The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 11, 1896, Page 2

FRANCISCO CALL, UNDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1896. 2 p fornian journeyings: The people of Cali- fornia have been wonderfully and incalcu- laby benefited by the policy to which the Republican party is committed. Cal- fornians, of all Americans, ought to vote solid for McKinley. “It is true- thai I have met almosta dozen people here who said they were going to vote for Bryan. Perhaps they will, but 1 trust they will experience a change of heart before the 3d of November. The Arherican sometimes goes wrong politically, but when he has a chance to think he generally gets back into the right track. aH “Now I don’t interd to go .imo.sxuflshcs in order to prove the principies in wnose reference I speak. We hear it said figures don't lie; but it doesn’t follow that.liars don’t sometimes figure. So I will let figures alone and try to confine myself to facts. “The Republican party stands com- mitted to the position that the National honor must be mainiained. The issues of this'v of 1896 can only be compared to s ch confronted the Nation 1860, Now, as then, the integrity of the Republic 1s threatened. When the fate of the Union was imperiled and division seemed almost inevitable true patriots rallied from all.parts of the country. Gray-haired men, long retired from pub- e ife, rushed again into the arena, join- is with half-grown youths in a gr ndeavor to save the Nation. “Something of the same sort is hap- pening to-day. The men who under- stand and appreciate the terribie signifi- cance of the dangers hanging over us have sunk their party differences in a | concerted effort to stay the progress of the plague? Wlhiat is the plague? ssks some hapless being, ignorant and indifferent re- garding his country’s welfare. L will an- swer you. The plague which threatens to prove our National death and is sure if unchecked to bring about our Natonal dishonor is universal industrial paraly- n evil so great and so menacing that cannot be exaggerated. This is the plague which must be met and counter- acted unless we are willing to let it ruin us. “It wa: count: portu ifiedly pr id by a great writer in this America is another name for op- but [ never realizea unqual- absolutely the force of that ex- on until I visited Calitornia. When I heard pioneers grumbling—men who had been here for five or six years and called themselyes pioneers—when I heard them complaining, and when I see here the you are getting, when I see that you il with a hoe to make it laugh with the harvest, I wonder how they can find words to complain. “We recognize the hard conditions; set yourselves about repairing and correcting them. There are men within the sound of my voice who remember what the pioneers to encounter in Ohio, Wisconsin, ichigan and Ullinois. There there were great forests to be removed, and there was aconstant warfare against all the elements and against the stubborness of the soil. It bad to be prepared before we couid plant anything in it. But here you are blessed exceedingly. In some things you get four or five or SIX crops a year. “We all recognize that the condition is Ve a hard one, even in California. If you feel that the lines are hard in California, go beyond the Rocky Mountains—go to the furnaces, to the mills, the factories, the for s and the fisheries of the East, where you will find hundreds | of thousands of men standing idle, beg- ging for an opportunity to work in order that they might be enabled to buy some of the producis of California. We realize that there, as here, the lines are hard, but much harder there than here. 3 *Now, the first thing we want to ask is, how it occurred that we have stumbled upon those hard lines. There is alwaysa reason for everything, and we can always battle with a d e better when we know the cause of it. think tnat California knows the nature of the disease, whether my Populistic friends will admit it or not. | *This is a nation of parties. Wherever there is an issue upon any given subject we cannot ‘be on both sides, although there are some persons possibly who can. We can take one side or the other. We either approve or disapprove, or we dis- sent or approve, one or the other. ldo not refer to the Indianapolis branch of the Democratic party., They are with us, ex- cept upon the tariff plank in their plat- form, but they are not worrying much =bout that when they stand in the pres- ence of the fact that in the adoption of that plan four years ago they didn’t act wisely. “The Democrats left nobody in doubt. They said to the world, ‘If we are en- trusted ®ith power in the legislative branch. of the Government and in the executive branch of the Government we will first destroy the protective system in which California, more than Connecticut, is interested.” And they told you why. They said, ‘It will bring to our country a grander and wider prosperity than we | know now; your business will be in- creasec: your fleece, your products: will bring better prices.’ “Qur people believed them; they were 50 seductive in their argument that it prospered beyond compare. -Everybody admitted it, and they wanted a greater vrosperity if. it were possible. Henry Watterson wrote the tariff plank in the Democratic platform, and he knows how tosay a thine. Mr. Bryan said that the protective tariff was a system of robbery which permits one neighbor to insert his nand into his neighbor's pocket and take money therefrom withou eonsideration. Bryan said that the system was a robbery, and he helped to do that for California which has injuriously affected every fire- side within your State. There are not twenty-five men within the sound of my voice tbat den’t know that that is unquali- fiedly true. “To-day there are sheared their owners do woel will be worth shearing. tainty, distrust, lack of business congi- dence and general shakiness pervade our country in view of the mere possibility of a new and 1uinous financial policy. What would be the result were the reality to come to pas:? “California’s business men are shaking in their boots at the mere notion of a reign_of Bryanism. The men of this State are no fools. The evils that they fear are grave evils, and I for one am sure they will down their formidable enemy on election day. ““‘We hear that the protective tarff will keep up our prices and make things harder for'the poor. The thing is to keep up a fair schedule of American wages and give every honest man in ihe country a chance to eara g decent living. If wages are kept up who cares whether prices reep up or not? Was there any complaint regarding high ptices curing the flush times, when everybody had plenty of movey? Such a regime is what the Re- publican party desires to ses inaugurated. “The gentleman who runs with Mr. ‘Watson [great laughter] is opposed to the protective policy on the ground that it favors monopoly. This remains to be proved, for it has never yet heen proved. The poticy of protection will favor the American who is willing to work, and the hiarder he works the better chance he will have. The monopoly will have to bow be- fore the majesty of American labor, which the Republican policy will elevate and keep sacred.” At this juncture the Phcenix Republi- can Club, which was drilling near by, marched ¢hrough the hall. The audience cheered lustily as the fine-looking column of young men, four abreast, tiled by, its band playing a brilliant march, while the handsome uniforms and flashing swords ;;dqed a finishing touch to the general ef- ect. “Ilike to see those boys,” commented Mr. Butterworth. “They wear the Federai blue. Your tional Guard wears the Federal blue as weil. Perhaps later on I may pay my respects to one of Califor- hia’s candidates for Congress, who re- ferred to the National Guardsmen as ‘as- sassins of plutocrats.” The Pheenix boys having departed, Mr. Butterworth said: “I want to show in a few words that National honesty is the best policy for our country. In order to pay our just debts we must have money. They tell us we bave money enough. I deny it—that is to say, we have not money enough in circu- lation. The volame of money is greater sheep going un- in | in California, simply because | not know whether the | in this country than ever before in its his- tory; but this is not enongh. In addition to money we require public confidence in business ventures. Moneyed men who fear a reign of National insolvency are loth to let their dollars slip between their fingers. “Still, money must ecirculate. The nimble sixpence is better than the slow shilling. The question is, then, how shall we set the money a-going? How can we make the holders of money set their funds rolling in the marts of commerce? We can only do it by making business safe. Let moneyed men see that in investing their money they will not throw it away, and cash will circulate freely enough. “What caused this lack of confidence? Well, it was the dollar.”” [Laughter.] Then »r. Butterworth went on to say that his Democratic friends found some consolation in a letter which he once wrote. But he proposed to repeat what he said then and he would maintain it, and he would say that the man who said that the Republican party was a gold mono- metallic party was not just to himself nor ;o the Republican party nor quite truth- ul. “If there ever was a party in favor of bimetallism, a party that has never uttered a prayer except for bimetallism, that party is the Republican party. My brother of the Examiner basa plan not to bring us to bimetailism, but to silver monometal- lism. Our plan has been not todrive a tandem team with silver ahead and gold out of sight, but to drive the twin coursers abreast, the goid and the silver. “I say now_that it was against the best | interests of civilization and of humanity to demonetize silver. I think so now, but it has veen done. It is not a theory; itis a condition. We must study how to undo | it. Ti somebody needs kicking let him be kicked, but don’t let us kick ourselves, The Populist thinks he will die next March and he wants to commit suicide in November. [Laughter.] “The demonetization of silver has re- duced the value of silver throughout the | world, but it is done. It has enhanced the value of gold, but it has not autbor- ized us to swindle our neighbor, if it did. I say that your plan is not a good one. It will ruin and wreck and_dishonor us from first to last. England will never agree to bimetallism unless she is forced, but Ger- many and France have extended the hand to us, and we can soon have an interna- tional agreement, and we can agree whether it shall be 16, 17 or 20 to 1, so that our dollar will be as good then as:itis row from pole to pole, and all around the world we will still bave maintained our { honor and our credit. “But you say to me, ‘the law fixes the value of money; doesn’t the constitution provide that Congress shall reguiate the value of and shail coin money?' No; neither Congress nor the Reichstag nor the Chamber of Deputies in France can fix the purchasing power of money. Itis fixed by a law wkich we can neither amend nor repeal; by a law that fixes the | commereial value of everything in the | i world. Silver is property ana Congress can neither increase nor decrease its pur- chasing power. “‘But there is a wide difference between | the debt-paying power and the purchas- |ing power. Congress can enable me to | swindle you out of your boots by fixing | the debi-paying power of the greenback at a certain tiguve. That piece of paper, the solemn promise of my Government, might | not be worth more than 10 cents on the | doliar, when it was at 35 cents at the time | this young republic was staggering under the blows of a gigantic revoiution.’’ The speaker went on to relate an anec- dote iliustrating the difference between the debt-paying power and purchasing | powerof the dollar. A man pays bis debt in a cheap money theé debt-paying power of which has been doubled by Congress | since the debt was contracted. The credi- | tor was obiiged to take it, but that was | the business of yesterday or of last week. | The same man goes to the ex-creditor to- | day androffers to buy from him $1000 worth | of lemons. | - *Very well,” says the owner of the | lemons, “butin what money do you pro- pose to pay me?"’ “The same money I paid you last week,” replies the ex-debtor. Not if I know it.” says the creditor. Congress cannot compel a man to sell his cow or his horse or his wheat or his bread or meat. The seller settles the purchasing vaiue of the money in which | he is to be paid; it is tixed by the com- mercial world. The world’s experience says that the Government stamp does not fix the value of money. The speaker told how. in a season of { great distress, a law was made in France, | backed by the guillotine and the military | power of the nation, to compel the farmer i and the tradesman to accept assignats for | their goods and their labor, but it was | found impossible to enforce the law. It } might as well have been written on water. “You and Iseil what we take out of the { ground, what we raise and produce, our | cattle, potatoes, oranges, fruit, lead, cop- per and iron at the market rate fixed by the commercial world, und you and I are mad because the fellow who has dug his silver out of another place in the ground over there doesn’t get for his silver a hundred per cent more than it is worth, and we wou!d have to pay it if he did.” This apt way of iliustrating the subject | brought forth & continued round of ap- | plause. **How does that strike yon as a sensible proposition? Suppose I was working a silver mine and I came to buy your pota- toes. “ *What is it worth? you ask. ¢ ¢On, 50 cents an ounce in the rarket; put I want you to take it at $1 an ounce.’ | “What would you say to that?” con- | tinued General Butterworth. “You would invite him to go somewhere, wouldn't you?”’ The speaker went on with the declara- tion, the truth of which he said had been affirmed by experience, that the cheaper money always drove out the betrer money. After the battle of Bull Run, when green- backs fell below par, gold and silver fled as from a plague-smitten city. He addea: | “You are selling, under the Wiison act, your product ai less than what it is worth."” He did not see a piece of gold coin once 2 month in the East, while in California he saw nothing but gold and silver, and he added: “And yet you fellows are worry- ing because you have no cheaper moaney."’ Atno time in the history of ths Anglo- Saxon race have its members raised their hands to be shackled. We love liberty; but the liberty which we love goes hand {in hand with law. The revolutionisis of France gave to their country not liberty. but anarchy. This is not the sort of liberty we want. The ideal American liberty 1s guaranteed by the upholding of a fearless and incorruptible judiciary. We have in our Supreme Court a body of jm—-,l ists which has never yet been branded with the infamous seal of corruption. To be sure, a short time ago a body of men attacked it; but this attack, unwarranted as it was ill-timed and unconsidered, called forth a burst of indignation which may properly be called National, “Mr. Loud, that splendid Congressman [cheers], when he sits in Congress repre- | sents the people of California, and in their name he and every man who bas ever truly voiced the sentiments of his constitu- ents calls out by voice and vote for the measures which will contribute t6 his State’'s weal. Yet we hear of a certain Castle, nominated to the high office of Senator from a district in this State. This man, wia calls your National Guard a pack of “‘assassins of plutocrats,” ought to be snowed under. The votes of Califor- nia’s inteiligent and patnotic sons will avert so great a catastrophe s this indi- vidual’s election. “‘There is another topic upon which I must say a few words. In your fair and lonlysut.rgcn will probably soon have a pure and noble influence at work in your politics. Your wives, your sisters and your sweethearts are seeking the ballot at your hands. In the States where women vote we cannot fail to observe a clean, de- cent tone in political assemblies. No man likes to see his sister or the woman ne loves obliged to witness scenes of impro- priety and disorder. In case the women of California ever get the ballot, their brothers will see that the polling-places are kept free irom objectionable features, “Gi the day when our country shall be from even the shadow of dis- honor which her own msiguided sons seek to cast upon her fair face. , Thank heaven, these deluded ones are few.” The mass of American voters will undoubtedly rise in their might and with the power of the bal- lot guide.our country’s destinies into the ih of general prosperity and National onor.” ¥ Mr. Butterworth’s masterly address was rewarded by a loud and sustained burst of cheering. The cguirmnn announced that ex-Con- gressman Frank X. Schoonmaker of New Jersey was to have spoken, but owing to the lateness of the hour—it being after 10 —his address would be postponed. Cries of ‘“No, no,” *Go ahead,” and “‘Schoonmaker,” with much cheering, greeted this announcement, until Mr. Felton was constrainea to say: ¥ “All right; I take it all back. Mr. Sckoonmaker will speak.” The ex-Congressman was very brief. In opening his remarks lesaid: Iam reminded by this evening’s meeting of the old story of two oysters. It is said that once upon & time an Oyster, dressed in his Sunday best, sallied forth e route to a church fair. As he turned a corner he ran against