The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-01

great emergency of the Nation stood for
its honor and its glory and its. dignity
low than the Judgment OF those men who
had never represented any of the measures
any OF the things that had resulted for
the honor and the glory and the welfare
Il say to you to-day. In all sincerity and
candor. believing II TO be a legitimate ar
gument, In knowing that It Is entirely ap-
guide 20 light me onward in the right path
OF my political duty. 1t seems 10 me that
safer for '' me. TO- to turn away from the lead
ership of Tillman. and Altgeld. and Waite.
to follow the leadership of Allison and Reed
and the greatest among them all, William
Mckinley. loud applause.)
Il happened to hear w. j. Bryan four
years ago. in the congressional campaign
In my State. I pledge you, my country
meE, and Ii is solemn fact, that from the
beginning of that campaign TO the end
that William J. Bryan advocated no other
sue A made der no other argument than v,;, that
lam J. Bryan say to a great audience in
my State: Give us free trade and the
up But they went down. He said give
us free trade and business will boom; but IL
busted. loud applause and laughter.)
with new promise. They have discarded
the issue of four years ago, and they cay
now. give us free silver and the wages of
the prices of products will rise; give us
free silver. and new avenues of employ
ment will be opened up; give US free silver
and the business OF the country will BOOM
My countrynen. as business proposition
On which depends your welfare and mine,
in view of their predictions of four years
ago. don't you think IL would be advisable
to ask for a little collateral security In aid
of that promise? Cloud applause and
cheers.)
sea: to cut loose from ali weIi-deined land
marks, to go beyond any anchor, and 10
follow the glittering sheen that comes from
the water. that flees before the mariner as
rapidly as his PROV goes. Did you ever
stop to think that IL the free coinage of
silver will bring silver bullion back to it's
this increase in the price of products. none
of this increase in the price Of labor that
they promise on the other side? If We open
the r1ints of the United States for the free
and unlimited coinage of silver. Our silver
dollars on the American side of the Mex
ican line will be worth just the same as
Either we double the value of all the money
of China or Japan and South America,
where the silver standard is. or else we
drop our standard of measure down to the
To-day who has carried on this great
silver campaign? On the 1lth day of July.
Chronicle, published this in double type on
| It's editorial page: The propssators Of the
big bonanzas have found it profitable TO
| spokesmen on the road preaching TO. the
people. Among the many who have thus
been employed and carried on the pay rolls
! OF the big bOnanzas for number of years
is William ]. Bryan, of Nebraska a paid
| agent and spokesman for the free-silver
| combine
I'm the city Of Omaha, where William ].
Bryan does editorial work. the Omaha Bee
/ mas made the same specific charge edi-
| torially time and again. 1t has never been
met. / say as an American citizen, having
| at heart the welfare of the people. that
| the man posing as the advocate of the
! down-trodden masses of his countrymen
holding crown of thorns' in one hand
and the bugaboo cross OF gold in the
other. owes II as a duty TO every man
| woman and child in this country to say
whether that charge is false or whether Il
Is true. do say, my countrymen, and
know whereof speak, that for three years
and a half, without regard to Bryan. thai
there has been selected corps Of orators
producers. spreading their literature over
this country from one end to the other
telling the farmer that he will have more
| for his wheat telling the laboring mar
that he will have more for his work"