Birmingham state herald., 1896-10-09
The DaY In Burlinpton.

Burlington, Ia., Oct. S.-In the conelud- ing ceremonies today of Burlingtons celebration of the sem-centennial of Iowa's admission to the union, William J. Bryan was the principal attraction. The city was profusely decorated and great crowds of visitors filled the streets. MT. Bryan arrived from Chicago at a. m., on the special car which he will have at his disposal for the rest of the campaign, and took breakfast at the house of John J. Seerley.
 At 9 o'clock MT. Bryan was escorted to the court house, where he held a short reception. parade, in which brass bands and mounted and unmounted orr ganizations, including a number of la dies on horseback, took part, escorted the candidate through the principal streets to the coliseum in Crepot park. Here he delivered his principal address to the immense crowd of people. John J. Seerley who presided, introduced him. Several other stands had been erected in the park and from these MT. Bryan and othrs made short speeches.
 Speech at the Coliseum.
 At the Coliseum Mr. Bryan said:
 "Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen and Fellow Citizens: We are passing through campaign which means great deal to the American people-aye, more than that, 1t means @ great deal to the people of the world. There are crisises in human affairs. While every day is of equal length with every other day, yet in to some days vast importance is crowded and into the Sd of November vast impor- tance will be crowded
 Upon that day the American people choose a president who shall occupy the White House Cries of Bryant" "Bry amp and applause) for four years. On that day they select house of repre- sentatves, and on that day they select legislators. who will choose United States senators. Much depends upon the re- suit of the selection.
 For the first time in the history of the United States party appears which de- clares that the gold standard must be maintained in this country until foreign nations join us or permit us to abandon it. Never before have the American peo- pie been asked to declare in favor of gold standard. Every step that the gold standard has taken heretofore has been taken in the dark and without the con- sent of the American people, and now, for the first time, the advocates of gold ask the American people to indorse the gold standard at the ballot box. If it is right (Cries of NO, no!p, if it is good for the American people, it ought to be in- dorsed.
 My friends, nothing is too good for the American people, and if the gold standard will be good for us we ought to have it. If the gold standard will bring blessings to our people we ought to maintain 1t; if It brings curses we ought to abandon 1t. (Great applause) This is the question
  stand upon platform-yes, I stand upon three platforms which agree on one thing and that is that the gold standard ought to be driven out of the United States, and that in it's place ought to be substituted the free and unlimited coin age of both gold and silver at the legal ratio of IS to 1, without waiting for the aid or consent of any other nation. Pro- longed applause.)
 T come today to submit for your con- sideration some reasons why republicans should join with us upon the platform which we have adopted. The populsts have already joined with us. I will say joined with us; they may say that we have joined with them but I care not how you express it, so we are together now. Applause, and voice: Hurrah for McKinley).
 refrain from any manifestations of dis pleasure. I am glad to have that man here who is in favor of my opponent. only hope there are many such, because it is to such persons that desire to ad- plause) My friend has declared his preference for Mckinley. I want to ask him which Mckinley he is for, the Me Kinley of 1890 or the Mckinley of 1896? (Great apDlause).
 we must have larger volume of money and that the added volume shall be sil- yer or its equivalent, based on silver At that time we were putting Into CIT culation about s24 ,0o0,0 ,000 year under the Bland act, and MT. Mckinley advo- cated the Sherman act, on the ground that 1t would increase the amount of money to be put in circulation among the people. We propose to give to this country what the gentlemen upon the other side of the house could not do, what they did not dare to do for four years. We propose to give to the country a silver bill that will take all of the sil- yer practically of the United States and make it available for the use of the peo- pie.
 Again he said: 50, MT Speaker this bill is just to the silver producers of the United States, for it does what the pres ent law, as demonstrated by every ad- mnistration for ten years, has not done It takes every dollar of silver bullion that is purchased in the United States and places it at the disposal of the people as money
 ''This was the Mckinley of 1890. Let me read you the Mckinley of 1896.
 "' Tt is not more money we want. What we want is to put all the money we have, already at work In 1890 when he ad- vocated more money we already added fo fhc cfr