an oyster friend, who he discovered was bound for the same place. g “Well,” he exclaimed, “if you’re going to the social I may as well go home again. What business have two oysters in the stew served at a church fair?” - I feel pretly much as that oyster did. Mr. Butterworth nas stated my dearest principles so clearly and so well that I have nothing to add, except my hearty indorsement of every word he =aid. A time'in American history has now come when a new alignment of parties is imperatively dem: d—a time when all decent, respectable and honorable voters of this country should go upon one side and leave the dishoneést ana improvident and those who would attempt to get somethiug for nothing, upon the other. If such an alignment be made, and it seems to be the duty of every person to bring it about, then when the elections of next 1all take place, the American people will give to the world the greatest demonstration of political mol‘nli? which ever has been witnessed by mankind. Such an alignment. if made, ought to array in tis country at least 70,000,000 of people out of the whole 72,000,000 upon .the side of the Nation’s honor and against the side of the Na- tion’s dishonor. If such an alignment takes place these 70,- 000,000 peopie would practically say to the world this thing: *“We are poor: we have had three years of hard times, largely because we have been either betrayed by our Government or because tahrough our Government’sincom- };elency our business has been taken away rom us and been given to the Old World. We are poor as a consequence of this. None of us is earning & living and none of us is making a living, and we are a people who live generously, and we all need more than we ever needed before. Now, we have the power by suffrage to scale down our debts; we have tlie power by suffrage to thoroughly repudiate them if we choose; and not only have we the power to repudiate or scale them down, but we have the temptation to do this thing because of the unnatural distress which we are to-day suffering and have suffered for three years. Still, we are Americans, and we utterly refuse to repudiate one farthing or to seale down our debts one cent.” 1t 70,000,000 people of this country out of the 72,000,000 represented by the votes cast at next November's election should make this ds ation, it would be such an exhibition of morality as would astound even the Christian nations of the Old World and make pagan na- tious wonder what 1t is that makes;Christians good. After such an exhibitfon of mo- rality ac that can anyone doubt thatany person in the Old World who has a pound or shilling to invest would rather Invest it among us Amerieans than anywhere else in this whole world? 8o that, if the question were not one of integrity and of honor and of patriotism, it would still be one of profit, for such an exhibition of political morlR(y\\'ould pey better than any single action which the Americans, as a nation, have ever performed in the face of mankind. Amid the plaudits of the vast audience, Mr. Shoonmaker resumed his seat, and, after a kind word of parting from Mr, Fel- ton, the vast assemblage broke up with three cheers for McKinley and Hobart and for the speakers of the evening. sl Oed A POPULIST GONE. He Could Not Endure Being Sold Like Merchandise. Among the Populists who have been disgusted with the sale of their party to the Democracy is G. R. McMath, Peovle’s party nominee for the Asssmbly from Mendocino County. He said to a CALL re- porter yesterday: I have withdrawn my name as a candidate for the Assembiy. I could not do otherwise after we had been so completely sold out by Cator, Wardall and cthers. I am mnot a Democrat and never will be swallowed up by the Demo-~ cratic tiger if I can get out of the wavy. The Democrats are trying to kill our party, and the only thing to do now is to reor- ganize and geu rid of the traitors and let them go back to the old . parties, we don’t care to which. ~It looks as though the Repunblicans would carry Mendocino County, although we could have carried it on a straight Populist 1ssue. I don’t want any fusion in mine.” CECl L T Retail Liquor Dealers. The regular meetinz of the Pacific Coast Retail Liquor Dealers and Barkeepers Protective Association, was beld last evening at the head- quarters, 539 California street. Sixty- five new members were initiated into the association. Picnic committee reported that they had engazed Germania Gardens, Harbor View, Sunday, November 1. A resolution was adopted requesting the secretary to communicate with all the candidates nominated by the different po- litical parties and ascertain their views in relation to interests of the association. James W. Buchanan, candidate for Sen- ator in the Seventeenth, and “John J. Fee- ney, for the Twenty-fifth Senatorial Dis- trict; H. Stefiens, for SBupervisor of the Fourth Wara, and John Wolf, for Super- visor of the Sixth Ward, and A. B. Tread- well Jud journ Republican nominee for Police were indorsed. The meeting ad- d to Monday evening. TR Veterans’ League. A largely attended meeting of the Vet- eran League of the Thirty-fourth Assem- bly District was held last night at Mec- Cormick’s Hall, corner of Fourteenth and Mission streets, The principal speakers of the evening were John H. Harney and James Kidney. The speakers confined themselves to the nominees on the local ticket, and when the names of George W. Elder, candidate for Superintendent of Streets; Cord H. Wetjen, nominee for Tax Collector, and William A. Deane for Audi- tor were mentioned, each name was greeted with enthusiastic cheers. The league, by unanimous vote, indorsed the candidacy of the above-mentioned nominees. The league holds meetings every Friday even- ing at the above hall, where all Repub-.