The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-10-13

talIties Of the government for private
gain and I will show the men who think
that my election would be dangerous
to this country. t am not surprised
thar IN Minnesota and all over this
country Republicans are leaving tenn
pOrarlly the Republican party when
they find that it is drawing to the Re
publican party all those Democrats who
have been in the habit Of being de-
nounced by the Republicans.
There is this difference in the Re
publicans who come to US and the
Democrats who leave us. The Democrats
who go from US have to go down on
their knees and beg pardon of John
Sherman for all the bad words the
Democratic party has spoken against
him, while the Republicans who come to
US come bringing in their hands the
Republican platform which was adopt
ed IN this hall four years ago That
platform adopted in this hall on
ly TOUR years ago begins the money
plank in this way. The American PEG
pie, from tradition and interest favor
bimetallism.' Ny friends you cannot
change traditions in that time Their
interests are the same now that they
We're four years ago and if the Repub-
lican party declared four years ago that
the American people from tradition IA
vored bimetallism, those Republi-
cans have a right to stand there today,
even though the Republican party shall
retreat from it's position and go across
the ocean to find Inspiration
There IS another difference between
those Republicans and the Democrats
VINO go from US Show me q Hepubl1-
can who comes to US and I will show
you man who will get up before any
audience and tell them the road by
which he came and the arguments
which converted him. Show me Dem
Ocrat who went from US and I will show
you a man who never gives the real
reason why he was dragged out Of the
Democratic party The Republicans
who come to US come with nothing to
conceal and are perfectly willing to tell
where they stand and why they stand
there and they are among the most
jealous recruits we have. Those who
so from US are only able to say in ex-
PLANTATION of their conduct that If we
had the free coinage Of silver it would
be awful, awful.
After referring to the fruitless at
tempts to secure International bimet-
allism, Mr. Bryan declared that the
Democratic party had decided that it
was time for this country to act alone.
He continued as follows.
GU tell me there may be danger
in our system tell you that the worst
thing that you prOphesy for free coin
age is better than the best you can
hope for from the gold standard and
more. not only do I believe that we
have the strength and ability to fur
nish such a use for silver as viii take
all the surplus and maintain the parity
at 16 to I. but / believe that the action
Of the United States viii compel the
other nations to join with us. You ask
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eign creditors can drive down the price
Of our products and drive up the value
Of the money which we pay them, that
they viii have a selfish interest in
keeping a gold standard and depressing
prices and as Mr.. Washburn says, they
viii be dominated by human seldshness
and will do it.
What is the result when we open our
minis to the free coinage of silver2
You tell me that those foreign creditors
viii draw all the money out of this
country If they try to draw 1t all out
of the country. how far would they go
before they got all Of the gold2 IF we
have not gold enough in this country
to pay one-tenth of our foreign indebt-
edness, and our foreign creditors try
to draw it all out, they would have to
take nine-tenths of it in silver and in
products. The very moment they found
the American people had opened their
minis to the free and unlimited coinage
Of silver and had made silver a legal
tender. the coin obligations would be
discharged in silver. then our creditors
would not interfere with us.
we have their seIhshness against
Us and we have suffered from it. Open
the minis to the free coinage of silver
and we viii have selfish interests on
our side open the mints. give US the
double standard, and then we stand as
the mistress of the worlds commerce.