The herald., 1896-09-03
BRYAN ADDRESSES
Farmers Of OHIO
Twenty thousand Turn
Out to Hear
some new metaphors IRE USED
Which TilIers of the Soil Ap.
preciate
CHINcH BUG AND SPUD BUG
Are Insisnlflcsnt Pests Compared With
Gold Bugs
Farmers Need Protection Against the Wall
Street Menagerie
All Along the Line Of Travel Bryan Has
Planted the Coed Seed Of silver
Sentlmsnt--lt Grows
Rapidly
CHINcH BUG AND SPUD BUG
Are lnsignlflcsnt Pests Compared With
Gold Bugs
Farmers Need Protection Against the Wall
Street Menagerie
All Along the Line Of Travel Bryan Has
Planted the Coed Seed Of Silver
Sentlmsnt--lt Grows
Rapidly
Associated Press Special wire

ASSOCIATED FTeSs special Wlro
SPRINGFIELD. o., Sept. 2.-Twenty
thousand people greeted the Democratic
nominee here. cheering him from the
time he left the train until the police
finally fought a way for him to the train
bearing him to Toledo. Bryan said in
part:
Ladies' and Gentlemen: For few
minutes only I shall occupy your atten-
ton. because large portion Of my voice
has been left along the line Of travel.
where It Is still calling sinners to repent
ance. (Great laughter.) am told that
in this city you manufacture more ag-
ricultural implements than are manu-
factured in any other city in this coun-
try. am glad to talk to people who
recognize the dependence upon the
farmers Of this country. have had oc-
casion to talk to some who seem to i'm
agine that the harder up they make the
farmers the better they would be off.
am glad to talk to you who recognize
that the dollars which you receive are
earned by those who convert the natu-
raj resources Of this country into
money; those who till the soil and from
its fertility springs forth this national
primary greatness. AS matter of fact,
farmers and laboring men are the foun-
dation Of society. (Cheers.)
Upon this foundation is built CONNER
cial classes and the flnancier acts as a
sort Of roof over the whole thing. You
can take of the roof and put on another
without running the whole building.
(Applause.) Upon prosperity the great
producers Of wealth whom we call the
masses - distinguished from classes
depends all the prosperity Of this city.
II you have a gold standard you legis-
late the value Of money up and you leg
islate property down. Our opponents
are trying to throw upon providence the
faults Of our condition. If a farmer
complains that he Is not making much
out Of his potato crop, they tell him
It Is due to the spud bug II he is not
making much out Of his corn they tell
him 1t Is due to the army worm. Il
he Is not making much out of his wheat
crop they tell him 1t is due to the chinch
bug. But let me tell you the goldbug
them. (Great laughter)
The farmer is the most hopeless VIC
tim Of circumstances of all the produc-
ers of wealth. When he plants his crop
in the spring he does not know whether
there Is going to be flood or drought,
whether there IL going to be hot winds
or cold hail.
He takes his chances. and assert
that when he has taken more chances
than anybody else and survives them
all and the calamities that visit his farm
1t Is not fair to drive him between the
bulls and bears Of Wall street and let
them take from him what is left. (Great
laughter and applause.)
The Democrats Of this state have done
well against great odds. In spite of
great influence they declare for the res
toration of the money Of the constitu-
tion. You met your opponents In open
conflict. and by superiority Of numbers
overcame them. What do they do
The very people who have been calling
all silver Democrats "Populists' are
trying to read US out of the party. when
they found they could not read us out,
instead Of going out of the party and
giving up the name-we have proven
our right to it-they try to go out ard
take the name with them, and call US
anarchists because we don't go with
them. (Applause.)
understand the gold Democrats by
resolution declared their emblem should
be the hickory tree. We have heard
about Satan stealing the livery Of heav-
en-, but we have never before seen men
try to use the name of that great hero
and statesman to undo all he tried to
do, (Cries Of "Good")
Talk of Andrew Jackson belonging to
the goldbug Democracy! (Laughter.)
Go back to the time of Andrew jackson
and whom did he have arrayed against
him? The very men who, after try
ing to use the Democratic party for
private gain and having failed. are now
trying to elect the Republican candidate
for president by nominating a gold
standard Democrat <Cries Of ''They
can't do it.'D
They take hickory tree for their en-
blem! Why don't they get something
appropriate? Why don't they put upon
their ballot the picture of an owl?
(Laughter.) Or if they don't like the
owl, take the mole. 1t is a slick animal
and works underground all the time.
(Great laughter and applause.) But
they ought to spare the sacred memory
OF the man who was the hero Of New Or
leans, and whose resting place. the Her.