The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-11-03

who sympathized with you in your
struggles When I have found a cor
poration attorney, whether he was in
Nebraska or in the east. II have gener-
ally founa a man who believes in a
gold Standard but when 7 found a
young man who was trying to make
his living and to rise in this world
without being a favorite of a corpora
ton, I have found q man who was
against trusts and syndicates and in
favor OF the common people.
w heneVer Z found a man who was
connected with the coal trust I found
a man who was a gold standard man.
but when / found one who was opposed
to trusts and wanted to SO make the
laws that a representative of a coal
trust could not sit by every freside
and collect tribute from every family.
I have found a friend. whether here
or in the east. / have been told by
the circulars issued here that 1 was OPP
posed to the laboring man. I want you
TO look at my four years in congress
and YOU viii find whether 4 have been
the friend of the laboring man or not
fl want you to be at anxious for the
election of congressman from Nebras-
ka n favor OF free coinage as you are
for the election Of an electoral ticket
that viii elect q free coinage presi-
dent"
AT LINCOLN
Mr. Bryan was given one Of the great
est receptions of his entire tour by
Lincoln. his home city He spoke from
the balcony Of the Lincoln hotel and
addressed an audience which filled the
streets in the immediate vicinity. This
address was made largely TO Mr.. Bry-
ans neighb0rs and contained more per-
sonal illusions to himself than any
speech Of the long series ne has made
No gold amblems were displayed.
The applause was frequent and general
Mr.. Bryan prefaced his remarks with
a reference to his eastern trip stating
that in the beginning Of the campaign
the people living along the eastern
coasts called it a complex question 40
was, he said, a controversy between
pie of this country. In conclusion ne
said. II have stated that if elected, +
shall not be absent from you for more
than four years. When stated it, I
meant it and I want you to believe in
my sincerity when 7 say SO. i believe
that the office is attended with duties
so great, with responsibilities so heaNy
that the man who occupies it ought to
have no personal ambition beyond
proving himself worthy Of the conf
dence of those who elect him.
IF elected, I shall cOnsecrate four
years of my life to the service of my
country, feeling that when that is done
all has been done in the way Of honor
that can be done and then I shall re-
j0ice again to be a private citizen in
this nation, where to be a citizen is
gTeat ter than to be king.
My friends. 1 want you to believe
me when / say I have enjoyed the OPP
pOrtunity of defending bimetalltsm Der
cause Il believe it is a righteous cause,
and I want you to believe Z would rath-
er stay among you as a private citizen
and be permitted to still raise my voice
against what I conceive to be shame
against humanity. The work that
lies before a president who goes into
Office to conform to a policy and to
drive the trusts and syndicates from
this land viii be hard enough if he is
supported by the people. His work
would be impossible if he were not sup
ported by them.
"If you are in earnest, want your
earnestness to be manifested in a
clean sweep and then, my friends, if
by the suffrage of my countrymen, I
am made their chief executive, 7 viii
promise you that no power in this coun-
try nor any foreign land will prevent
the restoration of the money of the con
stitution among our people