The record-union., 1896-08-29
CANDIDATE BRYAN
TALKS TO CHANGERS.
Addresses a Large Audience Near Knowles
vile, New York,
Who Were Attending a Farmers
Alliance Picnic.
Tells His Hearers That a Gold Stand
ard Will Enhance the Value of
the Yellow fetal and Take Twice
as Much of the Products of the
Farm to Buy the Dollar and Pay
His Debts as 1t Did Before.


Farm to Buy the Dollar and Pay
His Debts as 1t Did Before.
NIAGARA FALLS. Aug. 2S.-In pic
turesque features William Jennings
bryans S day of campaigning was re-
plete from start to finish. Leaving Buff
falo early in the morning, he came to
Niagara in a trolley car, viewed the
tails and rapids, attended a farmers
picnic at knoWlesville and returning to
Niagara by way of Medina, late this
evening ended the day with a speech
from stand erected at the Cataract
House.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bryan, with Congress-
man William Sulzer, John Cuneon and
other persons of prominence, reached
knowlesville by train from Niagara
rails early in the afternoon. A big ba-
| rouche drawn by four silver-gray horses
was IN waiting for the candidate and his
wife, and in this they were conveyed to
the village of Knowlesville, half a mile
distant. The wood fairly rang with the
SHOUTS from the crowd assembled. There
was Jam around the speakers stand
out by dint of hard pushing the local
reception Committee met Mr.. Bryan.
something like quiet was finally re-
stored and Warren II. Phillips, who sat
IN the New York Assembly as a Repub-
Acan, called the meeting to order
estimates of the number of people
! VINO thronged about the stand range
from IU,OOO to 10000, but the difference
between these figures is about the num-
Der.
BRYAN'S TALK TO FARMERS.
KNOWLESVILLE On. W. Aug. 2S.-
That wonderful voice of w. J. Brvan's
was in bad condition for oratory this
morning at Tonawanda, twelve miles
from Buffalo, where he had the first op-
pcrtunlty of using it. He spoke with
an effort, and showed plainly the effect
on his vocal organs of the last few days
OF long speeches. The Democratic can
dldate, Mrs. Bryan and a party of Erie
| County supporters left Buffalo shortly
after o'clock on a special car of the
Buffalo and Niagara Falls Electric Rail-
way.
Just before the train left Niagara
Falls Mrs. Bryan was handed an i'm
mense bunch of chrysanthemums. On
chrysanthemums one by one were pre-
sented by Mrs. Bryan to everyone with
in her reach, and when the train reached
Medina the lady stood with her hus-
band on the rear platform and resumed
| the work of distributing them among
| the crowd which had assembled near
the tracks Many ladies were in the
crowd, and strove with each other for
al NJ
cused himself from speaking He said
he had to save his voice for the next
| station, KnoWleSville.
Arriving at Knowlesville at ITO o. m.
| Mr.. Bryan was received by a large gath
ering. Mr.. aad Mrs. Bryan took seats
| in a carriage drawn by silver gray
| horses, and were wheeled away to the
| home of Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene Wood
ford, where they We're entertained at
| lunch with Mrs. T. Morey Hodgman a
] Lincoln neighbor of the Bryans, and
Mrs. Woodford's sister. Mr.. Bryan
| then proceeded to Slawson's Grove.
where the Farmers Alliance picnic was
in session. Here Mr.. Bryan addressed a
large audience. Mr. Bryan said:
This is g. very unusual spectacle. I
have met immense audiences in the
|
small territories, but this is the largest
audience 1 have ever seen assembled in
the midst of an agricultural country.
/ Applause.) am glad to notice here the
mothers and wives, as well as the sons
and husbands, because, my friends. our
cause is the cause of the whole family
| CApplause.) 1 am glad that at this meet
| ing we are having as the presiding Off
| q mo ~ hos
the Republican ticket. I am glad be-
cause some of the newspapers parade
before the public the names of promi-
nent Democrats who are going to desert
the ticket, and 1 am glad that for every
! Democratic deserter we are going to
have accessions from the Republican
| party more than enough to make up the
difference. (Applause)
Politics is a practical question, and
it is SO simply because it can be compre-
hended by our people. Neither my time
nor my physical strength will permit an
extended discussion of the issues of the
campaign But 1 desire to suggest some
thoughts which may help you in your
study of the issues and in your determ-
ination of the part which you should
! take.
|
| tween the idle holders of idle money
| and the struggling masses who produce
the wealth and pay the taxes of the
country. (Applause) And when this
is understood, when men find out about
the money question, you will find out
| if there is man in your community
whose interests, whose SympathieS are
with the idle holders of idle money, he
will be in favor of 4 gold standard,
and daring to say so, he will talk about
honest money and sound dollar
! (Applause) But if his sympathies are
with those who produce the nation S
wealth he will be for gold and silver
coinage of the Constitution, no matter
how many times you call him an an
/ archist.
They tell us that these prominent
financiers are going to leave the Demo
cratic party because it declares for the
restoration of silver. We shall not so
into court to secure an order to prevent
their going. Gaughter) The Demo
cratic party has been weighed down by
those millstones long enough. I am
glad to be rid of those who want to use
the party organization for private gain
and their country for plunder. Cap
| plause)