The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1896-09-04
A TOUR THROUGH OHIO
Bryan Spoke at Springfield and
Other Points Today.
IARSE MEETING AT COLUMBUS
The Democratic Candidate Spoke FROM
Fonr sides of Platform Ia fhiS
Thirty Thousand P.opie-Whi speak
at Toledo Tonight


enroute. The party renamed here al
hour and "A halt, the candidate speak
ing 10 a big crowd, and then left foI
Toledo at O'Clock by way of Findlay
and Powling Green The tram will
reach Toledo at 3 80, where Mr. Bryan
will speak tonight.
Mr. Bryan's meeting at Columbus
was a bigger demonstration, IN compar
isonto the sizes of the two places, than
the one at Cleveland He spoke from
platform facing the eastern front OF the
capitol building
About the four sides We're swarming
men, women and children, a large part
of the city's population. reinforced by
visitors to the state fair now in prog |
ress There were fully 10000 III the
crowd
On account of the size of his audi
ence Mr.. Bryan adopted novel method
of speaking, talking to sections OF tn" |
crowd alternately from each of the four |
sides of the platform. even then not |
70 more than a tenth of the people could |
hear him. He was introduced by Hon. |
Allen w. Thurman. son of the 'OlO |
Roman" who has been fighting for free |
silver i'll Ohio for several years, anC
after the candidates speech the Demo
cratic nominee for congress in th'
Columbus district. Hon. J. LentZ. ad
As Mr.. Bryan practically made foui
speeches, speaking to one side at
time, we give as near as we can the
four speeches as a whole. He said:
LADIES AND GENTLEMES-This is tn,
largest audience to which ever tried t.
speak L have had occasion to talk wher
the audience filled the house, but never
had occasion To talk where the audience
filed all outdoors. If you all vote as you
are now shouting ! don't see how Their
can be- any question about the triumph oi
free silver in the state of Ohio.
l desire To impress upon you the fact
that the enemy are lighting in this
campaign Is an enemy which has never
gone into an open battle. The advocate
of the gold standard have never dared t.
. submit the gold standard to the arbitra
ment of a ballot. Every step that has
been taken has been taken by stealth and
without the approval of the American
people. When silver was dcmOnetiZed III
1873 the people had not discussed il and
persons who We're members of congress
and who voted upon the measure testIfiet.
II at they did not I'M crSiand that the bill
demonetiZed silver When he crime wa
discovered and the American people at
tempted to restore silver to its ancient
place by the side of gold, the opponents OF
free silver forced the Bland act upon con
yrcss as compromise, and As soon as th'
Bland act Went into force the enemies of
free silver proceeded to repeal the Blame
act and left nothing in its place But tn.
silver sentiment grew until 1890. and IL
that year the opponents of free coinare.
being afraid of the passage of fire.,
coinage bill, secured another compromise.
which was known as the Sherman law
In the support of that measure Senator
Sherman made u speech, and in the coursc
OF that speech he went on to say that We
required more than SI2 10000 new-moneN
every year to keep pace with the popula
tion and industries, and he advocated that
measure ON the ground that il gave to tn,
people more money, and yet in his Recol
lections, published only few months ago,
you will find that Senator Sherman there
says that he was in favor Of the Sherman
law simply to prevent free coinage and
that he was willing to vote for its repeal
the day after il enacted If he could
prevent the substitution of free coinage
There you will find the chief-the chiei
supporter of the gold standard policy in
the United States, supporting a bill b.
cause II gave money tn the American peo
pie and then declaring that he would have
voted for the repeal of IL the veIy next day
They secured the repeal of the Sherman
law and they pretended that when they
got that out Of the way that they would
restore silver to its former place Ther,
were some who said that the trend of tn,
Sherman law was tn that end and that
had To clear away the rubbish before W,
could build up good system. and thers
were others who said that If we stood by
free silver would drive Europe to bi
metallism. But those who made this "
rangement have proven that they Were moi
sincere and that their purpose was to de-
ceiVe the American people. Applause.
In this campaign every party. In its plat
form so far has declared that the princi
pie OF bimetallism Is hetteI than a gold
standard: and yet in spite of these decla
rations you know that there is body OF
people in the United States. who unde,
cover of friendliness To bimetallism. ar,
seeking To fastcn gold standard upon
the American people.
Let us suppose that you had free and
unlimited coinage of gold and silver al
the present legal ratio of Is to /. Their
what: Why, any person in the world
owning silver bullion could bring thai
bullion To our mints and have It converted
into full legal tender silver dollars, just
like the ones that yon today. Now
how could you be- injured? Suppose som,
man made up his mind to injure tn.
American people under free coinage
How would he do il? Why. he would
take his silver to our mint. Suppose !
thousand dollars of il, and have it coined
into dollars; then he would take thes,
dollars out TO hurt the American peopl,
with them, and how would he do iti He
would take that money home and h,
would be required To pay the freight or
II, and he would lose the cost of coinaU,
md lose the freight both ways and w
could stand ii longer than he could.
All, you say that he would trade thai
silver for gold and take the gold away ant
leave the silver Where would he get tn,
gold: Won he get il at the treasury o
the United Statesg Not under bimetal
Hsm, because under bimetallism the gov
ernment docs not agree to swap, but un
der bimetalliSm the government converts
the silver bullion into silver money ant
gold bullion into gold coin and make
them legal tender for all debts public an,
private. But it does not agree to redeem
gold dollar in silver or IA silver dollar IL
gold. Applause So that under bimei
allism this foreigner could not eXchang
his silver at the mint for gold unless tn
government was disposed to let him do il
Where would he get the goldf He wouI,
have to find somebody with the gold; b
could not hurt anybody by trading silve
for gold until he found somebody who ha,
the gold; and that would let most of tn
people of the United States out of danger
There Is another way that he might dc
He might, instead of taking the silve
home, instead of giving IL to us, instead
of trading it TO us for gold, he nigh
trade it to Us for property. Whenever w
have anything to sell, we are looking TO
who has the money to trade TO
what we have 10 sell, and instead of bein,
frightened. if he will Just let us know
when he Is coming with his silver, to es
change for our products we will meet hir
at the depot with brass band and escoT
him through the town and show hir
where the property is that he can buy.
There was another demonstrate
paid the Bryan party when they lef
Cleveland for Columbus. About tn
hotel and depot large crowds had gath
cred IN order to catch a parting glanc
of the nominee. The Columbus receI
.lon committee arrived In this CITY an
took charge of the party. \ special ca
had been provided and it was decorate
inside and out with bunting. The Il al
was delayed an hour, mainly ol
account of the crowds. which ha,
gathered around the car and insisted o
shaking hands with Mr. BRYAN
Detective @. II Kettles of Clevelan
was in charge of the train and acted a
Mr. Bryan's bOdyguard. AT every vii