The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-24

! tions concerning the bond deals and spoke
at length on the poey b by mony
| Bryan said
IF the Republican party is in earnest in
! its desire to have the nations OF the old
| world help us why don't they have a pc
| tition at every Republican meeting and let
| all the citizens sign it; begging the foreign
nations to come and help US? Applause.)
standard here. We are in favor. not of the
| gold standard but of the immediate res
| toration of the free and unlimited coinage
| of gold and silver at the present legal ra-
ito of 16 to l without waiting for the aid
or consent of any other nation. (Applause)
They used to call that a sectional issue.
It is not sectional issue. (Applause.)
You say it began out West. Yes, and thank
God it did not end out West. (ApDlause)
1t grew, and at the Chicago convention the
West and the South were united in favor of
that policy, and, strange to say, they had
their way Applause.)
WE'RE TOO SMART.
your representatives told that you
folks down here did not want bimetallism.
(Cries of We did, and "Traitors!) The
trouble was that you people here had not
studied the money question like the people
| out there. (Cries of That's right; we
studying it now!) You thought that you
knew everything without studying, and
| therefore did not study it. daughter and
| applause.) Our folks read what you said
| about them and concluded that they would
have to study if they ever knew anything,
| so they went to work and studied and
knew before you. (Applause.) The Chi
| cago convention was the most democratic
| convention ever held. 1t was democratic
| in the sense that the people ruled in that
| convention Applause) Never, in this
| country. has convention been held which
| reflected the wishes of those who elected
| the delegates as we'll as that convention
The opponents of free coinage of silver
| your dollar will be worth no more than
the Mexican dollar. Applause and cries OF
don't. 1 did not speak of it because there
| was anybody in this audience who was in
| such intellectual darkness that he did, but
| l simply mentioned it to show you what
friends, this Mexican dollar is not just
| like the new silver dollar is going to be.
| That Mexican dollar won't pay your taxes.
The new silver dollar pays your taxes
The ile' new silver dollar viii III pay debts No
| body will take that Mexican dollar because
| if he takes it there is nobody to whom he
| can give it. The people will take new sill
| Yer dollars in exchange for what they
| have to SELL because they can use those
| they deal. 1t makes great difference, my
| friends. 1t makes a great difference Wheth-
| not. If they offer you Mexican dollars you
| ask them where they will make you con-
| tract to furnish you those dollars at 80
| cents when our minis are open to the free
| coinage of silver, so that you can take
| them to the mint and convert them into
| American dollars worth 100 cents. They
| say this silver is worth only so cents: They
| did not say it until after demonstration
| had closed our minis.
| why is it that silver is worth ony SO
| or IS cents? Because there is a surplus of
| silver that can't find an opportunity to be
| coined and therefore must be sold to make
| spoons out of. Open the minis so that
| every man who owns an ounce of silver
| and then is he going to sell that silver for
| less and let the other man make the
profit? No, my friends, he is not going to
| do that. 1t is merely question of furnish
| ing a demand for all the silver that Will
come here. That's the only question
! that is involved in this money ques-
| ton. You say that we only say we
believe it,. My friends. you, only say you
| do not believe it. That's all you can say.
You cannot prove it. We affirm our views
on certain principles. We take, what our
commercial strength, the area of this coun-
try, then take the amount of silver
coming in here, and we weigh that, and
we can use if it could come here" Gap
plause)
"COWARDLY FINANCIERS."
Mr.. Bryan then quoted Prince Bismarck's
recent letter on bimetallism and, comment
ing on the fears from independent action
by this Nation, said: Shame on the cow
ardly American who thinks this Nation is
not as big as Bismarck does. (Applause)
Oh, that some of the Republican campaign
fund might be used to pay the expenses
of some of those timid Americans if they
would go across the ocean and sit at the
foot of that great statesman and learn con-
fdence in the American people. cloud APP
plause.) We say if we cannot have an in
dependent financial system we cannot have
foreign policy of our own We have OPP
posed some of the policies of the President,
but let me tell you, let it be said OF the
people of the West and of the South that
dents financial policy, they stood by him
on the Monroe doctrine when your coward
ly nancisrs begged ir him to -, submit - IAn-
to send you to Washington! and Three
cheers for Bryan!O
a half and was concluded at 1918 o'clock.
Under the guidance of a local committee
he left the Academy of Music for the rink
meeting Upon reaching Montague street.
however, the disappointed crowds who
failed to get entrance f TO the nan Id
hastily provided the candidate made brief
open-air address.
Blackburn, of Kentucky, had been intro
duced. Just before leaving the stage Mr..
..one. of the bravest champions who ever
lifted his arm in behalf of the people,
The Senator made a characteristic speech
full of fire and passion, and scintillant with
shafts of irony and contempt for the gold
men. He arraigned the boiling Democrats
mercilessly, declaring that New York
Democrats We're to-day confronted by a
spectacle which they had never before be-
held. From President to dog-pelter," he
cried, ''the leaders of the party skulk-
ing in the rear" Amid great applause one
of the most enthusiastic meetings Mr..
to close
before Mr.. Bryan arrived at the Acad-
envy of Music Senator Patrick Fl. .McCar-
ron, secretary of the meeting, read set
of resolutions, which the meeting adopted
They recite. that the election to be held in
November is of greater importance than
any since the civil war, denounce corpora
lions and monopolies and compliment Bry-
for the skill with which he has thus
far led the fight. We find our faith in
by the abuse poured out upon him by the
enemies of the people, the defamers of
Democracy and the traitors to the Demo-
cratic cause, who, Venturing to insult the
intelligence of the American people by
using the Democratic name as a decoy
flag have at last found their fitting home
in the bosom of Republcanism as it is
typifed by Quay, of Pennsylvania, Plat,
of New York, and Mark Hanna, The labor
crusher of Ohio The document, in con-
cuson pledges the County Democracy for
Bryan and the whole ticket.
The l. NIX Meeting.
The meeting at TIE Clermont Rink was
called Labor demonstration" Instead of
the formal introduction nominating a pre-
siding officer, a clean-cut man with gray
hair stepped to the front of the platform
shortly before o'clock and said: will the
audience please take from their seats that
song that is there and join in singing it,
and they responded so heartily that the re-
frain. You shall not press the crown of