The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-14
REGISTER A FREE MANS WILL

register your own wish. Let your bal
lots
REGISTER A FREE MANS WILL
and then no matter who is elected, we
will be satisfied. l can only say here,
over and over again that l am deeply
gratified for this very cordial reception
at the place OF my birth and you will
accept that until I can thank you
personally for your consideration.
When he had ended his talk there
was loud and enthusiastic applause.
Then the assemblage OF citizens form
ed in a line along the walk in front of
! the house and beneath the huge trees
and Mr.. Bryan passed along in front
OF them and gave each a hearty hand
shake. There were no other speeches
The. people retired 10 their homes and
Mr.. Bryan and his wife went TO rest
weary and worn from the excitement
OF the day.
The people at Rantoul were given
! but three minutes in which to shake
hands with the new leader of the
Democratic party. The town only
boasts of a thousand inhabitants and
at least two-thirds of them, men,
women and children, were at the depot
to greet Mr.. Bryan and he was en-
| Enthusiastically cheered. AS Mr.. Bryan
! boarded the train, he turned about on
! the platform in response to loud calls
! for a speech. He raised both hands
and instantly all was silence.
IF you will only vote next Novem-
Der as industriously as you shout now,
L Will be sure to be elected" The bell
on the engine began to clang, the train
! moved away and the assembled citi-
! zens
ROARED WITH DELIGHT.
Champaign gave the greatest demon
stration of the trip. The streets were
! blocked with vehicles and people in
every direction from the depot. There
was military band and nearly every
one of thousands of people who had
come to do honor to the Democratic
nominee carried a flag. A committee
representing the citizens of Champaign
county and city were at the depot to
meet The distinguished man from Ne
braska. Mr.. and Mrs. Bryan were
escorted to a temporary platform
which had been erected on a fat car
which stood on a side track. It was
draped with bunting and flowers.
There was an ovation of handclapping
and cheers when Mr.. Bryan stepped
to the front Of the platform. He was
introduced to the throng of citizens by
Colonel J. S. Wolf, a venerable old
gentleman bearing a strong resem-
blance 10 Gladstone. When quiet was
restored Mr. Bryan said:
Fellow citizens, l believe l have not
visited this city since about 1879, (Cries
of Good boy Bryan and great APP
plause.) In that year I was student
at the Illinois college and we had
contest, 1 think an intercollegiate con-
test, was held in this city at your col
lege, and it was my good fortune to be
present and meet some of your people,
and that is the last time, and I believe
the first time, that l have been
here or passed through here. 1 am not
going to make a political speech this
afternoon. [ have just been talking
some at Chicago and l am kind of be-
tween speeches. 1 am glad to have oc-
casion to talk to you for a while, and
l am gratified to see that so many peo-
pie by their presence here have shown
their interest in this campaign. In my
judgment it is the most important cam
paign through which this country has
passed in time of peace during our eX-
istence as a nation. (Applause.)
"a campaign in which great issues
are to be settled, issues which
AFFECT EVERY MAN, WOMAN
AND CHILD
in the nation. I beg of you that you
shall realize and appreciate the i'm
portant part which you bear in this
campaign. This is the greatest ma
ton on the earth. 1t is in advance, in
my humble judgment in all that makes
nation great; in advance of all ma
tons that live, or have lived, in those
great things, and the opportunities
which people find here have their high
est and, best development. We have the
best form Of government and we have
the most perfect form of government
because it is government which can
be just as good as the people desire it
to be. No government can be better
than the people deserve If our gov
eminent is good, if our laws are just,
it is because we make them ourselves.
l have confidence in the intelligence, in
the patriotism of the great common peo-
pie of this country. (Applause.) The
only trouble that we have is that peo-
pie are so often Indifferent to their
duties as citizens. Some have an idea
that patriotism can only be manifested
in time of war. [ was too young to
show my patriotism in time of war but
1 glory in this land. Every year gives a
patriot an opportunity to show his love
for country, and there is no year better !
than this. (Applause) You have the 3
right to consider and act upon every
question which arises, and when you
find a person who tells you that the /
masses and the people are not cOmpe- !
tent to settle the greatest and most i'm
poTtant questions that concern our ma
ton. you find a man who does not m
derstand the conditions Of our institu- !
tons. (Applause)
GREAT QUESTIONS ARE SIMPLE
QUESTIONS
Every political question is an economic |
question, and every great economic /
question is at least a great moral ques- ,
ton, and when you determine what is
right and what is wrong, when you
come to the settlement of a question in |
which justice is involved, it can be (
settled only by the great common peo-
pie of this nation. applause and cries (
OF That's right.O
mo question can ever be settled I'M /
til the people sit in judgment on it. (
The politicians have tried to settle the
money question. The financiers have
tried to settle the money question, but
it viii not be settled until the great /
producing masses OF this country ex-
press their opinion, and from that opin-
ion there is no appeal. (Applause)
You have the right not only to hold
an election, but TO express your opin-
ion on the money question, and you
have the same right by your ballot.to
protect your own interests and watch
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