Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1896-09-09

mic near knowlesville, N. y, when al
said
This is a very unusual spectacle.
have met immense audiences in tht
! cities where q great many people lvt
| in small territory, but this is the largesl
audience that I have ever seen assem-
bled in the midst of an agriculture
country. (Applause.) l am glad te
notice here the mothers and wives, al
well as the sons and husbands, because
nv friends, our cause is the cause In
which the whole family is interested
If we are entitled to succeed 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 pso-
Die of our beloved ud (Aprla
| am glad that at this meeting we
are having as the presiding officer a
man who until this year has voted the
Republican 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
accessions from the Republican party
more than enough to make up the diff
ference. (Applause.)
A PRACTICAL QUESTION.
Politics is a practical question. and
it is SO simply because it can be COM
pretended by our people. l want to
talk practical politics to you for little
while this afternoon.
Here Mr.. Bryan read an extract from
Mr.. Carlisle's speech of 1876, and COM
menting on it. said
John Il. Carlisle divided society into
two classes? On the one side he put
the idle holders of idle capital, on the
other side he put the struggling masses
who produce the wealth and pay the
taxes of the country. (Applause.) II
that division existed then it exists to-
day. More than that, John &. Car
Isle said that a public officer sworn to
do his duty would be controlled in his
official conduct by his sympathies, and
if his sympathies were with the idle
holders of idle capital he would coin
as little money as possible, whereas, if
his sympathies we're with the strug-
Cling masses he would coin as much as
the law would permit. (Applause. }
This is the language of John G.. Car
Isle, not uttered when he was young,
as might be openly charged, and has
been, against me. (Laughter.) Itwas
when he was seven years older than
am now. (Applause and laughter) l
believe he spoke the truth when he
said that society was divided into these
two classes upon any question involv-
ing money. I believe he was right
when he said that if mans SYM
pathies were with the struggling
masses he would favor larger amount
of money than he would if his SYM
pathies we're with the idle holders of
idle money.
THE ISSUE OF The DAY.
My friends, the issue to, day is an is
sue between the idle holders of idle
money and the struggling masses who
OF the country. (Applause.) And
find out about the money question,
you will find that if there is man in
your community whose interests, whose
sympathies are with the idle holders of
idle money, he will be in favor of a
gold standard, and not daring to say
SO, he will talk about ''honest money!
and ''sound dollar" (Applause.) But
if his sympathies are with those who
produce the nations wealth he will be
for the gold and silver coinage of the
Constitution, no matter how many
times you call him an Anarchist. They
tell us that these prominent tinanciers
are going to leave the Democratic par
| ty because it declares for the restora-
| tion of silver. We shall not go into
court to secure an order to prevent
their going. daughter and applause
NO LONGER HANDICAPPED.
The Democratic party has been
weighed down by those who want to
use the party organization for private
gain and their country for public
plunder. (Applause.)
Let me read a little further from
Mr.. Carlisle's speech.
A Voice? Why do you read from
Carlisle's speeches?
Why? Because no man has present
ed more forcible argument in favor
of bimetallism than Mr.. Carlisle has
/ (Great applause and cheering.) Lei
me read now what he says of that bill
| But it will certainly offer some relief
1t will reverse the grinding process
that has been going on for the last few
years" Away back, eighteen years
ago. he spoke of this as the grinding
process, and, my friends, it does moi
tighten the effects of the grinding pro
cess to call it a temporary embarrass
ment. (Applause.)
Again quoting Mr.. Carlisle, Mr.
Bryan continued as follows
He understood the laws OF finance
He understood what was the effect ol
adding this money to the circulation
and, my friends. if he stated the truth
then, that truth has not changed since
then, nor can it be changed, though
every one who spoke for it should turI
his back upon it. (Applause) Trntl
lives. 1t is the one thing that will moi
die.
INTERESTS ALL FARMERS.
My friends, this is a practical cues
tion that confronts the farmers of tn,
United States, and not of the United
States alone, but the farmers of Ire
land, the farmers of England and tn,
farmers OF Germany and the farmer
of every nation in the world that hay,
the gold standard to day.
l assert that the gold standard coulC
not live for one day in any nation un
der the sun without the aid of tn
money owners and the money chang
ers to keep in it existence. 1 asser
that the gold standard has never re
ceived the Endorsement of any class O
people except those who prosper mos
as society is destroyed by rising dol
lar.
MAJOR MCKINLEY'S LETTER.
Ii the gold standard is good why di'
not the Republican party pledge itsel
to help keep gold standard? But nc
it pledged itself to get rid of the col,
standard just as soon as other nation
will help us. That is not my language
That is the language of the RepubI
can platform and that is the construt
tion placed upon it by the candidat
who runs upon it in his acceptance
! He says in his letter that the Americas
DaQnlA cannot antar 1lnon himofa lie.