The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-10-07

say that they are members of party,
and yet employ speakers and openly
say they are going to vote the Repuo-
lican ticket, that party does not de-
serve to be treated like an open enemy
in this campaign. Great cheerinSD
My friends. have no criticism to make
of any man who believes that the cleo
ton of the Chicago ticket would de-
stroy this country. and who in that
belief votes the Republican ticket. but
to find i man who wants to elect the
Republican ticket and then has not
the courage to bear the odium of adj
vocating it. is an entirely different
matter" Great cheering.)
Give it to Bynum.' cried a voice.
(Great cheering.)
IF you want to know what that dis
tinguished citizen continued Mr..
Bryan
iExtinguished!'' came from the
crowd.
THE gentleman suggests 'extin-
guished gentleman Cheering and
laughter). but I win say distinguished
because he has a past, whether he has
any future or not. Great cheering
and laughter.) If you want to know
what he said about the gold standard,
let me read from his speech in favor
of silver in 1886: Again the advocates
of gold approach us with open hands
and smiling counterances, but, 1 fear,
with a dagger concealed beneath their
coats. (Cheers) All, my friends, he
understood the nature of the animal
before he began to associate with it.
(Cheers and laughter.) He is right IN
his declaration. The gold standard
NEVER FOUGHT AN OPEN FIGHT.
1t carries the knife of the assassin, and
does its work behind the mask of a
burglar. 1t is not an open enemy
never was and never will be- Great
cheering) Now, see how wen he ull-
derstood them. He said: Oh. they
say, we want silver; we are bimetal-
lists, but we want an honest dollar.
Suspend coinage and we will drive En-
gland, Germany and other nations to
bimetallism. and then the price of sil
Yer bullion will appreciate and our
dollars will be worth a hundred cents
tCheering.) That is what was said in
1856. My friends, instead of saying
now that we will adopt bimetallism and
drive other nations to it. he says that
we will stand by the gold standard and
allow other nations to drive us away
from it" Cheering and laughter.)
The rest of the speech was devoted
TO a discussion of the silver question
on lines familiar to readers of his pre-
vious addresses.
The six black horses that drew the can
didate's carriage from the state house to
Tomlinson's hall, cavorted in excitement
ali along the way past the cheering people
on the sidewalks.
About 1000 people were in the audience
there They We're quite as enthusiastic
Mir. BRYAN spoke from the balcony of
the hall. He said, in the course of his
remarks, that when he came to Indiana
his opponents had discovered a new
method of warfare.
Il found" he said. chat in the state
of Indiana the Republican were c,rculat-
ing an editorial which appeared in the
Omaha World-Herald about four years
ago. 1t was an editorial
WHICH CRITICISED PENSIONS
and pension appropriations. and it was
stated in the circular that that was my
the paper. But my friends, 1 need not
tell you, because you have already been
told before, that that editorial appeared
in the World-Herald about two years be-
fore l had any connection whatever with
the paper. Cheering.)
There is no reason why any soldier
who believes in the principles set forth
in the Chicago platform should vote
against the nominees of that convention.
(Cheers} If there are soldiers who are
opposed to the principles set forth in the
Chicago platform, they will be found op-
posing the ticket, just as anybody else
the policies supported by the nominees.
But there is no reason why any soldier
who believes in the right of this nation
to have a financial policy of its own,
should oppose any man nominated on the
Chicago platform. My friends, when l
hear these financiers
APPEALING TO THE SOLDIERS
silver would hurt the soldier, cannot but
wonder when the financiers became so
much interested in the welfare of the
soldiers" CCheersl
a Voice-"ltS n Republican scheme, all
the time.
.'The soldiers who went through the
war viii distinctly remember that when
they were out fighting in the field, the
will remember that the finaDciers SO made
the laws that the man VINO furnished
money was paid back in gold, while the
man who risked his life was paid in green
backs" (Cheers)
A voice-..Worth 40 cents on the dollar"
THE gentleman suggests that they
were worth 40 cents on the dollar. He is
right. The very men who are now so
afraid that the soldier Will draw his pen
sion in 53-cent dollars. (Applause) If
the solder looks at the money question
merely from the standpoint of his own
interest he must remember that his pen
sion is only property, and that if he leg
islates the value OF the dollar up, while
he raises the purchasing power of his
pension he will increase the value of
whatever other property he has. and If
be finds that ne can benefit himself by
raising the purchasing power of his pen
sion he mrst remember that he is con-
demning his children and his chiidren's
children to the injustice of a gold stand
ard
The rest of the speech was devoted to a
discussion of the money question, Mr..
Bryan following his previous lines OF
argument.
Before starting out to make
HIS NIGHT SPEECH,
Mr.. BRYAN was waited or by the Bryan
with a request for a speech. He ad-
dressed the members for few minutes
in the Grand hotel.
His speech tonight was from a stand
in the court house park, where 1900 en-
thusiastic people were gathered. He
spoke few minutes only. and then went
10 Tomlinson's hall to address a mass
meeting OF workingmen. Six thousand
was the audience packed, jammed and
huddled together The cheering that
greeted the candidates entrance lasted
fifteen minutes. In his brief address, Mr..
BRYAN complimented Governor Matthews
and spoke of how deeply he had been
touched by the loyalty and devotion of
ton. He urged his hearers to the neces-
sity of supporting not only the national
ticket but also the free silver congress
SIGNAL candidate, and not TO neglect the
fight in the selection of a United States
senator.
Mr. Bryan viii leave here at s o'clock