The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-10-22
IN THE ENEMY'S COUNTRY
BADGES GREETED BRYAN'S
GAZE IN MICHIGAN.
70 The WOMEN Of GRAND RAPIDS
He Delivers a Catchy Speech, Arraign
ing Carlisle and Others-Quotcd
Utterances Made by Carlisle
While in His "Boy Orator
Stage of Life.

Grand Rapids, Mich. Oct. 15.-Wil-
liam j. Bryan tonight addressed in this
| city one of the largest audiences he has
yet spoken to during the campaign. There
were three meetings arranged for, one
ut Campau square, one ut Powers opera
house. where he addressed the women
of Grand Rapids, and the other at Lock
erby hall. At the first meeting he spoke
to Il crowd rs large as could wedge in
ut the junction of four streets, and il is
safe to say that not one-fourth of those
present could hear the free silver STAN
| dard bearer.
When Mr.. Bryan spoke to the ladies
in Powers opera house that place was
| filled with feminine humanity.
The last address of the evening that
in Lockerby hall. was delivered before
an audience. the size of which was linn
tied to the space inside the walls.
| The address made at Campau square
was a short one and in it there were no
new features.
While the speech to the women was
not the principal one in regard to size,
Mr.. Bryan made it of special interest in
his arraignment of republican leaders.
lie put Col. Robert q. lngersoll Murat
Halstead, President Benjamin Harrison
and Secretary Carlisle in the same cate
CORY as Stevenson's Jckyll and Hyde.
His denunciation of them was scathing
and bitter. 1t was as follows:
I'VE can not afford to engraft upon
the government bad system, even
from it, The best thing that parents
can leave to children is Il just govern
ment that robs nobody for anybody
else's benefit Now, in our discussion of
the money question, we can prove our
cause in many ways. We can apply
principles well known to this question,
and by the application of these prnci-
pies make the subject clear, but that is
not sufficient We can prove our cause
by authority, and there is not a position
which we take i'll this campaign that we
are not able to support by the authority
of the most eminent republicans in this
country. 1t Will be remembered Il few
years ago there was a great deal of talk
about II character-I do not know wheth-
or | ought to call it character or two
chara ctcrs-but it was DR.. Jekyll and
MIR. Hyde. You will remember that the
same person appeared at different times
i'll different characters. One time the
man was good man, benevolent, kindly
disposed ut another time the same per-
son was II mean man, william seeking
to take human life
"My friends, we have the character of
Jekyll and Hyde illustrated well when
we come TO discuss the silver question.
eft ia a I,,,p ,r
men who have been both Jekyl and
Hyde. We can cite Il number of men
who have been kindly disposed and in
terested in the public welfare at one
time and ut another time they have been
supporting Il system that means more
misery, according to Mr.. Carlisle, than
all the wars, pcstilcnces and famincs that
ever occurred.
Il want to call your attention to two
or three persons who have said one
thing ut one time and another thing ut
another time, to bring into the campaign
al the movable guns they have enlist
ed on their side and are sending out
out throughout the country II great many
pieces of artillery and one of the ablest
speakers they have sent out is Col.
lngcrsoll, who brings to this money ques-
ton his great ability as an orator. Mr..
lngcrsoll is now using his great weapon,
ridiculc, against silver. Let me show
what he once said on the other side of
the question, and, my friends he will
have to talk long time before he can
answer what he said ON our side of the
question and think it is fair for us TO
assume that we still have with MS all
those who have been unable to answer
themselves. Here is what he said in Il
speech made some years ago to the farm
crs and issued in pamphlet form by &.
$. Baldwin, 1S4 Madison street, Chi
cago. He says:
''For my part | do not ask any inter
ference on the part of the government
except to undo the wrong it has done. |
do not ask that money be made out of
nothing. | do not ask for the prosperity
born of paper but / do ask for the re- (
monct2aton of silver. Silver was de- |
monetzcd by fraud. 1t was an imposi-
ton on every solvent man, Il fraud upon !
every honest debtor in the United States. ,
1t assassinntes labor; il was done i'll the !
interest of avarice and greed and should .
be undonc by honest men. The farmer
should vote only for such men as are
willing to guard and advance the inter
csts of labor
MY friends. that is what he said when
he talked to the farmers some years ago
and what he said then was true. 1t
was true then and it is true now. The
silver of this nation was excluded from
the land by law that was never dis ,
ctsscd by mankind No one will claim /,
that the American people demanded the .
decentralization of silver, and yet, my
friends, that law. passed secretly and
in the dark, has been on the statute
books ever since. We have modified
it to some extent, but we have never
been able to undo it.
you will notice that one of the most ;
journalists of today, one
of the most eminent men in his profess
sion, Mr.. Murat Halstead. is doing all
he can to maintain the gold standard in |
this country. Let me read you what
he said on the 4th of October, 1877.
take this extract from letter of that
date from the New York Journal of Sat
urday, October 10. In that letter. nine
teen years ago. Mr.. Halstead said:
'This British gold policy was the :
work of experts only. Evasion was es- !
sential to succeed in it and possibly be.
cause coin was not in circulation and |
being out of public view, could be tam