Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 August 1896 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, TUESDAY, AUGUST 11, 189a

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Some of the mine owners deny that Mr. Bryan was paid by them during the two years that he was going up and down the country making free sliver addresses and doing little or nothing else. Nevertheless, many people will believe that some of them did compensate him, directly or Indirectly; that they put money where he could find it. Ono of Mr. Bryan's followers In New York, a Mr, Lynn, says: "I feel that some panic will follow Bryan's election; that financial ruin will ensue In some quarters, and J hope It will." Every supporter of McKinley prays that, whoever may be elected, tho country will escape financial panic and disaster, which would fill the land with starving people. Fortunately, the men who employ the greater luirt of the men who have employment in this city at the present time, and the men who aro employed, are both too sensible to be influenced by the falsehoods which demagogues and their little tools circulate In the hope of making trouble. Most of these employers and employes have lived together too long to be set against each other now. Senator Jones Is reported a3 telling his friends In Washington that the silver-mine owners were .the only source of campaign funds, and he further Intimated that these gentlemen arc not tumbling over each other with their large contributions, as they rely upon sentiment to elect their candidates. Intelligent people are rapidlylearning that the whole silver agitation is In the interest of the mine owners, and as they lvrn the sentiment will die out. General tJragg. of Wisconsin, who was expected to attend the late sound-money Demomtio conference, but did not appear, turned rtf L New York, where he expressed he uirripvt interest in the convention of Sept. 2 and was enthusiastic in what he believed would be its results. A soundmoney Democratic ticket would get thousands of votes and make the campaigns in Missouri Kentucky and like States very sharp. VSuch a ticket would bring out the full vote of the country against the revolutionary platform of Chicago," said General Bragg. He is devoting his time to the cause. Governor Matthews has come to the conclusion that the movement of the soundmoney Democrats is a bolt, aud a bolt is th gravest crime known In his political vocabulary. It is of no consequence that a party which has declared for sound money In Its national platforms for years faces about and declares for what every intelligent man knows is silver monometalllsm. assails the Supreme Court, practically declares against the validity of contracts and the right of the federal government to enforce the laws In the States. As to the result of the movement in this State, the Governor's prediction Is simply his desire. He is not a prophet. Two years ago, ten day before the election, he predicted a Democratic victory in Indiana. Governor jLf&tthews achieved some reputation in his Vigorous action in 1SW and in his efforts to suppress Roby. but his recent attack upon the federal courts and the fact that his circular as an alleged presidential aspirant

made no mention of these facts Indicates that he considers it better Democracy to imitate Governor Altgeld. THE IDLE MONCY OF INDIANA.

The consolidated statement of the national banks In Indiana, published in yesterday's issue of the Journal, showed that, at the, close of business July 14. 1835, they held a reserve of 3it per cent. The law requires that the national banks of Indiana hold where it can be available in the payment of their debtors fifteen per cent, of the money deposited with them, and their outstanding notes or circulation. At that date the Individual deposits of those banks aggregated J31.S33.713.76, 'the United States deposits J100.3S8.17, and their united outstanding circulation was J 4,704,237. GO a total of $3o,64 1,404. 43. In round numbers 34t per cent, of the amount was J12.641.2S4. That was the actual reserve of the banks at that date. The lawful reserve would be 13 per cent, of the J35.C41.404, or $3,436,210. Deduct the lawful or required reserve from the actual reserve and it appears that the national banks of Indiana held less than a month ago JT.143,074 money which they could have loaned and would have been glad to have loaned on good security. In the State there is a considerable number of banks which do not do business under tho m tional systom, but which being conservatively managed, adhere to the national requirements for a reserve to redeem their liabilities. One of these banks is one of the largest in this city, and several of them, do a large business. If they have accumulated loanable funds In tho same ratio as have the national banks there cannot be less than J10.000.C00 of practically idle money in the banks of this State which could be in circulation if there was any business in the country which would Justify manufacturers and merchants investing money in labor and merchandise. Referring to the consolidated statements of the Indiana national banks in 1891 and 1SD2, it appears that their aggregate reserve was then down very near the requirement of the law, so that the ten millions of cash now in the vaults of the banks of the State was in circulation. It was in circulation because the weekly or monthly pay rolls of hundreds and even thousands of industrial institutions called for at least 50 per cent, more money than at the present time. The manufacturers could get this money because they were able to dispose of their products at a constant if not a large profit. The $10,000,000 of money now idle and unremuneratlve in the banks in active times would keep In circulation an apparently much larger sum than these figures represent. Fald out on Saturdays or Mondays as wages, half of It would be in the hands of grocers.. marketmen and other retailers in a few hours, and 'the largir part of It before another week could roll around. Retailers would use it to pay jobbers, and jobbers would deposit in the banks to pay notes or increase deposits, so that it would 'be ready to put In circulation again the next pay day. Thousands of it went into loan associations to pay for shares, and In turn was loaned for building materials and labor. In fact, the handing from person to person that ten millions of dollars, now idle in the banks, settled fifty millions of liabilities every month when labor was employed and the merchandise produced by labor could be sold. Locked up in the vaults