Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-10-03


the State.
Early in the morning the streets were
crowded with people from the rural dis
tricts of Ohio, Kentucky an 7est Vlr-
ginia.
Mounted delegations 81 back
counties in this secdc- -, % arrive
at almost every hor % ,he night.
At noon the ST. 50 packed with
badly the l;$NE@| r known in the
Five t Lorsemen were in line
and more 5 many many more were
on foot FC brass bands furnished the
music and the transparancies were
many.
The entire city was gaily decorated,
and even the tops of all the houses in the
vicinity of the speakers stand were COW
cred with people.
Mr. Bryan and party arrived from
Charleston at 1:30, accompanied by the
following members Of the Reception
Committee, who went from this city 10
join him at Charleston:
Geo. McKendree, S. G. Carter, B. B..
Harding. W. N. BOwles, T. S. Garlan,
J. 7. Graves. VIM. McKendree, J. n. Es-
key. DR.. J. d. Myers, J. o. Anderson, j..
n. Russell. George Oakes, J. H. Bryan,
w. r. Thompson, J. c. Dickson, J. h.
Long. Gene Gwinn, VI. NJ. Banenune,
D. z. Gwinn, T. A. Wyatt, DR.. K. b. Pop
per. W. T. Cox, Carroll st. John, Jno.
T. Hwkins. J. N Potts, z. II. Burnett,
II. c. Harvey, J. S. Marcum. Col. Matt
Cooper. E. NJ. McAllister, Geo. Thorn
burg. DR.. II. Y. Reese, Ed. Kyle, John
Sh!vely. Henry Duncan. ". c. Miller
and D. l. Smith.
It is este!mated that 10000 people
were here.
Mr.. BRYAN was introduced by John H.
Holt candidate for Supreme Court
Judge.
Fellow CitiZenS:-I want you 10 Apply
to the study of the money question Tue
principles well known in evidence. we
have two policies presented. or rather
we have one class of people proposing
remedial legislation and another class
opposed 10 that legislation and propos-
ing nothing. (Applause) The advocates
of free coinage tell you what they want
and how they expect to get ii. The
opponents Of free coinage propose noth-
ing. advocate nothing except they 90
not allow the other people TO do what
they want to do. (Applause) Our op-
ponents are well called opponents be-
cause they simply oppose everything.
Now. my friends. we have condition
and we have a financial policy. If that
policy is good. ii ought TO be maintain
ed. If il is bad, something must be put
in the place of it. l want you to re-
member that the Republican party does
not say in It's platform that the gold
standard IS a good thing. (Applause)
The men who wrote that platform want
ed a gold standard, and the men who
wrote that platform did not dare tell
the American people what they wanted
(Applause.) You talk to Republicans
about the gold standard and they will
tell you that they are as good friends
OF silver as anybody, and yet when
they come TO get ont their badges. when
they come to print the name Of their
candidate on paper, they, by some
strange circumstance, select yellow pa
per to print it on. (Applause and
laughter) Another thing, you cannot
find any club among the Republicans
which are called gold standard clubs.
What do you find? Sound money
clubs tApplause) Now, why do they
use sound money instead of gold? Be
cause they dare not tell the people what
they mean by the term. They are
using these words TO deceive. Ny
friends, everybody wants sound money,
but the question is what is sound mon
ey? I will tell you what I understand
sound money to be. Sound money is
money furnished in sufficient quanti-
ties to form a safe basis for the business
of this country. (Applause) There :
something necessary besides equality in
money. Money may be good, splendid,
but there may be none of it, (Appiause)
it is of money as ii is of food. You have
got to combine quality and quantity
You must combine quantity and qua
ity
Suppose that a person tried 10 feed
himself on bread of the vsry best quail
ity and yet not enough Of K 10 sustain
life. (Applause). Suppose he tried to
feed himself on meat of the very highest
quality, but so insufficient in quantity
lUdL he NOulu ult lOL ldth VI nun 1871
ment, would you call that sound food.
Not bit of it. (App,ause). And yet our
opponents are trying to build Up f.
nanc.al system on gold alone when they
are not able to find the gold TO furnish
the basis of this ystem. The gold stand
ard is of no advantage unless you can
find enough gold to furnish the stand
ard money. Our opponents have not
furnished that gold They cannot fur
nish it. All over the world to-day the
nations are scrambling to set all the
gold there is.
Mr.. Bryan then gave an explanation
of the 53-cent dollar. He also gave his
reasons why the Mexican dollar argu-
ment was not possible, they being on
the same general lines as he hav given
before.
At 2:9O the party left Huntington,
short stops being mad at Catlettsburg,
Russell. Greenup, South Portsmouth,
Navsvile. Augusta and New Richmond,
XIV. At each place Mr.. Bryan was n
troduced to those gathered about the
train and at each place he declined to
talk but introduced ex-Congressman
Renton Mcmillan as a substitute, saying
no wished to save his voice for the eve
ming meetings.
CINCINNATI AND C0VINGTON.
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