The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1895-09-14
BRYAN AZ Bo111.


1lakss : 1lagnilesnt Addrsak
Hon. n. J. Bryan Of Nsbrasks.
accompanied BY his vito and son,
arrived ct Boise on Tuesday's train.
The distinguished visitor was met
at Nampa By Z delegation Of prom
inent Boise Democrats and escorted
to the city.
A committee Of ladies met Mrs.
Bryan ct the depot and accompa-
MED her to the Capital Hotel, who're
sumptuous apartments had been
prepared and tastefully decorated
for the use Of the notable guests.
A reception followed 1t the hotel
in the afternoon, and in tho evening
the Columbia theatre was packed
to listen to . magnificent address
from the great exponent Of the sill
YER cause. From the Statesman We
take the following extracts:
Mr.. Bryan received only an ordi-
nary ovation as he rose to speak
after being introduced by Chairman
Hayes, but he had not proceeded
far with his address before be owned
the large gathering body and soul.
It was such q speech as Idaho peo-
pie seldom have an opportunity to
listen to, and the speaker was fire.
quently compelled to pause, 90 tu-
multous was the applause. The
sinceeity of the speaker in dealing
with the great question Of free coin
age, and his graphic gestures in
acting his anecdotes, which charac-
terizes his speeches, formed q pleas
ing combination, odd as it may
seem. His fights of eloquence car
ried his audience from their feet.
He made some telling points, and
made himself so clear that even the
readers of the silver primer could
understand.
The ex-congressman said he would
con6ne himself, in a large measure,
to a narrative of what was being
done in the east in the interest of
the white metal. He believed the
story of the fight for silver in the
camp of the enemy told in the west
would stimulate the western people
to renewed efforts. His situation
here, he said, was somewhat similar
to a circumstance that occurred to
him one time when be made q DEM
ocratic speech down south. As be
was about to enter the ball an old
fellow saddled up to him and said ::
Hit 'em hard, neighbor, there isn't
. Republican in the house"
He believed there were but few
in tho audience.
The speaker then took up the
bond question and demonstrated
how the people had been robbed by
The recent issues. He thoroughly
riddled the goldbug fallacies con-
corning free coinage driving gold
out of the country and unlimited
coinage flooding US With the white
metal. i've experienced so much
Of the drouth, that l want to be
outdoors in my bare head when the
first drops of rain begin to fall"
Applause.
He referred to Carlisle's state
ment that if silver were remonetized
all the gold would depart and it
would require all the minis run
ming full blast Is years TO coin
enough silver to supply the demand,
and suggested, in such q dreadful
contingency, more minis.
With reference to the "5O-cent
dollar" argument of the goldbugs.
Mr.. Bryan told the following anec-
dote:
"Ignatius Donnelly has just is
sued book in which he has far
mer and banker riding on train
and the banker asks the
farmer if he thinks it is right for a
man to 60 around buying up silver
At so cents and getting it coined at
a mint and made worth dollar.
The farmer at once rises, and look.
ing at everybody in the car, calls
out in q loud voice:
us there any one in this car, who,
if the law permitted him, to take
412 grains of silver to the mint and
get it coined and made worth dol
lar, would sell it to any body else
for less than 100 cents?"
81 would piped up .shrill
voice. The farmer went back to
discover the author of the DECLARE
ton. He found q sallow contempt
IDLE youth sitting beside his mother,
who was laughing. 'Never mind
him. she said. He's an idiot and
I'm taking him to the asylum
[Convulsed laughter.
The speaker said the oddities re-
pudiated the idea that there wac
any intelligence in the west. He
went on to show that ignorance
was not confined to the west. A
gentleman in the east wrote him
asking if he would debate with
Richard P. Bland. II understand
that you are q silver man and that
Bland is q bimetallist," he wrote.
Mr.. Hesing, Chicago's postmaster,