of the banks, it earns not a cent for its owners and does nothing to help business and industry. It can be added that If the money held by the Indiana banks over the reserve were J100.000.COO instead of J10.C00.CO0, money would be just as scarce until confidence shall return to business circles, enabling manufacturers to place large orders and merchants .to sell large bills of goods to retailers who can ray. The free-sliver craze has done much to destroy confidence, and It will not return until It subsides. AX ABUNDANCE OF CURRENCY. One of the stock arguments of the enemies of our present monetary system is that the country is suffering from a contraction of the currency. For years past the fomenters of discontent have been ringing the changes on this idea. They charge that because of the small amount of currency in circulation, owing to the steady contraction for a series ot years, the banRers and manipulators of Wall street are able to control it and withhold it from the people, whenever they choose, thus causing stringency and hard times. They cite contraction of the currency as one of the reasons why, to use their favorite phrase, "the rich are growing richer and the poor are growing poorer." They attribute the low price of farm products and of farm lands in great measure to this cause. They make all sorts of wild statements about the per capita circulation In former years and at present to show that there is not currency enough to meet the demands of business. These and similar assertions are made so positively and with so much plausibility that even many fricuas of sound money have come to think that If we had enough currency to "meet the demands of trade" the country and people would be more prosperous and the advocates of Infiation would be deprived of their main argument. Nothing can deprive men of an argument who artfully and persistently misstate the truth. The basis of the argument of those who demand an Increase of the currency is that there has been a great decrease. Tho contrary Is true. Instead of contraction for many years there has been a steady expansion of the currency. Since 1S77 our circulation has more than doubled. Then it'was J722.314.SS3, " while now it is $1,303,723,000. In 1S73 the total circulation was J729.132.C34: in 1S73 it was $315,631,793; in it was J373.2S2.22S; in 1530 It was Jl.423,231.270, and on July 1. IsOC. it was Jl.500.723.200. In 1850 we had J2O.4O0.K7 in standard silver dollars in circulation, against $52,173.090 now; of silver certificates we had J3.7S3.in circulation In 1SS0. against J33G.313.000 now; of gold coin we had J223.000.Coo In 1SS0. against $153,000,000 now, and of gold certificates S7,703.i00 In 1SS0. against J43.0O0.0O0 now. The increase in subsidiary sliver and in treasury notes issued under the Sherman act makes the present aggregate circulation mere than double what it was twenty years ago. The only contraction of any consequence that has occurred has been something more than J100.000.000 in national bor.k notes, but this still leaves a net increase in other forms of currency during the period named of more than JSOO.000.000. The assertion that there is not currency enough to meet the requirements of business is as untrue as that there has been contraction. There is an abundance of money to meet all the demands of trade. The trouble is not a lack of money, but a lack of business. Millions of dollars are to-day lying idle, not yielding a cent of profit to the owner! The ravings banks are congested with money. At present no person or institution that has money will lean or Invest it because of the uncertainty

caused by the free-silver agitation, but If it were ended the Idle money of the country would soon be in evidence. With a cessation of agitation and return of confidence It will be found there is an abundance of money in the country to meet all the demands of trade, not to speak of the great Influx of foreign capital there would be. But it Is idle to expect any revival of business until the free-silver craze is ended.

9IISREPHESENTING TUB DEAD. Judge Cullen, of Rush county, who, under the guise of advocating bimetallism, advocated silver monometallism in a recent address, was either so ignorant or so lost to a sense of fairness that he introduced into his speech the garbled extracts frcm James G. Blaine's speech in the Senate in February, 1S78, to prove that that statesman was in favor of free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1. Judge Cullen is a very ignorant man if he does not know that that same speech of Mr. Blaine's was one of the strongest arguments ever made against free coinage of silver into dollars which did not contain a gold dollar's worth of silver bullion. On no less than three occasions the Journal has given extracts from Mr. Blaine's speech from which the garbled extracts which Judge Cullen has Ued' were taken. The St. Louis GlobeDemocrat has printed nearly the whole of that speech, and nearly all of the Chicago papers, which gratefully remember Mr. Blaine's fame, have called attention to the injustice done him by the extracts, which, after all these avowals of the contents of Mr. Blaine's speech. Judge Cullen repeats to sustain his gauzy pretensions of a devotion to bimetallism, which, when the silver dollar as bullion was worth 02 cents, Mr. Blaine declared that its free coinage would put this country on a silver basis. At that time Mr. Blaine declared that the free coinage of 92-cent dollars would drive all the gold out of the country "with the resistless force and certainty of the ocean's tides." In the same speech Mr. Blaine showed that to put the country on a 32-cent-dollar sliver basis would in effect rob of eight cents every holder of a paper dollar in the country, which was then on the eve of resumption on a gold basis. Judge Cullen weeps over the grave of Mr. Blaine; but he does him the greatest injustice by leaving his hearers to infer that he was an advocate of the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the present ratio, when he always denounced it. If Judge Cullen has done this in ignorance he should make public acknowledgment; if knowingly, he deserves the censure of all fair-minded men. Judge Cullen, either ignorantly or otherwise, is equally unfortunate In quoting as the views of Abraham Lincoln a bogus letter attributed to him, which has been doing service for years in spite of positive proofs that it is a ba3e and clumsy forgery. Judge Cullen can claim from his new associates whatever credit they can give him for bringing this forgery to life for the first time in this campaign. It is as follows: It has been indeed a trying hour for the public, but I see in the near future a crisis approaching that immerses me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. As a result of the war, corporations have be?n enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the republic is destroyed. I feel at this moment more anxiety for the safety of my country than ever before, even in the midst of the war. Mr. Lincoln's private secretaries were John Hay and John G. Nicolay. Into their hrnds fell all Mr. Lincoln's papers. Both have declared time and again that the alleged letter Is bogus. It is not in Mr. Lincoln's well-known language, and the most diligent search by these biographers of Mr. Lincoln has failed to find any evidence that it was written as alleged. Lee surrendered April 9. 