Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 October 1908 — A BIC CROWD OUT [ARTICLE]

A BIC CROWD OUT

Between 2,000 and 3,000 People Hear Bryan THE 6UARANTY OF BANK DEPOSITS Was the Principal Issue Discussed, and It Was Well Received By the Big Audience of Listeners. * William Jennings Bryan, the next president of the United States if the people rule, passed through Rensselaer on a special train Tuesday morning, as per previous announcement, and spoke for about 25 minutes from the rear platform of the train. Notwithstanding the early hour—B:4o a. m., —there were between 2,000 and 3,000 town and country people there to hear him. His remarks were chiefly on guaranty of bank deposits, which is declared for by both the democratic state and national platforms. He said that the government, the state, the county, the municipality was secured In the matter of public funds, but the private depositor, the merchant, the laborer, the farmer received no security whatever when they put a dollar in bank, and that the democratic plan was to have the bankers themselves provide a guaranty fund to guarantee that when one of the now unfavored class deposited a dollar in bank, he too, could have assurance that when he wanted to get it out he could do so.

He illustrated this point by the remark of an old German farmer made a few days ago In sending in a dollar to the democratic campaign fund. He said he had always voted the republican ticket, but this year he was going to Vote with the democrats because he wanted his deposits in bank guaranteed. Said he: “When I go to the bank to borrow a hundred dollars the banker tells me to get sorhe of my farmer friends to go my security. Now, when I deposit my money in the bank I want the banker to have his banker friends go his security." Hon. Joseph Littell of Indianapolis spoke for a half hour before the arrival of Mr. Bryan, but the noise of the many school “kids” drowned his remarks except to those close by. It may be all right to the schools for a football game, but we doubt the -wisdom of turning such a bunch of badly behaved youngsters loose when people want to hear as well as see. Chairman Littlefield and E. P. Honan went up to Chicago Monday night and accompanied the Bryan Special here, Mr. Honan going on to Lafayette and from thence to Delphi to attend the funeral of a cousin of his who died Sunday in an Indianapolis hospital.