The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-10-07
WHITE ROSES FOR
BILLY BRYAN
Presented by the Lady Clerks Of the
New Albany Postofflce.
GOLDEN ROD AT SELLERSBURG
The Speaker Gains Points by Work.
ing Object Lessons ON the Audience.
Makes the Usual Plea for the Gold
aud Silver Coinage OF the Con.
stitutiOn.

horses drew the carriage that drew Mr..
Bryan from the station, where his
special train arrived at $40 through
Silver street, to Silver Grove, the
place of the meeting. few blocks dis
tant. An audience unusually large for
the hour of morning was assembled
there. Ii numbered between 800 and
1000, who We're assembled around the
sides of natural amphitheatre, i'm the
centre of which Mr.. Bryan spoke. Fiji
teen white roses. representing the tif
teen electoral votes of Indiana, were
presented to Mr.. Bryan by the lady
clerks of the New Albany post Office.
Mr.. Bryan referred to the present in
his remarks. He said:
Mr.. Chairman. Ladies' and Gentlemen:
FROM the manner in which you have APP
plaudtd the sentiment that there was not
enough money. imagine that there are
very few in this audience who are alarmed
at any prospect of Il flood of money.
tlNheers|. 1t IL one thing that has excited
my sympathy to find occasionally the man
who had never had too much money in
all his life. Sometimes man. not able
10 pay his debts. even in iifty-cent dollars
daughter and cheerS). L man who does not
know where his provisions are coming
from next winter is trembling In his boots
for fear that under free coinage there will
be such Il load of money thai he will be-
overwhelmed. tApplause,. My friends.
lieve to be sound. ANA that doctrine is this
that the only way to stop failing prices is
10 increase the amount of money to be
exchanged for property
In conclusion he said:
! believe that If the people are allowed
TO vote as they please We Will succeed.
ana more than that, | believe that they
Will simply increase the number of our
votes. because men will insist that If "A
man has good arguments and he will ap-
"a 30 "a ha q un N iIan
that he has no case when he attempt TO
use force to back up his position. tCheers).
GREETED WITH GOLDEN ROD.
II was raining when Mr. Bryan
reached Sellersburg at 9 O'Clock. Hats
Of golden hue We're conspicuous among
the crowd of thousand there, and a
number of people wore punches of gOl-
den rod.
Mr.. Bryan asked how many in the
crowd believed the gold standard was
good thing and up went a score or
more of hands. quite a number" he
added. Now. | want you people who
raise up your hands to tell me why did
not the Republican party pledge itself
to get rid of the gold standard and
substitute bimetalllsm as soon as for
eign nations will help us to do it," CThis
caused loud cheering)
Now, you men who held up your
hands and said you thought gold
standard Is good thing, if the Repub-
lican party thought SO, why did not it
have the courage to say so and not de-
clare that bimetallsm is better than
the gold standard? Cheers followed
by query).
A dozen or two held up their hands
and said the gold standard Is good
thing.
Now. hold up some gold, some of
you. who said the gold standard was
good thing. Cheers of wild char
acter). Let me see your gold.' Up
went hand, and in it was a gold coin.
Mr.. Bryan nodded and said one man
out of those not exceeding two dozen
who held up their hands had gold.
1T is not even 16 to |, my friends. Cap
plause and laughter). You take 16
men who believe in a gold standard
and there will be not more than one of
them that has any gold, the standard
that he said was good. We want
standard that furnishes the kind of
money we want. We do not want to
praise one kind of money and never get
a chance to see it. We do not want
money so scarce that few financiers can
corner that money and then dole it out
at such a price as they WILL A few
men can corner it at any time. Mr.. Nc
Kinley said five years ago that when
you discriminate against silver you
make money the master, and all things
else the servants. Those who want
money to be the master can vote for
the Republican ticket and all the rest
! of you can join with us to restore the
gold and silver coinage of the constitu-
ton" Great cheering).
All along the route to Indianapolis
the demonstrations We're repeated. At
Seymour four or five thousand people
heard Mr.. Bryan, thrOng between
5000 and 10000 was at Columbus. Edin-
burg turned out 5000 and Franklin
nearly, II not quite, 5000. Indianapolis
was reached at lis and Mr.. Bryan was
given hearty reception along the
streets through which he passed to the
Grand hotel.
SPEECH AT SEYMOUR.
Indianapolis, Oct. 6.-In the course OF
his speech to the crowd at Seymour.
Mr.. Bryan said
The vote from the west has usually been
Republican. This year the people out
! west are solid on the money question and
no one doubts what the result is going to
| be there. (Cheers). | want to call Your
attention here in Indiana to portion of
| a message sent to congress by Mr.. Harri-
son when he was president In 1890. Let
me read you what he says about the effect
Of legislation Sis on silver st You VIII
Of the sherman law. 1t was signed by
| President Harrison. and after It's passage
the price of silver rose to sl.2l per ounce
On the tirst OF December of that year.
President Harrison sent his message to
congress and In that message you will
| find these words:
1.-THE enlargement of our currency by
| the silver undoubtedly gave an upward
| tendency to trade and had a marked er-
| feet on prices. but this natural and desired
effect Of the silver legislation was by
many enormously attributed to the tariff
| act"
My friends, principles do not change with
each passing year and u truth spoken six
years ago remains the truth, although the
man who spoke 1t may be sorry that he
ever spoke the truth and may be deter
mined never TO do SO again. (Cheers).
ATTENTION TO BYNUM.
AT Columbus. among other things,
Mr.. Bryan said:
| You will remember that there was once
| u member of congress from this state
named William l.. Bynum. Let me read
to you what Mr.. Bynum said IN regard to
| the gold standard in 1886. l quote from
| the Congressional Record:
ut ls because of the shrinkage of values
| as well as the detriment to labor that /
raise my voice and utter u protest against
a crusade which has been In the past so
persistently waged in the flat money in
| terests."
My friends. we still wage this warfare
against the money interests, although Mr.
! Bynum has gone to the other side
tCheers) The people Of the west are In
| debt their farms, their homes, and in
| many instances their beds are mortgaged
They have been paying an exorbitant In
| tersst to the east until they are impovep-
ished. The prices Of their product have