The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1896-09-05
Mr.. BRYAN Al CLEVELAND
Greeted by Two Great Audiences in
the Ohio City.

Sixteen Thousand People Fill Aemory
Hall and Eight Thousand Lis
ten to the Candidate in
Music Hall, Later.
Cleveland, o., Sept. 1.-Two remen-
dous audiences greeted Bryan IN this
city last night. Sixteen thousand
crowded into Armory hall and after
ward fully 5000 heard the presidential
candidate. in Music hall. Mr.. Bryan's
speeches were received with great en-
thusiasm.
Mr.. Bryan's speech In the armory was
in part as follows:
What is the meaning of this enormous
%outpourlng of the people? No ordinary
occasion would produce this scene. No
ordinary campaign would stir mems
hearts as they are being stirred today.
Your presence, your enthusiasm, testify
to the fact that this year people are
thinking as they nave never thought be-
fore in recent years. And we'll they
may. In this campaign two mighty
forces are arrayad, and they are en-
gagged in a struggle which means much
to both. When Mr.. Carlisle in 1878 was
oiSNuSSllS lhG LtciiSy Hue9tioh tS So'N
The struggle now going on cannot
cease, and ought not to cease, until all
the industrial interests of the country
are fully and finally emancipated from
the heartless domination of s~yndicates,
stock exchanges and other great combl-
nations of money grabbers in this coun-
try and Europe"
Have the people beet emancipated
from the heartlcss domination of those
heartless syndicates and money grab
bers of this country and Europe? (Cries
of mo, No. No.D No, for the last TWEEN
ty years that heartless domination has
increased in Its severity. and within the
last three years that heartleSs domino
ton has grown more and more intense.
until today the people are confronted
with this proposition: Are the Ameri-
can people able to govern themselves
or must this government be thrown over
to the syndicates to carry on as they
think best for their private profit?
| (Cries of mo, NOD 1t has been Gus
tomary in the past for many years for
the two leading parties to adopt plat
forms ambiguous and meaningless. and
then go before the people and tell them
that the platforms are about the same
and make the fight on some other issue.
But it has changed in this campaign.
There is an issue now and the line is
drawn so that no one need be deceived.
Is there anybody. any party, declaring
that the gold standard is good? Not
one. Never in the history of the United
States has q national party dared to
write in a national platform a single
sentence in approval of a gold standard.
The gold standard was conceived in av-
arice. 1t was fastened upon this country
by fraud, and it can only be continued
by deception. The gold standard never
fought an open fight in all its career. 1t
carries the mask of the burglar and the
knife of the assassin. When 1T was fas-
tencd upon his country In 1873 the
American people had never discussed it,
and no party had ever gone before the
people urging a single measure that
leaned toward a gold standard. Every
step has been taken at night and with
out the knowledge or consent of the peo-
pie. u
The republican party had at st. Louis
such an opportunity as seldom m to
a party. The present administration had
advanced the gold standard, had forced
through under the whip and spur a law
that repealed the purchasing lause of
the Sherman law. The administration
had issued bonds In time of peace, and,
worse than all, it entered into a contract
with a few %flnanciers in New York and
London by which it had paid those
1nanciers an enormous profit for pro-
tecting the treasury, which 70, 900, 900 OF
people stood ready to protect. What an
opportunity for the republican party!
Why did not the convention denounce
the financial policy of the democratic
party? Why did 1t not demand the
abandonment of the gold standard and
the restoration of the gold n silver
coinage of the constitution? Because
their convention was dominated by the
same Influences that have dominated the
controlling affairs of both great parties.
The financiers of New York wrot the
republican platform. The laborers of
this country. the farmers of this oun
try, We're looking and longing for relief,
but the republican party was deaf to
all sounds save the clinking of gold, and
blind to all colors save the glittering
yellow. Tremendous %applause.) II
write its platform. What does it say!
Why. it pledges the republican party tc
get rid of the gold standard and substi.
tute bimetallism. When? When for
-AS w VIII iClp u9 w ~. IL 1oIl-
fesses the gold standard is bad when /,
says 1t ought to be abandoned, and YET
confesses its impotency to govern this
country when it confesses that it must
ask for foreign aid.
If you cannot excite pity in the minds
of that party in thisc country which you
yourselves have made great, how can
you expect pity from the nations from.
l rtnp, H. ~, 4, so aJ ~.
opponents preach the gospel of despair.
There is no hope, not a promise, not a
prospect. They ask you to enter upon
a night illumined by no star, to embark
upon a sea whose farther shore no
mariner may find, to travel upon a de-
sert where the oasis when reached only
makes disappointment a thousand times
more keen. We have not finished with
the gold standard yet. You think you
have suffered. Our suffering has just
begun If we have a continuation of the
gold standard. We are but upon the
threshold of a period of depression
which is indefinite in duration and can
not be described In tensity. Hard times!
Why only a few Of the nations are now
suffering from gold. You say you are
not concerned in what others may do.
hLCl liz US Soo. " SWdlc ol SupJeItlIlS
the interests of the greatest nation on
earth to a gold standard until you are
prepared to accept the legitimate and
natural results of such an act. If greed
and avarice can blind the Judgment or
sti1le the conscience of the millions OF
voters in the United States, do you not
know that when this policy Is consum
mated here the same influences will be
turned toward other silver using III
tries? If they can drive silver out here,
what nation can Withstand its intiu-
knces, wait until these heartless, merci-
less influences have driven silver from
here, n they will turn to other ma
tons. Wait until they have driven sill
YER from India and $50, 900, 900 of people
reach out after their share Of the worlds
supply of gold. Wait until they have
driven silver from China, and $50, oO0, 00o
of people will reach out after their share
&C the worlds supply of gold. Wait
until they have driven Japan to the gold
standard, and Mexico, and South Ameri-
ca, and then you will put gold on the
auction block, and every toiler under the
sun will bow to it and work a little har-
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