The herald., 1896-10-28
ALONG THE ROUTE.
Bryan Breaks Records at Making
Speeches and Votes.

BLOOMINGTON. ILL.,, Oct. 27.-Bryan
will make the last week of the campaign
record breaker Shortly after o'clock
this morning he was talking to people at
Lincoln, ILL., At 9 o'clock the people at
Bloomington were listening to him. AT
Lincoln, when the special car was side
tracked shortly after o'clock this morn
ing, a crowd of admirers around the
nominee disturbed his rest, demanding
a speech. He spoke later to several
thousand In the public square. He said:
A week from today the American peo-
pie are to decide the financial policy
of this nation for at least four years.
ard possibly longer. When our op-
ponents fail In everything else, they
commence to make gloomy predictions
of what will happen If we have free
coinage of silver. You know, whenever
we complained of existing conditions
they called us calamity howlers; but,
my friends. the worst of those who have
complained of conditions as they are
were speaking words of praise, COM
cared with the language used by our
opponents when they begin to tell what
Is going to happen if the free coinage of
silver comes. One of fthe-most frequent
prophecies which they make is that a
panic will come from the moment we
have free coinage of silver; that all peo-
pie who have money will lock it up, and
all people who have mortgages will fore
close, and that there is going to be a
period of ruin here-and their language
fails to express their ideas on the sub
innt CT, e-fo
picture.
l want to show you that the free COIN
age Of silver, instead of bringing pan
ic, will stop the panic the people have
been suffering from for years. Business
failures have been increasing and hard
times becoming harder. That is what Il
panic means We are in the midst of a
panic now, and there is no way out Of a
panic until we stop falling prices, and
there is no way to stop falling prices
until we increase the volume of money
which measures prices. Now, there is
one safe principle to go on, and that
principle is that people are not going
to do anything injurious to themselves
If they know it. You can count on self
ish interests always, and when you tell
me that men will hoard money under
free coinage, I tell you know they will
not hoard money, because people never
hoard money when money is falling in
value. They do not hoard wheat when
wheat is going down. You will find that
when the price begins to fall they begin
to get rid of the thing falling in price,
and under free coinage there will be
larger amount of money brought into
circulation, and people understand that
that means the purchasing price of dol
lars will fall, and when that commences
the man who owns a dollar will be try
ing to get rid of the dollar and get hold
of something which is rising in it's pur-
chasing power.
The workingmen Of Bloomington
gave Bryan cordial reception From
stand in Franklin park he talked to sew
eral thousand. After being introduced
by Vice President Stephenson he paid
that gentleman compliment for being
still true to the traditions of his party.
He then proceeded to answer questions
propounded to him by morning paper,
and his answers apparently satisfied the
crowd.
~ApcNs siAS p1iiu StdHu III Tile
square at Pontiac were gathered thou
sands of people to hear Mr.. Bryan when
he arrived there at 1885 today.
Sandwiched among the badges of
white We're many of the colored, denot-
ing that the wearers did not endorse Mr..
Bryan's theory of finance. Nearly ev-
cry sentence of Mr.. Bryan's address was
punctuated with applause. The argu-
| ments were of the same general char
acter as those used by him daily.
The Democratic nominee also ad-
dressed the citizens of Dwight for five
minutes and speech was made at
Braidwood, where an immense audience
of miners cheered the candidate.
A half hour stop was made at Joliet,
and from directly behind the depot Mr..
Bryan addressed the believers in the
different standards. There were as
many gold badges there as had been
seen during the day. Mr.. Bryans speech
was devoted to discussion of the mon
ey question as it applied particularly to
the working classes. The incident in the
address was when an excited individual
queried: What's the matter with Han
2" to which Mr.. Bryan laughlngly re-