The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-23
Mr.. BRYAN SPEAKS AT TIV0LI
OPENING OF HIS TWO WEEKS
CAMPAIGN.
His Audience Was Composed Almost
Entirely of Farmers, Who Came Miles
in Wagons to Hear and See the
Western Orator-Senator Stewart
Was Also One of the Speakers-Mr.
* Bryan's Mathis Very Large.
~ Bryan's Mathis Very Large.

Upper Red Hook. n. Y, August %
Mr.. Bryan spoke at Tivoli late this af.
weeks canvass on this side of the Missis-
sippi, and it was the first speech of i'm
portance that Mr.. Bryan has made since
the Madison Square Garden affair.
Mr.. Bryan's list of callers grows in
number every day, and this morning a
perfect stream of people kept coming and
going. His mail, too, has assumed tire.
mendous proportions. Mr.. Bryan kept
close to the house all morning and did
not leave for Tivoli until 2 o'clock. The
party drove over the five miles to the
meeting place Just outside of the vii
lage, the three wagon loads of people
were met by the Red Hook brass band
and escorted to the baseball grounds, just
opposite the Watts de Peyster Industrial
Home, where the people assembled. The
day, and the weather were perfect, as in
fact have been all the days that Mr..
Bryan has been up here. The audience
was composed of people from every part
of the county of Duchess, farmers COM
ing for miles with their families to see
and hear the Western Orator. A com
mittee, headed by Frank A. Ross, had
charge of the arrangements.
meeting and called it to order The
speakers announced were Senator
Stewart, of Nevada, Mr.. Bryan and the
Democratic candidate for Congress, Mr..
Lentse.
Mr.. Bryan thrust his hands into his
pockets of his black alpaca coat and
spoke at first in a colloquial tone, but
gradually advanced to an oratorical
pitch, and although the audience was
frigid in the beginning it warmed into
much enthusiasm, cheering the perora-
ton loudly and, after Senator Stewart
had concluded, fairly mobbed the plat
form to shake hands with the candidate
and his wife. Mr.. Bryan said:
"Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentle
men: When our party ut Chicago wrote
the platform which it did we knew that
it would offend some people. No party
can take plain, strong, emphatic posi-
ton upon any question without offending
somebody. We declared in that plat.
form what we believed was right; we de-
scribed the policies which we Beloved
were best for the American people, and
we knew that it would ALLEVIATE some
Let me read one of the planks of that
platform:
1--WE are opposed to issuing interest
bearing bonds of the United States in
time of peace and condemn the trafficing
of..the banking syndicates, which, in eX-
change for bonds, and at an enormous
profit to themselves, supply the Federal
Treasury with gold to maintain the policy
of gold recommendation.
THAT is one of the planks That was
not put in there to attract the love of
those who have grown rich out of the
Governments eXtremties. (Applause.)
We did not expect those who have pas
sageway from the Federal Treasury to
their office to join with us in closing up
the passageway. We did not expect those
who are making profit out of the gold
standard and out of the embarrassment
it brings to the Treasury; we did not ex-
pect them to join with us in putting an
end to the gold standard. Why, if he had
expected it, we would have expected in
the face of all the history of the past Do
you remember the good book states that
some 800 years ago man named
Demetrius complained of the preaching of
the gospel. Why? Why, he said it de-
stroyed the business in which he was en-.
gagged. we are making images for the
worship of Diana, and these people say
that they be not God that are made with
hands. But Demetrius was much like
men who have lived since his day. When
he made up his mind that the preaching
of the gospel interfered with his business
he did not go out and say to the world:
Our business is being injured and we are
mad
''What did he say? He said: Great
is Diana of the Ephesians. (Applause)
1--WE have some to-day who are very
much like Demetrius. They know that
the restoration of bimetalism destroys
the business in which they have been
engaged. But when they make public
speeches they do not say that the Demo-
cratic party is wrong because it inter
feres with their business. What do they
say? They say: Great is sound money
Great is an honest dollar. (Applause).
81 say this platform was not written
to attract their votes. 1t was written
because we want to destroy the business
in which they are engaged. But my
friends, if those who have made a profit
out of the Governments financial policy
array themselves against the Democratic
party, may we not expect those who be-
lieve that we are right to come to our
rescue and fill up the ranks that are be-
ing depleted by their desertion. Gap
plause.) If we must part company with
those who believe in government of
syndicates by syndicates, may we not APP
peal with confidence TO those who believe
that government of the people, by the
people and for the people, should not
perish from the earth. (Applanse). If
these men who pride themselves uDon