Birmingham state herald., 1896-10-10
HAWkEYES BRYAN-CRAZED
"Trot Him Out !" They Yelled Whenever and
 Wherever the Train Stopped.
AND HE MADE MANY SHORT SPEECHES
There Was Cold-Chill Rain at Sioux City, But He Mounted Truck and Addressed Several Thousand
 Sympathetic People.

Sioux City Ia, Oct. 9.--The people who got up early to see William J. Bryan would not let him sleep this morning. They banged on the windows of his pri- vate car a Marshalltown up to the time he left there at 1:43 a. m., and it was hard ly daybreak when 1t was renewed at lit- tie stations where the train halted on it's way to this city. There were crowds at Wall Lake, Odebolt, Arthur, Battle Creek, Danbury, Mapleton, Onawa and Whitin. MT. Bryan was obliged to rise early in response to shouts at several sta- tions of "Trot him out" and Let's see him!' He made a number of brief speech es. The biggest crowd that heard him was at Onawa, a populist stronghold.
 It was raining hard chill-cold rain when the candidate reached Sioux City at 10:20 this morning. He was escorted to the big train shed of the union passen- ger station and, mounted on truck, ad- dressed an audience of several thousand persons huddled together there.
 After an introduction by Judge Van Wagenen, candidate for congress in the Eleventh Iowa district, MT. Bryan said:
 Speech at Sioux City.
 Fellow Citizens: If our opponents are right in the declaration that the gold standard ought to be maintained in this country until foreign nations consent to its abandonment, then, my friends, the election of an advocate of free coinage would be an injury to the country. If, on the other hand, we are right in our con- tention that there can be no permanent relief until we have restored silver to it's ancient place and permit 1t to enter the mints on equal terms with gold-I say if we are right, then the maintenance of the gold standard is a crime against the American people. tCheers.)
 Tn the discussion of a great question like this there are several things which throw light upon the controversy. If you go into court and find a witness who is willing to clearly state what he knows, who gives his testimony without evasion, you believe that he is an honest witness. If, on the other hand, you find witness who deals in ambiguous phrases, who att tempts to evade questions and who at tempts to cover up his ideas with words of double meaning, you doubt the hon. esty and sincerity of the witness. So, in a controversy like this, when our people who advocate free coinage openly declare what they want, why they want it, and how they expect to get it; when they give you reasons for their faith, you have right to have confidence in the honesty of their purpose.
 "But when our opponents try to secure a gold standard without daring to ad- vocate it, when they talk about sound money when they mean gold; when they talk about an honest dollar, when they mean the most dishonest dollar there is in the land today (cheers), you have right to question their sincerity.
 My friends, men who have cause in which they believe are not ashamed to state their belief, and when you find writ ten on republican banners that deceptive phrase sound money,' you have right to believe that the men who use the term use it because they are not willing to tell the American people what they mean by sound money Cheers).
 .eWe believe in sound money and we believe that the free coinage of silver at 16 to 1 gives us sounder money than can be had by the gold standard We believe in safe financial system, but we believe that in order to be safe financial system must have foundation broad enough for that system to rest upon. (Cheers) Our opponents tell you that they want bimetallism whenever foreign nations will consent to having it and yet they
 Secretly Use Every Effort
 to fasten the gold standard upon the American people. (Applausel Let me ask you this question and you can re- peat it to the advocates of the republican platform Is the gold standard a good thing.?' (Cries of mo, no" from the crowd, and one cry of "yes.'D.
 My republican friend says the gold standard is a good thing. I ask him why the republican party promised to get rid of the gold standard as soon as they could. (Cheers) Departing from their platform, the republicans will tell you that gold is good money because it is good all over the world. My friends. no money is good which rises in value and robs the producers of this country to the beneht of the bondholder (Cheers)
 "They say the gold dollar is honest. No dollar is honest which rises in value and gives an unearned advantage to the man who loans money and is impossible and an unjust burden on the man who agrees to pay it. (Applause)
 ""There is something necessary in money besides quality. There must be quantity as well as quality to money" (Cheers)
 On the conclusion of his speech MT. Bryan returned to his train which left at II :15 a. n over the Chicago and North ern for Sioux Falls, $. D.
 In and Out of South Dakota.