The Portland daily press., 1896-09-28
cheers.) I've been deeply gratiaed.

AT this point the train pulled out
While at the station at Biddeford Mr.
Bryan shook hands with all who could
reach him.
Across the bridge in Saoo there was
another crowd assem- led. but Mr.. Bryan
only acknowledged the cheering and ap-
plause by bowling and smiling.
At Biddeford the reception committee
of prominent Portland Democrats got
aboard the train and entered the car.
Those who boa-ded the train at Bidde
ford were: Col. John G. Cobb, Hon.
Chas. Ell. Chase, Virgil G.. Wilson. Spen-
Ger Rogers, Col.Geo.F. MACMILLAN, Capt.
Thomas p. Beals, Wyer Green, Jos, A.
MCGOWAN, Samuel L. Bates, Levi Green
leaf. J. ii. Bradley, Jas. H. Mcdonald,
W. II. Sargent, Edmund j. Young, Lu-
ther B. Roberts. John A. MCGOWAN and
others. Many of them were pres ented
to MT. Bryan, who gave each one hear
ty shake of the hand.
AT Old Orchard a crowd of some 300
people, mostly women, had gathered to
see Mr.. Bryan, who stepped out on to the
rear platform Of the car to greet them,
but did moi speak,
No other crowds were found at many of
the intermediate stations between Old
Orchard and Portland ana Mr.. Bryan
remained almost all of the time in his
private ROOM,
SPEECHES BY THE WAY.
During the early part of the trip, Mr.
Bryan made number of speeches. He
left Boston in company with Mr.. Sewall
at s. 80 a. m. AT Lowell there was great
crowd which loudly cheered the candi-
date, but he had time for only few
words. AT Nashua Junction another
great throng greeted him and here, af-
ter few words, MIR. Bryan introduced
Mr.. Sewall. who said: Fellow citi-
zens of New Hampshire, close to Maine
The silver issue, the real contest, today
extends from Maine through the West
to the Pacific, and every day the senti-
ment Is growing. and I believe that by
November it will be declared that the
great majority of our people are in line
Tor honest money, for the peoples
money, for money such as our fathers
used, such as they prospered under, and
without which, unless it comes back,
there is no prosperity for US. The gold
standard Is characterized by permanent
depression and impovishment and suffer-
Ing today, and it will go on. 1t will con-
tinue every year if you permit it. But
you are not going to permit it. You are
going to maintain your rights, and you
are going to have government that will
represent 90 per cent of the country as
against per cent, who control it today.
! thank YOU" Great APPLAUSE
At Manchester, Mr.. Bryan spoke to
another great throng, saying:
THE MANCHESTER SPEECH.
Fellow citizens: We have been accused
of raising sectional issue because we
are in favor of the free coinage of silver,
but the best evidence that we have not
raised sectional issue is the fact that
not in the West and the South only, but
all over New England we find advocates
of the double standard. The time was
when OFT opponents insisted that the
gold standard was satisfactory to the peo-
pie of this country. Now they are con-
tent to say that 1t is satisfactory to few
northeastern states and in little while
they will not be able to find anybody
who lives beneath the flag to whom the
gold standard will be satisfactory. CAD
plause.) We are told that the freq coin
age of sill YER 10 i'll ha RI atri,paptal r., %ha.o
who have deposits in savings banks. RI
want you people who have money depos-
tied in savings banks to remember this:
that your deposits are secure only when
the banks can collect the money which
they have loaned, and if you loan money
on western lands and then drive down
the value of western lands, you are de-
stroying the security which the banks
hold for what they owe you. Applause. J
If your banks join In policy which de-
stroys the value of the land upon which
they hold mortgages and forces down the
value of these lands until they have to
take the land under foreclosure, I want
to ask you how you, as depositors, are
going to collect more money from those
farms when they are occupied by tsnants
than you can collect from them now
when they are occupied by the owners
who have an interest in those farms.
(Applause.) My friends, the people of
New Hampshire have not had their at
tention called to the money question as
much as the people of the West and South
have. Your large daily papers, upon
which you rely for information, have
been telling you that the silver ssnti-
ment was craze and that the craze was
dying out, and you who have believed
what the papers said have felt that 10 was
not necessary to waste time in discus
sing or considering or examining into
what they call craze. When q great
national party declared in favor Of b.
metall1sm and not only declared in
favor of 5imetalism, but specifically
pointed out the means by which bimet.
allism should be restored, when a great
national party departing from what has
been the practice, departing from the use
of ambiguous phrases and words, and