The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-10-29
AT SPRINGFIELD.
The Sweet Singer of the Silver Party Had
Magnificent Demonstration.

The Sweet Singer of the Silver Party Had
n Magnificent Demonstration.
Springfield. Ills. Oct. 23.-The Capital
city of the state of Illinois welcomed the
democratic nominee with magnificent re-
cepton. Crowds that numbered up into
the tens of thousands listened to him and
noisily demonstrated their affection for
him and their belief in the principles that
he advocates. Mr.. Bryan delivered two
speeches in Springfield, one at the court
house and the other from the front OF
the state capitol From the platform
erected near the court house Mr.. Bryan
spoke as follows:
Ladies and Gentlemen-My friends,
we are reaching the close of remarkable
campaign, the most remarkable when
has been waged in this country within
the past generation. Greater issues are
mt stake today than have been presented
in recent contests. This election will de-
termne whether the influence of this.
the greatest nation on earth, shall be cast
upon the side of gold as the only standard
money. or upon the side of bimetallism.
On our votes may depend that contest
Free silver may triumph without the
vote of Illinois, but with the vote of Hi
nois free silver is certain to succeed. We
may have enough electoral votes outside
of Illinois, but we shall certainly have
enough if we secure the vote of this great
empire state of the west, and the electoral
vote of the state of Illinois may turn upon
the vote of single citizen. | want you
therefore, when you come to cast your
votes to remember what responsibility
rests upon the citizens this year.
My friends. bimetallism is necessary
for the prosperity of this country. Our
| opponents have been appealing to various
class interests; they have been trying to
array the laboring man against the farm
er. In this state you depend for your
prosperity on both the wage-earners and
the farmers. The great capital of your
state would have little to continue for if
the prosperity of the farmer and the
prosperity of the wage-earner were de-
strOyed. | want to warn the wage-earner
against the policy of our enemy. The enc
my desires to divide and conquer. Our
opponents have done all they could in the
| east to destroy labor organizations and
| to make the laboring man defenseless.
and now they try to use the labOring man
| to overcome the farmer and make him
helpless. | want the wage-earners to
remember that in all their contests. that
| in all their efforts to better their condi-
tons they have had to rely upon the Wall
! street tinancierS, not upon the trusts. and
syndicates and corporations, the labor
| ing man has found his best friends upon
the farms and upon the farms only. II
| you come to contest of endurance | want
| to warn you labOring men that the tarm.
er can stand the gold standard longer than
the laborng man can. applause and
| cheers.) You may continue your gold
standard until YOU fOreclOse your mort
gage on the farmers farm, but when that
mortgage is closed the man who buys il
| fnr hin,cnlf To will
want tenant, and the farmer can be
come tenant on the farm. When the
| farmer ceases to be Il home-owner he cal
| still live as tenant on the farm, and he
can make enough off the farm to feed his
family, and if necessary we can go bacl
to the old times and the wives and daugh
tiers will make the clothes for the hus
bands and sons. The farmer can burr
his corn for fuel when he can not bu!
coal, and the miner can not eat coal whel
he fails to buy wheat. (ApplauSe.)
say, my friends, that in contest of en-
durance the farmer will he the last t,
perish because he was the first when tn,
species of civilization began. But Their,
is no need for n test of endurance. TIL,
principles. the policies that are good TO
the farmer are good for the laboring MAJ
and they ought to stand up side by sid
and shoulder to shoulder in restoring thi
government to its old foundation, wher
it will give equal rights to all and Civ,
special privileges to none.
Il read pamphlet issued by n Buf
falo banker in which he declared tn
prosperity of the farmer and laborin
man depended upon the prosperity o
the business man. My friends, no MAJ
who believes in that proposition will eve
be able TO understand any economi
question. The laboring man and tn
farmer do not depend upon the bushes
man. The business man depends for hi
prosperity upon the prosperity of tn
farmer and the laboring man. Thos
who produce wealth are the foundation o
our social system, and until that wealth
is produced it can not be distributed
and unless the producers are prosperou
there can be no general prosperity.
want to caution the laboring man agains
another thing. You will find that on
opponents are fighting their battle unde
n false pretense. They not only refus
to elaborate financial system, but the,
use ambiguous phrases when they at
tempt to speak upon the money question
Go into their parades and you will fin,
such phrases as sound money and al
honest dollar whereas if they were n
honest as they want their money t.
be, they would use language that pee
pie would understand.
My friends, when l find a man VIII
always talks about honest money an,
then deals dishonesty with the people
| wonder how he can expect people t
trust his honesty in one direction whel
he admits his dishonesty in another
am afraid the goldbug is little Pete
Cartwright. Some one asked him if h
was sanctifed, and he said: Yes, il
spots. And so with our goldbug friends
their honesty seems to be in spots. The
talk about an honest dollar, and yet i
they had confidence in the plans whicl
they advocate they would take the Amer