The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-10-08

CHICAGO, Oct. 7.-Wilnam Jennings
Bryan finished his Indiana campaign at
Hammond this evening. and reached
Chicago shortly before 10 o'clock to-
night
His stay here was short, for in thirty
minutes he was on board the Burling-
ton train, bound for Burlington, Iowa,
where he speaks tomorrow.
The union station was damned with
| people tonight when the candidates
train arrived, but the crowd was not
admitted inside the iron fence, and Mr..
Bryan escaped any inconvenience from
overcrowding. In response to cheers,
Mr.. Bryan showed himself for mo-
ment, but did not speak. The candidate
| appeared to be in the best of health.
| A vast audience, numbering between
$4,000 and 10000, greeted Mr.. Bryan at
! Hammond. He arrived there jusE be-
/ fore o'clock and after supper was es-
COrted to the scene Of the meeting, q
big open lot. He was received with
TREMENDOUS ENTHUSIASM.
He spoke in part as follows:
| L understand that some employers
/ / don't know whether they have done it
7 here, but l have known men to do it
/ sWheTe-have tried to convince their
employees that under free coinage their
pay would only be half as much as wfaE
/ they now get. Cries Of THEW Go It
here.D l want to call your attention to
one thing. If, under free coinage, your
dollars win only buy half as much. that
means that your employers would get
/ twice as much for what they produce,
! twice as many dollars IS they DO now.
ana II your employers get twice as many
/ dollars as they do now, then they can
/ pay you twice as many dollars for your
wages as they do now, if they love you
as well after election as they seem 20
love you TOW before election, when they
want your votes. Great applause and
| laughter.) Now, my friends, just re-
member this: Wherever your en-
plOyer tells you that under free coinage
your wages will only be half as much,
! you tell him that you are not afraid
that he viii ever let you suffer. because
he is loving you 50 much now; too much
to let you be jeopardized by getting
poor dollars. If he tells you that while
/ he can pay you double, but he won't do
it, you tell him that a man who can
help you and won't do it ought not to
tell you that he will before the election.
/ Great applause) But, my friends. in
stead of resorting to argument, some OF
( the employers have
REsORTED TO COERCION.
applause and cries of That's sou
That is, they have attempted to make
| their employees think as they want
them to tninlz. saw a. sign down in
Nashville, Tenn. and I wish you would
remember this sign, stretched over the
door of a store, containing these words:
4 IF or employees don't vote as they
please, we viii discharge them
My friends, that is the right kind
| of a sign to have; instead OF saying
/ that if their employees do not vote as
] the managers want they will discharge
them, these employers ought to put UD
1 the sign that they had in Tennessee,
! that if you do not vote as you please
/ then you will be discharged. daughter
and applause.)
My friends, recognize that in this
campaign we have great influences
against US. / recognize that our OPP
/ pOnents are able to collect campaign
funds. recognize that they are able
/ to
CARRY GREAT EXCURSIONS
to their candidate. But, my friends,
/ 1 believe that when I come to the peo-
| pie themselves instead of having them
| sent to me- I can present our cause
lean people. applause and cheering)
I believe that our cause is just and,
that the people Of this country cannot
be corrupted by large campaign fund.-,
neither can they be intimidated by
I their employers. Our hope of victory.
! lies not in corruption fund, not in
( the employment of force, but i'll an
honest appeal to the unpurchased and
/ unDurchasable voters of the United
! States (Cheers.) I am aware, my
| friends, that they may threaten to
take your privileges from you; L am.
aware that in order to hold your posi-
/ lions YOU may, sonle of you be COM
PEELED to march in Republican clubs
and wear Republican buttons, but re-
I mennb Der that the laboring men of this
/ country have secured the Australian
1 ballot system, and tyranny stands out
/ side while the voter goes inside. Cap
plause.) Ny friends, I have not come
TO ask the vote Of any man; have not
come TO tell you how YOU should cast
/ that vote: I come simply to present our
cause, and I regret that 1 have not
more time to do it. I believe we are
right. I believe the policies for which
we stand mean
PEACE AND PROSPERITY
and joy to the great mass Of the peo-
pie of this country (cheering); and il
you believe it, ask you to record
your vote with us. If your conscience
and your judgment are against us, we
have no claim upon your aid. but
beg you to study this question and
make your vote mean exactly what
you think your vote ought to mean
Mr.. Bryan made speeches at Upton,
Nob.csville and several ether places en-
route from Indianapolis to Hammond.