The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-26

of His Party.
Albany, N. Y, August 25.-The sec
ond day of William J. Bryan's trip west
wartl from the seclusion ofRed Hook was
an eventful one, crowded with variety
of Incidents of travel, including pictur-
esque reception at q summer hotel, a stir
ring speech to n crowd of workingmen at
the town of Kingston, and eliminating
in great meeting at Albany, where the
candidate spoke to crowd estimated at
from seven to ten thousand people
Before this demonstration Mr. and Mrs.
Bryan sat down to dinner with Senator
Hill and prominent Albany Democrats at
the Senator's magnificent home, "Wool-
fert's Roost," whittier they were driven
directly from the depot
For nearly three hours Mr.. Bryan was
the guest of the New York Senator and
although every participant in the dinner
averred that it was purely social affair,
it is the general impression that an un-
Outstanding was reached which will in
sure to Mr.: Bryan the support of the
party organization in the State
The crowd began to gather in the CITY
hall square two hours before the meeting
and when Mr. Bryan faced them the peo-
pie were paced in solid masses over sew
eral acres of pavement and sod. His ap-
pearance as he stepped upon the flag
draped platform with to him familiar
strains of Hail to the Chief clamoring
In his ears, kindled fierce shout which
swelled into three cheers with hundreds
of hats and bandkerchiefs in the air. He
was escorted by Messrs Chase and Pratt,
Recorder James Matthews, Postmaster
Woods and Collector John p. Masterson.
Senator Hill was not there Mr. Chase
IN introducing the orator said
My fellow citizens: This is a plain
meeting for the plain people where there
Is TO be no fuss and no feathers. There
Is but one man you wish to see, but one
man you may wish to hear. 1 have the
honor to Introduce him to you-the Dem
ocratic candidate for President of the
United States, the Hon. William j. Bryan,
of Nebraska. prolonged cheering).
Mr.. Bryan spoke with more than his
customary oratorical force and consider
ing the size of the crowd he was listened to
with most fiattering attention. Once the
speech was marred by small knot of
Republicans who interrupted with a
struggling cheer for Mckinley. Before
the speech was finished darkness came on
and red lights kindled on the outskirts of
the crowd threw n crimson glare over the
field of heads and then an alarm of fire
just as the orator was ending created a
diversion At the close of his speech,
Mr.. Bryan shook hands with the people
who climbed upon the platform. He was
driven to the station preceded by Il band
and crowds of citizens who formed in line
and marched along cheering. Mr.. BRYAN
said in part:
In the presence of this immense audi
ence 1T Is not improper to announce that
the Presidential campaign is open for
business. 1t gives ME great pleasure to
be permitted to address even for short
time the citizens of Albany and this vicin-
ity. / esteem it Il privilege to be able to
defend in your presence the policies
winch believe will bring prosperity and
happiness to the American people. ZAP
plause.)
at is proper, aye, more, it is necessary
that the candidate who stands upon q
platform shall endorse the utterances of
his platform, and I stand before you to
declare in your presence that l endorse
every word and every syllable of the plat
form at Chicago. (Applause). But while
l do so, | expect in this campaign the sun
port of many Democrats who are not will
ing to endorse all that the platform de-
clares for.
1.-The Democratic party has begun n
war of determination against the gold
SItHutru. Z dSk no quarter, we give
no quarter. We shall prosecute our war
fare until there is not an American citi-
zen that dares to advocate gold stand
ard policy. You ask why? We reply
that the gold standard is a conspiracy
against the human race and that we
would no more join it than we would Join
an army marching to despoil our home
and destroy our families | ask YOU not
to take my word for the evils of the gold
standard. call as witness gentleman
whose voice has been heard in the coun-
ellis of the Democratic party. I ask you
If you are inclined to accuse us of extrav-
agant language. ask you to read and
reflect upon the language used by John
G. Carlisle in 1878.
Some of our opponents say that they
are afraid that we cannot maintain bimet-
aliism alone. We reply to them that we
have waited for twenty years for other
nations to help us and if we are going to
restore bimetallism we have got to re-
store 1t at once, because others do not
come to our assistance. More than that.
we believe that the assertion of American
independence will do more to bring about
international bimetallism than servile
dependence upon our enemies to bring it
to US. Our opponents say that all we
need is a restoration of confidence.
Whenever the confidence man is abroad
IL the community, the man who has the
least confidence gets off with the most
money. And am very much afraid that
the confidence man is abroad in this cam
Pa1gn, preaching have confidence and all
Will be we'll My friends, confidence
must have basis TO rest upon. Our OPP
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