The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-08-20
EATS ICE CREAM AND CAKE
BRYAN NPARTTCIPATE TIES IN 4 METHO-
 DIST CH URCH FAIR.


 limited Coinage Because He Conceives
 It to Be the Only Remedy for the Heavy
 Burden Which is Upon the People
 Visits Governor Morton's Stock Farm.
 Red Hook, N. Y, Aug. 19.-At 2 o'clock MT and Mrs. Bryan and MT. and Mrs. Perrine left Upper Red Hook in covered wagon to drive over to Ellerslie, Governor Morton's home. With them went the Misses Perrine and a number of friends in vehicles and on bicycles. Others joined them along the road, and by the time Ellerslie was reached the procession was quite for midable Governor Morton is in he Adirondacks and Mr. Bryan and his friends inspected the stock stable and the dairy houses at Ellerslie under es- cort of Governor Morton's superintend- ent, who had been instructed from AL bany by the governors secretary to show the candidate every attention
 
 party visited the estate of Colonel Ja- cob Ruppert, the brewer, and then started for Rhinebeck. On the way, MT. Bryan was waylaid by Rev. MT. Richards, pastor of the Hillside Meth odist church, and invited to visit the church fair in progress in a tent. MT. Bryan paid two dollars for the admis- sion of the party and made liberal pur- chases of ice cream and cake.
 Rhinebeck people were on the look out for the candidate. He had tele- phoned to have supper for himself and friends at o'clock, and when he ar rived he found the ancient Rhinebeck hotel decorated with bunting in his honor. A reception committee was al so awaiting him with brass band. There were republicans as well as dem- ocrats on the committee and MT. Bryan was informed that the reception was intended to be entirely partisan.
 Three hundred people gathered in front of the hotel and applauded when MT Bryan stepped upon the decorated balcony. He was welcomed in a brief speech by George Esseltyne, a promi- nent republican. To the speech MT. Bryan replied
 I think that I can so further than the chairman of this gathering. He | says to be president is to be greater than to be a Roman or a king. But to | be citizen is to be greater than in any 1 nation on earth. I rejoice that I live l in a land where those who, for a time | being, exercise authority derive that | authority from the consent of the gov- erned and do not rule by high di- vine. In this land, whether we live ! along the Hudson or on the western prairie, we stand upon a common plane and We participate in a govern ment which represents us all.
 I've may belong to different parties, l but I trust I may be able to express | the desire of each of you as well as of myself when I say that we ought to | belong at all times to that party which ! in our judgment will enable us best to serve our country. Parties are instru- ments, not ends. They are the means we use to secure that which we believe | to be best for us, for our families and 1 for our fellows. Issues are up from | time to time, and it is the duty of every | citizen who loves his country, and who appreciates the responsibility which 1 rests upon him, to study each issue as 1t arises.
 q am not here tonight to make you a political speech. I am in your midst | to rest, but I cannot withstand the | temptation at this time to beg that you will study, if you have not done it here | tofore, that issue which in this cam- paign is paramount. I know that among our neighbors in the east there are many who have regarded our posi- | tion upon the money question, the po- | sition taken by the Chicago convention, as entirely wrong, and they speak of the silver sentiment as sort of disease l "T want to beg you, my friends, to believe that we who advocate the restoration of the money of the con- l stitution are not seeking that rolicy because we believe it is going to give us an advantage over somebody else | We have studied the question as best we could and we believe there can be l no permanent, no general prosperity | in this country until we stop the con- | spiracy of those who would make gold l the only standard and make all other things depend on that alone. We be- lieve that while the struggle for gold | goes on other things must become | cheaper; that as we increase the de- mand for that one thing we must de- | crease the price of all those things l that we change for gold and we believe l that this falling of prices compelled by | legislation is destructive to the ener- | gies, the industries and the hope of the | toiling masses of the United States and all over the world (Applause)
 T beg of you, when you are consid- ! ering this question to remember that this is a great nation and that is is made up Of millions of people eacE the equal of the other. I have visited some of your beautiful villas along the Hudson. 1 have been charmed with l the beautiful things, but I beg you when you study this question to re- member that those who instead of oc- | cupying these magnificent places must | toll all day, under the summer sur have just as much interest in the mon- 1 ey question as any one else.
 Remember that this question cannot l be viewed from the standpoint of any class of people. It reaches every man woman and child in the land, and you | should make your view broad enough | to comprehend them all, because I be- | lieve speak the truth when I say that
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