1303, tha news of which did not reach Mr. Lincoln until late that night. He was assassinated the evening of April 14. It is absurd to assert that during the five most momentous days between Lee's surrender and his assassination, in which a score of new piiblems forced themselves upon his att ntlou tnd while he was yet sharing the Nation's great rejoicing, he turned aside to '.rite to some unknown man such a letter a J the above. Judge Cullen must hve ceased to read newspapers and to kee;? in touch with the life of the times If ho ha? tailed to note th repudiation of this letter by both of the men through one of. whose hands It would have passed if written. With a single exception none but he most blatant of Populists have persisted in using this forgery. Of that crime of misrepresenting dead men, the assassination of their characters, the Journal does not accuse Judge Cullen. He has doubtless been rnisled by his new political associates, but that fact renders all that he may say on the money question wholly unreliable. "False in one thing, false in all" Is a well-established maxim. ABOUT rOI-ITICAL ADVERTISING. A correspondent of the Journal writes to protest against "the amount of free advertising given by this and other Republican papers to candidate Bryan." This correspondent, like many others, has a singular conception of tho functions of a newspaper. No paper is worthy of the name which does not give the news of every kind, unbiased by the personal or political views of its editors or of its position as a literary representative of a political party. Mr. Bryan is a candidate for the Presidency, and the Journal's readers have a right to know what he Is doing and saying. If some of them believe that he Is a prophet inspired who will lead his country into an era of silver-plated prosperity, or if they become his supporters through reading his speeches made at railway stations, that is a matter which does not concern tho paper. The Journal has no objections to having itself read by Bryanltes; on the contrary, it welcomes them and promises them that they shall have all the information about their candidate to be found in Democratic organs. As to Its editorial opinions about Mr. Bryan and hU party, they are another matter, and not to be confused with news. Whether Mr. Bryan's friends are pleased with them or not is a matter of indifference; it is not expected that they will te pleased, but it is intended they shall be based on facts that are open to all its reader. The complaining corrrespondent and his kind would probably have the Bryan campaign practically ignored, none of his speeches given, the crowds gathered at the railway stations underrated, and other accounts colored to suit anti-Bryan tastes. Apart from the failure to fulfill the true idea of a newspaper that this course would be, it U strange that the grumblers do not recognize the bad policy of a plan of suppression. By setting forth the proceedings of the opjcsltlon in full and giving full value to all its movements, the character and extent of the difficulties to be overcome are clearly defined and no one

left In the dark, or tempted to Indifference and inertia by the systematic belittling of the enemy's strength. At all events, the Journal's readers may rest assured that the news as it comes will be set before them without regard to special interests and without bias. The Journal is a newspaper. The address adopted .by the delegates who left the Maine Democratic State convention after it had changed the soundmoney platform to a declaration for IS to 1 is a ringing arraignment of that spirit of Altgeldlsm and revolution which Senator Hill denounced. The vigorous language of the platform is as follows: It alms at the overthrow of our federal Judiciary, and at its degradation to a mere instrument of party politics. It sets up the revolutionary doctrine that the government of the United States is without power to protect the safe transmission of malls, or of goods in interstate commerce, while at the same time it claims that our great lines of domestic traffic should be under government control. The platform of this convention distinctly calls for the overthrow of one of the co-ordinate branches of our national government and the abolition of our national Constitution, the safeguard of our social order. The declarations of the platform of this convention are dangerous, revolutionary, subversive of government and social order, and utterly opposed to the time-honored principles of the Democratic party. The honor of our country is as dear to us as our lives. We would die rather than suffer a national disgrace. The honor of our great imperial Republic Is pledged for the redemption of its obligations. The delegates who signed this protest the Cliffords, the Bradburys, the Fairfields, the Jordans aro men who have led the Maine Democracy for three generations. No man ever believed that General Grant, then President, signed a bill the provisions of which he did not understand. Ho was not that eort of a signer. Consequently, when, after his death, some silverlto asserted that Grant had told him that ha would not have signed the coinago act of 1S73 had he known that it dropped the silver dollar, most people who knew and respected him most believed that the assertion was false. Now General Grant's eldest son, who was for years his father's confidant, has written a letter in which he expressess the conviction that his father never made such a statement. He held that opinion because he had talked with his father about the matter, and he had never expressed any such view to him. That story makes up the trinity of lies put, in- circulation regarding Lincoln, Grant and Blaine to help the silver-mine trust.