| licans are sure to meet with a warm wel- come. I S Republican Women to Recelve. The Woman’s Republican State Central Club will receive its Republican friends, both ladies and gentlemen, at the parlors of the Windsor Hotel, corner of Fifth and Market stree ‘Wednesday ‘evening. Among those who will contribute to the entertainment will be Judge Cooney, Car- ‘roll Cook, Frank Worth, Andy Branch, Dawson Mayer and other prominent Re- publicans. There will also be singing and recitations by ladies of the club, among whom will be Mrs. Beverly Ella’ Eilis, Miss Whitgen, Miss Oourtney and Mrs. Rockwell. —_——— A McKinley Wagon. The Republican State Central Commit- tee has fitted up a fine wagon for display purposes. It is ten feet long and nine feet highand bears an excellent oil por- trait of McKinley. Next to it, on-a blue und in white letters, is a paragraph rom one of Major McKinley’s speeches: “I do not know what you think about it, but I think it is better to open the milis of the country to the labor of America than to open the mints of the United States to the silver of the world. Open-Air Horse Show. The open-air horse show of the Burlingame Country Club on Saturday next promises to be 8 vey successful affair. Trains_leave Third and Townsend street station, San Francisco, at 8:15 A.M., 10:40 A. 3. and 11:30 A . turning trains leave Burlingame at 3:34 . i, 4:04P. M. and 6:16 P. 2. SINGS THE SONG FOR FREE SILVER Byran Makes Four Fairly Long Speeches at St. Paul. Asked an Unpleasant Question Which He Positively De- ‘clines to Answer. CHEAP MONEY THE ONLY TOPIC For Reasons Best Kncwn to Himself the Nebraskan Can See No Other Issuz in the Campaign. ST. PAUL, Mix~., Oct. 10.—Four fairly long speeches constituted William J. Bryan’s tribute to-night to the fight for free silver that is being waged in Minne- sota. After a number of brief talks to people at many stations along the line of the Great Northern Railroad between Fargo and St. Paul, he reached here this evening at 6:30 o'clock, accompanied by members of the State and local escort com; mittees and was taken to the Hotel Ryan. A delegation of old soldiers from Minne- apolis and this city met and cheered him there, : At 8 o’clock Mr. Bryan, Ignatius Don- nelly and other speakers, Democratic and Populistie, were escorted to the Audito- rium, a large structure capable of holding about 7000 people, seated and standing. It was crowded to the doors, and the candidate received a flattering recention, cheer after cheer being given on his ap- pearance. Mr. Bryan made his most im- portant speech of the evening there. His audience did not warm up to his remarks at first, despite the greeting it had given bim, but toward the conclusion of his ad- dress, the enthusiasm became rampant. His next speech was at the West Side Opera-house, where another congregation equally enthusiastic and quite as uacom- fortably packed as that at the Auditorium, had been waiting some time for his ap- pearance. Then he went to Market Hall and spoke briefly. It began to rain hard while Mr. Bryan was addressing the en- thusiastic crowd in Market Hall, and the open air meeting at Rice’s Park, the last on the programme, was abandoned. Mr. Bryan returned to the Hotel Ryan at 11 o’clock, and went to bed. During his speech at the Auditorium Mr. Bryan was interrupted several times by questions. One man wanted to know what was the cause of the Homestead strike, and avother asked how it would be easier to get silver from the silver kings than it was to get gola from the gold kings, 8. L. Pierce, the chairman of the meet- ing, introduced Mr. Bryan after Louis Nash had presented him with a silver pen in behalf of Organized Labor Bryan-Lynn Club of St, Paul. Mr. Bryan said: Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentiemen: It ives me agreat’ pleasire to be permiticd to fiei«:nd our cause in the presence of an audi- ence in this great city, and before addressing myself to the subject in hand I desire to ex- press to the organized labor of this City my grateful appreciation of the gift which they have presented. It isa gold pen with a silver holder, and if 1 shall be elected by my country- men to the chiei executive of the Nation that pen and hoider shall be used tosign a free- coinage biil at the earliest possible moment [applause]; and I am glad that the pen with which my siguature shail be affixed is the giit of the laboring men, because, my friends, I be- lieve that the iaboring men of this couutry— nay, more than that, the laboring men of all this world are interested in the restoration of silver to its ancient place by tue side of gold. [Alppluuw.] : would not favor the free coinage of silver did I not believe that it would be beneficial 10 those who (oil, because, my friends, my political philosophy teaches me that there can be no prosperity in this Nation unless that prosperity begins first among those who create weaith and finds its way upward to the other classes of society. [Applause.] More than thatyeivilization “itseir rests upon the great mass of the people and it is only by carrying the mass of the people upward and onward that you can expect any advance in civiliza- tion.” There can be no civilization where a few in a land bave more thauthey can use and the many have an insuflicient amount 10 give the comtorts of life. [Applaunse.] Nor do I believe that these great iuequalities can exist in a na- tion where the Government observes the old maxim of equal rights to all and special priv- ile‘5es to none. [Applause.] hén government is properly administered there will be no representative of a coal trust sitting by every fireside to exact tribute from those wtio desire to be protected from the cold of winter. [Applause.] When government is properly administered there will be no syndi- cates fattening out of the Government’s ad- versities after they have brought those adver- sities on the Government for theirown benefit. [Applause.] When