The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-09-20
WEATHER INTERFERED WITH THE
BIG TIME PLANNED AT WASH
INGTON.
HE SAID HIS LITTLE SAY.
EXPECTED, BUT VERY EN-
THUSIASTIC.
RESPECTS PAID TO MIR. CARLISLE.
Recent Letter of the Secretary OF
the Treasury Attacked by the
Silver Nominee.

| WASHINGTON, Sept. IA heavy
wind and rain storm seriously inter-
| fered with the arrangements which
had been made by the local commit
tee for grand reception to Candidate
Bryan at the Old Capitol base ball
park this afternoon. The crowd was
considerably below the expectations Of
those having the arrangements in
charge, but there was no lack of en-
thusiasm. When Mr.. Bryan appeared
on the platform he was received with
such demonstration as is rarely ac-
corded public speaker. For fully five
minutes the cheering continued, Mr..
! Bryan standing bare-headed and evil
IDENTIFY much gratified at receiving such
unmistakable evidence Of approval Of
himself and his cause. For some time
before his arrival dark rain and wind
laden clouds from the west gave GER
! tain promise Of downpour and he
had not spoken more than few min
| utes when the rain came down in tor
rents, drenching every one exposed to
it. Still the crowd kept their places
and cheered and called to the speaker
to go on.
The scene was a remarkable one.
After waiting some time, however, Mr..
| Bryan left the platform and drove to
his hotel. Almost every sentence in
| the speakers brief address was wildly
cheered, and the crowd was especially
vociferous when Mr.. Bryan declared
himself in favor of home rule and op-
posed to life tenure in public office Mr..
Bryan said in part:
| Il am grateful to you for the very
| cordial welcome which you have ex-
| tended to me as 1 return to the city
| in which four years of official life were
spent. applause, and cries of Wen
make it four more.'D I see before me
the faces of a great many who are
known as young men, and I am glad
to speak to the young, because we,
who are young and who, in the course
| OF nature, must live under our govern
ment for many years. are interested in
making that government good enough
to live in (Applause)
After strongly indorsing the home
rule plank in the Chicago platform, he
| continued:
We are opposed to life tenure in the
| public service. (Applause.) We favor
| appointments based upon merit. fixed
terms Of office and such an admins
tration of the civil service laws as will
afford equal opportunities to all citi-
zens of ascertained fitness. except as
otherwise provided by the constitution
Of the United States My friends. we
are in favor of the civil service re-
| forms that mean something and not
| civil service law that permits the
president to suspend the civil service
law until he can get his friends into
office, and permits another president
to extend the service just as he is go
| n h hi, frin I1
plause) We believe in appointments
based upon merit and such a method
OF appointments as will open the Of
fees to those of aScertained fitness
Applause.) We are in favor Of fixed
terms of office in the civil department
OF the government. We want it so
that when man goes in he will know
how long he is going to stay, and when
he is going out. We do not want to
build up an office-holding class and
I'LL our offices for life. A man, when
he gets his appointment, will then have
no more concern about his country ex-
cept to draw his salary when it is due
Great applause) We believe that the
life tenure which relieves a man from
all other further care Is destructive
to the highest forms of citizenship, and
should not be tolerated in a country
like ours. (Applause.)
Now, my friends, I want to call
your attention to one other subject
Our opponents are doing as much for
us in this campaign as we are able to
do for ourselves. (Applause) And Of
all the public documents recently is
sued, the most important one is a let
ter just given to the public, written by
the secretary of the treasury, from
which l desire to quote one sentence.
1t is the duty Of the secretary of the treas
ury and all other public officials to execute in
| rood fo;f rO1in doolo oroui ru 0Ouc
and mark these words-but whenever he shall
be satisfied that a silver dollar cannot be
kept equal in purchasing power with gold
dollar except by receiving 1t in exchange for a
gold dollar, when such exchange is demanded,
it will be his duty to adopt that course.
II want you to mark those words,
because in those words the secretary of
the treasury tells you that when the
secretary is satisfied that it is neces-
Sary, he will commence redeenling sill
yer dollars in gold Great applause) I
call your attention to it,, my friends,
| because / want to emphasize the de-
ception that has been practiced by this
administration on the money question
| When this administration advised the
repeal of the Sherman law, you were
told that the repeal Of the Sherman law
would remedy the difficulty and as soon
as the Sherman law was repealed, the
same authority which promised relief,
as soon as that law was repealed, came
to congress with a demand that the
greenbacks and treasury notes must
be retired by the issue of gold bonds
in order to stop the drain on the treas
ury's gold, and now the secretary of
the treasury informs you that, even
If the greenbacks and the treasury
notes were all retired, it would be his
duty whenever, in his opinion it became
necessary, to redeem silver dollars in
gold and start another endless chain
that would drain the treasury Great
applause)
According to the doctrine LAID down
in Mr.. Carlisle's letter, you cannot stop
the drain of gold from the treasury un-
til you retire all the silver dollars and
silver certifica tes. and leave nothing but
geld as the money in this country. I
am glad that this declaration has been
made. | am glal that our opponents
are, step by step. revealing to the pub
lie their heartless. merciless, criminal
policy. Great applause.) I denounce the
policy as more cruel and heartless than
political domination OF foreign power.
L would rather, as someone has said.
| would rather put our army in the
hands of foreign general, or our navy
in command of a foreign admiral, than
to put the treasury department in the
hands of a secretary who would barter
1T away. Great applause.) 1 would
resist such financial policy with as
much earaeStneSs as I would resist the
progress Of an invading army coming
to attack our homes" Great applause