The next modern improvement In housebuilding should be a system of supplying cold air during the summer. While such long continued periods 1 of intensely hot weather as that from . which the entire country has been suffering for two or three weeks do not often occur.. they are likely to com in-any season and serve to emphasize a need when they do arrive. But there is 'plenty of uncomfortably hot weather 'every year In this latitude between April and October, and with all the luxuries which the people of this age of invention enjoy they have not yet learned the secret of mitigating the terrors of a torrid temperature either in manner of dress or of living. Here is one of the Bryan gems of oratory scattered in Ohio yesterday: "I am not distributing pcstofllces yet, but I hope to be-before very long." Think of a candidate for the presidency so lacking In dignity and self-respect ! And in comprehension ot tho character of' the great, office he seeks saying a thing llko that! Think of Harrison's saying it! MassMMawssMwsssssssnasnsssas) Hon. Mrs. Lease, of Kansas, is In New York, apparently as a sort of advance agent of the Bryan circus and grand aggregation of freaks. An Interview with her, or what purports to be such, is printed in one of the papers there, but the subject of her talk is not politics; it is dress. There are indications in the course of the reported conversation either that the gifted Kansas pollticianess .was guying the Interviewer or that that personage faked the whole matter and betrayed himself by his ignorance of her local habitation. The lady is made to say, among other things, that her dresses are imported from Europe by a certain "Madame" of Indianapolis. Accompanying tho article is a full length picture of Mrs. Lease in a garment of such singular appearance that out of consideration for the reputation of the Indiana metropolis and of Its gown makers the reporter's statement cannot be allowed to go uncorrected. Indianapolis disclaims emphatically the residence "in its midst" of a dressmaker capable of perpetrating an atrocity In gowns like jthe one illustrated. Mrs. Lease never purchased that remarkable creation here, and if she advices that sort of thing and insists on having it, it is safe to say that she novcr found in this city a modiste so lost to a sense of art and comeliness that she would produco a .garment of the kind. Once for all. let It be understood that Mrs. Lease's clothes are not an Indlana'product.' MBHHgMMVMMBMlSMSSSSSBSI BUBBLES IN THE AIR. Happy Chappie. A broad, broad smile dear Willie wears. Of his face it's a regular twister His bicycle suit Is two sizes too small To be worn by his athletic sister. Summer Topic. He As near aa I can get at it, th general Idea of heaven seems to be a place where it Is always summer. She Yes, and the proportion of men to women will be about as it is at most of the summer resorts. Am I right? $ . Beyond Her Iven. "As you are interested in politics, Miss Passee, I presume you are versed in all the details of the crime of 1S73?" asked the rude man. "Oh, dear, no," said the lady of two or three uncertain nges. "How could I be, when it happened so long before I was born?" ' Ml (Ted. , He One of the?e mind readers tackled me last evening. Had me think of a certain object and led me to it in less than five minutes. Shc-Rea!ly? I don't remember that you called last evening. That shows how much your promise to keep me in mind all the time amounts to. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. The Emperor of Russia is taking particular interest in a commission to make a collection of the popular songs and national ballads of Russia. M. Istomine, a wellknown ethnographical authority, is conducting the inquiry. A museum in Berlin has secured possession' of Luther's Bible which he used in his study. Its margins are covered with notes in the reformer s handwriting. It was printed in Basle in 15C0 and is in excellent stato of preservation. Miss Virginia Fair, has forsaken her bicycle and is learning to ride horseback, and inasmuch as this young woman is an acknowledged leader there is a probability of other Newport young girls forsaking the wheel and taking to the horse. An American who recently saw Max Nordau in a cafe in Paris says of him: "No wonder he abuse everybody, for he is the very quintessential figure of gall and bitterness. He Is small and malicious, and as hairy as a monkey. His eyes are largo and when he is not glaring at Ibsen, Warner and Maeterlinck they aro fine and

rather sad in expression. He Is a remarkable linguist, and has an excellent practice as a physician. He is at work on his new book, said to be entitled 'How to Be DeCent, Though in Paris.' " A remarkable little girl, the daughter of A. C. Olds, lives in Kansas City. The mother of the child is twenty-three, its grandmother is forty-seven, its greatgrandmother is seventy-two and its great-' great-grandmother is ninety-two. There, will be a reunion this summer of the five generations in the State of New York. The late Lord Lilford, In his recently published work on thd birds of Northamptonshire, England, tells this story of a singular Incident' which occurred in one of his frequent visits to Spain: "I first learned." he says, "the news of President Abraham Lincoln's murder from a scrap of a Spanish newspaper found in a nest of the kite by my climber, Agapo, near Aranjuez." Miss Stewart, of Dalgulse, died recently at Edinburgh, in her hundredth year. She had a host of interesting recollections of Sir Walter Scott and of all the Edinburgh celebrities of his epoch. She was a most accomplished musician, often played to Sir Walter, with whose family she was on terms of close Intimacy, and was present at the marriage of John Gibson Lockhart and Sophia Scott, Menelek, the Emperor of Ethiopia and Negus of Abyssinia, has promulgated several sumptuary laws. Among them is cne forbidding any woman to wear Jewels of gold. This privilege is reserved exclusively to Empress Taltu. Another law prohibits tobacco smoking. This is explained by tho fact that Menelek noticed one day that a tobacco plant had grown over the grave of one of his ancestors. Brummer's "Lexicon of German Authors" contains about five thousand names. The seniors cf the German literary world are Victor von Strauss, more than eighty years old; Julius Bacher, eighty-six; Franzlska von Hohenhaufen, eighty-four: Ludwlg Lenz, eighty-three; Adolf Katsch. eighty-three; Philipp Galen, eighty-three. In the division of "Young German Authors" the oldest is Sudermann, who was born In 1S57. This is what Modern Society, one of the leading and most authentic of English society journals, has to say of Consuelo, Duchess of Marlborough: "Instead of modeling her bearings and manner after tho stately reserve and unaffected simplicity of the English lady, the Duchess has been indulging in airs and extravagant assumptions of dignity which have occasioned much regret and no little amusement among the friends of the Marlborough family. On two or three occasions, too, she has been more like a walking jeweler s shop than a human being, and displays of that sort cannot be other than reprehensible and in bad taste. In time Consuelo will do better, no doubt, but meanwhile she has much to learn and a great deal to unlearn." BUSY DAY FOR BRYAN. (Concluded from First rage.)

