The herald., 1896-07-11

preciall0n Tor the KINDNESS SHOWN py
other candidates and their friends, and
also to say that consider my nomina-
| ton is due to peculiar circumstances
| which surround this campaign. and not
! to any superior merit of my own. In fact,
had the convention considered who was
most deserving, the honor would have
fallen to another.
II can only add that so highly ap-
| preciate the responsibility imposed by
the nomination that have avoided max
ing any pledges to persons"
Mr.. Bryan said, in reply to questions,
that he had not only made no plans for
the campaign, but that he had not even
determined when he would return to his
| home in Nebraska. When asked If he
would make many speeches during the
campaign he replied he had had no op-
| portunity to consider what he would do.
and would not say. While he was die
tating the above statement messages
were arriving every few minutes, bear
| ing words of congratulation and assur-
ance of support. His immediate atten-
ton was called to but few of them, but
he appeared very much interested in all
that were read to him, expressing espe-
cial qualification al brief message from
| his old pastor.
| Since his arrival in the city. which was
some ten days ago, Mr.. Bryan has. with
his wife, occupied quiet apartments at
the Clifton house. He received the news
of his nomination while sitting in his
| bedroom, a chamber about sixteen feet
| square and entirely barren of any dec
GRAFTON. the furniture consisting of
| bed, wardrobe, dresser and half dozen
upholstered chairs. Mr.. Bryan himself
was dressed negligee. wearing a light
black sack coat, a turneddown white
collar and a striped bow tie He seemed
at times quite fatigued and occasionally
hesitated for words.
Many baskets of handsome flowers
were brought in by visitors who called to
pay their respects. One lady presented
an immense bunch of goldenrod, a flower
which grows in great profusion in Mr..
Bryan's home state.
AS the day wore on the throng in the
hotel increased to such an extent that it
became necessary to exclude the public
from the parlor floor, delegates and con-
vention boomers crowding the hotel in
great numbers. Ultimately the police
We're called in for the purpose of keep
ing the crowd away. The hotel is a small
one and the lobby and corridors and par
lors We're entirely inadequate for the ac-
commodation of the crowd which sought
admission.
Mr.. Bryan made an open air speech
from the balcony of the Clifton house
tonight addressing a vast crowd, which
Oh Ctot oetr 10
Wabash avenue.
The Bland club, headed by their band,
marched to the Clifton house and sere-
naded the new nominee. The loud cries
for Bryan and demands for speech
brought Mr.. Bryan to the balcony, where
he was cheered again and again. He
was followed by two men bearing
an enormous American flag. AS the
crowd shouted and the band played, the
big flag was thrown to the breeze, and
finally thrown about the shoulders of
the candidate. He smilingly acknowl-
n,shine hex al the flag from his shoulders,
There shall be. no sign of keep of
the grass when you come around, boys,
he began, good d-naturedly. to the 1ostling
crown pSiONs iiANAt 49, ~-~--'
the Bland club?"
A yell in the affirmative answered his
inquiry.
"Then want to say to the friends OF
| Bland that if the convention had chosen
| as their nominee the man whose name
is inscribed on your banner he would
have had no more loyal supporter than
l. The fact that he was not chosen can
not be taken as the slightest reflection
upon his great ability. No man is more
| decerying of the conventions love. its
bonors and its confidence than Richard
Park Bland"
Another great shot went up from the
crowd and for several minutes the
speaker could not proceed. When quiet
was again restored he went on:
But circumstances sometimes con-
tribute to great events, and think cir
cumstances contributed much in the
shaping of this convention. When the
campaign is over I think it can be said
no mistake has been made. But it de-
pends upon us-upon the plain people.
Abraham Lincoln once said that the
Lord loves plain people because he made
so many of them If we win this great
fight 1t will be because the plain people
believe that we will bring to them exact
and equal justice. We raise no plea
against the Just due accorded to intelli-
gence and education, but we insist that
when the government comes in contact
with the people there must be equal and
exact Justice to all alike, rich and poor,
great and humble" (Great applause)
1.-THE issue of this campaign is the
money question. Qong continued ap-
plauseD And we cannot be driven from
our faith by the charge that we advocate
dishonest money. The free and un-
limited coinage of silver at the ratio OF
1s to l. independent of any nation on the
face of the globe will not give us dis
honest money. 1t will not give us
dollar worth one value to one man anc
another value to another. 1t will give
10 the man who tolls the same as to the
man who holds the mortgage. (Grea
applause.) 1t will give us coin tha
smiles upon prosperity. This Is to be
: fighting campaign, and you, my friends
are to do the fighting. l once heard {
t story of a man at a hotel who could no
: sleep because the man in the room
. above walked the floor all night. AT las
, the man below, in desperation, asked hi
friend above why he continued to wall