The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-09-19
BRYAN IN THE OLD DOMINION.
VIRGINIAs OVATION PREsAGES
VICTORY IN THE STATE.

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Right to Stin Call Themselves
Democrats Denied-2O,OOO Persons
Greet Him in the Auditorium
Building at Richmond With the
Mightiest Shout of the Campaign.
Richmond, Va, Sept. 1S.-Capdidate
William j. Bryan entered the Old Domin-
ion to-day. He came from his triumphal
tour of the Tarheel state.
The Virginia line was crossed soon after
leaving Weldon, and Mr.. Bryan made his
first speech to a Virginia audience at
Emporia, that was called Belaeld until
the postoffice department changed 1t six
months ago. 1t was reserved to Peters
burg, twenty-five miles from Richmond
to give the democratic candidate his first
hearty Virginia welcome.
Fully 5000 people were assembled at
Washington street station, and when tho
train came to a standstil at 5:25 o'clock,
Bryan, they cheered with strong lunged
opposite a platform erected for Mr..
fervor. Mai. Francis R. Lassiter, United
States district attorney introduced Mr..
Bryan. The cheering was renewed as
the nominee came forward and enthusi-
asm was rampant for some time.
Mr.. Bryan said: Ladies and Gentle
men: The democratic party at Chicago
adopted a platform. That platform has
driven from the party few who formerly
| acted with the party CA voice: Let them
go.'O (Applause) l am not going to say
a word to try and prevent any democrat
| from voting as he pleases. have never
heretofore asked any democrat to violate
| his conscience or to act contrary to his
best judgment, and young as am, am
| too old to commence now. (Applause.)
The democratic party has spoken. The
democratic party has written it's plat
| form. The democratic voters in conven-
| tion assembled had a right to write the
| platform, and any man who did not like
| the platform could get out Of the party
and call himself something else. Gap
| plause) What l mean to say is this,
| that a man who objects to what the dem
ocratic party did has a right to object,
| but he has no right to try to call him
| self a democrat. (Applause.)
! EITHER the name democrat belongs to
a majority of the party, or to the minority.
| l have always said that the name be-
| longed to the majority and the majority
| has a right to determine what the policy
| of the party should be. (Appfause)
| simply want to say this, that If there is
| a democrat who is going to vote for Nc
| Kinley this year / want him to do 1t,
| knowing what II means. l don't want
him to say 1t is merely a temporary de-
| parture from the democratic party.
want him to know that when the dem
| ocratic party is engaged in a struggle as
| It is now, that any man who deserts 1t
| in the face Of the enemy will never get
| back unless he comes in sackcloth and
ashes. (Great applause) We ask no
! quarter from those who are ashamed to
| say they are going to vote the republican
ticket, and yet intend to vote the repub-
lican ticket. Great applause) I say we
| ask no quarter of them. And we expect
! to give them no quarter either
On the conclusion of his remarks Mr..
! Bryan was overwhelmed by the rush of
| people anxious to shake hands with him.
! BY dint Of much pushing the police forced
a way to the carriage in waiting and when
| the almost exhausted candidate all adrip
| with perspiration, reached that haven of
safety, the horses were whipped up and
he was taken to the Union depot, to
which his special had been shifted.
Quite a large crowd was waiting there,
| and Mr.. Bryan was again surrounded this
time by many women, young and old,
| and by more men, all clamoring for a
| flower from a bouquet which he held in
! his hand For a few minutes there was
| a lively scene. When the last bud had
been distributed Mr.. Bryan went aboard
| his car and waited there until 6:29 O'clock,
when regular train came along. The
| car was attached, and the candidate
started for Richmond.
Manchester, across the river from Rich
| mond turned out about 5000 people, to
whom Mr. Bryan made a short speech.
In all his career Mr. Bryan never re-
! ceived a greeting 80 enthusiastic, so wildly
| demonstrative as that given him by
Richmond tonight The receptions at
| Columbus and Toledo, although they
were greater by far in attendance, did
| not compare in frantic excess Of partisan
/ emotion with the manner in which the
great audience that heard him tonight
! gave him welcome. Mr.. Bryans greet
! dng at the railroad station when he
! reached Richmond at o'clock from Colds
| boro. N. c. was fiattering enough, but 1t
was as nothing beside his other and more
! formal appearance. How many thousand
! people were at the station II is impossible
| to say but there we're enough at hand
to fill the surrounding streets They
shouted with an energy inconsistent with
the heat and thronged around
| Mr. Bryans carriage, yelling fran
| tically. Mr. Bryan was whirled away
TO the residence of j. Taylor Elyson,
| chairman of the state democratic commit
tee. where they gave him something to
eat and allowed him to recover a little
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was whirled away to the place where he
| made his principal address. If the lights
had been better and the hall little larger
no better place for the demonstration,
! such as that which took place tonight in
honor Of the democratic nominee, could
have been selected. The great auditorium
of the state exposition building was the
scene Of the meeting, addressed by Mr..
BRYAN. It Is said there are 10000 seats on
the floor; several thousand more in the
galleries, and that the grand capacity
with every seat occupied, every bit of
aisle space filed. is fully 1900. But to-
night the bases for these estimates were
| not available. II Is true that there were
no more chairs TO occupy when the candi-
date arrived at the big building, and 70
move from the rear door to the stage along
any aisle was impossible. The gal
| leries were jammed. Those who
perspired together In solid
mass in the floor spilled over
on the stage. Women in cool. summery
dresses, crowded the boxes. Back behind
the seats, in the galleries, people were
packed with uncomfortable closeness.
| Around the entrances eager throngs
| tried to get a peep at what was going on