in Nebraska, but I can hardly realize thit such a gathering as this is assembled in the State which has the honor to contain the residence of my opponent. (Loud cheering and laughter.) I must conclude from the enthusiasm which has been manifested ever since we crossed the State line into Ohio that Ohio has had so many Presidents that you have decided you can spare one now. (Cheers and laughter.) It is generous of you, and I will promise you that if I am living when Nebraska has had as many Presidents as Ohio has. 1 will come back to your State and return the compliment by helping you to elect an Ohio man. providing he La in favor of a nnancial policy by the American people for the American people. (Loud cheering.) Unless I mistake the character of the people among whom we live, you will never be able to get them to support a cundidute for the presidency who will continue the policy of mortgaging the American t-o: to foreign syndicate, when seventy millions of people stand ready to protect the treasury of the United States. (Loud cheering.) 'I thank you for this opportunity of greeting so many of your people. I am gratified at the interest which you are taking in this campaign. I want you to realize that in this contest we have an issue which appeals to every man, woman and child in the land. Aye, more than that, upon the decision of the United States may turn the financial policy of the world. Not only America, but all over the world the tolling masses are looking for relief to that nation which oupht to stand foremost in every great reform. We have an opportunity which comes to few generations, but that opportunity brings with it its responsibilities. The policy advocated by our opponents is a continuation of the gold-standard policy which they dare not defend; continuation of that policy until some foreign nations will help us help ourselves. (Laughter.) If the gold standard is a good thing. I ask you why did not the Republican party at St. Louis declare that the gold standard should be maintained permanently, and if the gold standard is a bad thing, why was it so cowardly as to say to the American people: 'You should submit to a bad thing until foreign potentates and powers come to the relief of a suffering people.' (Cheers.) Put thse two questions to your opponents; with two questions you can drive them from the battlefield. The first is: 'If the gold standard is good, why not keep it. and if bad why should we keep it for a single moment? (Loud cheers.) I thank you for your attention." , At this point Mr. Bryan's coach was shifted to the rear of the train and orders were received by the conductor for prolonged stops 'wherever Mr. Bryan wished to fpak. This inflicted some delay, during which the crowd used its collective voice for all it was worth. Here a committee from Major McKinley's home boarded the train. It comprised John K. Monat. Mayor James A. Rice. J. C. Walty, ex-Mayor Blake, Nathan Holloway and others. A committee from Cleveland alo got aboard here, comprising, L. E. Holden. a member of the notification committee. Internal Revenue Collector Ohllnger and James A. Morton, candidate for Congress. Mr. Holden, who is editor of the Plain Dealer. Fald he had information from his correspondent at Canton to the effect that the Republicans of that city had put up funds to make the Massillon demonstration a strictly Coxey affair, and he counseled paying but a short visit to the Coxey town. A committee from Mansfield, headed by Cant A. C. Cummlngs, with five others also go', aboard at Crestline. AT SHERMAN'S HOME. Tlie 'Doy Orator" AHnrtcn to Honest John'" Financial Policy. MANSFIELD, O., Aug. 10. The biggest crowd encountered since the train left Chicago was assembled at Mansfield, the home of Senator Sherman. Every foot of available space around the depot for a distance of 200 or 300 feet was filled with screaming, gesticulating men and women to the number of five or six thousand. A movable platform was carried by men and women to the front of the car and the crowd shouted frantically until Mr. Eryan came forward. James P. Seward, of the citizens committee, said: "I have the pleasure of introducing to you the distinguished candidate for President of the United States, the Hon. William J. Bryan, of Nebraska." (Loud cheering.) Mr. Bryan said: "I esteem it a privilege to stand in the home of the Senator who is more responsible for the present t financial policy of this country than any living man in it. (Loud cheers.) I beg you. without detracting from his high honors and from his great personal worth, to consider the financial policy presented by the Democratic platform and decide for yourselves whether our policy is better for you and for your own interests than the policv so ably supported by your townsman. If we present to you that which is good, we bog you tc accept it. even though it is opposed by those who live among you. We have people in our State who believe that Senator Sherman's policy is the wisest one. but I believe that the American pr-ople will decide that the United States is strong enough to legislate for its own people on the monoy question without asking the consent or aid of any other nation on earth. (Applause.) "I thank you for this vast assemblage here and I beg you to realize the duties which rest upon American citizens. There are some who believe that only in times of war can people prove their patriotism. 1 was too young to prove my patriotism in time of war, but I glory in the fact that every year presents a battlefield and every day gives those who live in the country rn opportunity to prove their devotion to it, and that in the campaign upon which we are now entering, which, in my judgment, is a repetition ot the campaign of 1776, there is an opportunity to prove whether you bo patriots or tories." (Great applause.) As the train slowly moved away from the station the pressure of the crowd against the cars seemed to threaten death to many of the excited peoi)le, but accidents were avoided and men camt; running several hundred feet to touch hands with the smiling orator. At Loudonville about 400 people gathered around the rear coach w u .jx

train stopped and contested for the privilege of shaking hands with Mr. and Mrs. Brj-an. A committee from Pittsburg got aboard at that point. It comprised James Atwell. president of the Randall Club. J. H. Stevenson, chairman of the People's party of Allegheny county, and Robert Nash, a atlver Rpubllcan. All are Grand Army men. They secured from Mr. Bryan a promise to speak in front of the Rsndall Clubhouse after the opera house meeting. Editor Barr. of the Pittsburg Post, had met Mr. Bryan at Crestline. At Lakeville about 1D0 laboring men and farmers peered into tho candidate's face as he shook their hands and said: "GentlemenI am not making any speeches, but I am very glad to eee you here and I am glad to see the interest people are taking in this subject. My idea is that a public servant is nothing but a hired man. He Is nominated and you are to decide whether you want him to do your work or not. He has no claim on you except as you think he can be of service to you. You ure the ones to decide. We have no right to ask you for your vote. You. as the sovereigns, can cast your votes as you wish and I hope you will do what you think best." THREE BRIEF SPEECHES.

