Evening star., 1896-10-27
WEEK OF HARD WORK
MIR. Bryan Began Speaking Early
This Morning.
ARDENT ADMIRERS WAITED NIGHT
The Assertion That Panic Would
Follow Free Coinage Denied.
PREDICTING THE REVERSE

BLOOMINGTON, ILL.,. October 27.-wm.
]. Bryan, the democratic presidential can
didate. evidently will make the last week
OF the campaign one of hard work and in
all probability a record breaker. Shortly
after o'clock this morning he was talking
to the people of Lincoln. ILL.,, and at 8
O'Clock the people of Bloomington were lis
tening to the tripleSnomlnee At Lincoln
there was good-sized crowd down at the
depot before breakfast, in fact many were
there all night, for when the special car
Was sidetracked, shortly after 3 o'clock
this morning, a crowd of ardent admirers
of the nominee showed their affection for
him by disturbing his rest and demanding
a speech at that early hour. When he ar
rived at Lincoln the crowd surrounded the
car and loudly demanded his appearance
When Mr.. Bryan began to speak there was
crowd of several thousand assembled
about the platform in the public square in
Lincoln, and nearly every member of the
crowd wore Bryan badge Mr. Bryan's
talk was, In the main, in reference TO the
statement that panic would follow the
enactment of the law looking toward The
lree coinage or silver His speech was lib
orally applauded, and he was in touch with
the crowd which heard him. He said In
part:
Disbclieves I'm n Panic.
"One week from today the American peo-
pie are to decide upon the financial policy
of this nation for at least four years. and
possibly for longer time. When our on
ponents have failed in everything else they
commence to make gloomy predictions of
what will happen IL We have the free COIN
age OF silver You know whenever We have
complained of existing conditions they have
called us calamity howlers' But, my
frin dc
plained OF conditions they are speak
words OF praise compared with the lam
euaee used by our opponents when they be-
gin 10 tell what is going to happen if the
lree coinage OF silver comes; and one of
the most frequent of the prophecies which
they make Is that panic will come the
moment We have free coinage of silver.
mat the people who have money will lock
IL UP, ana all the people who have mort
cages Will foreclose the mortgages ana
that there is going to be period of ruin
mere, and that language fails to express
enelr loeas OF the subject; they simply
stand aghast at the picture.
L want to show you that the free COIN
age or silver, irstead of bringing a panic
VIII stop the panic that the people have
y; neeh sunerins from for years. We are
IN the midst of panic now and We have
been In the midst of panic Business
failures have been increasing and hard
times have been becoming harder. That
is what a panic means and we are in
the mldst OF panic now, and there is no
way out or the panic until We stop falling
prices, and there Is no way to stop falling
prices until We increase the volume of the
money which measures prices.
The Hoarding of Money.
Now there is one safe principle to go
on when you are discussing what is going
to happen, and that principle is that peo-
pie are not going to do anything that is
injurious to them if they know it, You can
count on selfish interest always and when
you tell me that men will hoard money
under free coinage, 1 tell you that know
that they will not hoard money because
people never hoard money when money is
FALLING in value. They do not hoard wheat
when wheat is going down. You will find
that when the price begins to fall they
begin to get rid of the thing falling in
price and under free coinage there will
be a larger amount of money brought into
circulation. and people understand that
that means the purchasing power of the
dollars VIII fall, and when that commences
the man " ho owns the dollar will be trying
to get rid of the dollar and get hold of
something which is rising In its purchas-
ing power
DWIGHT, ILL.,, October 21.-The working
men OF Bloomington listened to William J.
Bryan at $3.50 o'clock this morning and
they gave him a cordial reception. From a
stand in Franklin Park, and near the resi-
dence of Vice President Stevenson he talk
ed to an audience of several thousand peo-
Pile and after beng INTRODUCED by the Vice
President, paid that gentleman a comp-
Elent as being one of the democrats still
true to the traditions of his party. He
then proceeded to answer questions pro-
pounded to him by a morning paper, and
his answers apparently satisfied the crowd.