The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-09-17

with the teachings of the fathers of the
democratic party, and when men tell you
they are standing by true democracy and
yet off of the Chicago platform you can
tell them they are trying TO galvanize
republican principles with II democratic
name. Great applausc) We have
made the money question the paramount
| Issue Of tie campaign. No, we did not
make it 50: II take back those words
| We have simply recognized what others
| have made. Cries of that's right We
| have declared war upon the gold stan
dard. We not only dCnounce it MS a
system injurious to the American people,
! but we dCnOuncc the gold standard and
those who advocate it as people who
| have never fought an open battle in all
their lives; never has gold taken step
| in the daytime. Its progress has been
made under cover Of darkness and today
| those who are seeking to fastcn the gold
standard upon the American people. in
stead of doing it openly and boldly, are
doing it under the prctcnse that they
are waiting for international bmetalliSm.
| (Applausc)
in this campaign either the republi-
can ticket will be successful or the ticket
nominated mt Chicago will be successful.
| Every electoral vote cast by every state
will be cast for one of those tickets. The
republican platform declares III favor of
| international bimetallism, and when it
| does so it confcsses that the gold stan
dnrd is not II good thing. And yet,
after cOnlcSsing that, after declaring
! that the republican party tells the Amcri-
| can people that they must maintain Il
gold standard until foreign nations help
us to get rid of it. (Applause2 The
democratic platform presents different
doctrines. The democratic platform de-
clarcs in favor of the immediate aban-
donmcnt of the gold standard. The dem
ocratic platform declares i'll favor of the
immediate restoration of the free and
the present legal ratio of 16 to |, with
out waiting for the aid or consent of any
other nation wild cheering and APP
plausc.) One of these doctrines will
prevail and it is for you, in your capacity
as voters. to assist in the determination
of the question which one of these poll
ces shall prevail Our opponents pre-
sent no financial system; we state what
we want and how we expect to get it
plausc) We ask for silver simply the
same privileges which gold has. We
want the free coinage of silver; we now
have the free coinage of gold. We want
unlimited coinage of silver; we now have
the unlimited coinage of gold. We want
silver coined into dollars of the same size
we now have. They tell you we want
to make 5O-cent dollars of the dollars
we now use. Now, my friends, you try
and buy one of them for 80 cents and
see whether those advocates of sound
money will sell their dollars for less than
100 cents. (Applausc)
1--WE not only desire our silver dollar
to maintain its present weight and fine
ness, but we want to have more of those
ouncn of silver in nil thc world but what
con come hero and 90 to our minis and
Income money 70 he uscd among orr pco-
nIe We nrc NOT afraid that we will
hovo foo much money If those who
have hoen in tho habit of having TOO
mich money vote against us. / am
willing 10 have the votes of those who
have NOT nnouph money. NV friends"
(Applause and laughter
Mr. BRYAN thcn told the audience he
mad to address n second meeting. and the
moIice cleared n wov through the crowd.
and with thc militia marching with
Gxoi haronnts in Front If tbp nominro,
hn ,,,oS condnctoJ +o thc stand where he
u,os 70 doiiver his second address. Here
onotbor ovation was nnid him MS he
ninmntad Tho niatfnrm Every man.
Woman and child in the crowd wanted
70 shni,o hands with him hut Inv This
limo his r;~bt hand was sore and
swnlIen and he begged them TO dcsist,
In said in mart:
Ladies and Gentlcmcn-I believe that
NV cbnnces for success are rood. pro-
Who'd that 7 live till election day.
II anobtn,. and annl,usrl The greatest
i hnin% lil,n 1l Inv ny tindnoss I find that
nvnrS nIncn 7 90 they are selections about
NV ionith and thnv tell mo that MS long
rs 7 stoy in their town not to sneak to
nnvhodv else hocouse | can't stand it.
f ,anGhiorl Peonle wake me IN in the
mornin~ r. toll me how TO get more
sleen and soneczc nv hand until it is
sore while admonishinr me not TO shake
hands with people because they know
~" man ann stand if Toughterl
~ hnlinvn that we shall succeed. be-
couso I hoIieve that the Chicago plntform
what is hest for the ncople.
i"Tborn is No reason why our ticket