Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1896-10-16
IT WAS A GREAT DAY
RRyAN TALKS HIS WAY TO The
TWIN CITIES.
- usuI Luboring Men Present Sill
yer Pen With Which to sign
a Free Coinage Bill.

vas a+ Herman, and Mr.. Bryan discussed |
| tho 5o-cent dollar proposition. AT Morris, |
Mimi. the largest and most enthusiastic |
crowd was found since Fargo was ieit
behind. Mr.. Bryan spoke to the people
| few minutes from the rear platform OF
| the car. A short stop was made at i5eh-
son, and Mr.. Bryan spoke few mlnll'es'
| II was crowd of farmers that received
him from one end of the trip to the other,
and at no place were they more enthusI-
| astic than at Wilmar Mr. Bryan to q
them the American people had always
been equal to any emergency and that
crisis had been reached in the hnancla'
| history of the country He said that Tor
years the republicans had been working
to maintain a gold standard under over
of openly advocating bimetallism
The nominee told the people at Litch-
field whore a crowd of several hundred
people had gathered, that the money
question was not too deep for the Amor
lean people He cited from James O.
Blaine TO support his theory of free co n
age as follows
THE establishment Of gold as the sole
unit of value and the destruction OF Sill
yer money, would bring enormous profits
to those who hold fixed investments
At Wavery, which was reached late
this afternoon, prominently displayed was
crude banner marked, our sons VIII
answer Yale November 3,
Mir. Bryan spoke briefly. combining nm
self mainly to an explanation OF the r9aJ
meaning of free coinage, and the dis ort
ed meanings put upon the term by the
gold people. The last stop of the cay
, | O.. ba5
lano. where Mr.. Bryan spoke to crowd
OF several hundred from the rear plat
form.
1 The Bryan party reached St. Paul a
D few minutes before o'clock, and was
taken at once to the Ryan hotel for din
y ner Old soldiers were included in the
escort that greeted them, and a large
g crowd gathered to get view of the cam
q didate. The main meeting of the even
- ing was that in the big Auditorium, he
eating capacity of which is COCO, but
r which contained not less than 20GO others
g who had crowded into all the available
o standing room.
4 Before the speech by Mr.. Bryan Louis
|, Nash for the local labor organizations.
6 presented him with a silver pen and an
address on silk expressing the hope that
this pen might be used in signing the
n free coinage bill that they hoped to pass
Besides the meeting at the Auditorium
" other meetings. were held at the Market
hall and at Paul Martins opera house
al " here Mr. Bryan spoke more briefly.
, Preferred Bryan to DOnneIIy.
A., At the Auditorium the candidate was
- introduced by S. L. Pierce of this city
, His speech was we'll received. and al
n the close the crowd followed the noni
nee rather than stay and hear a speech
il by Ignatius Donnelly. who followed.
. At the Auditorium Mr.. Bryan said:
- Before addressing myself to the sub
~ ject in hand, 1 desire to express to th'
, organized labor of this city my grateful
:. appreciation of the gift which they hay,
9 presented. 1t Is a silver pen and hold
ar er, and if I shall be elected by my coun
trymen to be chief executive of this ma
ton, that pen and that holder shall b.
" used to sign free coinage bill. Ant
! am glad the pen with which my sig
n. nature shall be affixed is the gift OF tn
l5boring men, because l believe that TIL
laborng men of this country-aye NOR
- than that, the laboring men of all thi
- world-are interested in the restoration
49, of silver to its ancient place by the sid
OF gold. ] would not favor the free coin
at age of silver did l not believe It woul
IL" be beneficial to those who toll, because
Us my friends, my political phlosoph
t" teaches me that there can be no prosper
cl itS in this nation unless that prosperit
lie begins first among those who Great
A- wealth. and finds its way afterwards I
ny the other classes of society.
eli My friends, when government is pro-
IN erly administered there will be no raj
IS road wreckers to make themselves rio
by bankruDting those who mt thci, COY