The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-07-08

Los Angeles, Cal, July "a banquet
was given in honor of Hon. VIM. j. BRYAN
by the silver Reputlicau Club here last
night In his address Mr.. Bryan said he
used to think that all'good was contain
ed in the Democratic party and all bad in
the Republican bnrty, but .lately,,h he had
seen so many good Republicans that he
had changed his opinion. He wanted to
give the silver Republicans the front rank
in the battle now being waged.
"Grover Cleveland" he said, 'tis more
interested in bimetallism than any other
individual in the United States to-day.
1.-The single standard means that the
few who hold gold shall make serfs and
bondsmen of the people. An influence,
alien, reaches ont from Lombard street,
London, to the New York banker, from
the New York banker to the bankers of
all the United States, fl ON the. banker to
the business men, and thence to every.
body. Are you surprised, my hearers,
that we failed to reach all the people:
1.-The disappointments which have come
from the holding out of false hopes will
make it possible to repeal the Judgment
OF the last e.ection. In test of endur-
ance the West and South will outlast the
East"
Previous to the banquet Mr.. Bryan
made Fourth of July speech. 1t was
announced that he was to make non
political and patriotic address, and for
twenty minutes he adhered to this an
nouncement. Then he warmed IN to
what he called the pulsating, throbbing
issues that confronted the American peo-
ple,and spoke two hours longer OH bimet-
allism. Democrats and silver men
cheered and yelled frequently, but Me-
kinlev Republicans were angry, and
hundreds went away rs he proceeded.
He spoke in terms of bitter sarcasm of
the ''wave of prosperity that had come
over the United. States since the present
administration came into power. The
administration, he said, had made itself
the laughing stock Of the whole wor Id by
sendin0 bimetallic commissioners to
Europe. How he asked, would Euro
pean bondholders and mortgage owners
ever treat with American debtors who go
there saying that the Union will con
tinue to pay them gold until Europe con.
SCENTS to take silver.
Mr.. Bryan declared the Dngey tart Il
bill robbery, and said it never coul Id he
made success. The public would NOT
stand any more enrichment of trusts.
The people were starving, he declared, and
debts we're accommodating, while the nd
ministration was fooling with niuuitious
tariff measures and sending commission.
ers IT, Europe on hopeless errands.
The speaker poured hot shot into the
ranks of gold Democrats, saying that
their vote last November was the only
real test of Simon.pure godism in the
country, and it was microscopical He
said gold Democrats had called him demo
gogue, when the facts were he had been
their Moses.
He spent some time in'quotino John G.
Carlisle on bimetalism, and said the
former Secretary had gone over, body and
soul. to Wall street.
"If any one wants to know what power
fnanciers are in America" sad he, with
great deliberation, "let HIM run for
President on free silver platform"
He declared that the times were grow
ing harder; that The people were more
distressed; that debts were piling higher
and that poor people went to barren tn
hles to be told that they must have conf
dence. He finished with the declaration
that silver would surely win in the mex,
national election, and that he WIS hourl,
surprised in his travels at the growth O
free silver sentiment since the last inaug
uratiOn.