The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-04
SPEECH At LAWRENCEBURG
AND SHORT TALKS At AURORA AND
oTHER H00sIER TOWNS.
Allen w. Clark ON show as Master of
Ceremonies, and Representative
McMinin Used as a Substitute.

delivered several speeches. The occasion OF
his visit here was the national convention
of Democratic clubs. which is in session at
the Auditorium. The city was well filled
with visitors drawn here by low railway
rates and the expectation of seeing the
Popocratic nominee.
During the day Mr.. Bryan spoke at sew
eral points in Indiana and Illinois. having
left Cincinnati at Z o'clock a. m. in the
private car of President Peabody, of the
Baltimore & Ohio road. That eminent
statesman" Allen w. Clark, of Indiana,
accompanied the Nebraska man to pilot
him across the southern part of the Hoo
sier State. Representative McMillin acted
as substitute for Mr.. Bryan at a number
of places and made brief speeches. AT
Lawrenceburg Ind, the first stopping
place, Mr.. Bryan said:
This commences the days work pretty
early, but we have to make up in public
speaking and in hard work what We lack
In daily newspapers and campaign funds
fer the circulation of literature. As 1 came
upon the stand L met a gentleman who
said he had been a Republican, but was
going to vote for silver this year. That
has got to be quite q common phrase.
There is a reason for these changes. The
Republican party has been holding out a
prospect for bimetallism. 1t has declared
that the American people, from tradition
and interest, desired bimetallism. But this
year the Republican party says that while
the American people may desire it, they
cannot have 1t until other nations bring 1t
to them. 1t is the first time in the history
of this country that any great party ever
proposed that the legislation of this coun-
try should be dependent upon the will of
tell us that the tariff issue is the great
Issue. Until they put a prohibitory tariff
on foreign financial policies they cannot
Il want to impress upon your minds that
1t is not sufficient to elect a President who
is in favor of free coinage, because the
President can do nothing until the hill
reaches him, and the bill cannot reach him
unless the Senate and the House are in
favor of 1t, and the House must be before
free coinage can be realized. i shall not
want a Congress that will give to you the
free and coinage of silver with
oct waiting for the aid or Consent of any
other nation"
SPEECH AT AURORA.
At Aurora there. was a crowd. Mr.. Bryan
said: THE cause which we represent is
not a new cause. There is nothing expert
mental in the plan which we propose. We
are not trying to make the gold or silver
dollar larger or smaller. They are to re-
main the same; but we want more than
we have now. We ask that our minis shall
be opened when the people desire them
open regardless Of what other nations may
say or think or do. We simply desire a
policy that was the policy of this country
until silver was stricken down in the dark
and without public discussion. Our OPP
ponents are afraid that we will have too
much money. l am willing to let my OPP
ponents have the vote of every man whose
experience has taught him to be afraid of
vote of every man whose experience has
Taught him to fear a drought of money
more than a flood. lApplause.) | am glad
that w: are going to have more recruits
from other parties than the Democrats we
AT Osgood Mr.. Bryan said: "I have felt
an interest in the subject of bimetallism
for six years. Before that | never thought
the money question amounted to anything.
When | heard people speak of the money
power / thought they were a harmless sort
of crank and that there was no such thing.
Blu the more / studied the subject the
more important did the money question be-
come and the more firmly L became con-
WINGED that underlying all our difficulties
was our financial legislation, and that until
our financial system was taken out of the
hands of the money changers and admin
istered in behalf of the whole people there
the American people. (Applause.)
I'VE have seen in this campaign what the
money power means. We have seen banks
the banks. and We have seen this great
money power reaching out from the money
upon our industries and threatening to
lock the doors of factories and turn men
out of employment unless all mankind will
bow down and worship the golden calf.
We have seen an arrogance that has sell
dom been paralleled; we have seen a tyran-
ny not often before attempted, and when
ever people rose to complain they de-
nounced them for complaining without at
plant. In several States the Republican
platforms have declared against agitation.
Not only against our cause, but against
agitation will continue until the people
have an American financial system suited
to the needs of the American people,
ESCORTED BY H SHERIFF.
Loogootee was reached at lis and a large
crowd had assembled in the public square
near the depot. Mr.. Bryan was escorted
to the platform Immediately behind Tho
sheriff of our county, who carried an
American flag. He spoke, in part, as fol- |
lows:
How much money we shall have. who
shall issue that money and what shall be
Its quality are questions which are pressed
upon public attention. The maintenance of
the present financial policy means that gold
shall be the one supreme money-gold so
small in quantity that a few ~financiers NAV
corner it at any time. and upon primary
tenn by which the banks shall furnish us
whatever paper money we have.
w have the unique position in this cam
paign of those who call themselves Demo-
Gratis being in favor of n national bank cur |
rency, The Democratic party in all its
history has never favored a national bank
currency. That great idol of the Demo-
cratic party, that great hero in the fight
wealth. Andrew jackson. made his great
est reputation opposing the national banks
Of bis. day. and yet. my friends. there are
AAtNV NFJ lA6A v lltE 1SNt
OF paper money 10 the national banks of
this country. There are those who would
retire our greenbacks and treasury notes
and substitute government bonds, and on
these bonds allow national banks to issue
their notes, in order that the banks may
collect the interest which the government
now saves TO the people. Who likes 1t?
The people who make money by it. Who are
opposed to our greenbacks as we now have
them? Those who. in place of greenbacks.
would substitute these notes. at q profit TO
themselves and at the expense of the peo-
pie. And yet these are the dishonest people
who presume that they are the only peo-
pie who have sufficient intelligence and
sufficient love of country to give the people
a safe financial system Great appiause)
MANY farmers had assembled and to
them Mr.. Bryan said:
When our campaign opened our opponents
thought they could ridicule 1T out OF exist
ence, and then when they found that ridi-
Guile would not work they began to abuse
those who favored free coinage. They be-
gan to call them all sorts of names and
when they found that they were not maxi
ing much progress. 1 understand. down in
the State OF Indiana our opponents resort
ed to misrepresentation. L am informed
that the Republicans have circulated in this
State an editorial taken from the Omaha.
World-Herald criticising pension appropria-
tons. That editorial appeared in the World
Herald some two years before / had any
yonnection with the paper and those who