Evening star., 1896-10-08
BRYAN WILL KEEP 1T UP.
Denies That His Campaigning Has
Broken Him Down.


The stay of Mr.. Bryan in Chicago yester-
day was an hour. all told. He arrived in
the Union depot at $50 over the Pennsylva-
mia road. and did not leave the depot, as
he was to leave the city inside of an hour
over the Burlington road. which runs out
of the same depot. He walked up and down
the platform. conversing with friends who
had come to see him. but had little to say
about the campaign. He asked for the
news from Georgia. but the returns at hand
were too meager at that time to give him
any definite idea to the ultimate result.
He expressed himself, however, as being
confident that it would be all right" He
left for Burlington, Iowa, at 1890 o'clock.
Al the station. in response to the cheers
of the crowd inside the gates, Mr.. Bryan
said:
Il am not going to talk tonight. l have
put in more than an eight-hour day, and
am going to bed; but / will be back to Chi
caso before the campaign is over.
Il simply come out to tell you that If YOU
read III any newspaper that l am broken
down. don't you believe it. This campaign
Is gong to he kept up, SO far l am con-
cerned, until the night before election and
no time VIII be wasted. either
Democratic Defeciions
In the course of one of his speeches yes
terday Mr.. Bryan thus referred to demo-
cratic defectons: ""e
This campaign is resulting in more polit.
ical changes than any recent campaign
We are told that the democratic party IA
losing some of its prominent men, We are
toid that tn" democratic panty must sue
ceed, II 1t succeeds, without the SUPPORT of
certain former democrats. leaders; but we
rejoice that II we are to lose democrats we
are also to gain those who have rot here
tofore 'oted with the democratic rarty.
There is this difference between those
VINO go from us and those who come to us.
.tNrfY ,,-l,..
democratic party has never advocated be
fore-the gold standard-while the republic
cans who come TO Us come because we ad-
vocate the same bimetalism that the re-
publican party has advocated in the past.
ApplauseD The republicans are able to
act with us without changing the convic-
tions of lifetime, while democrats who go
from us have to desert all that has been
democratic in the past. Applause.)
The republican party four years ago de-
clared that the American people from ira
dition and interest We're IN favor of bimet
allism. Why should they rot be in favor of
it today? Have traditions changed in four
years? Have interests changed in four
years? Aye. my friends. not only was the
platform of the republican party declaring
in favor of b!metallism four years ago, nut
the leaders in the republican party were
advocating four years ago what they de-
nounce now. The republican candidate for
| the presidency so late as 1891 made a
speech at Toledo in which he denounced
| Mr.. Cleveland's policy. and said that by
| contracting the currency he had made
money the master and all things else the
! servant. Your distinguished citizen ex-
| Congressman Evans, has a right to think
| now what Mr.. Mckinley talked five years
| ago. even though Mr.. Mckinley does not
| think now what he thought then. (Ap-
| plause)
| Silver and Legislation.
| "They tell us that we cannot affect silver
by legislation. The republicans who act
| with US can take the report filed by Secre-
| tary Rusk in 1880, and they can point to
! pages where Mr.. Rusk shows the effect of
| silver legislation on the prices of products
| and also adds that the rise in the price of
silver has raised the price of farmers
| products. If rising prices with the farmer
| did not hear at that time this talk of the
rising prices hurting the laboring man.
| They were boasting that the Legislation
| brought rising prices because when the
| FARMER was prosperous it would be shared
| by the laboring men and the merchants and
| every legitimate business. Applause)
| President Harrison Quoted
"You have distinguished citizen here in
| this state who was President during the
| time when Mr.. Rusk sent in his report and
| on the 1st of December President Harrison
| sent a message to Congress in which he
| used these words: The enlargement Of our
| currency by the silver bill undoubtedly
gave an upward tendency to trade and had
| a marked effect on prices
| "Mr. Harrison said that, not in a cam
| paign speech, but in a deliberate message
| to Congress, that silver legislation had a
| marked effect upon trade and upon prices
and did not tell the people that it was dis
| astrous to have rising prices. He also said
| But this natural and desired effect OF
the silver legislation was by many erro.
neously attributed to the tariff act
| There he went so far as to put aside
| those who attempted to credit the McKin-
ley bill with the effect that had come and
| he attributed that effect to silver and YET
when We say that legislation can affect the
price Of silver they say we don't under
| stand anything about the subject. (Grea,
| applause and cheering.) If we had never
known anything about the subject we coulC
| find out great deal about it by reading
those speeches made few years ago by
| republicans which they are sorry now they
! ever made. Great applaUse)
| NATIONS AND LAWS OF TRADE