Reinarkn of Mr. Bryan at Wooatcr, Orrvllle and Slnsalllon. MASSILLON, O., Aug. I0.-When the train bearing the .Bryan party arrived at Wooster there were a thousand people gathered around the depot to greet Mr. Bryan. As sqpn as he appeared on the platform of the car he was loudly cheered. He was introduced to the audience by exCongressman L. P. Ohllnger, who was a colleague of Mr. Bryan's in the national House of Representatives. Mr. Bryan was Introduced from the rear platform of the car, and said: 'Ladies and Gentlemen I am "not dlscus3slng politics much. The campaign has not opened. I am on my way to the notification meeting and after that I shall be in a position to say something in regard to the issues of this campaign. It gives me very great pleasure to meet so miuiy people here and to have an opportunity to renew my acquaintance with Mr. Ohllnger. who represented you in Congress during a part of the time I was there. I am gratified to find the interest you take in this subject and I trust that interest will increase as tho campaign progresses. I believe the people are realizing that this Is a great struggle, in which the toilers, the producers of wealth, are deeply interested and that those people,' realizing their interest, will make this campaign their own. It Is your campaign. If our laws are bad those who permit them to remain so are to blame for it. If our laws are good you who desire them to be go must make them good. I beg you to do your duty, as you seo it, and whether it results in the success of one ticket or another we shall be content." There were cries then for Mr. Bland and In answer to them Mr. Bryan introduced L. E. Holden, of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, as follows: "You were inquiring about Mr. Bland. Mr. Bland is not here, but we have a" man who looks something like Mr. Bland and I present him in Mr. Bland's place." Mr. Holden was received with applause and said: "This is a year of revelations and revolutions. (Applause.) When the old party lines are broken down, when a gold bug marches over into the Republican camp, twenty Republicans come Into the silver camp. (Applause.) A voice More than that in this county.) More than that in this country? I could tell you a story that would make your hearts leap In gratitude. There arc change coming. They are coming to Mr. Bryan. They are coming first because he is a man of the people. They are coming because he is a man whose heart and hand are right." When the train drew up to the platform at Orrvllle there was quite a number of citizens of tho town present to greet Mr. Bryan and to call on hhn tor a speech. Mr. Bryan appeared, but only said a few words expressing his gratification at the opportunity at meeting the people and at the growth of the silver sentiment, which . seemed to increase, he thought, as they neared Canton. An incident of this halt in the journey was the presentation of the photograph of the flag carried to Washington by Carl Browne, one of the lieutenants of General Coxey's army. Mr. Bryan accepted the emblem and put it in his pocket. Mr. Browne informed Mr. Bryan that the people of this district were ready to vote for him for President, irrespective of the fart whether Sevvall was removed from the tail of the ticket or not. Liko Solomon's Judgment in the case of the child, they thought it better to take this course than to cut the child in two. Before the train left Orrvllle a monster apple, into whose pale yellow skin was sunk the name "Bryan" in big red letters, was handed Mr. Bryan. Attached to it was a card contain- j ing the words: "Compliments of Isaac Pontius. Orrvllle, O.. member of the One-hundrcd-and-fourth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. If ever pensioned will be willing to take it In silver." A note accompanied it as follows: "As oach day's sun added color to your name on this apple so may the days of light- from your silver tongue add lu9ter to your name and each day brighten your prospects, so that after November this entire Nation may eat the fruits of your victory." The train made a brief stop at Massillon, where Mr. Bryan spoke from the rear of the car. Populist Carl Browne. Coxey's son-in-law, who started the march from Massillon to Washington, and Democratic Mayor Tobias Schott, presented Mr. Bryan, who said: Ladles and Gentlemen I am glad that in this crowd I see so many of those who earn their bread by dally toil. (Apolause.) They have been the bone and sinew of the Democratic party ever since it was organized by Thomas Jefferson. Whenever the Democratic party by any policy deserts the interest of the common people there will be nothing In the party worth holding it together. I believe that the platform adopted at Chicago presents policies which are for your interests. The platform adopted at Chicago expresses a desire for a return to that simplicity of government wherein all stand equal before the law. Those who toil are not the ones entitled to special privileges at the hands of the government. All they desire is to be protected in their life. -liberty and the pursuit of happiness with some prospect of overtaking that happiness. (Laughter and applause.) I am glad to have seen you." AT M'KIXLEY'S HOME. The Demoeratfo Nominee Talks Abnt the Duty of Neighbors. CANTON, O., Aug. 10. A committee of ten left here at 10:30 this morning for Wooster, thirty-five miles west on the Pennsylvania road, to meet the Bryan train, which was due at Cantcn at 1:23 p. m. A flat car had been shoved up in front of the depot on a side track, and it had been arranged to have Mr. Eryan make an address from this car. When the train pulled into Canton fifteen minutes late, the people of Starke county turned out in thousands to greet their fellow-townsman's