Evening star., 1896-10-23
LATE NEWS BY WIRE
The Democratic Candidate Begins His
Illinois Tour.
His FIRST SPEECH MADE At DANVILLE
Preparations Being Made at
Peoria.
HOLSTERS CALL ON M'KINLEY

NATION. ILL.,, October 23.-W.,at is
considered the battle ground of the cam
paign by that portion of the democracy at
present aboard the private car 'Idler" was
entered by the nominee this morning. Illi-
nois has been looked forward to and ii has
been understood that Mr. Bryan would put
up the best fight he had about him when
the prairie state was reached. Eighteen
places were put down on the itinerary for
today. and it is safe to say few more will
be added before night, just for good meas
ure.
The Illinois democratic politicians met
Mr.. Bryan at Terre Haute last night, and
today they escorted him through Illinois.
In the party were Railroad and Warehouse
Commissioner w. H. Cantrell. who took
charge of the train, Theodore NelSon.Juige
VIM. Prentiss of Chicago. Judge John A.
Mahoney. Judge Charles s. Hackleford.
Fred II. Morris, l.. c. Whitney. j. NJ era
ham of Springfield and Senator David Ev-
ans.
DanYille was the first stop of the day,
and from a stand near the court house MI
Bryan spoke to SSembiage which num-
bered up in the thousands. Enthusiasm
prevailed the meeting. and when Mr.
Bryan quoted Congressman Cannon in sup
port of the free silver doctrine the crowd
gave noisy evidence of it's appreciation.
Mr.. Bryan. in his speech. said that he
did no: come to talk to those who believe
in free silver, but he wanted to talk TO
those who up to this time have been afraid
of the results of free coinage After saying
that he could prove the benefits of free
silver by republican testimony. he quoted
the speech made by Congressman Cannon
in the House of Representatives in 1878.
He said, in part:
Il had an old friend in Congress whose
lame Is familiar to you, Hon. Joseph u.
Cannon. 1 want to read to you what he
said in 1878. Here are the words which
ask you to remember: Again the Senate
amendment takes away free coinage for
silver and leaves free coinage for gold.
Now silver Is just as much the money or
the Constitution gold. and should have
just the same treatment in every respect as
gold
That Is what we aiming for today.
that silver shall have the same treatment
in every respect gold. We are asking
today fer exactly what Mr.. Cannon asked
for eighteen years ago. bui he tells you 1t
would wrong the country to'have now what
he wanted then. But let me read further
And when you discriminate against one of
the precious metals in favor of the other
by restricting the use of one as contemplat-
ed by the Senate amendment as to silver
that far you fetter the use of money in
measuring the values and making the ex-
changes Of the commodities of the coun-
try, and that far fail to give the necessary
relief and assistance to this country that
legislation should and would give
That Is right. my friends. When you
discriminate against silver and fetter sill
yer. you are simply trying to put in the
power of a few men to corner the money
market and hold the rest of mankind at
their mercy. Again he says, speaking of
this bill as amended: 1t is a step in the
right direction. but 1 would rather make
the whole journey now than to camp by
the wayside. with the long part of the road
between the camping ground and the Jour-
ney5 end
We are going to give Mr. Cannon an op-
portunity to go to the journeys end, and
not camp by the wayside.'
a twenty minutes stop was made at
Paris. and here Mr.. Bryan condemned the
money changers, to the great delight Of
Few thousand people. among whom were
many farmers.
Awaiting Bryan at PEORIA
PEORIA. ILL.,, October 23-william ],
Bryan will make three speeches in this
city this evening. An immense demonstra-
zion IS expected
An effigy of Bryan was found suspended
from an electric pole this morning In the
business section of the city, and was cut
down ard burned. A large number of re-
punhcans have Gonned for the day gIarin1
yellow badges. labeled Mckinley
Up TO L o'clock this afternoon 5000 Nc
kiniey badges had been called for and
given out at republican HEADQUARTERS in
!nls CITY They are being worn as a coun-