The herald., 1896-10-04

vania. have nothing to conceal; Will
tell you why 1 came, first, to secure, II
possible, the electoral vote of the state
Of Pennsylvania. (Cheers.) II you de-
ny that, If you withhold that vote. II we
are defeated in this campaign: tnen - !
to tell the people of Pennsylvania that
the agitation for free silver Will never
cease in this country until the gold
standard is driven back to England.
(Great cheering and noise, which was
kept up for considerable ttme.)
THE SILVER CRAZE"
"You say that the craze is dying out.
You call 1t the silver craze You may
apply such epithets as you like, but l
know the silver cause will not die, be-
cause truth never dies. (Cheers) You
ask me why know that this cause is
true. I could give you many reasons,
but one is sufficient-that every enemy
of good government Is against free Sill
YER. (Cheers.) You can know cause
as you know an Individual. by the COM
pany he keeps, and our cause appeals
to the masses Of the people because the
masses are interested in equal laws.
Our cause is opposed by those who want
to use the government for profit, for
gain because we are opposed to govern
ments instituted for such purposes
(Cheers)
City of Brotherly Love- come 10 pro
claim to YOU the gospel that is described
by the name of your city, and yet you
say you will give 100, 900 majority against
a doctrine--(The cheers drowned the
remainder Of the sentence.) l want to
see the financial independence In the
city which saw the Declaration OF lnde-
nendence signed. (Cheers.) You say
that this city, in which the forefathers
gathered when they were willing to de-
~ all foreign powers and declare their
acknowledgement say this city ls
afraid to have financial independence.
I shall not declare the descendants OF
the forefathers of 100 years ago have
descended so low unless you say so in the
ballot you cast next November.
"The issue raised now was raised then.
There were people then who said that
we could not get along unless some for
eign nation was looking after them. me
people who 100 years ago declared In
favor Of foreign supremacy were people
who had business dealings with for
eign influences, and in this country they
acted as the agents of the people who
employed them over there. 1t is true to-
day. You have your banks In this city
today controlled by the influences IN
London, and my friends, have no
more respect for the American who takes
his patriotism from Lombard street than
i nave IOT Tue 'lOIy IVV yCdi o6O "AAo
took his patriotism from the same place.
A QUESTION OF DIGNITY.
cone of the papers said LACKED dig
nity.' (Great and long continued laugh
ter, followed by groans.) l have been
looking at the matter, and you know
would rather have it said that lack
dignity than to have 1t said that lack
backbone to meet the enemies of the
government, who work against its well
in, a cfr
other presidents did they ever charge
with a lack Of dignity? "a voice-I.ln
coln.) Yes, my friends, they said it of
Lincoln, and of Jackson; yes, and OF
Jefferson, for he was lacking in dignity,
too. Laughter.) Now I tell you how
dignified a man ought to be, because
you know everybody has his idea of
these things. think man ought to be
just dignified enough-not too dignifled
and not lacking in dignity Now it might
be more dignifed If would stay at
home and let people come to see me
great laughter); but you know / said
/ was not going to promise to give any
body an office, and therefore a great
Iuany people who might come to see
a candidate under some circumstances
would not come to zee me at all. And
then, too, our people do not have money
to throw at the birds. Why, our peo-
pie are people who want more money,
and if they could come all the way to
Nebraska to see me, 1t would show that
they had money enough now. (Cries of
You are right, BillO
Nov, my friends, do not like to be
lacking in anything of the essentials,
but I canot see that there is any
lack of dignity shown If come before
the people to talk to them and tell them
what I stand for and what I am op-
posed to.
"They say I am begging for votes
T q q ms n 70 70
for me. (Cheers.) In fact, have told
some people to vote against me; that is
more than some candidates do. have
said that if there was anybody who be-
Heved that the maintenance of the gold
standard until foreign nations permit
ted us to abandon 1t; have said that
If they believed 1t was absolutely es-
sential to maintain the gold standard
until such time, they ought not to vote
for me at all.
HIS PURPOSE TO ABOLISH A GOLD
STANDARD.
II do not want anybody to vote for
me and tfren object to anything I may
do after they elect me- If I can prevent
the maintenance of the gold standard
you can rely upon my doing it upon
the very first opportunity that the peo-
pie will give me. Great cheering.) My
position on public questions is known,
and I do not use the words Sound
] do not use the words honest money
when talk about dollar the most dis
honest that this country ever saw-a
gold dollar that gets bigger all the
time.
HIS PLATFORM
My platform sets forth certain prop-
ositions, and it states that the money
question is the prominent issue, and
then two other parties, to neither of
which ever belonged, declared in a
national convention that the money
question is prominent, and they nomi-
mated me; and every man who is sup
porting me is willing to say why he
does it, In that respect I have the ad-
vantage Of some.
THE PALMER PARTY DENOUNCED
There is one party--no, it is not a
party; 1t claims to be a party-which
puts up one ticket in order to elect an
other. (Cheers and howls.) 1 am too
dlgnifed to advocate one thing when l
mean to do another thing (Cries of
mats rightly am too dignfiied To
nominate one ticket for the purpose of
voting for another ticket I am too
dignined to practice deception upon the
american people and then ask for
tThe remainder of the sentence was
drowned In applause.)
WHAT THE REPUBLICAN PLAT
FORM FAILS TO SAY
1.-THE Republican platform a.opted al
St Louis does not say that the gold
standard is a good one. You have heard
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