The record-union., 1896-07-15

Delegates to st. LOUIS 10 vote ioI
His Nomination at the Silver Con-
ventiou - Senator Peffer Comes
Out for Bryan.
CENTRALIA Qn.), July 14.-Mr Bry-
an arrived at 6:10 O'Clock at Centralla
where he was received quietly and
placed in the private carriage OF cap
tain S. L. Dwight and driven to the lat
ter's residence. Mrs. Dwight and her
sister, Mrs. Haussler, cousins OF MI
Bryan, assisted the candidate and his
Wife in the reception given at captain
Dwight's house to the ladies OF the
town AfterWard there was meeting
at the City Park, where Mr. and Mrs
Bryan shook hands with a large number
or people A band was in attendance
A special train brought excursionists
and the Bryan Club from Nashville,
W ashington County, with another band,
and the Silver Club from Ashley and a
delegation from Fairfield were also
there In response to cheers from the
crowd Mr. Bryan consented to speak,
and mounting an improvised stand he
made an address, He said:
Ladies and gentlemen: I did not
come to make a speech, the campaign is
hardly opened yet, but coming back to
Marion County to attend to some busi-
ness which had to be attended to before
1 returned to my Nebraska home, /
was glad to accept an invitation to
sIend two or three hours with my rela-
~ hill hnr fn at
again the citizens whom 1 met before.
(Applause)
I'VE are entering upon a memorable
campaign, and the issues are being
drawn for the contest. The two par
ties, or the two leading parties, have
already made their platforms, and have
already named their candidates for
President and Vice-President, and in a
short time the campaign will be opened
fully, and you win make up your minds
as to which platform and as to which
ticket you viii support. / trust that the
issues involved in this campaign viii be
clearly understood and carefully studied.
Parties are not made to be Worshiped; !;
they are merely the instruments by
which we serve onr country, and people
are made not for the parties, the parties
are made for the people, and parties can
only claim the support of the people
when these parties are efficient instru-
ments in the hands of the people for ac-
complishing good. And those who are
called upon to vote have the right to
consider the platform Ctterance and the
policies advocated by the various par
ties as well as the ca andidates who are
nominated.
I'm this campaign I believe that there
will be less of personalities and more of
principle than in any campaign which
We have seen in recent years. The peo-
pie have before them two great public
questions We must not expect that
any platform will contain all that you
desire. No thinking person finds in any
platform an expression of everything
which he desires nor must we expect
that any platform will be free from
some objection We select our party,
we select our platform, not in the hope
of finding something which is absolute
" in accord with our OPINIONS, but we
take that platform which for the time
being promises to US the best legisla-
ton on the most important issues. And
IN this campaign it is decided on all
sides that the most important is the
money question 1t matters not whether
YOU believe in the restoration of silver or
in the gold standard you must admit
that the settlement of the money qGes-
ton is of the first and greatest impor-
lance which, once settled, leaves moth
ing to be desired.
ION the money question the two par
ties have taken positions directly op-
posite Four years ago the position of
ahe two parties was almost identically
the same. Both parties declared for
gold and silver as our money metals.
Four years have passed, and these four
years have been fun of momentous hap
penings, but as this campaign ap-
proaches the great parties line them
selves up for the fray. Upon this ques-
ton the party at St. Louis declared for
the maintenance of the gold standard,
but that platform does not say that the
gold standard is a good thing, because
that platform pledged the party to get
rid of the gold standard. but declared
that this change could not be made ex-
cept by international agreement.
THE Democratic party met at Chi
cago. and it adopted the platform
which is in direct opposition TO the
platform adopted at St. Louis. The st.
Louis convention declared for the
maintenance of the gold standard until
something else could be done in the near
future. But more than that, the Re-
publican platform did not promise any
complete monetary system. The Dem
ocratic party outlined what IL desired
to have done. and declared that the sill
Yer dollar should be of full legal tender
for all debts public and private. and
that such legislation should be enacted
as is necessary for the unlimited COIN
age Of silver and gold at the present
ratio Of Is to 1, without waiting for the
aid of any other nation.
I'VE also declared that the silver dol
lar should be full legal tender for all
debts, public and private, and that such
legislation should be enacted that is
necessary to prevent for the future the
demonstration of any legal tender
money. The platform declares that the
Government should exercise the right
to redeem its obligations in either gold
or silver. The issue is drawn, and we
have our choice in this campaign be-
tween an American financial system for
an American people and an English sys-
tenn for the English aristocracy. If |
mistake not, the American people will