August 8

Colfax, IA

Omaha World-Herald (Sunday Edition), Omaha, NE, 9 August, 1896.

"Ladies and Gentlemen: I am very glad to greet the people who live at General Weaver's home. He was a pioneer in this work and was talking for free silver long before it had come to the attention of a great many of us. And I never think of one of those pioneers who blazes out of the way and think of the abuse generally heaped upon the pioneer without think of what somebody said a year or so ago, that when one person saw a thing he was called a fanatic; when a great many saw it, he became an enthusiast; when everyone saw it he became a hero." (Laughter and great cheering.)