The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-10-02
BRYAN Talks AND HE TALKS.
Now Roaming Through West Virginia

and tho Country own That Way.
Clarksburg, W. Va, october 1.-Wil-
liam j. Bryan spent last night at Graf
ton at the residence of j. T. McGraw,
national committeeman from this state,
and managed to get a good rest. He
left Grafton at $50 this morning for
Clarksburg. On arriving here Mr..
Bryan and his party had breakfast at
a hotel. Despite the continued bad
weather there was big crowd in the
streets. The candidate appeared on
the hotel balcony and made short
speech to 600 enthusiastic people. He
was tnen driven to the fair grounds,
where he delivered a long address to a
larger audience. At 1870 the special
train pulled out for Parkersburg. At
the fair grounds Mr. Bryan said in
part:
1.-THE republican candidate for presi-
dent said in his letter of acceptance:
1T is not more money we want. What
we want is to put our present money
at work Now, remember that these
words were uttered at q time when the
circulating medium had fallen off $780,,
100000 in two years Let me compare
that with what he said six years ago,
when instead of having a decreasing
volume of currency we had an increase
Of about $24,000,000 every year. At that
time they were trying to substitute the
Sherman law for the Bland-Allison act.
'"The BlandAllison act put in circu-
lation about S24,000,000 every year, so
that the circulation was increasing and
not decreasing as now. The republican
candidate then in congress said: I
will not vote against this bill (the
Bland Allison act) and thus deprive
the people of my country and the labor
ers and the producers and the indus
tries of my country of $30,000,000 an
nually Of additional circulating medi-
um.
My friends, what change has taken
place in the last six years? Then he
desired to increase the amount of
money in circulation. (Cheers.) The
republican candidate said six years ago
that he wanted the double standard.
He wants the gold standard now. What
change has taken place? Yet we find
republicans who were openly, and en-
Enthusiastically championing the double
standard then who are to-day turned
completely about and are opposing
what they advocated then. They tell
us we are trying to furnish market
for silver bullion and that our cause
is simply the cause of the silver bullion
owner We deny it. We insist we
want silver for money and that we
want 1t not because we produce silver
in this country, but because we need
silver in the commerce of this country.
(Cheers.)
'The very people who are accusing
us of working in the interest of the
mine owners are supporting a republi-
can candidate who six years ago ar
gued in favor of the Sherman law and
one of the reasons he gave was that
it would furnish a market for all the
silver produced here. (Applause) /
call your attention to these extracts
from speeches made by the republican
candidate not because I deny the right
to change opinion, but 1 insist that
when man changes his mind he
ought to have reasons for it that he
is willing to give to the people Gap
plause.) "Give it to Grover" came a
voice from the crowd.
Mr. Bryan-'No my friends, am not
going to say one word against the
democratic president. 1 am going to
leave history to record that the man
who went into Office with an over
whelming majority went out of office
supporting a ticket which did not carry
a single county in the United States.
(Applause.) The ticket which has the
support of the administration will not
have the advantage of having died an
honorable death, because it was put
in the field by those who did not in
tend to vote for it and was only put be-
fore the people to deceive them and to
furnish ticket for those few demo-
Gratis who objected to the Chicago plat
form and are still not quite ready to
enter the republican party" (Great
cheering.)