The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-10-14
GIFTS OF SILVER.
Bryan Presented With Silver
PenhOlder and Inkstand.
Labor Orders at Duluth Give
Them to Him.
TO SIGN SILVER BILL.
Bryan Is Gratified to Have Sup
port of Labor.
Prefers Their Support to
Trusts and Syndicates.
10 SIGN SILVER BILL.

Duluth, Mimi. Oct. 1.-THE private
car 'Idler" bearing William J. Bryan
and his party rolled into the Northern
Pacific station in this city shortly after
6 clock and the candidate made two
speeches here last night. Yesterdays
campaigning tour had covered the route
from Minneapolis to Duluth and at
every station of any size Mr.. Bryan
spoke to gOOdly crowds. Upon his ar
ceptiOn committee and with Mrs Bry-
an was escorted to the St Louis hotel
for dinner. He was then driven to the
Lyceum theater where he addressed an
enthusiastic meeting of women. Then
he went to the car barn which was
packed to the utmost.
Here ne was presented by the labor
organizations with q silver pen for the
signing of a silver bill should he be
elected, and an elegant silver inkstand.
In the Lyceum speech, he told the wO-
men that dollar could not be cOmpar-
ed to a yard stick as claimed by the
supporters of the gold standard and in
the ten minutes during which he spoke
devoted himself almost entirely to the
discussion Of the yard stick proposition
along the same lines pursued by him
many times before.
AT the meeting in the car barn he
spoke at some length upon the fusion
feature of the campaign declaring that
the people had laid aside minor diff
ferences and Joined in patriotic effort
to effect one great purpose He also
paid warm tribute to John Lind, the
fusion candidate for governor and spoke
Of Congressman Chas. A. TOWne as one
Of the great statesmen of the day. He
pleaded the necessity for the election
Of q congress favorable to free silver
legislation 50 that a free silver bin
might be presented for the signature of
the next president.
Mr. Bryan said. IT desire to thank
organized labor in this city for having
now prepared to sign that bill when
ever it reaches me. Whether it does
Will depend on the people The golden
Pen and the silver holder and the ink
presented tonight shall be preserved
and il by the suffrage of my country
men 1 am placed in that highest Office
within the gift of the people of all this
world. these things shall be used for the
purpose for which they We're intended
and I shall be glad that when the deed
is done viii be indebted not to f1nan-
clers, not to trusts, not to corporations.
not to syndicates, but to the Iaboring
men for the equipment"
Continuing, MIR. Bryan said he was
glad TO have the support of the labor
ing men ana added; Because if am
elected by the people, all they viii ask
OF me is to DO my duty to my country
and protect every citizen in the en-
joyment Of equal rights and privileges
If I were elected by the aid of the
trusts and aggregations of wealth.
when they had elected me they would
expect me to employ all my time in
aiding them to get back out of the peO-
pie more than they had contributed to
elect me president"
MI Bryan's party left here last night
at 11.40 over the South Shore railroad
under charge of the Michigan delega-
ton en- route for the lower peninsula of
Michigan
At Brainard. before reaching Duluth,
Mr. Bryan spoke from a stand to
large and enthusiastic crowd He said
in part.
Ladies and Gentlemen:-I do not
know what arguments are most famil-
larly advanced here against free coin
age / was going to say coercion was
the argument that is being resorted to
now by our opponents more than any
heart to criticise the man who wears
the Republican badge under compul-
sion. These are hard times and
they VIII be harder than this if the gold
standard continues. and it is no Won
der a man who has a job does not like
to risk having his Job taken away from
him because he insists on being an
American citizen, but I do rejoice that
the laboring men of this country We're
Instrumental in getting an Australian
ballot to protect them in just such a
crisis as we are passing through
The secret ballot where a. man votes
as he wants to and not as somebody
else wants him to- the Australian bal
lot is the protection Of the American
workingrnan and tyranny waits outside
while he goes in to vote. Some one has
said a man wears the Republican
badge to save his employment and
votes for free silver to make his job
worth saving"