The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-04
SUNNY DAYS FOR FREE SILVER.
BRYAN STILL WAGING A BRILLIANT
BATTLE.

| Every stopping flace IN 1nutnnu
and IIIinOis-The Fight in Past
Congresses for Free Coinage Re-
viewed In His Speech ut Law
rencevlIIe.
Cincinnati, o., Oct. S.-The departure
Of William j. Bryan from Cincinnati for
st. Louis this morning was quiet one.
The presidential candidate spent the night
as the guest of Judge James p. Tarvin
in Covington. After a hasty breakfast at
8 O'Clock. Mr.. Bryan was driven to the
grand central depot in this city. where
he was Joined by his travelling compan-
ions, Congressman Benton McMin of
Tennessee, Ben C. Davis, his private sec
retary, and Allen w. Clark, chairman of
the Indiana Silver League. Just before
Z o'clock, the time of departure, Mr. Bryan
came or the rear platform of the car
around which 200 people had gathered.
He spent the few minutes in shaking
hands with those who desired to, using
both hands and leaning down over the
railing with considerable effort. The crowd
cheered as the train pulled out.
North Vernon, Ind, Oct. 3.When Mr..
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tracks at Lawrenceburg, the familiar
countenance of ex-Congressman Holman,
"the watch dog of the treasury" was the
first thing he saw. Judge Holman pre-
sented the candidate, who made ten
minute speech to 1900 or more enthusi-
astic people.
The audience at Aurora Ind, was
slightly larger than that at Lawrenceburg
and was equally enthusiastic. Stepping
from the car platform to the speakers
stand, Mr.. Bryan made another address.
He took big chances of catching cold by
standing bareheaded in the chilly morn
ing air
A whirr and a rush was all the several
hundred inhabitants gathered at the sta
tion at Milan saw of the Bryan train.
They did not see the candidate at all.
Osgood was reached at 1855 O'Clock and
had Mr. Bryan for fifteen minutes. 1t
also had a brass band and the candidate
talked from the regulation stand to an
audience of nearly thousand persons,
many of whom came in from the sur
rounding country in big farm wagons.
St. Louis, Mo-, Oct at was through
the country that he knew so we'll as
boy and young man that William ]. Bryan
proceeded after leaving Vincennes, Ind.
Vincennes had made a holiday Of the
democratic candidates brief visit and a
great crowd, estimated at in the neigh
borhood of 1000, made him welcome there.
In his speech. he said: 'In the last
three years it required an issue of $2O2 OOO,-
COO bonds to maintain the gold standard
and there is no telling how many more
bonds must be issued to maintain the
gold standard if it is continued in this
country You have a chance this fall to
decide by your ballots whether you de-
sire to abandon it and substitute the
ipa ma
tells us that we must keep something
which we desire to get rid of until other
nations help us to let go of 1t. We have
waited for twenty years and we are
further away from the double standard
to-day than we have ever been before.
The gold standard never fought an open
battle. No step has been taken in favor
of gold except it was taken in the dark"
(Applause)
At Lawrenceville, the first stop in IL
linois, Congressman McMillin of Tennes-
see assisted Mr. Bryan in addressing 700
or 800 people.
At Oiney the former home of John Tan
ner. the republican candidate for governor
of Illinois, Mr.. Bryan was given cor
dial reception. The streets about the
railway station were jammed with hui
manity. and many were obliged to find
places of vantage on neighboring houses
Mr.. Bryan delivered his speech from a
temporary stand and was cheered vigor-
ously. He said, in part Il was brought
up in Southern Illinois, and 1 was taught
that the science of politics was an hon
orable science in a government like this
and every citizen ought to take an in
terest in politics, and that every citizen
should regard it his duty to make the
government just as good as possible My
friends, Andrew Jackson stated a great
truth when he said there were no neces-
sary evils in government; that its evils
exist only in it's abuses and abuses of
government crop in where people are
Indifferent to the duties of citizenship
and allow a few men to use the instrp-
mentalities of government for private
gain"
A voice-Like they did when they de-
monetized silver
Mr.. Bryan continued: Yes, that is a
striking illustration of how a few men
will seize the government and use 1t 10
advance their own selfish interests If the
people are not always vigilant. They de-
monetized silver You ask them why, and
you will find that al the time it was
done, it was not generally understood.
The newspapers in this land did not point
out to the American people the effect Of
the demonetzation when that bill was
under discussion They did not know II.
They did not talk about it; they did not
understand it, and yet for twenty years
the people have been trying to undo in
broad light that which was done in the
darkness of the night. Great cheers.)
Sometimes they have secured the House
Of Representatives, sometimes they have
secured the Senate, sometimes free coinage
has passed one house and sometimes the
other, but the free coinage Of silver has
never passed both houses during the
same congress. At one time they passed
the Bland act. II was a compromise, but
when it went to the President he vetoed
it, and they had TO pass It over his veto,
and my friends, from the time
that silver was demonetized until
now the few fnanciers in the
eastern states have been able to control
the financial policy of every President who
has occupied the chair since 1873. (Cheers)
The President has veto and 1t is neces-
sary for two-thirds of both houses to
concur in any act Of legislation before II
can be passed over his veto. Therefore
II the fnanciers are able to control the
President, they are equal to two-thlrds OF
the people Of the country represented by
tho two houses Of congress. We passed
through both houses a bin to coin the
seignorage, to coin into dollars $55,OOOOOO