opponent, and Mr. Bryan returned the compliment in a speech. Special trains bf& brought delegations here from all ov.r southeastern Ohio, and the Pittsburg Bryan delegation was here cn a special train to escort Mr. Bryan to their city. Mr. Allen Cook, the local Populist leader, escorted Mrs. Bryan to a flat car adjoining the Pullman car Hungary, followed by Mayor James Rice, of Canton, with Mr. Bryan. When Mayor Rice finished his presentation, Mr. Bryan said: ' "Mr. Chairman, Indies and Gentlemen When I received notice a short time tgo of the organization of a silver club In this ctiy I little imagined the tremendous sentiment which seem to be behind the club. I am glad, in this city, the home of my distinguished opponent, to testify to his high character and personal worth. (Applause and tremendous cheering for McKinley.) I shall be satislied tthe speaker was here interrupted by renewed cheering for McKlnley.) I .shall be satisfied as a private individual if I may be able to stand beside him in public esteem, but. my friends, this is not a contest between persons. It matters little to the American people whether your distinguished townsman or myself as individuals occupy the chief executive position in the greatest Nation upon earth. But It does matter for what policies it President shall stand. And in thi3 campaign persons are lost sight of in th interest of the cause which thoe persons represent. "In my own State and in my own city are many people who believe the Interests of the country will be better served by the election of my opponent, and I am gratified to know that in his home city there are so many who believe that the interests of the country will be best served by his defeat. (Applause and cheers for McKinley.) He is your neighbor, as we understand neighbors. If you will turn to the Bible you will there read a parable of the neighbor, and I ask you to believe that in this contest 1 am the neighbor of tho.-e who have fallen among thieves. (Applause.) He tne neighbor who, in the hour of distress, brings relief that is needed, and in my humble Judgment, when we are cursed by a European financial DOlicv. 1 believe that the true neighbor of the tolling masses is tne man wno asks : for the immediate restoration of the free 1 and unlimited coinage of gold and silver (applause) at the legal ratio of 16 to 1, : without waiting for the aid or consent of ' any other nation on earth. (Applause.) To my neighbors at home 1 say that if, accordj ing to their convictions ot public duty. thy believe my opponent should be elected

that I shall bear them no ill-will, and X have o high a rt gird fcr my op;or.ent that I know he will say tt his fellow-townsmen here that every c-.e of them should feel free to make his oallot represent a freeman's will, although It mny result in keeping your distingul5hed cltlzrn among you as a townsman still. I thank you for your kind attention and bid you good day. (Applause.) NEAIIING PITTSBURG.

Speech at Alliance and Ilnndshnklnrj at Other Place. PITTSBURG, Aug. 10. After leaving Canton the Bryan train storied for a minute or two at Louisville and Maximo. mA Alliance between 1,500 and 2.000 people flet around the train in great confusion until it was finally discovered by the cheering that Mr. Bryan had emeraged from front end of the coach and penetrated th throng to the front steps of a corner store, where he spoka as follows: "Ladles and Gentlemen I am glad to KFki maRy of you. A public servant is a mred man. He may receive a larger salary than a man who works by the day, and R ma5J he employed for a longer time, but 7 e Is sIraPly an employe chosen at a nxed salary to perform certain work, lou are the only ones to be consulted as to who should be chosen, and from that decision there is no appeal. You are th sovereigns and In no other country ara the sovereigns as free to choose as they are In this country. I am glad to live in a nation like this, and I appreciate the honor which has been conferred upon ma by the late convention; I also appreciate the fact that this honor has been conferred at an earlier age than is usual. I beg to assure you that I recognize the great responsibility of that high offlce, but responsibility does not rest on me alone; you have your responsibilities as well as I -These are times of preat Importance. Upon the decision of the United States upon the paramount issue of this time the) money question may be the turning decision of the civilized world. Upon the action cf the State of Ohio may turn the action of the Nation, and the action of a single Individual In this State may determine the action of Ohio. (A voice 'We will stand by you.) I teg you when you cait jour vxtes to take into account the tremendous results which may follow that action. . You have no right as American citizens - to go to the polls carelessly. You have no right to cast your votes with indifference, but it Is a duty you owe to yourselves, your families and . your country and your God. to make your ballot represent your conscience and your Just Judgment. "I met last night a gentleman who told me that his employer was against me, but that he was for me. I have heard that remark before. The employer and the employe have a right to di'Ter In politics. But remember, my friends, that we live in a N'atlon where the salary that a man receives does not purch-ise his citizenship. No wages are high enough for that. The dollars which are paid for the labor of the hand or mind are paid for labor and not for votes. (Loud cheering.) I want to suggest that the employer who attempts to use employment to rob the emplove of his citizenship does not deserve to live in a country like this. (Loud cheering.) The franchise is given to each Individual for his own use. and it must not