The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-25
WASTES TIME BARKING AT GEN
HARRISON AND NJ. e. INGALLS,,
And Repeats His Advice to
men to BecOm HypOcritcs and
Vote for Free Silver.
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nell and Macomb, and tonight the agitator
spoke at length here.
Mr.. Bryan evidently awoke this morning
IN hghtlng hunor, for, at Ottawa, his first
stopping place, he proceeded to tongue-lash
ex-President Harrison, M. E. ingalls,, of the
Big -Four railway system. and the leaders
OF the sound-money movement in general.
At La Sale he spoke from a fiat car from
the rear of the train to admirers of himself
and Governor Altgeld. Mr.. Bryan said, in
part.
Two distinguished men have called me
to account because of advice which | gave
to railroad employees. In speaking of the at
tempt OF the railroads to coerce their en-
pIoyes | said that in these hard times. when
employment is so difficult to find, | did not
want 10 advise laboring men to do anything
which would lose them their employment
and added that they should wear Repub-
iican buttons if necessary, march in Repub-
lcan parades if they were commanded to
do SO, and even to contribute to the Re-
puDncan campaign fund If that was re-
quired by their employers, but that they
should vote according to their convictions
on election day. Mr.. Ingalls,, the president
of u railroad, in a speech at Cincinnati. de-
nounced me for advising employees 10 de-
eve their employers, and ex-President
Harrison has charged me with teaching i'm
morality in giving the advice which L have
quoted.
NOW, 1 desire to just.f my position.
The right to vote according to ones con-
science is a law-given right. Coercion is a
ylolation of law, and when l advise en-
ployes TO vote as they please, even though
hey must wear Republican buttons and
march in Republican parades. L am taking
higher moral grounds and giving more pa
-rlot1c advice than those who countenance
oercion and appeal to employees to vote the
republican ticket on election day merely
BECAUSE they have been compelled to wear
Republican badges during the campaign.
When a man criticises me for advising en-
ployes to express their honest convictions at
he ballot box, | ask what such people think
Of the Australian ballot The Australian
ballot is a secret ballot, and we have
Ject American citizens in the right to vote
according to conscience, without being sub
.ected to discharge or persecution. When
Mr.. Harrison and Mr.. ingalls, condemn me
or telling them to vote as they please
hey virtually condemn the Australian ba
OTIS, and tell the citizen that he ought to
announce in advance now he is going to
vote.
There are some who can announce their
position in advance, and when a citizen is
IN a position to act with independence /
am glad to see him do so, but when an
Employer violates the rights of his employees
by demanding that they shall march in pa
rades or wear certain badges, these en-
he secret ballot. / am willing to let the
public sit in Judgment on the advice which
haze given = to employs, s., II Mr.; ingalls,
heir advice to the public. / am willing
hat the public shall decide whether it is
IMMORAL for people to vote according to
heir conscience, if Mr.. Harrison and Mr..
ingalls, are willing to risk the verdict of
he people on the position they have AIKEN,
namely, that employees must vote the Re-
publican ticket on election day because
hey had worn Republican badges during
the campaign
A freight train had trouble south of Ladd
and the special on which Mr.. Bryan was
travelling was delayed at the place for a
few minutes, and the time was utilized by
he nominee in making a speech to a few
nundred people about the rear of the train.
REPUBLICANS OUT IN FORCE.
When Kewanee was reached Mr.. Bryan
was dragged to the fair grounds The town
was crowded with wearers of the yellow
badge, who shouted for Mckinley, but the
speaker was not interrupted while address
ing the crowd at the race track.
At the little town of Calvin the train
stopped for a few moments and mingled
with the cheers for Mr.. Bryan came those
for his opponent. The Democratic nomi-
nee asked If anybody present thought the
gold STANDARD was the best thing for the
country and there were cries of No" and
Yes" and Give us gold and silver"
Adlai f. Stevenson, Vice President, was
at Moline, and spoke after Mr.. Bryan con-
Guided his speech. The latter said:
Now, l nave had my attention called to
q statement in which L was accused of
saying that the free coinage of silver would
result in a panic. l have not said 50. l
do not believe it. | believe, my friends,
that the moment this Nation has declared
that at a. certain time the minis of the
United States Will De open to the free
coinage of silver on equal terms with gold,
value of silver will be measured by gold,
and that by the time of the opening of our
ounce of it will be worth $1.29 in gold and
from that time we pass on with the parity
maintaiqed at 10 to T. 49,
Moline. Short stops We're made at
Alpha and Alexis. but no speeches were de-
livered. At Monmouth Mr.. Bryan Jumped
on" RiShnn WOfthingtOn. and made one of
his insidious appea.s for which he has be-
to a statement made in an interview with
the Bishop, published in a Chicago paper.
In the interview Bishop Worthington is al
legged to have said that the trouble with the
farmers boy was that he secured too many
under the free educational sys-
tenn. In his rejoinder Mr.. Bryan said, in
TO talk about the overeducation of our
farmers sons and to attribute the difficult
ties which surround us to-day TO overedu-
cation is to my mind one of the most cruel
things that q man ever uttered. Tn idea
of saving that farmers sons, who are not
able 10 rise in life. get a taste of education
and then enjoy the taste SO much that they
follow it up and become dissatisfied with
of saying that there Is o~Vereducatlon
a mong our farmers sons. My friends. do
you know that Ianguage means? 1t
zation and Il march toward the dark ages
again. How can you tell which one of the
sons is going to prove a great man
until YOU have educated them all? Are we
10 select a commission to go round and
nick ont the ones that are to be educated?
my friends. there is another reason
WHY people have gone into the cities and
left the farms. 1t is because your legisla-
ton has been causing the foreclosure of
mortgag es on the farmers and the farms. 1t
IS because your legislation has been making
the farmers life harder for the farmer: it
IS because the nonproducing classes have
producing the laws and making it
more profitable TO gamble in the farm prod
urts than il is to produce them. TIL idea
of LAYING the blame for the present condi-
ions TO the farmers door. The idea of
such suggesting as a remedy the closing of
in order that the people NAV not
become dissatisfied. Why. my friends. there
be dissa abstraction while the cause for
dissa tisfaction exists. Instead of attempt
ing to prevent people realizing their condi-
tion. why don't they try and improve the
of the farmer of this country? /
understand how a man living upon
the farm can be deluded into the idea that
the gold standard has anything but misery
and suffering for him."
Crowds greeted the candidate at Bush
nell, at Macomb and al Camp Point. At
the former place the crowd was so. great
thai bodily injury was threatened Mr..