Show BRYAN AT MIIAVAJJKKE It should be evident by tMs time to the most hostile opponent of free coinage coin-age that the people are flocking to hear Mr Bryan not because they are anxious to see a presidential candidate candi-date net because he has been so abused and denounced not because he is the youngest man ever nominated to the high office of president of the United States but because he brings to them that message of hope and good cheer for which they have listened so long and so vainly They go to hear him because he gives utterance to those thouznts which fill their own breasts Assembled thousands do net stand on weit and muddy ground in the rain to hear a man speak that they may satisfy sat-isfy an idle curiosity And this is what they did at Milwaukee Milwaukee Mil-waukee that home of the Germans who are said to be for sound money And what a speech it was How he st fonSi the history oC the repeal of I the purchasing clause of the Sherman law how instead of stopping the outflow i out-flow of gold as had been predicted the j flow increased Following this he told j the stOry of the bond issues told it as it was never told before No exaggeration exagger-ation no denunciation he told a simple sim-ple tale in plain and honest English When he related how the syndicate manipulated the bond issues and the officials of the government tamely and without protest submitted to the man pulatiosi it must have stirred to their very depths the souls of those who heard him What does it mean asked Mr Bryan It means that these financiers when they thought they had the government gov-ernment at their mercy were willing to let it have gold at a dollar and five cents and yet when others came in I and offered to bid they raised their bid more than five millions of dollars I What does it mean It means these people who pose as guardians of the I puWlc credit and national honor would I have bled the taxpayers of this coun try five million dollars on a single transaction if they had been permitted I permitt-ed to do it Up to the present time since his nom nation Mr Bryan has made some ninety odd speeches but he has not nrade one that will be more popular with the people than this one he made art Milwaukee |