b taken from him by purchase or by intimidation. It 1 his. It is his birthright, and the man yielding It up aralntt his conscience and his Judgment sells his birthright and does not receive in return even a mess of pottage. (Loud cheering.) I ask you to do your duty as you see it, and trust your fellow-men to stand by you in the exercise of your rights. (Loud cheering.) I thank you for y3ur attention." (Cheering.) At the close cf his remarks Mr. Bryan hastened back to the rear of the coach, and took up his position on the steps, where he shook hands with all comers until tho train moved on. At Garfield only about fifty people wera ib uig i inn, v iujjpeu long enougri to allow all to greet both Mrs. and Mr. Bryan, while the latter Jokingly pointed out the way of reform to the only sturdy McKinley man who came to shake hands with him and pay his respects. A Eteam whistle near by blew a salute lasting during the stop. A short stop was made at Salem, during yhlch omy a few of the 2.000 people were able to grasp his willing hands, and a generous round of cheers went up as Mr. Bryan was carried away. a he minute or two Fpent at Letonia was devoted to an effort on Xr. Bryan's part to shake hands with the 300 or 6o0 people present. Ho found time to ease his swollen fingers by saying: "I do not desire to say anything, my friends, because ray voice shows the effect of talking now. 1 am glad, to meet you and to see the Interest you have taken, and I hope that you will etudy these questions and then when you corns to make your speech in November it wiil ba a very short one. I want you to make it Just exactly the way you think It ought to be." (Cheering and applause.) At Columbiana nearly or quite COO people paid their respects to the silver candidate as the train stopped for a minute at tha station. At New Bedford only about ISO people assembled to see the Bryan train pass through. Handshaking and cheers marked the demonstration. The Bryan party's car stopped the length of a long train away from the Tepot at East Palestine, where a few, about luO people, were waiting and hardly more than half of them had sprinted to the rear car when the train moved on. There was nothing to do under the circumstances but cheer and this was done with earnestness. It was here that a man climbed upon the, steps and harangued the candidate as follows: "Make a ftollar worth M cents, will we. Bill? Nobody knows that the ratio was fixed by our forefathers. Wasn't that it? Then we'll tell them why wo raised the ratio from 15 to 16. Make her 1C. old r port. That's what we want, see?" Mr. Bryan, made no response. When the long train stopped at Enon, the State line, the 120 people hastene-d to the rear, the vanguard reaching it Just In time to secure a glimpse of Bryan. The towns of New Galilee and Homewood, Pa., showed a representation, re spectlvely, of about 2", and at Beaver Fallt fully l.Juo people attested the popular curiosity to see the Western candidate. At New Brighton 600 cr SOO were at the station, and In all of these places the NebraeKa man was 'received with manifestations ''bf symEathy, apparently as sincere as was. shown im in the Weet. At Rochester another crowd numbering between 3 and l.Ooo was at the depot, while gangs of workmen and their families vainly tried to win a glimpse of Mr. and Mrs. Bryan as they were borna away to the? "enemy's country." As the train neared Pittsburg, traveling through the handsome suburban resldenco districts of Economy, Sewicklty and Kmsworth. the dwellers In nearly all of the beautiful homes were In their doors waving their handkerchiefs. FIVE PEOPLE DROWNED. Three Men nnd Two Women Cnpslic4 Into the Delnuare Rlrer. PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 10. Five persons were drowned left night in the Delaware river, opposite Bride sburg. a suburb of this city, by the capsizing of a fcmall row boat. The victims are: Amelia Holman. Roso Breininger and Ray Brelninger. all three of this city; Charles Minnlck, of Cincinnati, O., and John Trunzler, residence unknown. None of the bodies have been recovered. The three women and two man started out about 7 o'clock last night for a row on the Delaware. They had not gone far before a heavy windstorm came up on them. The men seeing the storm approaching endeavored to reach shore, but had not gone far before the boat was caujiht in the squall and upset. The women sank out oj ?lght almost immediately, but the men held on to the bout until their strength Rnve out. A dispatch to the Journal from New Albany. Ind.. rays: Matthew Trunzler to-day received a telegram announcing the drowning of his son John in Delaware river, at Phlladphla. The dispatch stated that th son and a youiiK woman to whom be was engaged to be married, together with her mother, brother and slater, were In a klff, when the boat capsized and h11 were drowned. Trunzler was twenty-fix years old and resided here until three years ago. ROBBERS SURPRISED. Forced to Reveal the limine Place of a Cold Bar Worth f 12,t0O. SAN DIEGO, Cal.. Aug. 10.-A special to the Union gives a sensational sequel to the famous gold bar robbery which occurred at Knsenada nearly a year and a half ago and which caused the Imprisonment of James E. Barrett and Alien. Pratt for sixteen months. After his release Barrett came to this city and on the Mh left here for Ensenada. The Mexicans were warned bv detectives who were on the watch and this morning when Barrett, accompanied by three men. set out to dig up the bar. they were followed by a party of guard, with whom was Oovernor 8angulnez. The gold ieekers found themfelves surrounded and covered with riflJ. Barrett collapsed with fear. At Governor Sangulnez's demand he disclosed the spot where the bar wa huiUen. The btr is worth J12.000.