Omaha daily bee., 1896-11-01

other gathering in the tout a; the corner Of
Seventh street and First avenue.
These meetings were hardly the success
that had been expected and the crowd had
hardly yet gotten the sufficient amount OF
free silver enthusiasm aboard. one notice
able feature Of the crowds upon the streets
during the day was the great majority cf
the wearers OF yellow ribbons, the dilcr-
cnce being at least three to one,
All the afternoon the crowds began coming
on all the incoming trains and from the sur
rounding country In wagons. Their yclla,
firing OF shotguns. which many OF the farm
ors hai brought with them, mingled with
the blowing Of horns, kept constant dh
until nearly midnight, The parade In the
evening began to form in a promscuous
manner on Lower Main street In the neigh
borhood Of the Burlington depot. By
o'clock there was a dense seothing mass ot
humanity about the platform and for several
blocks up the street.
Bryan's train came in ten minutes early.
For about Ave minutes he was unable to get
! from the car and make his way to his car
| riage. The column was finally started and
! extended for several blocks. Missouri. Val
| leys delegation made a fine appearance with
torches they being the only ones that had
| any. The carriages OF Bryan and his party
| came after this division and were followed
| by a conglomerate mass, the formation OF
| a marching column being almost lost.
Mr. Bryan spoke at the opera house. The
bimetalliC headquarters, at the tent on Sew
| enth street and First avenue and in front
| of the Grand hotel on First avenue. He
was rather hoarse and showed the effects
| of the severe strain he has been under for
| the past two months. His reception at the
| meeting places was tumultuous and he was
| given one continued ovation. His speeches
| at the four meetings were practically the
| same, though he spoke at greatest length
| at the opera louse. He said
Mr.. Chairman. Ladies and Gentlemen: A
| person would hardly think to look into
! YOUR faces. that you were all lunatics.
| OaughterD And yet there are people who
| have an idea that the belief in the free
coinage of silver is a sort of lunaCy. But
when | find person who thinks we are
| lunatics ] find a person who cannot give a
very good reason for his belief in a gold
| standard When | find person who thinks
| that are all insane / find one of those
| persons who induges a great deal more In
| prophecy than he does in history and has
| more fear than logic in his argument. You
| ask one of them why he is opposed to free
| coinage Why, he says II would be awful
| If we had free coinage. You ask him what
| argument he has aga inst 1t or what harm
would come. Why, he says, II would he
| terrible and his awe ovcrcomes him and
| then he leaves you to your own wretched-
ness. (ApplauseD
My friends. this campaign has done one
thing, II has made the people study the
money question and there are more people
who understand the money question today,
more people who understand our financial
history, more people VINO understand the
principles which underie monetary science
than there ever were in this country before
and they are not all i'm the banks either
Cheors) In fact, the farmer is able to
hold his own with the fnancier i'm the dis
Cussion of the money question. | will give
you an illustration. A banker up in Michi-
gan called a farmer into his bank and said
to him: II have a mortgage on your farm
and If Mr. Bryan is elected shall foreclose
that mortgage"
The farmer said: "If Mr.. Mckinley is
| elected you can have the farm" Applause)
But" he said 'if Mr.. Bryan is elected
YOU cannot foreclose, because then my
pay the mortgage" Applause)
MAKES SOME COMPARISONS.
Now. my friends, which of these persons
know the best about the money question?
Tho financier tells you that II we have the
free coinage of silver we will have cheap
money and then he tells you that iC we
have free coinage he will forecose your
mortgage because you can't pay as well
with cheap money as you could with dear
money. CApplause) 1t will not do for him
to make both these arguments. one of
them has to be cancelled and If you will
take the pledges made by the advocates of
the gold standard you will find that they
they nave two Speakers at meeting one
of them will make statement and the
other will contradict it, but If they only
have one then one covers the whole ground
He both makes the statement and contra
diets 1t In one speech. ApplauseD Let
stance, he will tell you that gold is the
money of civilization He will go on to tell
you what gold has done and point out to
the horrible example of silver using coun-
tries and then after he has shown you
that the world has outgrown silver that
gold only is IT for money, he will go up
onto the republican platform and pledge you
that he will do all that he can to abandon
the gold standard and get the double stand
ard as soon as other nations will help us
They ought to take one position or thu.
0Ihert II the gold standard Is good thing,
pie. then we ought to keep 1t; and If il is
a bad thing; We ought to get rid of 1t. and
%oId we cant ride both horses together. If the
ternational bimetalllsm. The man who adj
yocates international bmetallsm condemn
different things. You cannot have mono
metailism and bimetallism at the same time,
and the man who advocates both does not
know anything about either. (Checrs1
longer than intended but this is such a
longer than I should. I simply came here here
in person that what you have heard about
my collapslng every night after | speak is
the enemy. Uaughter)
| do not want any vote in this campaign
Great .checring) ! realize the work that
lies before president who desires to re-
store this government to its old foundation.
! realize the work that lies before a prcsi-
dent who desires to administer a govern
ment according to the old motto of equal
rights to all and special privileges to none.
support him. 1t is impossible for him to
carry out this work unless the people do
support him, and therefore | say / want no
support unless it is voluntary support |
want your hearts to go with your votes and
If l have majority of the people behind
me- and IL they stand at my back, | will
promise you that no power in this country
or OF any foreign land will prevent the res
toration Of bimetal!ism. Great cheering)
Mr.. Bryan leaves tomorrow at $50 for
Lincoln, and Monday will make flying
trip through every congressional district in
the state of Nebraska.
NOT OPPOSED TO THE MUTUALS.
Attorney General Churchill Hns Not
CombRted FratcrnnI Insurance.
LINCOLN, Neb., Oct. 31.-(Special. )-The !
attack In typewritten circulars signed and |