did not dare do for four years We
propose to give to the country a silver
bill that will take all of the silver, prac-
tically, of the United States, and make
1t valuable for the use of the people
Again he said: so Mr.. Speaker, this
bill Is just to the silver producers of
the United States. for it does what the
present law, as demonstrated by every
administration for ten years has not
done. 1t takes every dollar of silver
bullion that is purchased in the United
States and places 1t at the disposal of
the people as money
THAT was the Mckinley of 1890. Let
mo ron n Vn,, tho MoLvinIa,, 80 1oac
is not more money we want. What we
want is to put all the money we have
already at work. In 1890. when he ad-
vOcated more money. we already added
s24 100000 to the circulation each year.
This year we have no such provision.
We have repealed the Sherman law and
Bland act.
WHAT WAS SAID IN 1891.
"Mr. Mckinley said in 1891 that Mr..
Cleveland has been discriminating
against silver, had been trying to de-
grade 1t. had been trying to contract
the currency, and that by lessening the
currency he made money dearer by
making 1t scarcer. and making money
the master and all things else the SER
wants. II 1t was wrong for Mr.. Cleve-
land to make money dear by making it
scarce and money the master and all
things else the servant Is 1t right for
Mr. Mckinley to try to make money
the master and all things the servants?
applause and cries Of mo, no.D We
can support every contention we make
by quoting Republican authority and
therefore Republicans who come to us
in this campaign do not change their
convictions. They simply change their
party name when their party has aban-
doned the position 1t used to have and
now demands that you shall surrender
the convictions of a life time" (Great
applause and cheering.)