Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-09-25


have seen II elsewhere, but. my friends,
the great mass OF the people. even OF
this city. will be better of under bimetal-
lsm, that permits the nation to grow.
than under the gold standard. which
starves everybody except the money
changers and the money-owners. Great
applause)
INSURANCE COMPANIES
1--WE sometimes out West are instructed
by your insurance companies. ] carry in
surance In old-line companies and In what
are known as the mutual and assessment
companies. ! carry insurance in frater-
nal orders. like the United Workmen and
the Modern Woodmen (applause). as well
as i'm the old-line companies. and i am
grateful that my assessment companies
are satisfied to take my money and give
me insurance without attempting 10 sell
me how j must vote. Your old-line COM
panies have seen fit to insult the intelii-
gence Of the people by attempting to ex-
ercise a guardian care. while we are aole
to look after ourselves without their IN
struction.
"You have laboring men also In large
numbers I'm this city. | do not know
whether the advocates OF the gold stand
ard who employ men In shops insist on
telling their employees how TO vote
have In other places seen employers put
in envelopes the pay fer the days work
or weeks work and then put on the out
side OF the envelopes some instructions 10
the employees. If the manufacture, III
the employer II the railroad president,
feels as II there must be something on the
outside Of the envelope as well as upon
the inside. let me suggest something
which the employer might put there. Let
him write on the outside: you VIII nna
within your wages They are TO cover
your work They are not to pay Tor your
vote Cries Of Good. Good!)
1--WE recognize that the men who have
sense enough to do the work we want
done have sense enough TO vote right
without our telling them how to vote
Applause) "
"SOUND-MONEY" SUBTERFUGE.
.I notice that i'm some places they have
been organizing sound-money clubs. and
they have the applicant sign statement,
saving that the free coinage Of silver
would hurt him in his business as a wage
Garner. 1 have wondered why our great
financial magnates did not put in their
application a statement similar to that.
why don't the heads Of these syndicates.
which have been bleeding the govern
ment. make application TO sound-money
clubs. and write i'm the application that
the free coinage of silver would hurt
them in their business as heads of syndi-
Gates? Applause)
"They want people to believe they are
entirely benevolent, that they are philan-
thropists. and that what they do Is done
merely because they believe that the peo-
pie will be benefited by having them run
the government. and they submit TO the
inconvenience OF running the government
i'm order 10 help the people, who. they
say. will be benefited. (More confusion
and applause by the students)
"Why Is 1t that the broker and the
bond buyer does not write in his applica-
tion that he has personal interest in the
gold standard? Why is II that these men
want TO throw upon the wage-earner
whatever odium there may be in using his
vote to protect his present interests?
believe the wage-earner and the farmer
and the businessman and the profess
sional man, all OF these. will be benefited
by a volume Of money sufficient TO do
business with.
'1f yoS make money scarce. you make
money dear. If you make money dear,
YOU drive down the value Of everything.
and when you have falling prices you
have hard times. And who prospers by
hard times? They are but few, and those
few are not willing 10 admit that they get
any benefit from hard times. No party
ever declared in its platform that II was
i'm favor Of hard times, and yet the party
that declares for gold standard In
substance declares for a continuation of
hard times"
QIere the band accompanying the First
Regiment National Guard. Of Connecu-
cut. which had been playing on the east
side Of the common, marched westward.
and very much nearer 10 the stand where
Mr. BRYAN was speaking so that IL was
impossible TO hear him more than a few
feet away from the front Of the platform.
The students. however. were not making
as much disturbance as they had been
formerly
Mr.. Bryan continued: at IS hard enough
10 talk when all the conditions are favor
able. and 7 must ask you 20. excuse me
from talking any further in the presence
Of the noises against which we have to
combat to-day"
RAILROAD D1SOBLIGINGNESS.
HARTFORD. CONN, September "a
Mr. Bryan's trip from New Haven TO
Hartford was without special incident
except for the development Of consider
able feeling over the disarrangement Of
the programme at Meriden. 1t had been
announced that the special car of the
Connecticut State Committee would be
shifted 10 a side-track there, and remain
over forty minutes. until the express, due
I'm Hartford at $50 arrived When Merl-
den was reached. however. at $40 the
officials Of the New York. New Haven
and Hartford road refused to allow the
car 70 be attached. Colonel Graves,
member of the Democratic State Central
Committee, and chairman OF the Hart
ford Reception Committee. explained TO
the delegation from Meriden who hal
boarded the train at Wallingford, that
the railroad officers based their declna-
tion OH the ground that the shifting pro-
cess might cause accident in the big
crowd expected at the Meriden station
Colonel Graves said he had applied for a
special engine. but the use OF this was
also refused, the officials claiming that
accident would be just as liable. and a
special schedule would cause confusion
in the train service, and make collision
possible. The Meriden committee ex-
pressed it's indignation forcibly, and the
comment was lively for awhile.
So MIR. Bryan reached Hartford ahead
of his schedule. The Meriden reception
was participated in by a great throng
several thousand strong. Mr. Bryan ap-
peared on the rear platform. and was
cheered. He had opportunity to say a
few words only. when the train moved
out, leaving the chagrined Meriden peo-
pie wondering what he meant by leaving
them so soon.
Short stops were made at Wallingford
where Mr. Bryan made few remarks
TO ain audience of several hundred, and
at Berlin, where quite a large crowd
chcerod him.
SPEECHES IN HARTFORD.
Mr.. Bryan ended his Connecticut tour
tonight by making two speeches in Hart
ford. Both meetings were held in the
open air the first in Capitol Park, and
To-, ofr In, ..ff la