The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-09
BRYAN STIRS UP BURLINGTON.
THEN HE GOES VIA CEDAR RAPIDS
TO MARSHALLTOWN.

His Visit to Burlington One of the
Incidents in the City's Celebra-
tiOn of the SemI-CentenniaI of
IOva's Admission to the Union-He
Answers Cheer for Mckinley by
Showing Up the Majors AcrObatic
Record On the Silver Question.
Burlington, Ia, Oct Sin the conclud-
ing ceremonies to-day of Burlington's cell
ebration of the semi-centennial Of Iowa's
| admission to the union, William j. Bryan
was the principal attraction. The city was
profusely decorated and great crowds of
visitors filled the streets. Mr.. Bryan ar
rived from Chicago this morning at
O'Clock on the special car which he will
have at his disposal for the rest of the
campaign, and took breakfast at the house
of John j. Seerley. At clock, Mr.. Bryan
was escorted to the court house, where he
held short reception. A parade in which
brass bands, mounted and unmounted or
ganizations, including a number of ladies
on horseback, took part, escorted the can
didate through the principal streets to the
Coliseum in Crapo park. Here he delivered
his principal address to an immense crowd
of people. John j. Seerley who presided
introduced him. Several other stands had
been erected in the park, and from these
Mr.. Bryan and others made short
| speeches
| At the Coliseum, Mr.. Bryan said. "Mr.
Chairman, ladies and gentlemen fellow
citizens: We are passing through a
campaign which means a great deal to
the American people, aye more than it
means a great deal to the people of the
world. There are crises in human af-
fairs. While every day is of equal length
with every other day, yet into some days
vast Importance is crowded and into the
! third of November vast Importance will
be crowded. Upon that day the Amerl-
can people choose a President, who shall
occupy the white house (cries of Bryan"
Bryan, and applause) for four years.
| On that day they select a House of Rep
! resentatives, and on that day they select
| legislatures, which will choose United
| States senator's Much depends upon the
result of this election. For the first time
in the history of the United States a
! party appears which declares that the
gold standard must be maintained by
this country until foreign nations join
us, or permit us to abandon it. Never be-
fore have the American people been ask
ed to declare in favor of a gold standard.
Every step that the gold standard has
| taken heretofore has been taken in the
dark and without the consent Of the
American people, and now, for the
first time, the advocates of
gold ask the American people to indorse
the gold standard at the ballot box. If it
| is right (crieS mo, no.'), if it is good for
the American people it ought to be in
dorsed. My friends, nothing is too good
for the American people (applause). and
if the gold standard will be good for u.s.
we ought to have it. If the gold standard
will bring blessings to our people we ought
to maintain it. If it brings cursings we
ought to abandon it. (Great applause.)
This is the question submitted to the
| American people. / stand upon plat
form, yes / stand upon three Platforms
which agree on one thing, and that is
that the gold standard ought to be driven
out of the United States (applause), and
that in its place ought to be substituted
the free and unlimited coinage of gold and
silver at the legal ratio of 16 to / Zap
plause), without waiting for the aid or
consent of any other nation. prolonged
applause). l come to-day to submit for
your consideration some reasons why re-
publicans should join with us upon the
platform which we have adopted. The
populists have already joined with us.
viii say joined with us; they may say
that we have joined with them. but 1
care not how you express it, so we are
together now" Great appause)
A voice: "Hurrah for Mckinley. Gap
piause and hisses).
Mr. Bryan continued "My friends, 1
beg you to refrain from any manifesto
tons Of displeasure. | am glad to have
! h-4 hap.. 4uh iG in fa ne
ponent. / only hope there are many such
because it is to such persons that desire
to address my remarks. Cheering and
applause) My friend has declared his
preference for Mr.. Mckinley 1 want to
ask him which Mckinley is he for, the
Mckinley Of 1890 or the Mckinley of 1896?
Great applause and long cheering). Nc
Kinley said: But all agree that we must
| have a larger volume of money and that
the added volume shall be silver or it's
equivalent, based on silver At that time
we were putting into circulation about
! 100000 a year under the Bland act and
Mr. Mckinley advocated the Sherman act
on the ground that it would increase the
| amount of money to be put in circulation
! among the people We propose to give to
this country what the gentlemen on the
other side of the house could nct do, what
they did aot dare to do for four years
| We propose to give to the country sill
yer bill that will take all OF the silver
practically, Of the United States and make
il available for the use Of the people
Again, he said: so, Mr.. Speaker. this bill
Is just to the silver producers Of the ma
ton, for It does what the pres
ent law, as demonstrated by every
administration for ten years has not done
It takes every dollar of silver bullion that
is purchased in the United States and
places II at the disposal Of the people as
money That was the Mckinley Of 1890
let me read you the Mckinley of 1896: IT
is not more money we want. What we want
is to put all the money we have already
al work In 1890 when he advocated more
money we had already added S2i, 10000 to
the circulation each year. This year we
have no such provision. We have repealed
the Sherman law and Bland act. Mr.. Nc
kinney said in 1891 that Mr.. Cleveland had
been discriminating against silver, had
been trying to degrade II, had been trying
| to contract the currency, and that by les
sening the currency he made money dear
er by making IL scarcer and making mon
| ,,,as sfar "a nd all things plQp thu car-