Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1896-10-09
DAYS WORK ENDED WITH A MEET
ING AT MARSHALLTOWN.
The Nominee Expresses His Gratifca-
ton Because Democracy and
Popuifsm Have SCOT To-
gether'.-ArEueS for
Cheaper Dollar.


cession started from Main and Washing
ton streets to CraDo park, where the
Coliseum, in which Bryan spoke, is located.
The parade was an imposing one. 1t was
headed by platoon of mounted police,
and then came the Citizens band, followed
by the carriage in which the nominee was
seated. Behind in regular order followed
an escort of women on horseback, caval-
cade of horsemen and eleven more bands.
including the Iowa State band, sandwiched
in between various silver marching clubs.
AT II o'clock the first speech of the day
was made. 1t was in the Coliseum build
ing, a gigantic affair erected for the semi
centennial of Iowa's admission to the
Union. The crowd was limited to the size
of the building and was enthusiastic to a
great degree. There We're several minutes
of cheering and applause on Mr.. Bryan's
arrival and when he started TO speak an
other great ovation was given him.
Mr.. Bryan said in the course of his ad-
dress:
81 stand upon a platform-yes. l 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 {great applause), and that In Its
place ought to be substituted the free and
unlimited coinage OF gold and silver at
the present legal ratio of 16 to (applause)
without waiting for the aid or consent of
any other nation. prolonged applause)
Our platform has driven from us some who
have acted with US in the past. We can
not help it. We might have retained their
cooperation had We been willing to pay
the price they asked. We might have been
able to keep those men with us had we
been willing that the Democratic party
should be made the instrument of plutoc-
racy to overthrow a government like ours.
Great applause.) Some have left ns-per-
kaps l ought to modify the term, because
If should say that men leave us, that it
might imply that they had reasoned them
selves out of the Democratic party; it
might imply that they had gone vol
unfairly. l will use another term: We
have had dragged out of the Democratic
party certain ones who were more attached
to the great corporate interests of this
country than they were to the welfare
of the people. (Applause.) In their place
we expect to find men who are willing to
act with us this time in order to make this
government worthy of the love of those
who live beneath the flag; and / come to-
day to submit for your consideration some
reasons why Republicans should join with
us upon the platform which We have
adopted.
THE Populists have already Joined with
us. / say joined with us. They may say
that we have joined with them, but l care
not how you express it, SO we are together
now. (Great applause) There is this diff
ference between Republicans who come to
us and Democrats who go from US. The
Democrats who go from us must repudiate
the history of the Democratic party and
abandon that which has been Democratic
from the time when Jefferson organized
the Democratic party. (Applause) The
Republicans who come to us have simply
to stand by that which the Republican
party used to advocate and which in this
campaign ii has abandoned.
The arguments which you hear to-day
are arguments manufactured to support a
platform that in your hearts you Repub-
lcans of Iowa are ashamed to own. My
friends, our proposition is plain one.
We place our argument on solid rock. We
tell you that there is something necessary
in money besides quality. Our opponents
are always talking about wanting good
money. Everybody wants money. but. my
friends, we want quantity as we'll as quail
ity in money. You cannot interest me by
telling me that certain kind of food is
the very best kind of food, and tell me
that it is so scarce that l cannot have
any of it. Good money! How good do
you want money. Just good enough: not
too good. They have been making our
money too good When dollar is SO good
that il will buy ten bushels of oats, it is
too good a Collar to use in this country.
They have given us the balloon dollar. II
keeps rising. And a balloon dollar may be
good thing for few financiers who
happen to get into the basket, but it is
a might bad thing for the farmers who can
simply stand and watch il soar through the
sky. We are tired of the balloon dollar.
We want to bring 1t down 60 earth again,
and get il within the reach of the masses
of the people. The gold standard, instead
of being a just measure of deferred pay
ments, has become the measure of deferred
hopes. and hope deferred maketh the heart
sick"
After the Coliseum speech Mr. Bryan
spcke twice from the carriage. asking the
people TO study the question of finance and
20 make their silver speech On election
day.
There were but few people at the depot
at Burlington to see the nominee off, and
these who We're there We're not demonstra-
tive Between Burlington and Cedar Rap
les three short stops were made-at Co
lumbus Junction, Nichols and West Lib
erty, where the candidate gave short
sSe eeches on the same lines followed by
him in his former platform speeches.
Cedar Rapids was reached shortly after
4 o'clock and the local committees es-
corted Mr.. Bryan and his party in car
r:ages to the baseball park. near the out
skirts of the city. Mr.. Bryan said in part:
IF the free coinage of silver is going to
double the value of the mine owners metal
then we are going to have 10a-cent dollars
ana If We are going to have 50-cent dollars
!: is no profit at all to the mine owner
Now. which side are our opponents going
10 take? If anybody is afraid that this
lend is going to he used as dumping
ground. let me- remove that fear. 7 have
about five acres OF ground near Lincoln
Neb.. and ] have made a calculation and
find that there is room on that five acres
for all the silver In the world. l am going
10 offer ii as n dumping ground # they
,-.ut to bring silver over and dump il
there. | have tried to use il to raise corn
o.. and if | cannot make more money by
usinG ii for a dumping ground than / have
made raising corn on il, / am going tc
give ii away"
AT Belle Plain and Tama City Mr. Bryan
sxol.e very briefly.
Marshalltown, Ia, Oct. S-The specia
| train on the Chicago & Northwestern roa,
II which Mr. Bryan's car was attached a
| Cedar Rapids arrived in Marshalltown n
| 7:eo making an average of fifty-two mile.
| an hour, including two stops of ten min
| utes each. one of the fastest trips mad
| by the party since 1t started. Mr.. Bryan
| made two speeches here. the first in
large tent erected in a public square il
| the center of the city and the second il
| Odeon theater. Big crowds greeted hin
| at both meetings and the enthusiasm wa
| the most marked of the day. In his frs
! speech the nominee spoke but briefly. re
| viewing his principal arguments aSains
| the gold standard and covering PRACTICAL.