New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-09-20
Mr.. BRYAN IN WASHINGTON.
HE ATTACKS SECRETARY CARLIsLE'S
RECENT LETTER.
TIE ADMINISTRATIONS FINANCIAL POLICY
sCoRED-PoPoCRATiC CIvII-sERvIcE IDEAS
GEORGE wAsHINGToNs SILVER

TIE ADMINISTRATIONS FINANCIAL POLICY
scoRED-PoPocRATic CIvu>sERvIcE IDEAS
GEORGE wAsHINGToNs SILVER
DOLLAR IN FREDERICKSBURG.
Washington. Sept. 19-ln company with Mayor
White and the members OF the Fredericksburg Re-
ception Committee and the delegation from the Dis
trct OF Columbia Democracy. Mr.. Bryan started on
the train which left Fredericksburg for Washing
ton at 40 p. m. At Washington he was greeted by
large crowd. He was driven to the Metropolitan
Hotel After brief rest and luncheon the party
went 10 the old baseball park. where there was
crowd estimated at 10000. In his speech he spoke
first OF the plank in the Chicago platform for home
rule In the territories and then OF the CIVIL Service
plank. which he quoted. He said:
We are in favor OF civil Service reform that
means something and not Cy Seryi S serYos
until he get his friends into office and sustain
h rye aI se Is Ss Gs So
based upon merit. and such method OF appoint
ment will open the offices TO men OF ascertahen
fitness
At this point in Mr. Bryans speech the weather
looked threatening. and clouds Of dust began to
blow over the audience. many turning to leave MT
Bryan. however. after brief pause. continued as
follows:
We favor OF fixed terms OF office In the sew.
eral departments OF the Government. We want II
50 that when man goes In we snail Know now io,s
don't want to build up an Office holding class and
I'll the offices for Me- 80 that when man gers s an
try than 10 draw his salary. (Cneers) We believe
further care IL destructive Of the highest forms OF
citizenship and IL not to be tolerated In country
like ours.
THE REDEMPTION OF SILVER IN GOLD.
Our opponents doing much for US In this
campaign as We are able to do for ourselves.
OLaughter) OF all the public documents recently
issued. the most important is the letter just
given TO the public written by the Secretary OF the
Treasury. from which desire to quote one sentence
1T is the duty OF the Secretary OF the Treasury
and Of all Other public officials to execute In good
faith the policy declared by Congress"-and mark
these words--"and whenever he shall be satlstisd
purchasing power with the gold dollar except by re-
sewing i IN H oG the u gHq b do s u Wnf To
adopt that course" want you 10 mark those
Treasury tells you that. whenever the Secretary Is
satisfied that It Is necessary he viii commence re,
your attention TO it because want to emphasize
the receptions which have been practised by this
When This Administraton advised The repeal Of the
Sherman law. you were told the repeal Of the Sher-
soon as the Sherman law was repealed the same
authority which promised relief soon as that was
the grrenbacks and Treasury notes must be re-
drain the Treasury's gold.
The Secretary of the Treasury informs you that
II the greenbacks and Treasury notes were all re-
tired. so that there would not be dollar OF paper
money 10 be presented for gold yet j would be HIS
duty 10 commence 10 redeem the silver dollars In
gold and to start another endless chain that would
drain the Treasury According to the doctrine laid
down by Mr. Carlisle. you cannot stop the drain
upon the Treasury until you retire all the silver
dollars and leave nothing but gold in the Treasury
vaults.
am glad that our opponents are thus com
PEELED 10 expose TO he public eye their heart
loss. merciess and criminal policy. am glad that
they have told the public we must have gold alone.
and thus have confessed that we are In the hands
OF TWO banking syndicates and must pay them
what they want. Talk about monopolies and trusts.
and here they propose TO establish the mos; gigan-
tic trust-a money trust. and TO LEI the men who
the gold dole It out to the other seventy
millions OF American citizens. | denounce that
policy as more cruel and heartless than would be
the domination OF any foreign power.
PROVIDENCE ON BRYAN's SIDE
7 am glad that In this campaign we have so many
evidences that overrung Providence is on our
side. and in one instance that know Of is that
overruling Providence so distinctly and clearly
manifested in the recent letter OF the Secretary
of the Treasury Let ME ask you question. Did
OF the sherman law" beeye %2sd Hure 9Hr
then the Administration was so absolutely mis-
taken that you have the right to dsegard and ds
question II the Administration knew that the re-
peal OF the sherman law would nor bring relief then
Administration which would thus recommend one
policy and pursue another tApplause3
,div 70 be empled OF ators Shouts were raised
for Mr. Bryan to go on. and. disregardng all the
the storm drove the party to cover Carriages were
in waiting Tor Mr.. Bryan and o,hec distinguished
having opportunity OF listening to speech OF
Thomas T. Grady. which supposed TO be an
effective to the recent addresses of Bourke
Cockran. - a,,,oo % .,s ,ots, and ,ber -
the s' home OF Mr. Bride. with whom he lived while
he was a member OF Congress. Thence, under an
rsroaS Stallion was made and at $40 o'clock the
train pulled out for Baltimore.
GEORGE wAsHINGTONs GOOD THROW.
In Fredericksburg Va. Mr.. Bryan said, in the
course of his speech:
They say that here George Washington once came
and threw silver dollar across the river; but re-
member my friends that when he threw that sill
yer dollar across the river i ill., Il feil and re-
thought that 1t was great feat then; but we have
deveoped rapidly in the last hundred years d dnae
Washington's achievement far behind. We have
ali the way across the Atlantic and then bring them
Hnck by an ssge of S9ndi syef doa
which good enough TO be handed by the
Father Of his County now so mean thing as 10
dnanciersg ('No No.O Well. 1t is. 1t is so
that they don't IKE II WY onr opponents eIts
The world we have had dollars which have gone
that viii stay at home with a curfew law. 0heers)
our opponents tell us that they want a dollar
travel abroad. / am not so much worried about
dollars which travel abroad want dollar
People can have just good dollar as they
YOU can determine the purchasing power OF dollar
when you determine the number OF dollars II y You
want dollars dear. make them scarce and they VIII
be dear II our dollars not good enough now.
when a dollar Will buy ten bushels OF oats. you
can make II good enough. good It will buy 100
bushels OF oats. a voice. we don't want that
Kind Of a Jolar'0 If anybody here has been rails
Ing farm products and complaining because they
are not cheap enough you can make mem ZEN cheaper
II you vote the Republican ticker tnis faH'
BRYAN TO VISIT SEWALL.
Bath. Me. Sept. l9--Arthur Sewall VIII go 20
Boston next week TO meet Mr. Bryan and accom- |
pany him to Bath.