The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1896-10-06

Free Silver.
NASHVILLE, Oct 6-The greatest crowd
that ever turned out to a political meeting
in the history of Nashville crowded about
the streets here last night, shouted and
yelled, cheered and applauded, and lis
tened with marked attention to William
j. Bryan on his arrival. The train bear
ing the party was due at s :55, but was ten
minutes late, and 1t was nearly 9;15
o'clock when Mr.. Bryan addressed his first
audience in this city at the Haymarket.
At that meeting the five acres Of ground
in the inClosure was fully half filled with
people, who cheered the candidate wildly
on his appearance. A glee club of thirty
male voices opened the meeting with
"Home, Sweet Home" the old fashioned
melody which the nominee has declared to
be his campaign song. The candidate was
then introduced by Senator Bate as the
next president of the United States. He
was cheered and applauded throughout
his speech and many times was stopped by
the enthusiasm of his listeners. After his
Haymarket speech he addressed monster
meeting at Athletic Park, and subse-
quently spoke to n meeting of Populists.
He left at midnightfor Louisville. He will
speak JOnlgnU ub Indianapolis.
Mr. Bryan reached Memphis early yes.
terday morning, and his reception at
Nashville was but IA repetition of that
which he received in Tennessee's metropo.
lis. At 10 o'clock in the forenoon he was
taken to the baseball park, where he ad-
dressed an audience of 10000 people. In
the course of his Memphis speech he said
while 1 appreciate the honor which has
hpnn fprrnI Of ,p1, he
nomination by my own, but by the addi.
tional nomination of two other parties, l
want to say to you here, my friends, that
my interest in the cause of bimetallism is
so deep that l would without moments
hesitation resign my nominations in favor
of any person in this country who can
better carry this cause to victory. 1t is
not time to listen to personal ambitions.
81 want to impress upon your minds
another thing, 1t is not only necessary
that we shall elect a president and vice
president in favor of free coinage, but it
is necessary that there shall be a congress
in favor of free coinage. If there is one
majority in either house against free coin
age the president is powerless to restore
bimetallism to the people. If you are in
earnest in your desire for bimetallsm you
must show that earnestness by electing
congressman, senators and president.
81 am not here to interfere in your state
campaign or local politics, but l am here
to so deepen the convictions of those who
believe in free coinage that there will not
be man in this state who agrees with us
who will not be willing to sacrifice any
thing that is necessary to secure the adj
vancement of this cause. l am here to in
crease the enthusiasm, if | can, until the
men who stand in the way of complete
success will be branded as an enemy. How
you may find it best to unity your forces
you are to judge, but | want you to re-
member that you cannot help our cause
by helping those who are fighting us.
Our opponents say that the tariff ques-
tion is the important issue in this cam
paign. tell them that until they put
prohibitive tariff on foreign fnancers /
won't talk tariff with them. So long as
We must go to others to ask them what
we can ave there is no use to discuss any
question until we decide that we have n
right to express our own opinion, when
we have one. When we establish the right
of having IA policy when we decide on it,
it will then be time to discuss the other
questions upon which parties and people
differ.
''lf gold is to be our standard and gold
dollar is to be the unit, and we are to be
content with its upward flights, then, my
friends, believe we ought to change the
die, that the dollar will properly describe
itself as it passes from hand to hand If
we must have it because foreign nations
insist, then l think we should change it,
and in the place of that face above which
is written Liberty let us have'a picture
tn nbnf a 81, I.
ten Bondage And instead of having
on the other side the eagle, the emblem of
national freedom, let us put IA vulture
that lives upon the devouring of human
kind.
"They call the gold dollar an honest dol
lar They know it is not an honest dollar,
and those who love that dollar most love
il because it is the most dishonest dollar
the world has ever seen, and the more dis
honest it becomes the greater their affec-
tion for it. An honest dollar would be a
dollar of which the purchasing power
would be stable; dollar which rises in
purchasing power is as dishonest as one
which falls in purchasing power The
gold dollar is bad, not because the quality
of the metal is not good because quantity
is as essential in money as quality. You
may show me a particular kind of food
which iseXcellent in quality, but if there
is not enough of it to sustain life l will
never call il good food,
Il have described the gold dollar as the
balloon dollar. 1t keeps rising all the
time, and those who were in the basket
when it started up stay with it, but it is
out of the reach of the great masses of
mankind, We are tired Of the balloon
dollar. We don't want "A dollar to look at
as it passes from us. We want dollar to
handle as it passes among us, l want BIZ
metalism because it requires all the gold
and all the silver to furnish safe basis
for the immense commercial affairs of the
nineteenth century, Itrequires them both.
You talk to me about "A flood of money
when we have free coinage My friends,
l know people who lived so long in the
south that they are watching for the first
drippings of the food
On the trip from Memphis the candidate
was enthusiastically greeted at the towns
through which he passed, and at most of