Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-10-02
in TAMMANY HALL.
Mr.. Bryan Addresses a Big Crowd
in the Historical Building.
FINANCIAL QUESTIONS DISCUSSED.
Storm in the East Destroys Telegraphio
Communication, Cutting on Full Re-
pore of the Meeting speech In
Jersey City.

New York, Sept. 3o.-It has bsen
many q decade since the historical Tam
many wigwan has held such compact
mass of humanity as that assembled
there Tuesday night to hear William
Jennings Bryan and others speak. AL
though eight O'Clock was the hour set
for the proceedings to begin three hours
earlier the doors of the famous meet
ing place were besieged by 9 clamorous
throng. 1t kept growing in numbers
until six o'clock when the doors were
'thrown open. There We're then enough
people assembled in the vicinity CT Tam
many to fill the wigwam twice over.
There is but one gallery in the hall,
and in very short space of time this
was jammed. The seats had been re-
moved from the orchestra floor for the
purpose Of eeonon1izing space and the
crowd was compelled to stand through
out the meeting. Il was one solid mass,
enthusiastic from start and good ma
tured, despite the uncomfortable en-
vironments. A liberal supply of small
American flags had been passed around,
end these were kept continuously wav-
ing by the enthusiastic sLouters.
Mr.. Bryan's address was devoted
mainly to the finance question, and he
was literally applauded throughout. He
advanced little that was new in the way
of argument.
storm Cuts on Report.
Chicago, Sept. Blowing to the
prevalence of storm in the east by
which Geographic communication was
partially destroyed, report of the Bryan
meeting at Tammany hall, New York
city, Is curtailed.
Reasons Tor His Tour.
Jersey City, N. j., Sept. 3o.-Mr.
Bryan made brief speech at the
Academy of Music in this city Tuesday.
He said that one Of the reasons why in
this campaign he has departed some
what from precedent and has gone over
the country himself is because it has
enabled him to reach the people them
selves; whereas if the party had more
daily papers the people could be reached
through them. f his going around re-
suits to his disadvantage, it was better
for the people to find him out before
election than after. His remarks were
confined almost exclusively to discus
sion OF the campaign question. Among
other things he said:
Law Above Commerce.
Our opponents are all the time talking
about maintaining the parity between two
metals and neglecting the fact that under
the gold standard we have failed to main
tain the parity between dollar and prop
,erty. They entirely ignore the effect Of
legislation when we desire legislation, al
though they are very conscious of the
potency OF legislation when they use 1t on
their size. If in 1873. they had proposed a
Law such as was passed In that year closing
the Mats to the free coinage of silver, and
we had said to them why law can DO moth
ing on this subject; commerce regulates the
value of these things. what would they
nave SAID! They would not have been con-
tenn 70 let commerce regulate them. Then
they wanted the law to step In and strike
down one of the money metals and give to
gold the monopoly of mint privileges, and
when they have done that they have bios
Ieamsd out into believers of noninterfer-
iteH xaB law can do nothing, that com
.nSTee "a everything. remind them Of the
lay 81 1884 The advocate Of the gold
stAndapa VIII tell yon that from the be
ginning Of our financial history down to 1884
gold was at a premium and silver was rhe
money In common use among the people.
= no Will tell you that after 1884 silver was at
a premium and gold was the money in cir
culation among the people. What changed
the habits of our people and made them
stop using silver and commence using gold !?
Was 1t commerce? 1t was little law Of
but few words that changed the ratio
from fifteen to one, to sixteen to one, and
by 30 doing gave the advantage to silver.
That change put silver at premium be-
cause there was demand for silver in
France at more favorable ratio than ours.
And therefore our silver either went to
France where 1t could be coined at the
ratio Of fifteen and one-half to one or If it
stayed here 1t stayed at Its commodity
value. When these people tell you COM
lmerce is above law, you point to that little
law that changed the customs Of the peo-
pie and money in use among them in a