The age-herald., 1900-08-24
Bryan's Speech Accepting
 The P0pu1ist Nomination

the Populist Notification Committee of his nomination as Presidential candidate, said: sf
 MT Chairman and Members of the Noti- fication Committee-In accepting the Pres idential nomination which you tender in behalf of the Populist party, desire to give emphatic recognition to the educa- tional work done by your party. The Pop ulist party, as an organization, and the Farmers Alliance and the labor organ izations from which they sprung, have done much to arouse the people to a study of economic and industrial questions. Be- neving, as I do, that truth grows, not in seclusion, but in the open field, and that it thrives best in the sunlight of full and free debate, I have confidence that the discussion which your party has compelled will aid in reaching that true solution of pending problems toward which all hon est citizens aim.
 T desire also to express my deep appre- citation of the liberality of opinion and de- votion to principles which have led the members of your party to enter the ranks of another party in the selection of a can- didate.
 And let me pause to say that when tiiiS SpccSH was pTtpdTeu anu gwen lO lHe press did not know that formal announce ment of the resolutions passed by the Monetary League would be made at this time, and I desire here to express my grat- itude to the members of that league for the support they promise, and for the cor dial commendation which their resolutions speak. The Monetary League has for four years been active in the distribution of literature connected with the money ques- tion aimed at the enlargement of the voters, and I have on former occasions, and do now express my commendation of the efforts of this league and of similar leagues, to spread before the people the information on the money question, be- cause I believe the more the question is studied and the better 1t is understood the stronger will be the demand for the re- storation of the double standard in the United States
 While I am grateful for the confidence which the Populist have expressed in me, l am not vain enough to regard as person. al their extraordinary manifestations of good will. The ties which bind those who believe in the same fundamental principles are stronger than ties of affection-strong- CT even than the ties of blood; and co-op- eration between the reform forces is due to the fact that Democrats, Populists and Silver Republicans take the side of the peo- pie in their contest against greed, and agree in the application of Jeffersonian principles to the question immediately be- fore us.
 Retrospective
 ''In 1896 the money question was of par mn nd in, hot campaign united in the demand for the restoration of silver by the independent &C., tion of this country at 16 to l, the ratio which had existed since 1884. They were defeated, but that did not end the discus sion. The Democrats were defeated in 1888, tut that did not put an end to tariff reform. The Republicans were defeated in 1892 but that did not permanently over throw the protective tariff. Defeat at the polls does not necessarily decide against the problem. Experience and experience alone settles questions. If an increase in the volume of the currency since 1S96 al- though unpromised by the Republicans and unexpected has brought improvement in industrial conditions this improvement in- stead or answering the argument put forth by bimetallism, only confirms the conten- tion Of those who insisted that more money would make better times
 Ihe Republican party, however, while claiming credit for the increase in circula- tfon, makes the permanent provision for an adequate supply of standard money It makes the necessity for more real money while 1t permits national banks to expand the volume of paper promises to pay money. If the Populsts felt justified in opposing the Republican party when it sought to conceal it's gold standard tender under the mark of international bimetal- hsm, the opposition should be more pro- nounced in proportion as the Republican party more openly espoused gold mono- metallsm.
 Retirement of Greenbacks
 'In 1896 the reform forces claimed the Republican party wanted to retire green backs. This charge, at the time has been confessed by the financial bill which con- Verts greenbacks, when once redeemed, into gold certificates and new provisions to banks of this issue. If the Republican party, when its hostility to greenbacks was only suspected, was opposed, that opposi- tion should be a better one now, since no one can longer doubt the purpose of the party to substitute bank notes for green backs.
 Ut is true the Populists believe in irre- deemable greenbacks, while the Democrats believe in a greenback redeemable in coin, but the vital question at this time, so far as paper money is concerned, Is whether the government or banks shall issue it. There will be time enough to discuss the redeemability of the greenbacks when the greenback itself Is saved from the annihi- lation which now threatens it. The Repub- lican party Is now committed to currency system which necessitates perpetual debt, while the Populist finds himself in agreement with the Democrats, who be- lieve in paying off the national debt as soon as possible.
 'I believe if an income tax justified Populist in acting with the Democratic party in 1896, what excuse can we find for aiding the Republican party now, when the exigencies of war have not been sufficient to bring that party to the support of the income tax principle?
 ''Populists believe in legislation as much now as they did in 1896, and are as much opposed r., government by injunction and the black list as they were then and upon these subjects they have as much reason