The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-26

on the platform. He was driven to the
station, preceded by band and crowds
or citizens who formed in line and
marched along cheering. Mr.. Bryan
said:
BRYAN'S ADDRESS.
In the presence of this immense audience.
II is hardly necessary to announce that the
presidential campaign Is opened for business
~ gives me great pleasure to be permitted to
address. even for a short time, the citizens of
Albany and this vicinity. esteem 1t q priyi-
lege to be able to defend in your presence
the policies which believe will bring pros
perity and happiness to the American people
(Applause.) In this time of free government
people express themselves through party or
ganizations. It Is the only way in which we
can give effective force to our convictions
Without party we fight without hope OF sue
cess. Parties meet in their conventions, adopt
tneir platforms and go forth to the people ap-
pealing for the SURFACES OF those who
believe that through that party and
by the policies expressed in the platform
tney can best serve their country and pro-
tect their rights.
The Democratic party at Chicago met in
convention, and there the majority OF the
Democrats of the United States, speaking
through their legally chosen representatives
laid down platform and nominated a ticket.
1T Is not to be expected that a person will
always ind In any platform all that he de-
But when a citizen comes to vote he acts
with that party and indorses that platform
which gives to him the best assurance of Sc
curing the most important things which he
desires (applause). 1t Is proper, aye, more,
1t is necessary that the candidate who stands
upon platform shall indorse the utterances
Of his platform, and indorse every word
and every syllable Of the platform at Chicago
(applause) But while / do SO, l expect in
this campaign the support of many Demo-
Gratis who are not willing to indorse all that
the platform declares for (applause) In a
campaign there is always some overshadow-
ing issue, always one great paramount ques-
ton which more than any other will deter
mine the allegiance Of those who support the
ticket; and in this campaign we appeal with
confidence to those people who are opposed
to a longer continuation Of the gold standard
policy in the United States tapplause:
Our opponents have at last taken a definite
position upon the money question. The Re-
publican platform adopted at st. Louis de-
clares that gold standard must be maintained
sent to it's abandonment We believe that
that declaration, which commits to a
gold standard until other nations come to
our relief, is equivalent to declaration in
gold standard, because we do not believe that
other nations will take pity upon us before
we take pity upon our own people: We then
have to consider this question, Ought the
American people to submit longer to a gold
Standard" (Cries Of mo, no.'J The Demo-
cratic party has begun war OF extermina-
ton against the gold standard. We ask no
quarter, we give no quarter. We shall prose-
cute our warfare until there is not an Amer
lean citizen that dares to advocate the gold
standard policy (cheers).
You ask why? We reply that the gold
standard is a conspiracy against the human
race and that we would no more join 1t than
we would join an army marching to despoll
our homes and destroy our families. ZAP
plause.) / ask you not to take my word for
the evils of the gold standard. | call as a
witness a. gentleman whose voice has been
heard in the councils of the Democratic party.
If you are inclined to accuse us of using ex-
travagant language, | ask you to read and re-
fleet upon the language used by John G. Car
Isle in 1878. In a speech made in congress,
he said:
According to my opinion, the conspiracy
which seems to have been formed here and
in Europe to destroy by legislation and other
wise from three-sevenths to one-half the me-
tallic money of the world is the most gigantic
crime of this or any age. Its contamination
would ultimately entail more misery upon the
human race than ali the wars, pestilence and
famines that ever occurred in the history Of
the world
That is the language of John G. Carlisle. I
believe he spoke the truth, and II 1t was true
then, it is true today, and will be true no
matter who may change his opinion or his
course upon this question.
TRUTHS WILL LIVE.
no matter what may become of those who
uttered those truths. Men cannot retract
truths. That prophecy was spoken eighteen
years ago. and eighteen years of fulfillment
has enabled us to believe words which were
believed by all at the time they were spoken.
Our opponents tell us that the free silver
coinage of silver is going to disturb bust
ness. / ask our opponents to write down the
worst thing they can possibly think of as a
possible consequence of the immediate res
toration Of the free coinage OF silver, and
when they have written their worst 1 would
place against the most dismal prophecy they
can utter the words of John G.. Carlisle, and
tell them l would take the worst thing they
could think of rather than bring on misery
greater than war, pestilence and famine.
-CApplause.)
E Can you imagine the meaning Ct those
words? No, my friends, the imagination can
not conceive, the tongue cannot describe all
that is wrapped up in those words Can you
think of all the wars Of the past? You re-
member that from the time Cain killed Abel
until now history has been little more than
a record of warfare. Can you remember all
those wars and can you add in one great sum
all the misery that those wars have caused,
and then can you think of the pestilences
which have visited the earth and the misery
that they have brought, and then can you
think Of the famines that have afflicted man
kind from time to time; can you add into
one great sum all the misery caused by these
three great destroyers of the human race,
and then think that the contamination of the
gold standard would bring more of misery
than all of these?
All, MY FRIENDS,
1t is because we believe that that prophecy
was true, it is because we believe that no
language can overstate the infinite distress
that the gold standard means to the human
race; 1t is because we believe that no power
on earth will prevent the advocates of free
coinage from preaching that gospel wherever
they can find those to hear it. (Applause.)
Some OF our opponents say that they are
afraid that we cannot maintain bimetallsn
alone. We reply to them that we have waited
for twenty years for other nations to help U.S.
and If we are going to restore bimetallism
we have got to restore it alone, because 9TH
rs, HOKE SMITHS SUCCESSOR.