The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-10-15
MR.. BRYAN At MINNEAPOLIS
THE VOLUBLE CANDIDATE AID
DRESSED FOUR BIG AUDI
ENCES YESTERDAY.
ONE WAS EXCLUSIVELY OF WOMEN.
Two Delegations Were Addressed by
Maj. Mckinley at Canton-Palmer
and Buckner Spoke to Large
Audience at Detroit.

four big meetings tonight in these places:
Exposition Hall, Bridge Square, on the
bank of the Mississippi river, just outside
the hall; Lyceum theater, to an audience
of women, and in Yale place, a public
square in this city,
Mr.. Bryan rested in st. Paul all morn
ing. He stayed in his rooms at the Ho-
tel Ryan until after luncheon, when he
held an informal reception in the parlors.
With Mrs. Bryan by his side the candi-
date stood in doorway and smiled greet
ings to the thousands who filed past dur
ing the course of an hour.
Mr. Bryan having expressed prefer
ence to make the journey between the
Twin cities by trolley rather than in his
private car, a special car, deliberately
decorated, was provided. On his arrival
here a second reception was held in the
West hotel, and then Mr.. and Mrs. Bry-
an were driven to the home of State Sen
ator S. B. Howard, where they took din
ner
During their absence the Veterans
headed warriors, marched to the hotel
and formed circle in the spacious lobby.
When he came out they gave him royal
reception and escorted him to Exposition
hall No such crowd has been packed
within it's walls since the day when the
republican convention nominated Benja-
min Harrison for president in 1872. 1t
has seating capacity of $780, Every
seat was occupied, and there was a stand
ing army of very many more lined around
the walls and choking the aisles. Out
side the hall the crowd was so great that
the services of a squad of policemen
were required to force an entrance for
Mr. Bryan when he arrived.
The hall was profusely decorated, and
the demonstration was enthusiastic
throughout Ex-Mayor Phillip Il.
Winston presided over the meeting, and
after the demonstration which welcomed
the candidate had subsidized he introduced
Il. G. Marchard, who, on behalf of "a
large part of the laboring class of Mime
apolis," presented to Mr.. Bryan an ink
stand, made, so the speaker said, of gold
and silver at the ratio of 16 to l. This
brought another outburst of applause as
Mr. Bryan stepped to the front of the
stage to begin his speech.
When the nights speechmaking was
ended Mr.. Bryan and his party retired
to their private car, preferring to spend
the night there rather than be disturb
ed in the morning by the departure for
Duluth at an early hour Congressman
Towne, the leader of the silver move
ment in this state, joined the party here
and will accompany it throughout the
state.
In Exposition hall Mr.. Bryan said, in
part:
Ladies' and Gentlemen-I would not
favor the free coinage of silver did L not
believe it would be for the best interests
of those who toll in this country. | have
not belonged to that class known as
workingmen, because my profession has
been that of a lawyer, but | have been
taught to believe that the legal profess
sion must have something to rest upon
as a foundation. Unless there is wealth
produced a lawyer will suffer, and | have
been brought up to believe that all the
classes which rest on producers of wealth
can only prosper when the producers of
wealth are prosperous, and, therefore. L
am not entirely unselfish when l desire
such legislation as will enable them to
have more than enough to eat and drink.
81 want to ask you why every gOldbug
says you are selfish and that you are ac-
tuated by selfish consideration. While
every goldbug pretends to be philanthro-
pist and simply loves honest money be-
cause it will help our people. l want to
know why it is that these goldbugs are so
sure that everybody else will be influence
ed by their own interest and so positive
that personal interests can not affect
them. Why is it, my friends? | will tell
you why. If man believes thing is
good for himself and also good for others
he will admit it is good for himself. If
he thihks thing is good himself and bad
for others, he will never admit 1t is good
for himself Now, that is rule that l
will lay down, and you can examine II
and apply it to everyday life, and you will
find that slen deny thing good for them
if they believe it is good for others. 1t is
only when they believe they prosper by
others adversely that you, hear them
standing up and denying that they nave
any peculiar benefit. You ask one of
those great financiers why he is in favor
of gold standard. Does he give the rea-
son that it is good for him? You never
heard one of them say it. What is 1t
they say? Why, some of them say that
free coinage will be good for them and
that they do not want anything good FOR
them. They say they want gold stand
ard because it is a good thing for the Ia
boring man. You think, my friends, those
tinanciers are so worried about the Ia
boring mans interest that when, one OF
SelS SlCh SoNS " -
and tells him he can not sleep the physl-
clan don't ask him what is the matter
but Just tells him to quit worrying about
the la.oring man. Why, the financlers
say he is in favor of gold because 1t Is
good for the farmer, because it is good
for the business man, and you tell nm
that the laboring man and business man
and farmer, all these, are willing to FISK
bimetallism, and what does he say! lie
rises up to the full height of his moral
stature and says: Shall | let them hurt
themselvesY He says: :! will ram the
gold standard down their Threats whether
they want it or not, because l love them
better than l love myself Do yen be-
lieve it? | don't l say thai, the imam
cer is lust as good as anybody else, Dut
/ deny that he is any better, l adml !
that he is as selfish as any other, put
deny that he is less selfish than Others.
"Why is it that the bond syndlcates are al;
against us? Is it because they are dolhl-
mated by human selfshness! linen Wny
don't these men come out and say .nes
are opposed to us because our pialSTrn,
interferes with their business OF bleeding
the government? But we are tod tha at
these syndicates are unseltish. and IN spl,iee
of all the good that free coinage Woulu
bring to them they have the moral cou ,ea 81
to turn their backs on their own welfare
and plead the cause of the common PEI