The herald., 1896-08-26
FREE SILVER'S CANDIDATE
Recognized as the Champion Of the
Peoples Cause
The Voters In the Enemy's Country Are Get
ting Interested
The California Fusion Program Completed by
the Appointment Of . COMMITTEES
to Select the Congressional
Candidates

Associated Press Special Wire
NEW GRAND HOTEL, SUMMIT
MOUNTAINS, Aug. 25.-Mr. and Mrs.
Bryan arrived here at 1890. Along the
way people from boarding and farm
houses presented Mrs. Bryan with flow
ers.
AT KINGSTON.
HUDSON, N. Y, Aug. 25.-One Of the
most interesting episodes of the New
York tour was crowded into a brief
half hour at Kingston. From the spec
ial train the Bryan party was trans
ferred to carriages awaiting them at
the depot, with accessories Of cannon
and brass band clamoring a welcom-
ing salute, were escorted through the
streets past factories whose windows
framed the faces Of workingmen and
working girls, to the city hall. Not less
than 5000 people were packed upon the
green, many of them workingmen. Mr..
Bryan spoke to them from the steps of
the hall, where he stood under the fes-
tooned flags. He was introduced by
Hon. John D. Cummings. and the speech
which he delivered inspired cheer after
cheer for every striking point.
Mr.. Bryan said:
Ladies and gentlemen: I regret very
much that the time is so limited that
can speak but a moment. 1t Is not nee
essary, however, to occupy much of
your time because you will have an op-
portunity between now and election day
to inform yourselves on the issues uf
the campaign. cannot do much more
than to greet you today, and ask you
to make yourselves familiar with the
issues OF the campaign. You have been
kind enough to present us with a bou-
quet, and in the card 1t is stated that
the flowers are from the workingmen.
/ am glad to see this recognition from
the workingmen. (Great applause.)
When I want to speak to workingmen
do not go to their employers and ask
them to deliver the votes of those who
work for them. 1 have known employ
ers in the west who have tried to force
object lessons on their employees, ard
have used the Mexican dollar as an ar
gument
Whenever an employer tries to tell
you how to vote tell him the declaration
Of independence says that all men are
created equal before the law, and that
you are his equal before the law and you
cannot be bartered away. Great ap-
plause and cries of Hanna! Hanna!")
All are business men who by labor of
hand or mind contribute to the wealth
and greatness of this nation, and the
ballot is given to all that each may use
the ballot to express not what some one
else wants, but what he wants himself
We have had object lessons We have
had those that insisted that financial.
policy could not be made and carried
out in this country without the help Of
foreign nations.
My friends, have this proposition to
make: Over seventy millions of people
are able to have financial policy Of
their, own. and do not have to hire a
syndicate Of foreign or domestic cap
italists to run our government. They
tell us when we speak of the silver
question that the free and unlimited
coinage is a dangerous thing. We tell
them that we have suffered for twenty
years from their policy, and it does not
take very good policy to be better thar
theirs. (Great applause)
More than that, we give them this evil
dence Of sincerity. We tell them what
we want and how we are going to get
1t, but they dare not tell the American
people what they expect to do if they are
entrusted with power. Do they tell
you that gold standard is good thing?
No, because 70.0O0,0OO here and the
struggling masses throughout the world
would rise up and denounce the state
ment that the gold standard ever helped
anybody except the money owners and
the money changers. They say that BIZ
metallism is good thing If we couId
only get 1t.
More than 100 years ago there were q
few people who said independence was
q good thing If we could only have If but
there were enough who not only said it
was good thing, but that they could
have it, and they gave to this people an
independent form of government
(Great applause and cheering.) And
there are today. if 1 mistake not. vast
majority of the American people who
are ready to say not only that bimetal-
lism is good thing, but that no good
thing Is too good for the American peo-
pie. The American people are able to |
have what they think best for the peo-
pie of this country without waiting for |
the aid or consent of any other nation |,
on earth. tremendous applsUse)
1 have not time to talk to you now. |
but l have time to give two questions |
which I would ask you to ask your op- |
ponents. I have given them before and |
shall give them again. They are the
questions which you can put to your op-
conents and drive them from the field.