The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-20

DdDIeflS NOQAl-tii1I dIlo VI GA ~
institutions-is really worthy TO wear the
royal purple.
Many people ave asked me II Mr..
Bryan is a lawyer. He was a lawyer, but
he never had much practice. He lived in
Lincoln nine years, and in that time / do
not remember that he ever had a case or
made an address to a court or jury that at
tracted enough notice to be n
week. hat is strange, too, when we con-
and campaign orator. for IT was this which
stampeded his party and nominated him
for the presidency. He has given his whole
time 10 political oratory, and has become
alone a suificient qualification for a Presi-
dent OF the United States. He surpasses
any man in the world in his power to go
off in a stream of words like a water spout
in a thunder shower, but. as far as l know.
his ability does not go further.
Mr.. Bryan says the gold men have not
made an open fight. He wants to know
WHY we don't n organize mby geid9 don't oq-
ganize 'silver-standard' clubs. The diff
ference is this. There is no coun,
try to-day that has the gold standard
hat does not use silver in its money, while
there is no country that has free coinage
of silver that uses a dollar of gold. SAp-
plause.) He says he is not an Anarchist.
but in that Chicago plattrom he stabs at
every principle of true and honest govern
than oil, but behind them it is all war; be-
hind them is a savage, brutal attack on
our most cherished institutions -.
Mr.. Bryan has not dealt fairly on the
tariff question. For six years he said moth
ing about silver. His whole talk was on
tariff. He Is the most ardent free trader
that was ever in the halls of Congress. He
is a true member of the Golden Club. But
he has purposely suppressed this idea In
this campaign, desiring to make the fight
on silver only, but if he should be elected
President his first message to Congress
would be fuller of free trade IDEAS han All
he was possibly sincere on the silver ques-
ton. but 1 know he is not sincere on the
tariff issue. He says the Republicans are
I'm lea pua with the mOnpVy mower of IOm-
bard street, but / say he is in league with
the Golden Club of Lombard street.
passed.: we come here tonight to ratifY.
(Applause.) AS at st. Louis. when that
great convention met to count the votes
for Mckinley and to ratify his nomination,
we are simply waiting for the Sd day of No
vember to count the votes that Will put
him in the White House next March. Sup
pose some one should have said ninety days
ago that the Republicans would carry
Maine by sc. 900. You would have laughed
lifetime of the plumed knight he was able
to bring up a plurality of only 5000, and
what hope could there be now to carry it
by so, 1000. Yet we did carry 1t by $4,000. and
the people of Maine have not vet begun to
vote for Mckinley.
THE free-silver men base all their argu-
ment on the assertion that there is not
enough money in this country to transact
the business. Now that is not true. and on
he falSity of that assertion falls the entire
fabric of the silver mems argument. / think
1 can show you that there is plenty of mon
cy " w DQSlIltSS. NOl lOtS dsO Tic SOk-
eminent sold 500. 0O0.0 600 of bonds at a price
that would allow a net profit of about )
was over $500, 600, 900 offered for this $780,
0O0,0 900 loan. Do you suppose this large
amount of money would have been offered
if there was not enough for the legitimate
SOL. 600, 600 In this country; in 1879 this had
decreased to s7e9, 900, zoo, but in the next ff-
teen years this amount was increased by
almost 81, 900, 900, 900. Such a marvellous in
crease in the money of a country was never
and every dollar of it was as good as the
English sovereign. The population in
creased 90 per cent. and the money in.
that FIFTEEN years the coinage of silver was
greater than during any year prior to 1873.
the date of the great crime. More, than
that. we coined 81, 020, 0G0, 600 in gold during
that time.
HAD MONEY WHEN PANIC CAME.
AT the end of fifteen years what hap
pened? A panic came. Did it come when
we had little money in circulation? No;
1t came when we had more money than
ever before, and that is true of all our pam
les. Away back in 1887 Andrew jackson
said he would destroy the national bank.
He said if in no other way he would with
draw the government deposits. Private
banks started up and began issuing money.
The money of the country doubled in a
few years, and then what happened? We
had a panic. In the f~ifties, when the wild
cat and dog-eared money, which many of
you remember so well, was in circulation,
We had a wonderful increase in our circu-
lation. Then we did not have the big morn
ing papers to read, ana the people read tho
morning 'detector' instead. Then they
would look at their money and rush off to
dispose of part of it before some unwary
victim became aware of the fact that in a
night 1T had become worthless. This was
ali Just after the California gold discovery
and we had more money than ever before;
yet III 1857 we had a panic. The same is
true OF 1873 and 1893. The silver people tell
you that more money is the panacea of all
this. say it is the cause Of It; When a
man is doing a business OF 100000 a year
he is content with that and properly at
tends to il. if money costs too
much to be easily available, but
that its holders are glad to get rid OF ii,
he will borrow it at a low rate of interest
and then grow up stupendous schemes.
The mans business is doubled and soon it
becomes topheavy and falls upon itself,
crushing its owner and others with il.
But if We need more money we can Sc
cure it in a safe way. The national bank
circulation can be increased $500, 900, 900 by
allowing them to issue paper to the value
of the bonds deposited and we can coin
more silver under present conditions on
coinage is SO limited as to make every sill
Yer dollar worth a dollar in gold. ZAP
plause.)
Now, / have a few words to say to
Democrats. When I lived in Johnson coun-
ty we had some copper-distilled, double
dyed Bourbon Democrats. They were much
set iii their ways. They would worship the
new moon out of respect to the old Bryan
is now the new moon. daughter We go
to them now and say to them that they
are i'll trouble and offer to throw a blanket
over their heads and escort them to a
place of safety. Will they accept?
Bryan always PIRATES about Jefferson,
when he knows that Jefferson never ut
tered a word that was for anything but q
dollar that was worth 100 cents. l am proud
to say that if the Republican convention
at St. Louis had voted for free coinage
of silver ! would have hunted some other
party, and would not be on this platform
now. i could not do it and work for a
sound dollar-for honest money. What q
us this campaign. Bryan never dares to
speak of sound money or an honest dollar.
INVITED TO BROAD GAUGE CHURCH.
Now, Bourbon Democrats. we ask you
to come and worship in our church. Yours
is closed for repairs. Haughter.) Your al
tar has been desecrated. Your preachers
Carlisle. Cleveland, Cochran, Whitney and
others-have been barred out. daughter
Who has the brains of the party? Is II
the Boy Orator. of thirty-six years, or
is it Cleveland, Carlisle. Whitney and men
of that character? There is even David b.
Hill. a regular machine Politician! He
mounted the fence ninety days ago and
will not get Off until Nov. 5. daughter
Are you going to trust them or the Boy
Orator"
we are running a broad-gauge church.