government is properly ad- minisiered there will be no corporations which assume greater authority than the power which created them. [Applause.] When government is properly administerea it will recognize those fundamental principles set forth in the Declaration of Independence that all are created equal—that governments are instftuted 1o preserve the rights and that governments derive Laeir just powers from the consent of the governed. [Applause.] When these four principles are appiied, then government will be what it ought 10 be. Jack- son nas well said that there are no necessary evils in government, that evils exist only in its abuse; and, my iriends, it is not govern- ment that we raise our hands against. No man who understands society or the necessity for government will raise his hand against government. Itisagainst the abuse of gov- ernment that we rebel. [Great cheering.] It is agninst the abuse of governments and we shall not be driven from our purpose te eradi- cale these abuses. We have made the money question a para- mount issue of the campaign; and yetour op- ponents are not satisfied to meet this question openly. -They have never been satisfied to meet the money question. The advocates of the gold standard never fought an open fight and never will. [Applause.] ‘You ask me why they do not. I will tell you. Shakespeare explained it when he says that it is conscieuce that makes cowards of men, and the conscience of the advocate of the gold standard ‘tells him that his policy enriches some, but is a curse to the great mass of the people. | p&lmu.l A volce—"Willyou answer lqnufionf” *said Mr. Bryan. [Cries of “No, no, sit down.” Mr. Bry-!:—wm- ‘moment, my friends. I am willing to answer any question pertinent to this discussion, because when a man be- lieves he 1s right,no man confuses him, my ifriends. [Applause.’ % : pB “"d:e’ulvbucyoluukwnb e The man—Under lican party, what, in your g}muon. was the cadse of the Homestead and mbufi strikes? [Cries of “'Sit down.”] Mr. Bryan—My friends, when Isubmit to an inguiry, I have a right 10. suppose that it will e directed tow: the subject which Iam Glathasiog. “TAppiansey 1t snybody desires 3 use. anyl ly res 10 ask any m&on con%md ‘with the money ileI am discussing that question e is mfluuy at liberty to do so and I shall not embarrass you by my reply. I will give you light,if you are wrongana if I am wroug I shail be as glad to be put right as 1 am to put you right. [Applause.] Beiore the Republican Convention did you vot hea great many people talk about the impossi- vility of haviug two-yard sticks—did you not hear them talk about gold being the only money fit for civilized nations; did ;:n not hear them talk about our lving outgrown silver: did you not hear them talk about the mine-owners profit- ing from free coinage and the demagogue who tried to curry favor with the &q:opl Dby advo- cating free coinage and the dishonest debtor who wanted to pay his debts in cheap dollars? You heard all this, but when the Republican Convention met and they had a number there sufficient to write a platform did they Bntjn there anything about two-yard sticks? id they put in there anything about the demagogue who was advocating bimetallism? Not at all. That Republican platiorm ex- pressly declared that the _‘Eola standard was not a desirable thing. 'hat platform ex- pressly pledges the Republican party to Tl id of a gold standard and substitute the double standard—when? When leading com- mercial nations are not opposed to it. Mr. Bryan then referred to the faiiure of the Republican platform to declare that the gold standard was desirable, and said that no party in the history of the Nation had ever declared that the gald standard was a good thing. A man in the audience mquired how it would be any easier under free coinage to get silver from the silver kings than it is to get gold from the gold kings. Mr. Bryan repliea: “Is that all the difficulty that my friend has, or has be some other I can explain at the same time?” [Applause.] Continuing, Mr. Brvan said: My friends, the gentleman has asked a very simple ‘question, and I am giad thag it is asked, because it will show you what tiny th ngs can be stumbling-blocks for those who do not want to step over them. [Applause.] The gentleman wants to know how we are going to get money from the silver kings. I want him to remember this: That he has two arguments (if he regrelenu the gold-standard idea), which I would like to have him recon- cile when he has time. They tell us that the siiver king will convert what is now worth 50 cents into 100 cents and make the difference. That is one of the troubles, is it not? The man—Yes. Mr. Bryan—And then when he has done that it will be a 50-cent dollar. That isanother difficulty, is it not? [Great cheering.] Now, when you have time to think about it I want you to try to figure out how that can be a 100-cent dollar long enough for the miner to make 50 cents on it and then become a 50-cent dollar tor all the rest of the people. [Applause.] The only way in which the miner that profit is by converting a piece of silver now worth 50 cents into a dollar which will be worth 100 cents. I, when he gets through, he has only converted & 50-cent piece ot siiver into a 50-cent dollar he has not made anything by the operation. [Applause.] Mr. Bryan then spoke along familiar lines on the money question, and referred to McKinley’s speech in 1890 ingupport of 3 the Sherman law. In closing, Mr. Bryan said: ’ I am willing to trust the justice of our cause to the sense of justice that exists in every in- divideal, and, my friends, if we cannot win this contest by the voluntary wish and votejof the American peopie I would prefer to wait four years more before we win it.: [Cheers.] I say, my friends, I would prefer to wait than to feel that having won the contest I was not supported by a majority of the American peo- rle. I realize the fight that we have on hand. realize the work that lies before a President Wwho meets these combinations. 