Evening journal., 1896-09-22
TOWNSFOLK AROUSED.
Fully 1000 Men, Women and
Young Americans
WELCOME THE GENIAL Mr. BRYAN.


ING COUNTRY AND CITIZENS EN-
MAssE GREETED THE GREAT
LEADER THE FIRST PREsIDEN-
TIAL CANDIDATE TO VISIT !
THEM.
New Castle has had her Fourth of
| July celebrations, firemen's parades
and Masonic hall dedications but the
| impressive and Vociferous welcome
rendered to Hon. w. J. Bryan, the FIRST
| Presidential candidate who has ever
lvisited New Castle, will be remember
ed by the youngest spectator as long
! as he lives.
Long before the express train con-
| tanning the car Of Mr. Bryan and party
| arrived at the Delaware railroad sta
| tion, people began to gather there from
all parts of town, and the surrounding
/ country. There were carriages, BIZ
/ cycles. saddle horses and farm wagons.
] About 4.30 o'clock the City Cornet
/ Band arrived and enlivened the occas-
| ion. and the nearly 1000 spectators as
/ sembled there by that time. Up TO
o'clock people were still arriving from
| Delaware City, Newport Christiana
and other nearby points.
Chairman Patrick McGory. Of the
New Castle Hundred Democratic Com
mittee together with the committee,
had agreed upon New Castles beloved
and esteemed citizen, DR.. John j.
Black. to preside.
The reception committee consisted
of George w. Ecl5les, Robert r. Nor
rison. Alexander McCaughan and
/ Louis E. Eliason, of the hundred COM
mttee. together with George A. Max
well, John H. Rodney, William Nor
rison, John j. Sheridan, James b. To-
man, Mayor Boyd, William j. Ferris
and Henry Holschumaker.
When Mr. Bryan and party arrived
at o'clock, the crowd was wildly en-
thusastic and the speakers hesitated
about attempting to move through the
push" Policemen Tobin and Nor
gan, with waving clubs, finally started
the procession moving through the
jam.
Behind the officers walked a circle Of
men protecting Mr.. Bryan and Or.
Black. who were walking arm-in-arm
in the centre. The defence line con-
sisted of Josephus Daniels, of North
Carolina; William Marshall. of Draw
bridge, Md, (who had missed two
trains and then driven twenty-nine
i lullta 10 see MI. biA eill - NtiANio al ~ ~.
I<enney, of Dover; l.. Irving Handy OF
Newark and Patrick McGrory and l..
E Eliason, of New Castle.
MR.. BRYAN ARRAIGNs BoLTERs.
DR.. Blacks Introductory remarks
could scarcely be heard for enthusias-
tic cheering. Mr.. Bryan wore his black
ovetcoat with the collar turned up un-
I'll it hid a portion of his flowing curly
hair After be had succeeded, by
Il commanding gestures, in silencing the
| multitude Mr. Bryan said:
= MY friends. afflicted as l am from
overwork and intense hoarseness, you
must help me in the effort If / am Ia
speak to you. I'll hardly have time to
talk long enough to clear my voice
and make myself heard.
"Ina "a country like this, the man must
be sought out for the office and the
persons to be consulted In the selection
, of public servants are all the people
Now I've been brought up in a schOO
/. where Il is taught that public Officer
is elected to carry out the wishes o.
the public. If he attempts to rur
things TO suit himself or his pocket
then he is false 10 his trust. So whel
man is put up before us for offic
nowadays we usually judge his futur
by his past, and believe that's right
when a man is elected to office
' believe he Is bound TO support the senti
! ment and men who elected him.
a "Now the platform at Chicago
known to an of you-if it isn't, let
=, be so before another sunset IL is ful
Ne | of good helpful declarations anC
re among other things, IL declares that W
ought to have more money in thi
country, and a good way to get it is
= coin 1t. DO you think that sounds IN
fair? Don't you think we could 50
more dollars If there were more?
Therefore, because / firmly believ
that there ought to be more money /
circulation. | have been nominated b
three parties-in fact l have become s
used to being nominated that l am aN
fully disappointed to learn that theT
are TO be no more conventions. ! onl
wish that the Republican conventio
l. had been about a month later. Thin
l could have gotten that too.
"But the gold standard Democrats
or more plainly speaking, the assistar
Republicans; because two-thirds
them after all will vote Republica
. tickets-all these say that for the
'country's sake they cannot work nc
vote with us Democrats.
"Ah my friends, one thing I adOl
about free silver man. if You ask hi
why he is what he is he will tell yC
zs because he believes it win do hi
some good. All, there's the rub wit
these boilers. If you ask them VIII
they'll tell you they're for gold becau
it will do somebody else some goo
Usually those fellows have never bee
known to look out for somebody ell
when they could do themselves a do
lars worth of good.
Now ! don't mean that the Dem
cratic party can make any man thir
the way it pleases. What l do claim
that the majority has right to q
party name and to shape the party pc
ley. This Chicago platform was adoI
ed by a vast majority of the Dem
. cratic convention, nearly two-thirda.
"You viii never hear me criticize q
right of any man to exercise his ov
. conscience. but these men who tell y
they're going to throw their vot
away are deceiying you-they're goil