"Ladies and Gentlemen: I am not speaking in Missouri because it is necessary; for if
Missouri goes back on the principles set forth in the Chicago platform which the Democracy of
Missouri has believed at all times and under all circumstances, then to what state can we go and
expect a welcome? (Cries of "None," and "Arkansas.") We count on the vote of Missouri and if we
needed anything to insure the electoral vote of Missouri there is not a state in the union richer in
public speakers. So I do not come here because it is necessary, but simply to see the people who are
so enthusiastically supporting our ticket. Let me call your attention to one characteristic of this
campaign. I have said you were rich in public speakers, but do you know in a campaign like this no
community like this is poor in public speakers. In quiet times, often the machinery of the party
takes charge of things. But in times like these, when the people rise up and the machine does not do
what it ought to, then they have the remnants of a machine scattered all over the state. The
machinery of a party is used to advance the principles and interest of those for whom the party
speaks. You are fortunate in this state that the machinery has been acting in harmony with the
people of this state, but in states where it has not done so, they are finding the people are
greater than any machine." (Applause.)
CONVERTS ARE ZEALOUS.
"They tell us the craze is dying out, that it is a lunacy. If so the lunacy is
spreading so rapidly that by election time there will not be gold bugs enough to furnish guards in
the insane asylums for all these silver lunatics. (Great laughter.) Some of those who a few months
ago were calling the advocates of free coinage lunatics are today the most enthusiastic advocates of
free coinage we have. And they are grateful to those who saw the conditions before they did.
(Applause.) The new converts are among the most zealous supporters we have."