The herald., 1896-11-26
Shows That SilveriteS Are Not
All Dead
TOWNE WAKES ENTHUSIASM
By Reference TO the Victor Four Years
From Now
All the Towns of the State Turn Out
Crowds as if the Campaign
Were Still On.
Associated Press SpecIa, Wire

Associated Press Special Wire
DENVER, Colo, Nov. 25.-A compli
mentary banquet was last evening ten
dered Hon. William ]. Bryan at the
Brown Palace hotel by the chamber of
commerce of Denver. Plates were laid
for 300. Rev. Myron w. Reed was the
POSTMASTER of the evening. He intro
duced Henry P. Steele, president of the
Denver chamber of commerce, who well
coined the guest of the evening to the
city Of Denver. The following toasts
were responded to: Denver" Hon. J.
s. McMurray, mayor of Denver; "Colo
rado," Hon. A. w. Mcintyre, governor of
Colorado; Great Resources of the New
West" Hon. Alva Adams, governor
elect of Colorado; Business Outlook"
Hon. Henry M. Teller, senator from Col,
orado" Advance Agent of Prosperity"
Hon. Thomas NJ. Paterson, editor of the
Rocky Mountain News; Issue of 1900,'
Hon. Charles E. Towne of Minnesota.
Mr.. Bryan was down for an address,
and was received with cheers. He said
in part:
II believe that during this campaign
in every foreign nation the oppressed
WcIc IdlSlH6 d SllCDL pray cI lOi Jul SbN-
cess, and that in every foreign nation
the aristocracy was praying for the sue
cess of our opponents, because the am
bassador Of the United States to Great
Britain declared Immediately after the
election that he, together with all Lon
don, was rejoicing; and when he said ne
and all London, he meant that part of
London which he had become acquaint-
ed with and not the toiling part of Lon
don or England. You read what is said
by the financiers and by the aristocrats
of the old world and you will find that
they recognize what many Of our own
people do not recognize, that this ques-
ton which was before the American peo-
pie reached down deeper and lowered
up higher than any question that has
confronted us In time of peace In the
history of this country.
I'VE cannot give up this fight II we
desire. We have got to go on. think
we have been successful in bringing our
case before the American people. I
think we will be more successful still in
the next four years. We have been sue
cessful in bringing our case before the
laboring man. We have failed most in
reaching the business men of this coun-
try, and I believe that for the next four
years we ought to give special attention
to the bringing of our arguments before
the business men of our country. Oh,
if could but make the business men see
this question as I see it; If I could but
make them understand as l believe
understand, the business men who are
now content to live in fine houses, re-
gardless of the sufferings of those who
have no homes, would see that their own
safety Is jeopardized by making men
desperate upon the highways. How long
will 1t be before our well-to-do classes
shall understand that they cannot
raise themselves far above the masses
of the people? How long before they
realize that their only safety lies In
raising the masses with them? (Cheers
and loud applause.)
Another thing the business men
should learn Is that the financier is a
cruel master, and should never be toi-
Grated as a master in a free country.
The banker is necessary in the COM
munity-the banker who does a legiti
mate business; but a bank chartered
by law has no right to conduct its busi-
ness along political lines. You business
men must also understand that the
reason why money is scarce now when
you go to the banks Is because the bank
ers have insisted upon a policy that
locks up in the treasury at Washington
idle money which ought to be in the
banks to be loaned out to the people who
want to do business in this country
of 60
and laboring man depends the prosper
ity of the business man."
There was a remarkable scene at the
chamber of commerce banquet this
morning at the close of the forceful
speech by Congressman Charles A.
Towne of Minnesota on THE Issues of
190O" His last words, "the leader in
1896 and the victor in 190O." alluding to
Bryan, brought the audience to its fea:.
Men jumped over chairs and tables,
shouted themselves hoarse, waved
handkerchiefs, and acted as only wildly
enthusiastic men stirred to frenzy by
burning eloquence can.
Mr.. Bryan left on a special for Pueblo
at $50 a. m.
AT PUEBLO.
PUEBLO, Colo, Nov. 25-Pueblo ex-
tended amost cordial western welcome
to William ]. Bryan. In some respects
the city surpassed Denver. The crowd
was enormous and the greatest enthusi-
asm prevailed. Mr.. Bryan was met at
the depot here by vast concourse. in
Guiding committees and the Centennial
High School cadets. Mr.. Bryan made no
speeches en- route from Denver, al
though at every station crowds had
gathered to cheer the silver champion,
and at various points salutes were fired
as the train passed.
AT COLORADO SPRINGS.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo, Nov.
25.-William Jennings Bryan delivered
an address tonight before 5000 people VINO
met him at the depot while he was pass
ing through this c.,y on his return
from Pueblo. Mr.. Bryan spoke from the
balcony of the hotel adjoining the de-
pot Tor nearly half an hour. He was in
troduced by Mayor Plumb, and after the
cheering had subsidized said in part: II
did not suppose could fnd SO many peo-
pie gathered in the United States who