The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-10-27
BRYAN'S THRUST
Takes Up the Statement Of
Major Mckinley
Made Yesterday, That Presi-
dent Grover Cleveland
HAS CARRIED OUT
CARRIED OUT
The Policy of the Republican
Party
In Regard to the Financial Con-
duet Of the Government.

Bloomington, Ill, Oct. 27.-Winiam J..
Bryan evidently will make the last
week of the campaign one of hard
work and in all probability a record
breaker. Shortly after o'clock this
morning he was talking to the people
of Lincoln. H.. and at o'clock the
people Of Bloomington were listening
to the triple nominee.
At Lincoln there was a good sized
crowd down at the depot before break
fast, in fact many We're there all night
for when the special car was side
tracked, shortly after 8 o'clock this
morning a crowd of ardent admirers
of the nominee showed their affection
for him by disturbing his rest and de-
manding a speech at that early hour
When he arrived in Lincoln the crowd
surrounded the car and loudly de-
manded his appearance. When Mr.
/ Bryan began to speak there was a
crowd of several thousand assembled
about the platform in the public
square in Lincoln and nearly every
member of the crowd wore a Bryan
badge. Mr.. Bryan's talk was in the
main a reference to the statement that
panic would follow the enactment of
the law looking toward the free coin
age of silver. His speech was literally
applauded and he was in touch with
the crowd which heard him. He said:
in part:
"One week from today the American
people are to decide upon the financial
policy of this nation Ter at least four
years and possibly for a longer time
When our opponents have failed in
everything else they commence to make
gloomy predictions of what will hap
pen il we have the free coinage of sill
Yer. You know whenever we have COM
planned Of existing conditions, they
have called us calamity howlers, but,
my friends. the worst of these who
have complained Of the conditions as
they are were speaking words OF praise
compared with the language used by
our opponents when they begin to tell
what is going to happen if the free
coinage Of silver comes. and one of the
most frequent of the prophesies which
they make is that a panic viii come
from the moment we have the free
coinage of silver; that all the people
who have money viii lock it up and all
the people who have mortgages win
foreclose the mortgage, and that there
is going to be a period of ruin here and
their language fails to express their
ideas of the subject. They simply
stand aghast a the picture / want to
show you that the free coinage of sill
yer, instead of bringing a panic, viii
stop the panic that the people have
been suffering from for years. We are
in the midst of panic now and we
have been in the midst of a panic.
Business failures have been increas-
ing and hard times have become hard
er That is what a panic means and
we are in the midst of a panic now and
there is no way out Of the panic until
we stop falling prices until we increase
the volume of the money which meas
ures prices Now there is one safe
principle to go on, when you are dis
cussing what is going to happen and
that principle is that people are not
going to do anything that is injurious
to them, if they know it. You can
count on selfish interest always and
when you tell me that men Will hoard
money under free coinage I tell you
that I know that they viii not hoard
money because people never hoard
money when money is falling in value.
They do not hoard wheat when wheat
is going down. You Will find that when
the price begins to fall they begin to
get rid of the thing falling in price,
and under free coinage there viii be a
larger amount of money brought into
circulation and people understand that
that means the purchasing power Of
the dollars VIII fall and when that
commences. the man who owns the
dollar viii be trying to get rid of the
dollar and get hold Of something which
is rising in it's purchasing power.
BRYAN AT BLOOMINGTON.
DWIGHT Ill, Oct 27-=The wOrkingmen
of Bloomington listened to w J. Bryan
at 80 o'clock this morning and they
gave him cordial reception. In Frank
lin park and near the residence of
Vice President Stevenson. he talked to
an audience of several thousand peOplet
and after being introduced by Vice
President Stevenson, paid that gentle
man . mpliuent as being one of the
Democrats still true to the traditions OF
his party He then proceeded to an
sVFer questions prOpOunded to him by
morning paper and his answers appar-
emily satisfied the crowd
Mr.. Bryan said. This is the home of
the vice president Of the geatest nation
of Gods fOOtstOOl. M who have been
keepers of the Democratic faith love
Ad1ai Stevenson, not only for what he
is but we love him because he is all We
have left of the last national Demo
cratic ticket If we had any doubt as
to the Democracy OF our position on the
money question, want you 70 read
what the Republican candidate for the
presidency said yesterday. f1e says in
q speech from the front porch (Laugh-
teri every dollar representing one hun
dred cents is good, not only among our
own people. but everywhere trade goes,
in every market and market place Of
the world Now remember what he
says Speaking of this dollar he says.
It was made by the Republican party,
But let me say while 1t was made by
the Republican party the administra-
tion of Grover Cleveland has maintain
cd it,
There he tells you that Grover CIeve-
land has simply carried out the policy
OF the Republican party and inferen-