Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-10-08
Bryan Surprises the Country by
Turning up at the Bur|ing-
ton, Iowa, Celebration.
SAFETY FOR ARMENIANS
A Destructive Conflagrati0n In
Ecuador Has Rendered 30,-
900 Persons Homeless.
SOME DISASTERS AT SEA

Inc concluding ceremonies tO-uay o.
Burlington's celebration, semi-centen
nial, had VIM. j. Bryan as their princi
pal attraction. Mr.. Bryan arrived
from Chicago at O'Clock a. m. Al
O'Clock MIR. Bryan was escorted to
the court house where he held shorl
reception. A parade escorted the can.
didate through the principal streets to
the Coliseum in Crapo park. Here be
delivered his personal address to an
immense crowd of people. Several
other stands had been erected in the
park and from these Mr.. Bryan and
others made short speeches.
At the Coliseum, Mr.. Bryan said in
part: ssFor the first time in the histo-
ry OF the United States, a party ap-
pears which declares that gold stand
ard must be maintained in this country
until foreign nations JOIN US, or permit
us, to abandon it. Never before have
the American people been asked to de-
clare in favor of gold standard.
Every step the gold standard has taken,
heretofore, has been taken in the dark,
without the consent of the American
people. Now, for the first time, advo.
Gates of gold ask the American people
to endorse the gold standard at the
ballot box. l stand upon platform
yes, stand upon three platforms,
which agree en- one thing--that Is,
that the gold standard ought to be
driven out of the United States; that
in Its place ought to be substituted the
free and unlimited coinage OF gold and
silver at the present legal ratio of 16 to
1, without waiting for aid or consent
of any other nation. Prolonged ap-
plause]. Our platform has driven
from us some who have acted with US
IN the past. | come to-day to submit
for your consideration some reasons
why republicans should join with US
upon the platform we have adopted.
Populists have already joined with US.
! will say joined with US, SO they may
say that we joined with them, but
care not how you express it, so we
are together now. [Great applause.
In 1890 Mr.. Mckinley said But ali
agree that we must have larger vol
ume Of money---that added volume
shall be silver or it's equal, based on
silver
cat that time, we were putting into
circulation about 1924, 100000 a year,
under the Bland act, and Mr.. McKin-
ley advocated the Sherman act, on the
ground that it would increase the
amount of money to be put in cIroula-
tion among the people. That was
Mckinley of 1890. Let me read you
the Mckinley of 1896: 1T is not more
money we want. What we want is to
put all the money we have already at
work In 1890, when he advocated
more money, we already had added
1924, 100000 to the circulation, each
year. This year, we have no such
provision. We have repealed the
Sherman law and the Bland act. Mr..
Mckinley said, in 1891, that Mr.. Cleve-
land had been discriminating against
silver and had been trying to
degrade it--had been trying to contract
the currency, and that by lessening the
currency, he made money dearer by
making it scarcer and making money
the master and all things else the SER
want. Ifit was wrong for MFR. Cleve-
land to make money dear by making it
scarcer and money master and all
things else servants, is it right for Mr.
Mckinley to try to make money the
master and ali things else servantsp
rApplause and cries of "No" ""No" -
'We can support every contention
we make by quoting republican au-
thorities; therefore. republicans who
come to US in this campaign, do not
change their convictions, they simply
change their party name, when their
party has abandoned the position 1t
used to occupy and now demands that
you shall surrender the convictions of
life-tlme." [Great applause and cheer
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