The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-14
BRYAN HAS But
ONE DESIRE
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(ApplauSe.) IL this nation is not great
enough to attend to its own business,
then to what nation can we go with
the expectation of aid? Do you know
of any nation that sets up the plea
that it cannot take care of its own
people? Is IL left for the United States
to humbly bow before the foreign ma
lions and beg them to do that for
which this nation was instituted, to
take care of the people of the United
States? Applause) But / did not in
tend to make a speech. l simply want
ed to thank you and to come out
here and express my gratitude to you
and to those like YOU who have con-
ferred upon me this distinguished hon
or. l appreciate the honor and appre-
ciate the responsibility which that hon
or imposes. Whether 1 shall be elected
or not, depends not upon me, but upon
the people
But here the time was up for the
train to leave, and Mr. Bryan was
hustled off through the crowd which
was 10th 10 give way to him. Hun
dreds of people
SHOOK HIM BY THE HAND
as he came through the assembled
crowd and promised him their support.
A short stop was made at Toona,
where half the town was out, bent on
seeing Mr. Bryan. The people were
gratified, though the stop was only
momentary. 4 4
Then came Tuscola, the county seat
of Douglas county. At least 1000 peo
pie stood on the platform,-and around
the depot. Colonel William Brinyton,
United States district marshal for the
southern district of Illinois, was there
and introduced Mr.. Bryan and his wife
to the crowd. AS the people ceased to
cheer, Mrs. Bryan, who carried a large
boquet of sweet peas, began to scat
ter them over the heads of the throng.
There was a scramble from all direc-
lions, and everybody wanted to get a
souvenir.
At Arcola Mrs. Bryan. received the
bulk of attention.
Whenever l come to Arcola,'' said
Mr.. Bryan, Il travel on my wife's rep
utation, because she attended school
with the daughter of your distinguished
citizen, Maldon Jones'"
AT Nation the crowd was almost as
large as that which assembled at
Champaign. The streets were blocked
with vehicles and men and women,
and all the buildings in the vicinity
were decorated with flags in honor of
the passing through of Mr.. Bryan He
rear platform of the train, by Frank
Splitter, as the next president of the
United States. In addressing the as
semblage, Mr.. Bryan said:
We have hardly had time, fellow
citizens, to discuss the questions which
are the issue in this great campaign.
l have been taught that a public SER
want was but a hired man, who was
chosen for a certain time to'do a GER
tot
him are the only ones to judge whether
or not he is competent for the place
You can't always tell whether man
will make a good man or not by the
way he looks, but
WE HAVE A GOOD PLATFORM
adopted at Chicago, and 1 believe that
any person who will honestly, faith
fully and courageously carry out the
provisions of that platform will make
a good hired man for the people of the
United States. (Applause) This is a
campaign in which there will be much
of feeling, more feeling than has ever
been in any campaign in which you or
! have been engaged since the war.
The feeling rises on two sides. You
find those who believe the financial
policy which we advocate will be ruin
Gus to this country, and those who be-
lieve that the only salvation to this
country lies in the immediate restora-
ton of free and unlimited coinage of
gold and silver at the present ratio of
16 to l, without the consent of any
other nation on earth. Great APP
plause)
Il believe in that platform. 1t ex-
presses that policy which is necessary
to restore parity between money and
property. And in this campaign you
will find that those men who are pc
cuniarily benefited in the rise in the
value of a dollar will favor that policy
that will raise the value of that dollar,
but
THE POOR PEOPLE
will not be in favor of such a policy.
When these people tell you that they
want good money, you tell them that
money may be too good; it may be SO
good that you may pray for it and
wish for it but you can't get hold of it.
(ApplauSe) We want dollar that will
be just, and not a dollar which will
only reward the men who own money.
AS the train proceeded south, there
were small bodies Of citizens at i'm
portant stations who had assembled to
see the train drawing the presidential
nominee go through on the fly. The
enthusiastic citizens at these places
.
and Mrs. Bryan at each place walked
onto the rear platform, where Mr.. Bry-
an took off his hat and waved it at the
assembled people as the train rushed
through.
At Dillingham;, although it was quite
dark, there were at least 10000 people
many of whom were women. assembled
to see the Democratic presidential can
didate AS the train came to a stand
Free Silver" and "Altgeld," and af-
ter the mention of each, the crowd
gave vent to cheers. When quiet was
at length restored, Mr.. Bryan was in.
| troduced from the rear platform of the
! train and said:
"Fellow citizens, 1 remember thai
| less than a year ago | stopped off here
| for few hours and spoke at the court
! house. At that time we wished tbs
Democratic party would adopt plat.
| form
THAT WAS DEMOCRATIC.
Since that time great struggle ha:
been going on, and last week thai
struggle ended in a national conven
: ton, and that convention adopted {
platform which in my judgment i!
! Democratic. The Democratic party
comes before the country now appeal
! ing to those who believe in that plat
! form"
At Effingham Mr.. Bryan and hi.
wife were met by Hons. L. S. Dwigh
| of Centralia and T. S. Marshal O.
! Salem, both cousins of Mr.. Bryan, who
boarded the train and accompanied
them to the end of their journey. South
of Effingham about four miles a large
number of farmers assembled along the
/ edge of the railroad track and hat
! built large bonfires. As the train sho
| by there was a fusilade of shot guns
old army muskets and fire-crackers
while the assembled countrymer
shouted 'Hurrah for free silver ant