The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-10-10
FROM IOWA INTO
SOUTH DAKOTA
The POpOcratic Candidate Swings Rapid,
Round the Circle.
STILL THRESRlNG OVER OLD STRAW
Charges His Opponents with Evasion
and lntimates That He Is the Only
Politician Of the Period Brave
Enough to Call a Spade n Spade.

Sioux City, Iowa, oct. ct was rain
ing hard. "A chill, cold rain, when Will
liam j. Eryan reached here after an all
nights run on the Northwestern road
from MarShalltown, at 1O.20 o'clock this
morning. He was escorted To the big
train shed of the Union passenger sta
tion and mounted on a truck addressed
an audience of several thousand hud-
died together there. After an intro
duciion by Judge Van Wagen, II candi-
date for congress in the Eleventh Iowa
district, Mr.. Bryan said:
If our opponents are right in the decia-
ration that the gold standard ought to be
maintainod in this country until foreign
nations consent TO its abandonment then,
my friends, the election of an advocate
of free coinage would he an injury TO the
country. If, on the other hand, we are
right in our contention that there can he
no permanent relief until We have re-
stored silver to its ancient place and per-
mtted 1t TO enter the mints on equal terms
with gold, | say if We are right, then the
maintenance of the gold standard is a
lCheers).
CHARGES EVASION.
In the discussion of u great question like
this there are several things which throw
light upon the controversy 1T you go
into court and lind u witness who Is will
gives his testimony without evasion, you
believe that he is an honest witness If
on the other hand you find IA witness who
deals in ambiguous phrases. who attempts
To rNadc questions and who attempts to
cover mp his ideas with words of a double
meaning, YOU doubt the honesty and sin
crrty of the witness. SO, in controversy
like this. when our people who advocate
free coinage openly declare what they
want. why they want ii and how they eX-
pcct to get it: when they give you rea-
sons for their faith, you have a right to
have confidence in the honesty of their
purpose. But when our opponents try to
secure gold standard without daring to
advocate ii, when they talk abut sound
money, when they mean gold, when they
talk about an honest dollar, when they
mean the most dishonest dollar there is
in the land today Ccheers), you have "A
right to question their sincerity My
friends men who have n cause in which
they believe are not ashamed to state
Republican banners that deceptive phrase
sound money" you have a right to be-
licve that the men who use the term use
II because they are not willing to tell the
American people what they mean by
sound money. (thecrs).
At the conclusion of his speech Mr..
Bryan returned to his train and left
over the Chicago and Northwestern for
Sioux Falls, S. D.
IN SOUTH DAKOTA.
Sioux Falls, s. D., Oct. 9.-Elk Point
was the first place where the Bryan
special stopped after it crossed the Mis-
souri, from Iowa into South Dakota. and
the crowd that had braVed the rain to
see the candidate heard him make a lit
tie speech
Eol will see men who handle money and
own money and change money, who are
anxious for money to rise in value, he said,
you see men who handle corn and raise
corn who are anxious to have corn rise in
value. The people who raise crn have a
right to protect themselves and to pre-
vent AN additional fall in the price of corn.
The more nations there are which de-
mand gold, the greater will be the difficulty
TO get it and the more of our corn will IL
buy. If your taxes would fail, If your
might be able to get along easier. ! be.
lievc the time has come when the far
lnor Is called upon to defend himself and
his family and his people around him by
the use of the ballot
Back into Iowa again and another
speech was given the people at Haw-
arden, where great enthusiasm was
shown The suggestive name Of Can
ton was that of the next stopping
point. Canton is in South Dakota
Major Mckinley had friends there
some of them wearing hats of golden
hue and few shouted for the Repuh-
lican candidate, when Mr.. Bryan con-
cluded his remarks.