The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-10-07
''Most COwardIy and Preacher
Gus of All Metals"
IDOL OF THE MISER.'
Bryan Addresses Three Big
Meetings At indianapolis.
One Is Almost as Large as That
In Boston.

ceived during his entire trip.
He made five speeches here, two in
the afternoon and three last night. and
at each meeting he addressed immense
audiences. one Of which was nearly as
large as that addressed by him on Bos-
ton Common. the largest OF the cam
paign.
The Bryan party arrived at Indian
apolis at 1915 O'Clock and was received
at the station with great enthusiasm
from the many thousands gathered
about the station. He was taken i'm
mediately to the Grand hotel, and the
parade from the depot to the hotel was
a continual ovation to the candidate.
The Cleveland club, in Prince Albert
coats and silk hats; the Indianapolis
Republican Silver club and the Gray
club acted as escorts. and the parade
passed through streets lined with PEG
pie, the principal thOrOughfares being
SO crowded that the sidewalks were
rOped off in order to keep the crowds
from pressing upon the carriages
After dinner Mr.. Bryan addressed the
largest crowd Of the day at the state
house. Every inch of available stand
ing room was taken. The park in
front OF the state house was packed
with humanity, the streets on every
side We're crowded and people were
gathered in the windows of the build
ings across the street. in order to see
the candidate, even if they could not
hear him Probably less than one
fourth of the audience heard his speech
but those who We're able to get within
sound of his voice were enthusiastic to
It would be impossible to estimate
the crowd 50 great was it. MT Bryan
began talking at BIB o'clock and made
a half hours speech.
After the nominee had concluded his
remarks at the state house he was
taken to TomlinsOn hall, where he
spoke to as many people as could be
got into the street in front or the Dai-
cOny where he stood. This meeting was
also enthusiastic, and often during his
speech the candidate was stopped by
the demonstrations of approval
Last night he spoke to three more au-
diences, one to the Commercial Travel
ers' association in the Grand hotel and
one from platform outside the court
house. and one in Tomlinson hall me
speech inside the hall was to the labor
ing men of indianapolis, and his re-
marks were applauded to the echo.
Mr. Bryan opened his state house
speech with an eloquent tribute to the
memory OF the late Thomas A. Hen
bricks whom he spoke of as a citizen
OF Indianapolis and one Of the great
defenders Of simon pure Democracy
The nominee then said.
This city enjoys the unique distinc-
ton Of being the birth place and death
bed of a sO-called party. My friends
know that I am not Obeying the Bible
dead when 1 speak of this sO-called
Democratic party. I speak Of it as
would not speak OF any DOla noe or
ganizatiOn Of men but this party oc-
cupfes a peculiar place in history. 1t
calls itself the National Democratic
party when IL does not expect to carry
a single county in the whole nation II
called itself q Democratic party when
it was organized for the express pur-
pose of electing a Republican candidate
for president. If It were big enough to
justify the name I would call 1t a stu
pendOus fraud It was the first pOliti-
cal convention ever held in this coun-
try where the members of the cOnven-
ton nominated a ticket that they did
not expect to vote for and the first
place where men have received a nOui-
nation and don't want to be voted for.
The minority plank in the Chicago
platform opposed free coinage on the
ground that it would interfere with in
ternational bimetaliism toward which
according to the minority plank the ef-
forts of this government should be
steadily directed and then when they
failed to secure the adoption of that
plank they assembled in convention
here and forgot all about international
evidence of intended deception than is
found in the fact that the minority at
Chicago when they had things all their
own way repud1ated the planks they
stood on there and came out in favor Of
a gold standard instead of international
bimetalHsm."
The nominee continued in his denun-
citation of the Indianapolis convention
until he was Interrupted by a voice
shouting give it to Bynum" The cry
was repeated and Mr.. Bryan said:
If you want to know what he said
about the gold standard, let me read
from his speech in favor of silver in
1886 Again the advocates of gold APP
prOach US with open hands and smiling
countenance. but I fear with a dag
ger concealed beneath their coats
My friends, he understood the ma
ture of the animal before he began to
operate with it, He is right in his de-
scriptiOn- The gold standard never
fought an open fght-It carries the knife
of the assassin and does it's work be-
hind the mask of q burglar. 1t is not
an open enemy, never was and never
viii be. Now see how well he under
stood them He said: oh they say we
want silver, we are bimetailists, but we
want an honest dollar. Suspend coin /
age and we will drive England, Ger /
many and other nations to bimetallism /
and then the price of silver bullion will /
appreciate and our dollars will be worth /
an hundred cents
That is what he said in 1886 Nv /
friends, instead of saying now that we /
will adopt bimetallism and drive other |
atoms to it. he says that we viii stand |
by the gold standard and all other ma /
lions to drive US away from 1t. ! might /
also quote to you what Mr.. Bynum /
quoted in that speech from Mr.. ingalls,. /
Now note the language quoted from /
Senator ingalls,;
No enduring fabric of national /
prosperity can be builded on gold. Gold !
is the money Of monarchs. Kings covet /
it; the exchanges Of nations are effect /
ed by it; its tendency is to accumulate /
in vast masses in the commercial cen
tiers and to move from kingdom to king |
dom in such volumes as to unsettie /
values and stir up the finances of the |
world It is the instrument of gam I
blers and spectators and the idol of /
the miser and the thief. Being the OBJ |
iect of so much alteration, 1t becomes /
naughty. No people in a great emer- [