Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-10-15
DIDN'T WAIT TO "WASH. UP"
The Sight Inspired Mr.. Bryan to Pay High
Tribute to Labor.
GOOD FOR BANKS, HARD ON THE PEOPLE
Is the Present System of Financiering, He
Said-Incidents of His First Days
Campaigning of Four Among
the Woody Wolverines.

Waters Meet. Mich, Oct 14.--Candidate
Bryan's special train Travelled from Du-
luth through Minnesota and Wisconsin
all night and after laying for three hours
this morning on a siding near Saxon, re-
sumed the journey at o'clock. The train
consisted of four cars, one for baggage
and another for the train crew. the third
was for the use of the party of we'll
known Michigan people accompanying
Mr.. Bryan, and the last was the special
coach obtained for the candidates use
by the national committee. The train will
remain intact till Detroit is reached Sum
day.
The sun shone as bright and the wealth
er was as clear as yesterday. When the
train reached Ironwood, a lively little
town in the Michigan mining belt, at S45,
the candidate opened up his four days of
Michigan campaigning. People from the
surrounding country had driven in to join
the Ironwood folks in welcoming the head
of the Chicago ticket, and the congreg1-
tion in the square where Mr.. Bryan spoke
numbered at least 2500 A fifteen minute
speech was made by the candidate from
a temporary stand, and then the train
moved to Bessemer, where it arrived at
9:15. A crowd of about the same proper
tions as that a Ironwood was gathered
about the platform from which Mr.. Bryan
spoke He made one of his short talks
about free coinage, taking no new line of
argument. AT $40 the train pulled out
for Waters Meet.
1.-The national bank system is what we
are interested in here" shouted man in
the crowd of couple of hundred people
who had gathered on the platform at Wa
ters Meet to hear Mr.. Bryan. Waters
Meet is little railroad junction in the
midst of a wide expanse of burned and
otherwise denuded forest, and during the
Un min q RrUnn ~
deavored to answer the man whose inter-
est lay in the national banks:
"The difference between our plan and
the national bank plan is this" he said
1--WE have greenbacks out now, and these
greenbacks draw no interest and the gov
ernment pays none. When you retire
these greenbacks with an issue of bonds,
and then let the banks issue money on
the bonds, the banks will then draw from
the people of the country the interest
which the people now have. 1t is good for
the banks, but hard on the people"
The familiar sight of sixteen little girls
In white and one in yellow greeted the
democratic nominee at Iron River, and
the pretty miss who represented the gold
standard bore a banner inscribed '16 to
and prosperity"
About 300 people were at Iron River,
and Mckinley badges were pinned on a
goodly portion of them. The republican
contingent kept very quiet, however, and
Mr.. Bryan made no reference to their
presence. A little further down the road,
however, he did have something to say
about the supporters of his opponent.
The train took a little side jump from
Michigan into Wisconsin, and 1t was at
Florence, in the latter state, that the
comments of the candidate We're called
forth He had not finished his little talk
about the silver question when somebody
called for three cheers for Mckinley.
They were given with great vigor and
then a laugh went up from the crowd.
To- ~. Nv Erxrc
"to man cheering for Mr.. Mckinley,
but / only wish that man who thinks
that this country is not big enough to
attend to it's own business would put on
his hat so people would know who he
was. We have no right to complain II
man thinks more of foreign nations than
he does of America, but he ought not to
be ashamed to say So"
The half hour spent by Mr.. Bryan at
Iron Mountain had an additional interest
to both candidate and audience from the
fact that Mark A. Hanna has mining in
terests in the vicinity and is large ship
per of ore from that place. large num-
ber of miners in their working clothes
with candles projecting from their char
acteristic headgear lined the railroad
track as the train drew into the station.
Around the stand erected for Mr.. Bryan
accommodation, few feet from where
the train came to a standstill 1900 people
had assembled and Mr.. Bryan was cheer
ed as he ascended the stand with Mrs.
Bryan, D. G. Campau, Justin r. Whiting
and Timothy Tarsney. Mr.. Hanna's as
sociation with the little city brought no
direct reference from Mr.. Bryan, but In
the course of his remarks he said
you say it is a good thing for the la
boring man to be paid in dollars which
buy a great deal Remember that the
laboring man is interested more in get
ting chance to work than he Is inter-
ested in the pay that he gets when he
does work. The gold standard increases
the number of idle men and the idle man
is menace to every man who has en-
ployment and the laboring men under
stood that because the laboring men of
this country are demanding the opening
of our mints and the restoration of free
coinage at IS to ]. and l would rather
trust those IaboTing men to know what
is good for them than to trust the men
who have spent their lives trying to de-
stroy labor ganizations.
My friends the Bible tells us that
tree is known by it's fruits. These men
who stand at the head of the gold cru
sade are not new men in this country.
They have lived here. They are trees
which have been bearing fruit 10, these
many years, and If you Judge these men
by the fruit they have borne, you can
tell what fruit they will bear"
At 2:S0 the Bryan special reached Nor
way, another mining town In a short
speech from the rear of the train Mr.
Bryan made reference to those who have
tried to destroy labor organizations SINH
lar to that made at Iron Mountain.
The people of Powers, 400 of them,
heard the candidate deliver brief speech
which contained some new features
Il notice that the other day." he said,
"one OF the democrats who has left the
democratic party said that We are not
giving the liberty to the individual that
we ought to. that when we say that
man cannot contract for particular
kind of money we are taking away his
personal liberty. Ny friends, you have
usury laws. Those usury laws Interfere
with narsnpa1 fiharfv buf What hind ne