The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-08-28
Talks Silver to Thousands of
Gold New Workers.
HAROLD AGAINST ELDER sEwALL
Makes His First Republican Campaign
Speech HiIborn Sure of Renomina-
tion - Fusion In Washington and
Iowa-GoId Democrats Comforting.

| NEW YORK, Aug. 12.-That the in
terest of the whole city of New York
was focused today upon Madison Gar
den, where William j. Bryan of Neb-
| raska and Arthur Sewall of Maine, who
were to be formally notified of their
nomination by the Democratic party for
the offices of President and Vice Presi-
dent of the United States, was proved
by the groups of sovereign electors,
which as early as the middle of the af-
ternoon began to come under the trees
in Madison Square. By o'clock they
had been reinforced by hundreds, and
lat o'clock were multiplied to expectant
thousands, and before o'clock were
swelled to straining, clamorous army.
Bryan came on the platform on the
arm Of Chairman James K. Jones, fol-
lowed by Sewall with George Stone of
Missouri, and Bland with Elliott Dan
forth. Senator William M. Stewart and
Senator John p. st. John occupied the
boxes. The cheers for Mrs. Bryan had
not ended when the foremost parsonage
of the hour, the Democratic candidate
for President, appeared and pushed in
through the same doorway.
AS the young statesman stood at the
front of the platform flag was raised
and waved just above him in the gal
lery, so that it's folds swept down as a
background for his form and made him
the one figure of the whole assemblage.
The cheer that broke forth was of tre-
mendous force. Fans and hats and
handkerchiefs fluttered in the thick,
sultry heat, and the cry of Bryan!
Bryant" was repeated until the crowd
wearied.
The candidate bowed his head several
times, but it was only when he sat
down at the right of the stand that the
people took notice of the men who ac-
companied him.
Bryan's reply to the notification ad
dress was devoted almost entirely to
marks he said:
I'VE do not underestimate the forces
arrayed against us, nor are we unmind-
fu] of the Importance Of the struggle in
which we are engaged, but, relying for
success upon the righteousness of our
cause, we shall defend with all possible
vigor the position taken by our party.
We are not surprised that some of our
opponents, in the absence of better ar
guments, resort to abusive epithets;
but they may rest assured that no Ian
guage, however violent, or invectives,
however vehement, will lead us to de-
part a single hairs breadth from the
course marked out by the National con-
vention. The citizens, either public or
private who assail the character or
question the patriotism of the delegates
assembled in the Chicago convention
assail the character and question the
patriotism of the millions who have
arrayed themselves under the banner
raised there.
''It has been charged by men standing
high in business, in political circles,
that our platform is menace to private
security and public safety; and it has
been asserted that those whom | have
the honor for the time being to repre-
sent not only mediate an attack upon
the rights of property, but are the foes
of social order and national honor
Those who stand upon the Chicago
platform are prepared to make known
and to defend every emotion which in
fluences them, every purpose which ami
mates them and every hope which in
spires them. They understand the ge-
MUS of our institutions; they are stanch
supporters of the form of government
under which we live, and they build
their faith upon the foundations laid
by their fathers
After the meeting adjourned Bryan