The San Francisco call., 1896-10-06

legislation. 1t is aggressive in the sense that
we are insisting that something shall be done,
and it is defensive in the that are fight
ing for our homes and our people against an in
vasion of a foreign financial policy. lCheers.l
As passed through the streets tonight and
listened 10 the exclamations OF the people
could easily believe that was in city so near
to that sacred spot, the Hermitage. lCheers.]
I can understand why the people or this
State should feel SO deep an interest IN
the cause which is represented by the
Chicago platform, because.we are fighting to-
day the battle that Andrew Jackson fought
when he was in office. (Great cheers.l we
tions, the same aggregation OF wealth. the
same abuse against him; we suffer from tne
same abuse that he suffered from. every
name is applied to the advocates OF Tree com, Il
age that was applied to old Hickory when ne
fought for the American people. lGreal
cheers.1 In declaring in favor OF pimerai-
lism we stand upon ancient ground. me
free coinage of silver is no experiment IL
is indorsed by the history of the numau
race. 1t has the sanction of all the great
statesmen of this Nation from the beglnhlng
of our history doN to 1878. No person Will
assert that America abandoned b1metaltism
after full discussion II you read the RECORDS
OF the time you will find that the newspapers,
which are so quick to grasp upon any Item OF
news SO ready to spread it before the pubic,
did not understand that the law OF 1873 de-
monetizsd silver. closed the mlnts to the
coinage OF the white metal and LETT us with
gold only as our standard money. Ever since
that day we have been seeking to undo Wnat
was done in the dark.
NY friends: We have lost some Democrats
in this fight but am mighty glad that most
of those whom we lost were generals. We
have not lost many privates IN the army. APP
plause.l We might have kept all the. tne DEM
oerats who are gone if we had been willing To
pay the price they asked. II we hao Deen
willing to make the Democratic party the
agent to fasten plutocracy upon the American
people we could have kept every man who has
left u.s. But we have to choose between lhrow-
ing overheard those who have been millstones
about the neck of Democracy and throwing
over the Democracy itself, and we prefer 10
save Democracy and let the aristocrats CO.
[Great cheering.]
NV friends, we have not lost it. 1t has been
our gain 1t is also true that those who dare
to do right are rewarded in the long run, and
the Democratic party is receiving It's reward
not even waiting for the long run-it is re-
ceiving its reward right now for DARING u uo
right at Chicago. [Cheers.l
We are drawing In our ranks those VINO are
in the Republican party Tor blmelaillsn.
They have come 10 US because tney See now "
delusion and that 1T is used only as cover,
while the leading Republicans are attempting
TO fasten the gold standard permanently upon
the people
MIR. Bryan also spoke of the Populst ap-
an hour and was then taken to the Ath-
letic Park. He found an immense throng
there. and almost as big as that at the
Haymarket. His speech at Athletic ParK
was very brief.
The third address was Populist meet
ing in the public square. At mldnlgnt
Mr.. Bryan left for Indianapolis: Great
crowds greeted Mr.. Bryan in his eight
hours journey through Tennessee tod ay.
People thronged at every stBtlon where
stops we're made. Arlington was the
first stop after leaving Memphis. and
several hundred people there pressed
around the platform OF the Candidates
car to shake hands with him. Browns
vile turned out a large crowd. At hum
boidt Mr.. Bryan spoke to crowd number
ing 5000 or 1000. A pathway for the can
aidate from the train to the stand was
lined with young girls wearing Bryan
and Sewall caps, blue blouses and white
skirts, who waved flags and shouted
shrill welcome.
Three thousand demonstrative people
were at Milan. and they, too, heard little
speech. Mackenzie had even larger
crowd. Mr.. Bryan spoke from the rear
platform of the train to quite large au-
dience at Huntington. Camden heard
minute speech from the candidate. 1t
was Just beginning to grow dark and bon
fires lighted up the landscape. Waverly
and Dickson also turned out falr-sized
crowds of cheerers.