1 realize tho responsibility of the office and I want to feel, f I am elected, that 1 have behind me the hearts of & majority of these people, and if I have, g0 help me God, I will carry out that platform. [Applause.] THOUSAIDS CHEE MAJOR MekIhLE [ Continued from First Page.| in the United States for a political party as one of these commercial travelers. [Applause.] They go everywhere and they are good talkers, es you have demonstrated by the choice of your spokesman here to-day. [Laughter and great cneering.] I thank you and bid you all good day. Three hundred Pennsylvanians of the anthracite regions of the Lackawanra and Wyoming valleys marched up und filled the space before the stand, while the trav- eling men were departing. Just behind them marched the Grand Army Club from Baltimore. General T. F. Long introduced the Maryland visitors to Major McKinley in a pleasant speech. The latter responded in a patriotic ad- dress. The seventh speech was madde to the delegation from the Lackawanna and Le- highvalleys. The spokesman for delegation was Professor W. P. Gray. The Scranton members of the delegation were partica- larly enthusiastic. They lea the cheering when Major McKinley rose to speak. The next delegations were industrial ones of Cleveland. The employes of the Otis Steel Company were represented by Otto Grabien, who introduced them to Major McKinley. The candidate spoke briefly and the delegation made room for the workingmen employed by the city of Cleveland. Their spokesman was J. A. Leighton. The delegation was an en- thusiastic one and Major McKinley thanked them for their call and told them he was glad to see by their inscriptions on the banners 'they bore that they were for protection. Major McKinley made his tenth ad- dress to a delegation composed of the mission board, the editors, the members of the publication company and ministers of the Evangelical church. Bishop Bow- man was spokesman, and Bishops Esper and Horn were witn the party. By this time the street as far asthe eye could reach was filled with waiting dele- gations. One could count ninety flags borne by color-sergeants, while campaign banners were too numerous to count. The Cleveland, Akron snd Columbus Railroad Sound-money Club marched in before the stand at 2 o’clock. There were 300 work- ingmen in the body. They cheered Major McKinley lustily. Many of them were Democrats, who were apout to cast their first Republican vote. Jonn H. Sample made a very happy speech on behalf of the Cleveland, Akron and Columbus em- ployes, to which Major McKinley re- sponded. A splendid delegation from Wheeling, W. Va., containing 2500 voters, marched up the street, with bands playing and banners waving. Half of them filled the ‘yard and the other half stood in the street. There were a number of handsomely uni- formed clubs. H. C.Richards was spokes- man for the H. C. Richards Club of *‘six- footers,”” Edgar Boya for the Riverside Iron and Steel Workers and Thomas Davidson for the Potterymen. A delegation of 250 enthusiastic come mercial travelers from Terre Haute, Sul- livan, Vincennes and Evansville, Ind., were the next callers. The spokesman was a “boy orator,”” E. Clyde Wilvert of Terre Haute aged 10. He was introduced by J. J. Shuttleworth, who,with the aid of a big policeman, swang him on to a high chair from which elevated perch he deliv- ered an excellently well,constructed polit- ical oration. . ; Big delegations were marching up the street 2nd a score of bands were playing. Major McKinley had to make his remarks very brief. The next delegation was a big brigade of workingmen 2500 strong from the Cleveland rolling-mills. They made the ground shake with their tread and the windows rattled with their cheers. T. L. Hopkins spoke for the wire department and James Bampton for the ironworkers. One of the most inspiring delegations which has visited Canton this week was that composed of the Commercial Travel- ers’ McKinley Cluband the Commercial Travelers’ Sound Money Club of St. Louis, which arrived at the housg at 4:80 o’clock this afternoon. There were about 800 in the party. Congressmen Richard Bar- tholdt and A. N. Mosely of Missouri were with the party. L. A. Phillips was spokes- man for the Commercial Travelers’ Mc- Kinley Club and Edgar Skinnper for the Commercial Travelers’ Sound Money Club of St. Louis. Archie G. Phillips,,a small boy, presented Major McKinley with a silk flag, saying, “The loyal hearts of the loyal boys of St. Louis beat for you.” “John 8. FAST WHEELING AT MILWAUKEE Four Thousand Spectators at the National Park Meet. Bald Defeats Sanger in a Match Race, Mile Heats, for a Big Purse. BREAKS THE TRACK RECORD. Other Events, However, in Which the Local Champion Makes Very Swift Time. MILWAUKEE, Wis., Oct. 10.—Four thousand people attended the bicycle meet held at National Park this afternoon. The feature of the day was a match race, mile heats, for a purse of $1000, between E. C. Bala and W. C. Sanger. Bald won the race in straight heats. The track was in fite condition, but a stiff wind up the stretch bothered the riders considerably. In the last heat Bald had the position behind the tandem, trailed closely by Sanger. As they swung into the stretch Bald jumped the tandem and Sanger fol- lowing aftempted to pass Bald, but was unable to do so, Bald winning by a wheal’s length. Time, 2:10. In the second heat the order behind the tandem was reversed, but Sanger could not keep in front down the stretch and Bald won handily by two lengths. Time, 2:05.3-5, which breaks the track record previously held by Sanger. Sanger also rode an unpaced exhibition half mile in one minute flat. Half-mile open, professional, W. F. Sanger of Milwaukee won,C. C. Ingram of Aurora, 1li., second, J. P. Blissof Chicago third. Time, 1:16 25. One-mile handicap, professional, Henry Konaska (150 yards) won, John Muss (160 yards) second, A. F. Bingenheimer (60 yards) third. Time, 2:09 1-5. CHICAGO, ILn., Oct. 10.