The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-10-02
KNOXVILLE HEARS
A SPEECH by SIR BRYAN on THE
ISSUE OF THE DAY.
Twenty Thousand People Greet the
Presidential Candidate.

n
streets we're crowded with people
wednesday morning 10 see Mr..
Bryan, the democratic nominee.
Tho train on which Mr.. Bryan
the journey from Lexington, Ky,
reached tho Southern railway station
at $3.50 a. m.
Excursion trains from al tho sur
rounding districts had brought in CAR
loads Of farmers 10 swell the crowds
OF Knoxville people who throngod the
streets. Escorted by the reception
committee, Mr.. Bryan was conveyed
10 a stand erected IN front Of the court
house. Here he was introduced by
Ex-Governor Robert l.. Taylor.
Estimates OF the size Of tho con-
course crowded into court square ran
as high as 10000. Mr.. Bryan was
loudly cheered aud his speech was
frequently applauded. He said:
at gives me great pleasure to meet
the people OF East Tennessee, who
have assembled here in such great
numbers. am sure that when /
speak for an independent fnan-
cial policy my words will strike q
responsive chord in the hearts Of
these mountain people, because the
mountain people of the world have
always been friends of Independence
aud liberty. You can find among
them those who are confident in their
strength and who, therefore, are not
willing to bow the head or bend the
knee to the oppressor. come to you
as a representative of a principle para
mount in this campaign. 1t is the
right of 10000, 600 people to have just
the kind Of financial system that they
want, whether any foreign nations help
TO have it or are willing for US to heve
it. Great applause.)
I'm this campaign, as never before
in this country, have the lines been
drawn between those who believe in
abject dependence upon foreign ma
tions; and if this nation is not great
enough to have a financial policy of
it's own, it ought to annex itself
to some power that is great enough to
take care of our people. (Applause.)
Against the maintenance of a gold
standard for one year, or forever, the
democratic party has arrayed itself.
We are opposed to a gold standard.
We have declared an honorable oppo-
sition to it. We have commenced a
war Of determination against it, a war
that will not cease while there is any
party or any considerable number Of
men who are attempting to fasten this
foreign yoke upon an Independent peo-
pie. applause.
81 seek no votes under false pre-
lenses. want no one to vote for me
under this Misunderstanding II there
is any one who believes that the gold
standard is a good thing, or that it
should be maintained, warn him not
to cast his vote for me, because / prom
Use him that it will not be maintained
in this country longer than I am able
, to get rid of it, lCheers and ap'
plause.)
"My friends, when you find party
which tells you what it wants, and tells
you how it is going to get and what,
in the judgment of those who advocate
it, the effect of that policy will be, you
/, have tho right to conclude that they
! are honestly believing in the JUS
tice of the cause which they repre-
sent, and when you find peopl,
who use the term Sound money with
out telling you what sound money
means, when you find people talking
about an honest dollar and then deal
ing dishonesty with the people Will
whom they come in contact, you hav,
r a right to believe that they are not en-
tirely devoted to the cause of the PEG
: pie whom they are not willing to TAX
y into their confidence We assert tina
T when they attempt to build fnancia
system upon money which they can
IS not produce, that they are building u
a to an insecure structure upon an invie
IS ible foundation, and are insulting til
n intelligence of those who mean wha
e they say, and say what they mean.
(Applause.)
70 Mr.. Bryan then explained what th
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it there was no danger of a food of 81
r yer. He also explained the way th
o money is put into circulation, an
while he was in the midst of the e.
PLANTATION some one yelled, MAR
Hanna is going to put it into circulr
ton"
IL "That is increasing the circulation,
answered Mr. Bryan, lust befol
n election in order to contract it aft,
y election" Great applause an
d cheers.
If Mr.. Bryan reached the Souther
+ railway station to continue his iourne
at AS o'clock a. m.
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