People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1896 — BRYAN SURE OF VICTORY! [ARTICLE]

BRYAN SURE OF VICTORY!

Issues a Signed Statement Expressing Confidence in His Success. THE PEOPLE AWAKENED. There Can Be no Permanent Prosperity So Long as the Gold Standard Is Maintained. The Numbers in Favor of Free Coinage Are Daily Increasing, but Its Friends Are Nevertheless Urged to Continue Their Work Until Flection Day to Make the Majority Overwhelming. W. J. Bryan will certainly be the next president of the United States. The campaign has progressed far enough to show that the result is merely a question of how large a majprity the people will roll up against the domination of Wall street and the supremacy of the English gold standard. Mr. Bryan has issued the following signed statement, which fully coincides with and verifies the judgement and sentiment of the overwhelming majority of the people. It looks as if the election was going to be a landslide, a tidal wave, which will sweep all before it. The following is Mr. Bryan’s statement, issued to the press Saturday morning from Cincinnati: "I have no doubt of my election. I bane my confidence upon the fact that the free coinage sentiment ig (rowing every daj. The people are studying the money question, and the study of it is convincing the people generally that there can be no permanent prosperity so long as the gold Standard is maintained. “Tlie gold standard makes a dearer dollar. A dearer dollar makes falling prices, and failing prices mean hard times. The people who profit by hard times are relatively so few in number that they would mnuiiiit to nothing at all but for the fact that they are aided by a considerable number of people who, not having studied the money question themselves, have received instructions from a few financiers. “Tlie number of Republicans who have declared for free silver outnumbers the Democrats who iiave deserted tlie ticket, and while tlie number of silver Republicans is increasing all the time, the number of bolting Democrats is all the time decreasing. “While I have no doubt as to my election, I believe that the advocates of free coinage should work from now to election day to make the majority in the electoral college so large that no party hereafter will ever dare to propose submission to a foreign financial policy. "VV. J. BRYAN.”