The San Francisco call., 1896-09-23
And Declares That a Dollar
Does Not Eat Anything
but It Devours.
TRYING TO SAVE THE COUNTRY
Peculiar but Olt.Repeated Pleas of
the Nebraska Orator tor Cheap
Money.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Sept. 22-Wil-
liam ]. Bryan left Wilmington, Del, at
1905 o'clock this morning and reached
Chester, Pa. at 1923 He made the trip
In special car attached to regular train,
provided by the Chester reception COM
mittee. Senator Gray of Delaware, one of
Mr.. Cleveland's main supporters in the
State, was on the tram and came into Mr..
Bryan's car. The candidate and Senator
talked together until Chester was reached.
A large crowd received Mr.. Bryan at the
station. At Turner and Woodrows Park
Mr.. Bryan was cheered by a good-sized
audience. and made brief speech. From
the stand Mr.. Bryan went to the Colon
made Hotel, where he held a reception.
leaving there in time to take the IL :43
train for Philadelphia.
A crowd of about 500 people were await.
ing Mr.. Bryan's arrival at the Broad
street station of the Pennsylvania road,
which he reached at II AS o'clock. The
candidate left the platform and the crowd
cheered heartily, and Mr.. Bryan bowed
his thanks as he hurried toward his car
riage. Mr.. Bryan was driven to the La
fayette Hotel, which will be his hea dquar-
ters while here. Awaiting in front of the
hotel was small crowd of people, who
cheered Mr.. Bryan as he drove up. At the
hotel was delegation of about thirty New
Jersey State committeeman. Mr.. Bryan
was introduced to the delegation and then
went to luncheon.
at 1:30 O'Clock Mr.. Bryan was taken by
boat to Washington Park, summer re-
sort on the New Jersey side of the Dela.
ixyar ha nket =
Hon. T. J. Wright introduced Mr.. Bryan,
who said in part:
met prominent man yesterday who sal
that until the Chicago convention acted on
the subject he had never investigated the
money question and supposed that there was
nothing In 1t; that the papers did not seem
to consider IL worth thinking about. They re-
garded 1t as craze, and ne did not have time,
as business man, 10 pay any attention to
craEes. But when q great National party
adopted a platform making the money Ques-
tion the paramount issue he began to think
about it. That was only few weeks ago. He
got TO be crank. He said TO me: 'sH we don't
win this fight 1t is going on until we do, and
we don't care how many years it taxes" can
appreciate the feeling of that man. went
through the same experience myself. Until
six years ago thought any man who talked
about money was harmless crank. did not
listen 10 his arguments. They had no weight
with me. studied The question. / read books
on both sides and compared them, and the
more read the deeper became my conviction,
until became so hrmly of the opinion that
there could not be prosperity in this country
until free silver was restored that was will
ing TO risk all had on the correctness of that
conclusion. lGreat applause
We have gone through in Nebraska the same
process that we have gone through in other
States. We began the fight in Nebraska 1t is
the pioneer. The platform adopted at Chicago
on the silver question was first adopted in
Nebraska by the silver Democrats there.
When we did 1t we had boilers, too, as they
have had since. We had men who claimed to
be Democrats who would not agree to our plat
form. They called themselves better Demo-
Gratis than we were and voted the Republican
ticket TO prove ii. [Laughter,l We believe
the Democratic party, which owed its success
10 the toiling masses, must still stand by them
In their night against the Jew II II deserves to
continue iis existence. We urged in Nebraska
q free-silver league. The members of that
league made an open fight. They did not go
said to the Democratic party of the State: ave
are going to take possession OF the machinery
of the party If we can; we are going to submit
this question to the voters" We went out and
presented the ues tiOnS.
When our State Convention met we had
three to one and we made that platform which
has been re-adopted by the National Demo-
cratic Convention. There was fierce contest
then we organized a bimetaiiic league. which
went out to do with the Nation what the free
silver Democrats OF Nebraska had done in that
State.
When they got to the National Convention,
some people came from New York to instruct
the delegates A distinguished man who used
to call himself a Democrat Ia voice. "Hil"1-
no. Mr. Whitney, went down and said as soon
as the eople of the West found out how the
people OF the East felt about this SUBJECT he
did not think there would be any trouble car
rying the convention against silver. He came
back home and found he did not know how the
people OF the East felt about it. The Demo-
cratic party in his own State has declared that
it unreservedly indorses the free silver plank
of the National platform, and that it is the