The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-09-03
THE CHICAGO NOMINEE SWOOPS
DOWN ON A FARMERS PIC
NC IN NEW YORK.
Strong APPEAL 70 MORIGAGORS.
He Shows the Farmers How They
Might Pay Off Their Debts at
Fifty Cents on the Dollar.
His Voice Is Falling.

was getting unmanageable.
My head is willing, but my throat is
weak" he explained to the people of
Lockport, who had chartered hand and
| burned gunpowder TO greet him. Men
| swarmed like bees over the freight cars
and engines in the yard, and a cluster
of farm wagons with some hundred
agriculturalists surrounded the depot
knowlsyille was reached at Il quarter
after l o'clock. \ hearty welcome was
given and the farmers wagons were
decorated fancifully. with flags and
home made banners displaying litho-
| graphs of the candidate. One wagon.
drawn by four white horses, was waiting
for the party and into this they were
hurried, Il brass band leading The way
and fifty farm wagons trailing behind
| the march toward the village, two miles
distant, Thus were the Bryans escort
ed to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene
Woodford and entertained at lunch by
them and Mrs. 7. Moore Holland, Il
| Nebraska friend of theirs. who is spend
ing the summer here. After lunch they
we're taken to Knowlsville. where Mr..
Bryan spoke in the open air 10 several
thousand country people, assembled for
| the farmers picnic, as follows:
Mr.: Chairman, Ladies and Gentle
men-My voice is SO husky that YOU will
nave to help me TO speak by being per-
fectly quiet l shall make myself
heard to as many as possible. and in
moment | hope my voice will be clear
enough to reach the outskirts of the
! crowd. This is Il very unusual spec
tacle L have had immense audiences
| III the cities where there are Il great
many people in small territory. but
this is the largest audience that | have
ever seen assembled in the midst of an
agricultural country. CApplauseJ |
am glad TO notice here the mothers and
because. my friends, our cause is one in
which the whole family is interested.
| applause If we are entitled to sue
cess in this campaign it is because the
principles which we represent and the
policies for which we stand will be for
| the benefit of the husbands and wives.
the parents and children and all the
people of our beloved land. (Applause.)
| am glad that at this meeting we are
having as the presiding officer Il man
who. until this year, has voted the re-
publican ticket. | am glad because
some of the newspapers parade before
| the public the names of prominent
democrats who are going to desert the
ticket and | am glad that for every
democratic deserter we are to have ac-
cessions from the republican party more
than enough to make up the difference
| | want to talk practical politics to YOU
for little while this afternoon. Neither
my time nor my physical strength will
permit an extended discussion of the
| issues of the campaign. but | desire TO
suggest some thoughts which may
happen in Your study Of the issues and
your determination of the part which
you shall take. | want 10 read to YOU
an extract from speech made by John
Il. Carlisle III 1876. and | want YOU To
mark the political philosophy therein set
forth. He was speaking on an amend
ment to the Bland act and he said these
| words: If the execution of this meas
ure could be entrusted to a public officer
whose opinions on the subject were in
accord with those of Il majority of the
American peoplc-let me pause for a
moment. to say. that if it was desirable
| at the time 10 have the secretary of the
treasury in accord with the opinion of
the vast majority of the American people
it would be Il good thing now to have the
secretary of the treasury in accord with
| the American people. iApplausel
And he said further. and whose
sympathies" - mark the words-"and
whose sympathies were with the strug-
Cling masses who produce the wealth and
pay, the taxes of the country rather than
with the idle holders of idle capital the
provision alluded to would he of little
consequence, because he would coin the
maximum instead of the minimum
amount allowed by the amendment. But
| situated as we are, we all know. or least
we have reason to believe that not n
dollar beyond the maximum amount will
be coined. and consequently the process
of getting this money into circulation
would be too slow 10 afford the full meas
ures of relief which the people now de-
mand and need
Mark these words. John c. Carlisle
| divided society into two classes. On the
one side he put the idle holders of idle
| capital and on the other the producers
of wealth. (Applausc.l This is the Ian
guage of John G.. Carlisle. not uttered
| when he was young. as might be charged
| against me. Laughter.) 1t was when
! he was seven years older than | am how.
| Applause and laughtcrJ | believe that
he spoke the truth when he said that
society was divided into these two classes
| upon any question involving money. |
| believe he was right when he says that
| if 4 mans SympathieS We're with the
| struggling masses he would favor a
larger amount of money than he would if
| his sympathies We're with the idle holders
! of idle money. My friends. the issue to-
| day is between idle holders of idle money
and the struggling masses who produce
the wealth and pay the taxes of the
country. tApplauSe.) And when this
| question is understood, when men find
out about the money question. You will
| find that if there is 4 man in your COM