The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-06-23
The Silver Champion Addressed a
Very Large Audience.
HE WAS SO WEAK FROM HIS RE-
CENT ATTACK THAT HE DELlv-
Erred HIS SPEECH FROM HIS
CHAIR-HE AFFIRMs THAT THE
FREE COINAGE OF SILVER is A
PART OF THE DEMOCRATIC
FAITH.

Cloch yeSCcruuy evening over the CheS.
apeake and Ohio road. He was met at
the station by the Stonewall Band and a
large and enthusiastic crowd. His ap-
pearance provoked wild cheering. Enter
ing u carriage with Hon. Harry Tucker,
State Senator Echols and W b. McChes.
ney, he was driven at once to the resi-
dence of Mr.. Tucker to tea, the band pre-
ceding the carriage ami large and en-
thusiastic crowd following Mr.. Bryan
reached Staunton not in good shape, as he
has been quite unwell for three days.
Mr.. Bryan spoke from n small stand
made by running into n lot ut the end of
the street car line near the park small
flat car belonging to the company, on
which were table and several chairs and
n small improvised railing hung with
bunting. Three electric lights were
strung up aud The audience had to stand
On the green sward. Mr.. Bryan received
an ovation from "a crowd of about four or
five thousand persons.
He was introduced by Hon. Harry
Tucker. Mr.. Bryan was so weak physi-
cnlly that he asked permission of the au-
dtence to sit while speaking. permission
readily and enthusiastically granted.
Mr. Bryan stated he would confine his
remarks to the currency question. lie
said he recognized selfishness as princi.
pie of human nature. and that their pol.
icy was determined by their self-interest
Soon after speaking commenced Mr..
Bryan put on his hat and asked the audi
ence to do the same, saying they needed
them all in 1900. Is
Mr.. Bryan reiterated his desire for free
and unlimited coinage OF silver ut sixteen
to one without respect to any other ma
ton. When he uses the word goldbug
he does not intend to critioise; he means
1t in friendly way, just as the gold bug
calls me Il lunatic. He said the gold bug
declared the free silver craze would blow
over, and are now wondering why it has
not blown over.
Referring to the sta tement that the
gold bugs said free silver is disease he
would call gold bugism new yellow
fever that killed not the one who had it,
but the other. lie argued that bimetal-
lism has always been.
He criticised the Republican party for
saying the gold standard was measure Of
civilization and til IN sending commits.
sion abroad to get rid OF this measure of
civilization for bimetalism.
Abiding Co the misunderstanding of
the money question, Mr.. ssBryan said, no
man understood boils unless he hal them,
and people understand the money ques.
ton because theysssuffered from it, and
argued that silver should be coined free
as we'll as gold. The law haG changed
the country from silver-using to a cold
using country. The important thing in
the dollar is it's purchasing power.
Mr.. Bryan gave as correct definition
OF an honest dollar that would be dollar
whose average purchasing power is the
same to-day. yesterday, tomorrow and
forever. The dollar whose purchasing
power increases is ssthe dollar of the cred
itor class, who grow rich as the others
grow poorer
A gold bug once said if your house
BUNS down your paper money burns up,
your silver melts and is reduced one-half,
your gold remains the same, therefore
gold is the only sound money. "A silver
nan,replied, put your money in boat,
the boat sinks, both the gold and silver
goes down, and your paper floats, the re-
fore paper is the only good money.
One argument, said Mr.. Bryan, is as
good as another. What surprised him
was to see mar who never had any
money and who did not know where his
next winters supplies were coming from,
trembling lest there should be "a flood of
money under free silver.
IN CINCINNATI.
Cincinnati, June 22.-Mr. Bryan ar
rived here late this afternoon and was
given most tremendous ovation. He
was met at the depot by many silver
clubs of this place and from Kentucky.
He addressed an immense crowd to night
under the auspices OF the Ohio Valley Sill
yer Club.
QUEENS JUBILEE CELEBRATED.
The Robert Burns Club met last night
In the hall over Bowman's restaurant and