—At the Gar- field Park Cement track this afternoon, James Michael, thc Welshman, lowered the American five-mile bicycle record 10 seconds, covering the distance in 9:20. He was paced by two quads and a triplet. gohnson rode a quarter of a mile in :23. i i ON THE EASTERN TRACKS. Dan Q Wins the Kentucky Pacing Fu- turity in Straight Heats. LEXINGUTON, K., Oct. 10.—There was another large attendance at the trotting races here to-day. The weather was clear and warm and the track fast. The event of the day was the pacing division of the great Kentucky futurity. but only four three-year-old side-wheelers started. The favorite, Sulphide, owned by Dubois Bros. of Denver, took sick just before the race was called and the driver, being unable to find a veterinary in tirfe to make a certificate to the fact, nad to start him. While he made a fairly good showing, he was no match for Dan Q, the Michigan colt, which won the stake in three straight heats with practically no effort. The 2:20 pace, continued from yesterday, was easily won in the first heat to-day by the favor- ite, Eleanor. 2:20 pacing, purse $500, Eleanor won, Stella second, Lucy H third. Best time, 1103, P?%ng, Futurity, $1250, for three-year- olds, Dan Q won, Sulpnide secend, Dr. Archi- bald third. Best time, 2:1114. 2:10 class, pums' gufie 81000. Royal Victor won, Czhornl second, Pearl Onward third. Best time, 2:08}£. 2:28 clll»t purse $500, Roloson won, Konie second, Charley Tuttle third. Best time, 2:19. 8T. LOUIS, Mo., Oct. 10.— Six* furlongs, Fannie Rowsna won, Strathreel second, Bryan third. Time, 1:113. Seven furiongs, Pelleas won, Mobalaska second, Couronne d’Orr third. Time, 1:283{ Five and a hall furlongs, Fervor won, Macey second, Tempesta third. Time, 1:09. Oneé mile, Algol won, Buck Videre second, Moncreith third. Time, 1:43. One mile and a& sixteenth, Fasig won, wgilper second, Tom Elmore third. Time, 1 :Our Time, 1:084. \VfiéDSOR, ONTARIO, Oct. 10.—Five furlongs, Paramount won, Surce Hawse second, La Tosca third. Time, 1:0434. Five furlongs, Yours Truly won, John Carr second, Leon C third. Time, 1:05. ‘Six_furlongs, Argath won, Bloomer second, Tira Murphy third. Time, 1:16. Five and a half furlongs, Coranella won, Sagwa second, Gomor third. Time, 1:1014. One mile, Lord Nelson won, Brendoo second, Partner third. Time, 1:45. Hurdle, short course, Dom Pedro won, Brother Bob second, Eppleworth third. Time, 3:47. LATONIA, KY., Oct. 10.—Six furlongs, Sidkel won, Prince lmperial second, Elusive third. Time, 1:1514. Five and a half furlongs, Winsome won, Eu- nia Wicks second, Rosindale third. Time, :09. One and an eighth miles, Ace won, Egbart second, St. Helena third. Time, 1:55. One and a sixteenth miles, Berelair won, Vassar second, Harry McCouch third. 1:50. Two and a half miles, Ondague won, Cui- dado second, Shesrs third. Time, 5:4424. AQUEDUCT, N. Y., Oct. 10.—Seven furlongs, %fllndo zv‘;m:, Dalgretti second, Flames third. me, 1:263¢. One mile, Tanis won, Crimea second, Dor- othy III third. Time, 1:4434 Five furlongs, Numeroet won, Lawrence P second, Trade t third. Time, 1:033, ‘Oue mile, Brisk won, Premier uconfi, Her- mia third. Time, 1:48%. Five furlongs, Takanuassee won, Bill Ali sec- ond, Red Spider third. Time, 1:f One and a sixteenth miles, Lily of the West second, Sir John 1:50%4. 2 2ot g 20S ANGELES MARKSMEN, Winners in the Gun Club’s Semi-Annual Tournament. 108 ANGELES, Car., Oct. 10.—The fol- lowing are the winning scores in to-day’s shoot of the Los Angeles City Gun Club’s semi-annual tournament on the range at West Lake Park in this city at blue rocl Ten birds—Won by Vaughn. Score 10. Fifteen birds—Won by Chick. Score 15. Fifteen birds—Won by Chick. Bcore 13. Twenty-tive birds per man (two-men team contest ior E. C. cup)—Won by Hallowell and Ecker. Combined score 45. Fifteen birds—Tie between Chick and Hal- lowell. Score 14 each. Twenty birds—Won by Chick. Seore 19. Fifteen birds—Tie between Leighton. Van Valkenberg and Hallowell. Score 15 each. Twenty-five birds per man (five-men team — e e Health is of the utmost importance, and it depends upon pure rich blood. ard off colds, wn’hl and pneumonia by tak- ing a course of - ood’ Sarsaparilla Five and a half furlongs, Indio won Bishop second, The Chemist third. fieu ‘won, Time, Vodra test for trophy)—Tie between Katz, gol:xen.ndg:, ";i‘:u):l. Fishback and Mnxxg vwih n, Van Vuuosgnberg, Fanming, Raymo mbined scores 99. c‘ll'en birds—Tie petween Vodra, Tater, Ray mond and Burr. Ecore 10 each. e . Ires Wants to Meet Schaefer, NEW YORK, N. Y., Oct. 10.—Frank C. Ives, the champion billiard player, hu-l issued a statement in which he says thai, although he has not received nnyAchaL lenge from Jacob Schaefer to play him at three styles of billiards—balk line, cushion carroms and champion’s game—ior $101_I a side, he is willing"to meet Schaefer, his only stipulations being that the number of points for each game shall be large enough to fairly test their respective merite, and that the games shali be piayed on the kind of table used in the recent tournaments in New York, Boston and Chicago. “If Schaefer will deposit a satis- factory forfeit for such a contest,’” says Ives, “I promise promptly to cover the money."” —_— Yale Defeats Oranges ORANGE, N. J., Oct. 10.—The Orange Athletic Club’s football club held the Yate eleven down to twelve points on Orange oval this afternoon. Two thousand spectators were present. Orange was the heavier team, but Yale the more active. The game was a fine exhibition. The final score was: Yale 12, Orange 0. 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