The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-09-02


 tained by Columbus business men was handsome and the display of fireworks was fine. A way was kept clear from the outskirts of the park to the stand in front of the capitol building and through this Mir and Mrs. Bryan and those accompanying them passed with out difficulty. Just before they arrived the stand, hitherto darkened, burst into flood of light given from scores of electric globes. The stand accommo- dated a number of prominent demo- crats and their wives, a brass band and the democratic glee club. Nearly ev- cry persons in the vast audience, pack ed over ten acres of ground, could see the candidate as he mounted the steps of the rostrum and stood before them. And then the widest cheering began. Fifty thousand is a conservative esti- mate of those present People had been pouring into Columbus all day from the surrounding country. This is the second day of the state fair and with the additional attraction of Bryan filled the city with strangers.
 When the cheers had subsided Allen w. Thurman, son of tho "Old Roman," in few sentences presented MT. Bry- an. The cheering then was more in- tense than it had been at Mir Bryan's first appearance, and it was several minutes before 1t ceased. So far be- yond the reach of his voice did the sol id human mass extend that MT. Bryan was obliged to divide his speech into four segments, one delivered from each side of the stand. MT. Bryan, in part, said:
 This is the largest audience to which I ever tried to speak I have had oc- casion to speak where the audience filled the house, but rever had occa- sion 10 talk where tfe audience filled all outdoors. Qaughter.) If you all vote as you are now shouting (voice, We willlD I don't see how there can be any question about the triumph of free silver. If our opponents speak truly when they discuss what will, in their judgment, be the effect of free coinage, the success y the Chicago ticket will surely he calamity to the country. If, on the other hand, We Speak the truth when we describe the effects of gold standard, then the maintenance of geld standard until foreign nations cone to our relief is an bevil which cannot he contemplated by those who love their country. We have begun an unceasing warfare against the gold standard. The enemy with whom we are fighting has never gone into an open battle.
 "The advocates of a gold standard have never dared to submit the gold standard to the arbitration of q ballot. Every step that has haen taken has been taken by stealth and without tho approval of the American people. When silver was demonetized in 1873 the people had not discussed it, and persons who were members of congress and who voted on the measure testified that they did not understand that the bill demonetized silver. When the crime was discovered and the Ameri- can people attempted to restore silver to it's ancient place by the side of gold the opponents of free coinage forced the Bland act upon congress as a com promise, and as soon as the Bland act went into force the enemies of free sil- yer sought to repeal the Bland act and leave nothing in it's place. But the sil- yer sentiment grew until 1890, and in that year the opponents of free coinage being afraid of the passage of free coinage bill, secured another compro- mise, which was known as the Sherman law.
 . "In support of that measure MT. Sherman made a speech and he showed that we required $43, 900 new money every year to keep pace with popula- tion and industries, and he defended that measure on the ground that it gave to the people more money. And yet in his Recollections, published only only a few months ago. you will find that Senator sherman says he was in favor of the Sherman law simply to prevent free coinage and that he was willing to vote for it's repeal to-day af- ter it was enacted, if he could prevent the substitution of free coinage. (Ap- plause.) They secured the repeal of the Sherman law and they pretended that they would restore silver to its former place.
 Tn this campaign every party in it's platform. so far, has declared that the principle of bimetallism is better than a gold standard and yet in spite of these declarations you know there is body of people who under cover of friendliness to bimetallism are seeking to fasten a gold standard upon the American people, l do not know what the convention which meets will do, but I know the democrats who are in charge when they were in charge at the Chicago convention a few weeks ago opposed free silver on the ground that it would prevent international bi- metallism. The convention tomorrow will be the most remarkable ever held in the United States because 1t will be one which will nominate but for the ex- press purpose of electing another can- didate. We are fighting enemies who will not come out into the open field and declare to the American people what they want. (Applause)
 "We on the other hand propose a platform which means what it says and says what it means and takes the people into it's confidence. (Cheers). We want to say, if there is a man in the world who has an ounce of silver bull lion that he cannot usefully employ lion to our mint and have it converted into $129 and employ that $1 29 in buy ing the products of American citizen ship. We want the ratio of 16 to 1. They call it a 50-cent dollar, but there is not one of them that will sell it for less than 10O cents We want tbs eo,,,