The San Francisco call., 1896-10-23

come with the understanding that he must
saw wood long while before he gets to the
"a PIE: lLaughter.l AS ono OF the speakers II, IN
Mlcnlgan said, when he comes BACK we viii
home.'
The gold badges were likewise few at
Delphi, where Mr.. Bryan spoke briefly TO
between 5000 and 5000 people. he told
them to vote for ex-Representative Chea-
die Tor Congress, and said it was better 10
support by the ballot a silver RepupIlcan
than one who had formerly been Dem.
ocrat, but Was now running on golo
ticket.
A crowd of about 10000 was addressed
oriehy by Mr.. Bryan at Frankiors, put II
beside the tremendous audience that had
gathered at Lafayette. 1t was, III Iact,
three separate gatherings all in the court
house square, and Mr.. Bryan made three
speeches from the same platform, one
from each side. There were at least 70, 600
in the assemblage. Mr.. Bryan IN
ms speech had something TO say ABOUT
the position of General Harrison IN this
campaign. He said:
I want to ask you to consider for moment
the position taken by the leading advocate OF
the other side ex-President Harrison. tnlnK
am justified in saying that of all the supporters
OF Mr.. Nc cKinley's election Mr.. HARRISON is tne
speech yesterday in which he tried to show
the 1mpossibility of there being a double
standard, and yet Mr.. Harrison was elected
PRESIDENT on platform when oenouhced
grover Cleveland for trying to demonetlze sll-
yer. lCheers.l He tried to show that IL was
Impossible to have two yardstfcks ana YET
ne ran four years ago on platform lhat
dation and interest favored bime tallism. which
means double standard. ICheers.l But
worse tnan that, while he opposed
the double standard, he is trying 10 run
on two platforms this year. He SAID In
his speech yesterday, "The present condi.
tions are that we are bimetailic. country,
and yet the Republican platform OF this year
says that We must maintain the present gold
standard. lCheers.l If we are a bimetalhc
country why did not the platform say that we
must maintain the prese mt blmetalllc stand
ard? And yet, while the Repuplican PLATFORM
declares that we are at present under single
gold standard, Mr.. Harrison states that we
are under bimetallic standard. lCheers.l
What does it mean, my friends! IL means
that. having been defeated in this campaign
on the gold standard, now, as the election ap-
proaches, they are trying to get under cover OF
blmetallism and claim that their platform is
false. (Cheers.l
AT Linden Mr.. Bryan spoke to a small
gathering. Charlottesville came next and
here the nominee encountered one OF the
most wildly enthusiastic audiences OF the
day, although it mum bered about 50O0
only. The speech of Mr.. Bryan there was
devoted in part to answering the charge
made by General Lew Wallace, resident
of the town, that he was an anarchist. He
defended the Chicago platform from the
charge that it was anarehistic.
Rockdale turned out small crowd.
The assemblage at Greencastle stretched
away off into the darkness and could not
be estimated for that reason. 1t
was reserved for Brazil, the we'll
known mining center, to exceed In
demonstrative appreciation of the
Democratic candidate any small city at
which he spoke during the day. 1t was
7:30 when Mr.. Bryan's train reached that
place. All along the streets to the park
where the speaking occurred he was
wildly cheered. A thousand miners were
in the escort procession. The nearby
neighborhood had contributed to the i'm
mense throng that gathered to hear him,
and it is estimated that nearly, if rot
quite, $4,000 people composed the con-
course. Mr.. Bryan brought out no new.
points in his speech, but everything he
said was vigorously applauded. At S:15
the Bryan special pulled out Tor Terre
Haute, where it arrived thirty minutes
late.