The San Francisco call., 1896-10-16

Mr.. Bryan spoke, distance OF more than
100 yards, was thronged with humanity.
and when the candidate mounted the
stand erected over the courthouse steps he
faced a densely packed audience OF be-
tween 5000 and 10000. Many bands had
been engaged for the occasion and the
half hour spent by Mr.. Bryan there was as
elaborate display as be has had in any
town of similar size. The enthusiasm was
rampant.
At 5:45 the Bryan special, with car
containing the Grand Rapids reception
committee attached, left Iona for Grand
Rapids. 1t stopped on the way at Lowell
TO let some people see the nominee ana
shout for him, and reached Grand Rapids
at 6:45 P. NJ.
From the time he reached Grand Rapids
until he escaped to his special train and
went to bed Mr.. Bryan was the recipient
OF a continuous ovation. A couple OF
thousand people were at the Aldlna,
Grand Haven and Milwaukee station when
he arrived IN company with Charles Il.
Sigh and ]. r. Whiting. respectively can
didates for Governor and Lieutenant-Gov.
ernor of Michigan on the Democratic
Union Silver ticket.
A special trolley car took him to Cres-
cent avenue. where he got into carriage
drawn by four white horses and was car
ried off in a roundabout way to avoid the
throngs in the streets to Campau Square
in the heart of Grand Rapids. An OPEN
air meeting was scheduled there and IL
proved to be one of the largest ever ad-
dressed by the candidate. A fair estimate
placed the size of the crowd at 25, ZOO. Mr.
Bryan was we'll received. He was nitro
duced by George Hummer, Democratic
candidate for Congress in this (tbe Flith)
district, and made q twenty-minute
speech and then hurried off TO the Powers
House TO address an enthusiastic audience
almost entirely composed of ladies. The
women adherents of the Bryan and Sewall
ticket in Grand Rapids had initiated their
sisters OF Minneapolis and Duluth and Sc
cured the opera-house for their exclusive
use.
After leaving the Powers House Mr..
Bryan went to Locerby Hall and made
his third and last speech to the 5OOO
demonstrative people packed. jammed
and huddled together there. w. +. Nc
Knight, who brought the Michigan dele.
CATION over TO Bryan at CHICAGO, pre-
sented the nominee, and John w. Tom
linson of Alabama followed in speech
that was heartily received. When the
nights ordeal was over Mr.. Bryan went to
the Livingston Hotel to get Mrs. Bryan,
who had been holding a reception there
with Mrs. Sigh, Mrs. Whiting and other
ladies, and together they were driven to
the Union depot, where the Bryan special
was in waiting. The train was taken to
siding out of town, in order that the can
didate and his party might pass the night
undisturbed.
Strangely enough, Mr.. Bryan's speech
to the ladies at Powers Opera-house to-
night was the most important delivered
here. 1t ntained some new material,
and was noticeable for Mr.. Bryan's criti-
cism of Messrs. IngersolI, Halstead, Car
Isle and Harrison. He said, in part:
You will remember that few years ago
there was q great deal of talk about char
acter. don't know whether ought to call 1T
character or two characters, but it was DR..
Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. You will remember
that the same persons ap peared at different
times in different characters. One time the
man was good man-beneVolent, kindly dis
posed. AT another time the same person was
mean mana william, seeking to take human
life. Ny friends, we have the character of
Jeykll and Hyde illustrated we'll when we
come to discuss the silver question, because
we can cite you number of men who have
been both Jeykll and Hyde.
We can cite you number OF men who nave
been kindly disposed and interested in the
public welfare at one time, and who, at an
other time, have been supporting a system
that means more misery according TO Mr.. Car
Isle, than all the wars pestilences and
famines that have ever occurred in history.
[Applause.i want 10 call your attention to
two or three persons who have said one thing
at one time and another thing at another
time on Jl1S IN OQey question:. Our opponents
have been able TO bring into this campaign all
the nova bic guns in the country. They nave
enlisted their side, and are sending out
over the country great many pieces of large
artillery. and one of the ablest speakers they
have sSnt out is Colonel IngersOil, who brings
to this money question his great ability as an
orator.
Mr. Ingerson is now using his great weapon,
ridicule, against silver. Let me show you
what he once said on the other side of the
question and he will have to talk long while
hat1 hnn -1,af E,, ..,sl
side, and l think it is fair for us to assume
that we still have with US all of those who
have not been able to answer themselves
Here is what he said in a speech some years
ago to farmers: "For my part do not ask any
interference on the part OF the Government
except to undo the wrong 1t has done. l do
not ask that money be made out OF nothing.
do not ask for the prosperity born of paper,
but do ask for the reconciliation of silver
Silver was demonetiZed by fraud. II was an
imposition upon every solvent man, fraud
upon every honest debtor in the Urited States.
1t assassinates labor. 1t was done in the in
terest of avarlce and greed and should be I'M
done by the honest men. The farmers should
vote only tor such men as are able and will ling
TO guard and advance the interests OF ,abor."
My friends. that is what he said when he
talked to the farmers some years ago. What
he said then was true; it is true now. Now
you will notice that one of the most distin-
guished journalists OF the day, one of the
most eminent men in his profession, Murat
Halstead, is doing all he can to maintain the
october, 1877, Mr. Halstead said: This Brit
ish gold policy was the work of experts only
Evasion was essential to succeed in 1t, and
possibly because coin was not in circulation
and being out of public view, could be tam
pered with without attracting public atten-
ton. The monometallic system of the great
creditor nation was thus imposed upon the
great debtor nation without debate"
The monometallic system of the great credi-
tor nation was thus imposed on the debtor
Nations of the world because the United
States is debtor nation, and Mr.. Halstead
calls it British policy.
1t was British policy; it is British policy
to-day and all we ask is TO replace British
policy with an American financial policy In
another place in his letter he explains the ad-
vantage of bimetallism. He says "The
metals support and regulate each other. The
two afford adequate basis for an abundant
currency and neither can be 'cornered' in aid
of the speculative schemes that are often pre-
paredyan always opposed to the general well
fare" And again: "If one metal rated ac-
cording to the fixed ratio becomes demone-
tized the option OF payment in the cheaper
coin makes demand for it, that enhances its
value and the money unit is subject to siighter
fluctuations in comparison with commodities
than Is found in but one metal. Copper and
steel together in the compensation balance
wheel OF a chronometer and perfectly measur-
ing time through all temperatures illustrates
the principle" So that Mr. Halstead at that
time understood that the gold standard was
British policy and he understood the adyan-
tages of the double standard.
John G. Carlisle, who to-day stands as the