The San Francisco call., 1896-11-03
wELcoMED AT LINCOLN.
Bryan Makes a Fare.ceH Appeal to Rss
FotIorers

LINCOLN, NEBR. Nov. 2-His home CITY
of Lincoln gave its final hearty ratification
of William ]. Bryan's candidacy during
the brief half hour he spent there this
evening on his passage through this place
to Omaha from his Nebraska campaign
trip. Just before O'Clock, when the sun
was disappearing beyond the prairie hori-
zon line, his special train reached the
Burlington station. The Travelling Mems
Silver Club. the Bryan Home Guards. the
Mary Bryan Club, composed of women,
men on horseback and several other or
ganizations composed the procession that
escorted the candidate and Mrs. BRYAN TO
the Lincoln hotel.
AS the procession passed along the short
distance between the station and the
hotel an artillery salute was fired from
the Postoffice square Ninth street, run
ming between the Lincoln and the square.
was packed with people, anc when Mr..
and Mrs. Bryan stepped on the hotel bal
cony great cheer went up. There wa
nothing to mar the demonstration given
Lincoln's most noted citizen It was
hearty and sincere, and the candidate
showed his appreciation in his speech.
Mr.. Bryan needed no introd uctiop. In
the course of his remarks he reiterated the
statement made just after his nomination
that If elected he would not be a candi-
date for second term. 1t was his prin-
cipai closing speech of the campaign and
was delivered In clear, strong voice that
reached every person in the audience.
The speech follows:
Ladies and gentlemen: This is the last op-
portunity that l shall have to address the
people Oh Lincoln before they sit in judgmen t
upon the issues presented in this Campaign
wh1ch Will decide the financial policy OF this
Nation for the next four years Three Ma
tional parties placed in my hands the standard
upon which was written ''free and unlimited
coinage of silver at 16 to 1, without waiting
Tor the aid or consent OF any other nation"
For three months / have done what could
10 present this question to the American
people and have Travelled from Nebraska to the
Atlantic, and everywhere have preached the
same doctrine and advocated the same princi-
Pies. lCheers Everywhere l have found
those who believe with US, and The zeal of the
is as great as the zeal of the bimetalist is of Ne
braska- lApplause and cheeriug.l They called
II sectional question which we began, but
they have found out that 1t is not section al
question. 1t is great controversy between
the money Iower aud the common people of
Gil TINS country. fAppIause.l
Inc republican party started out to make
the tariff question al issue in this campaign
put II you will go among any group of persons
where politics is discussed you wifi find what
aa,t iaaiufe tney have made in getting the tariff
quesuon In the campaign. The Republican
party attempted fraud upon the American
people i'll its financial plank. Under the hope
va AZ vel nauonsi Dinetallism IL started out to
1asten the gold standard upon the Am ercan
people. 1t has been aided in this work by a
few former Democrats who h We been a3vocat-
Ing the gold standard, but in order to keep up
the fraud they have pretended to favor Palmer
ana buckner when they have worked for the
Republican ticket. [Applause and cheers
You can see how the Campaign has been con-
Quoted. The Republicans have not dared 10
advocate the gold standard al a good thing
because their platform pledges the RepubIican
party TO get rio of IL as soon as other hations
viii help us. But as they are not able 10
the boIting Democrats, who can preach what
the Republicans do not dare to preach. and
they answer the same purpose. [GrSat ap-
pause and cheers.