Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-10-20
BRlAN'S PROGRESS.

DIN lam y | NUUNLOO.
The Candidate Made as Speeches
in Michigan Friday.
HEARD BY BIG CROWDS AT ALL POINTS
At Benton Harbor He Strongly Denounced
Money Lenders Who Attempt Intimi-
l. dation-Story of the Days
Journey.
Lansing, Mich, Oct. 17.-More than
300 miles of travel by a roundabout
route from Grand Rapids brought Will
liam j. Bryan to Lansing Friday night
to receive series of ovations greater
than at any single place at which he
stopped during the day, with the ex-
ception of Jackson. His journey lay
through the thickly populated portion
of Michigan's richest agricultural re-
gion, and when he said good night to
his third audience here the attendance
record of his campaign for single day
had been broken. He did not quite
reach his highest figure in the number
Of speeches delivered between his. ris-
Ing and retiring hours, but came within
two of it. On his trip from Chicago to
Pittsburgh in August, en- route to at
tend the Madison square notification
meeting in New York, he spoke 81 times.
Friday he added 25 speeches to his list.
They were delivered at Muskegon, Hol-
land, Fennville, Bangor, Hartford, Wa
tervliet, then to Ann Arbor, Niles,
Dowagiac, Decatur, Lawton, Ka!amn-
zoo, Battle Creek, Marshall, Albion,
jackson (two), Rives Junction, Leslie,
Mason, and then at Lansing. At near
ly every place where Mr.. Bryan's special
train stopped there were big crowds.
Fortunately the day passed without
serious accident. Once only did the
candidate have narrow escape from
physical injury. This was at Albion,
when the low platform from which
he was speaking gave way with crash,
sending the 40 or so people on 1t to the
ground. Mr.. Bryan lighted on his feet
and resumed his remarks from a bag
gage truck. The greatest crowds of
the day were at Lansing and Jackson,
with Kalamazoo and Battle Creek
worthy of notice in regard to attend
ance. Mr.. Bryan began the day at
Muskegon in splendid voice, but 1t be-
came husky before he reached Ian
sing. His speeches, as rule, con-
tanned nothing not used by him before,
except that he took occasion to criti-
else Chairman Lauterback, of the New
York county republican committee.
Coercing Money Lenders Denounced.
At Benton Harbor the text of Mr..
Bryan's speech was paragraph in a To-
cal paper quoting ga leading man of the
town" as saving:
If silver wins this fall 1t will be one
the farmers. I have had for over ten
years nearly $4,000 loaned In this country
to farmers. In many instances payments
have been met, but for few years have
been compelled to extend the time, and
! am willing to do so under our present
financial basis; but If silver wins this
fall will do what every other man will
do who has money out-demand immediate
PAYMENT admit may lose some of the
interest, but ! have at least three years
to save myself, and during that time 1
will close in on every mortgage have"
my friends" said Mr.. Bryan, 81 want
10 denounce the money lender who at
sempts to use his mortgages to intimidate
American citizens and say that that man
does not deserve to live in a land where
men are free and have right to liberty.
When you admit that 1t is necessary to 20
to the money lender and obtain his con-
sent before you can pass a law then you,
hav M a RI toe
racy and liberty as we have understood
1t has filed from this nation. want you
to understand that these men, knowing
that they cannot appeal to rea-
Bon, attempt to appeal to force
These men knowing that their
arguments do not appeal to judgment
attempt to appeal to the fears of men.
In this campaign, my friends, we have
arrayed against us every enemy of So
.iety and every man who seeks to make
slaves of those with whom he deals. /
am glad they are not on our side. am
glad have not the support of man
who intends to foreclose his mortgages
II men do not vote as he wants them
to. would rather remain a humble pri-
vate citizen than to hold the most ex-
allied office In this land If had to re-
ceive my commission from men who know
as little about the genius of our institu-
lions as the money lender whose language
have quoted. My friends. this clipping
was sent to me by man who had always
been a republican,; a man who owed
mortgage OF 600 on a farm which used
20 be worth $4,000. and who stated in his
letter that under the gold standard he
expected to have to give up his farm be-
cause under a gold standard farmers
cannot pay their mortgages and
simply have to lose what they
have invested and turn their land over
10 the man who loans his money and uses
his mortgage to intimidate American citi-
gems. / say l received this clipping from
Q republican, and, my friends. it is this
attempt of the moneyed aristocracy to
take away the right of the people to self
government that is driving those men
out of the republican party to join with us
In restoring the money Of the constitu-
tion and putting this government back in
The hands of the people where 1t belongs"
AT Kalamazoo.
AT kalamazoo 10000 people throngcd
Brunson park to hear Mr.. Bryan speak
and they expressed their partisan feel
ings up 10 the limit of their lung power.
Mr.. Bryan was introduced by Mr.. Todd,
the democratic candidate for congress
In that district, and in the course OF his
remarks took shot at Chairman Lau-
terbach, of the New York county re-
publican committee, saying:
1.-The republican party says that you
must submit to gold standard. not for
pne year nor for four years, but forever,
II foreign creditors say that you must
SO 1t. Against this policy i rebel, my
friends (cheers). Against surrendering the
right of self-eovernment, l enter my
earnest protest. am willing to submit
to any decision of the American people.
am not like prominent republican of
New York city, who said the people may