Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1896-10-17
It WAS A GREAT DAY
BRYAN TALKS HIS WAY TO TIE
TWIN CITIES.
ST. Paul Lnhoring Men Present u Sill
ver Pen with Which to Sign
Free Coinage BiII.

ST. Paul, oct. 10.--A three-minute sop
was at Herman, and Mr.. Bryan discussed
the 5o-cent dollar proposition, At Morris, |
Mimi, the largest and most enthusiastic
crowd was found since Fargo was left
behind. Mr. Bryan spoke TO the people a
few minutes from inc rear platform OF
the car. A short stop was made at Ben
son, and Mr.. Bryan spoke u few minutes.
1t was a crowd of farmers that received
him from one end Of the trip to the other,
and at no place We're they more enthusi-
astic than at Wilmar. Mr. Bryan to'u
them the American people had always
been equal to any emergency, and that a
crisis had been reached in the financial
history of the country. lie said that for
years the republicans had been working
to maintain a gold standard under 'oyer
Of openly advocating bimetaIlism
The nominee told the people at Itch
field, where a crowd of several hundred
people had gathered, thar the money
question was not too deep tor the Amer
lean people. He cited from James G..
Blaine TO support his theory of free CON
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 Waverly, which was reached late
this afternoon, prominently displayed was
crude banner marked our sons VIII
answer Yale November g.
Mr. Bryan spoke briefly, combining aim
self mainly to an explanation OF the real
meaning Of free coinage, and the distOrt-
/ ed meanings put upon the term by the
gold people. The last stop OF the day
/ before Minneapolis was reached was De
! lano, where Mr. Bryan spoke to Il crowd
OF several hundred from the rear plat
form.
/ The Bryan party reached St Paul a
few minutes before o'clock and was
taken at once to the Ryan hotel for din
ner. old soldiers were included in the
escort that greeted them, and a large
crowd gathered to get a view OF the can
didate. The main meeting of the even
lrg was that in the big Auditorium, he
seating capacity of which is COCO, but
which contained not less than 200O others
who had crowded into all the available
standing room.
Before the speech by Mr.. Bryan. Louis
Nash, for the local labor organizations,
presented him with q silver pen and an
address on silk, expressing the nope that
this pen might be used in signing the
free coinage bill that they hoped to pass.
Besides the meeting at the Auditorium,
other meetings. were held a the Market
hall and at Paul Martins opera house,
here Mr.. Bryan spoke more briefly.
Preferred Bryan to DOnneIIy.
All the Auditorium the candidate was
introduced by S. L. Pierce Of this city
His speech was well received, and at
the close the crowd followed the nomI-
nee rather than stay and hear a speech
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 the
organized labor of this city my grateful
appreciation of the gift which they have
presented 1t Is a silver pen and hold
er, and if l shall be elected by my coun-
trymen to be chief executive of this ma
ton, that pen and that holder shall be
used to sign a free coinage bill. And
I am glad the pen With which my sig
nature shall be affixed is the gift Of the
laborlng men, because l believe that the
lahorng men of this country-aye, more
than that, the laboring men of all this
world-are interested in the restoration
of silver to its ancient place by the side
OF gold I would not favor the free coin
age of silver did [ not believe 1t would
he beneficial to those who toll, because,
my friends, my political philosophy
teaches me that there can be no prosper
ity In this nation unless that prosperity
begins first among those who create
wealth, and finds it's way afterwards to
the other classes of society.
my friends, when government is prop
erly administered there will be no rail !
road wrcc1ers to make themselves rich |
by bankrupting those who put their con-
hdence In them; there will be no repre-
sentative of a coal trust sitting by every /