The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-10-09
Which Mckinley Will You
Have? Asked Mr.. Bryan.
PASSAGE THROUGH IOWA
From Burlington's Gigantic
Coliseum TO Marshalltown.
BRYAN CHEERS DROWNED ALL
Parade of Thousands at Burlington.
1000 Horsemen, Women on Horse
back and IL Bands--Big Crowds
at MarshaIItown.

at MarSnailtoWns
burlington, Iowa, Oct. 8.-Wm. j.
BRYAN arrived in Burlington at 5;55
this morning. A local reception com
mittee of 200 escorted Mr.. Bryan to
the residence of John j. Seerley, coll
league of Mr.. Bryan in Congress, where
he breakfasted At 10 O'clock the pro-
cession started for Grape Park, where
the coliseum in which Mr.. Bryan spoke
is located The parade was an inn
posing one. 1t was headed by a
platoon of mounted police and then
came the Citizens Band, followed by
the carriage in which the nominee was
seated. Behind in regular order fol-
lowed an escort of women on horse
back. q cayalcade of horsemen and
eleven more bands, including the Iowa
State Band, sandwitched between yari-
Gus silver marching clubs. At ii
o'clock the first speech of the day
was in the Coliseum building, a gigan-
tic affair erected for the semi-centen
nial of Iowa's admission to the Union
of States. The crowd was limited to
the size of the building and was en-
thusiastic to a great degree. There
were several minutes of cheering and
applause on Mr.. Bryan's arrival, and
when lie SIstTIeu I'D speak dnOuiASI
great ovation was given him.
In the course of his speech Mr.. Bry-
an was interrupted by a man calling
for cheers for Mckinley. 1t was met
with Kisses and Mr.. Bryan said:
''My friends, i beg you to
refrain from any manifestations of
displeasure. | am glad to have that
man here who is in favor of my oppo-
nent. / only hope that there are many
such because it is to such persons that
I desire to express my remarks. Cheer
ing and applause.) My friend has de-
clared his preference for Mckinley. /
want to ask him which man he is for,
the Mckinley of 1890 or the Mckinley
of 1896? Iong cheering.)
''Let me read you what Mr.. McKin-
ley said in 1890 when he was advocat-
ing the Sherman law, which added to
the volume of the nations money. He
said in that speech: But all agree that
we must have larger volume of mon
sey and that the added volume shall be
silver or its equivalent based on sill
ver At that time we were putting
into circulation about S24, 200, 900 a year
under the Bland Act, and Mckinley
advocated the Sherman act on the
ground that it would increase the a.
mount of money to be put in cir~lla-
ton among the people. Let me read
you what he said then, We propose
to give to the country what gentlemen
upon the other side of the House
could not do, what they did not dare
to do for four years. We propose to
give TO the country a silver bill that
will take all of the silver, practically
OF the United States and make it avail
able for the use of the people,
Again he said: So Mr.. Speaker, this
bill Is just to the silver producers of the
United States for it does what the pre-
sent law, as demonstrated by every
administration for ten years has not
done. 1T takes every dollar of silver
bullion that is purchased in the United
States and places it at the disposal Of
the people as money
And again he said: Il will not vote
against this bill and thus deprive my
people and my country and the labor
ers and producers and the industries
of my country of $30,000,000 annually
of additional circulating medium
SIN 1890 Mr. Mckinley declared that
in the interests of his country in the
interest of laborers in the interest of
producers, of the industries he would
an additional increase of $30,000,0 900.
That was the 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 added $24,000,O00 to
the circulation each year. This year
we have no such provision. We have
repealed the Sherman law and Bland
act and making no provision to utilize
silver, no provision to add to the cur
rency by the increase in our SILVER
money, and yet when the currency is
decreasing and we have decreased the
money in circulation in the last two
years by $150,000,000 and yet when
money is decreasing instead of in
creaSing, the same Mr.. Mckinley who
wanted more money in 1890 tells you
now that it is not more money we
need, but to put the money we already
have at work. Which does my friend
favor? The Mckinley of 1890. who
wanted more money or the Mckinley
of 1896? Great applause and cries Of
"1890.")
More than that he said i'm 1891. in
a speech made at Toledo, Ohio, that
Mr.. Cleveland had been discriminating
against silver, had been trying to de-
grade it, had been trying to contract
the currency and that by lessening the
currency he made money dearer bv
making it scarcer, and making money
the master and all things else the SER
wants. If it was wrong for Mr.. Cleve-
land to make money dear by making
it scarce and money the master and
all the things else the servant, is it
right for Mckinley to try to make
money tha ma Star. and all thinoyS aIsa