The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-07-14

age OF silver at the present ratio OF l6 to 1
can be accomplished without awaiting for
any other nation on earth. [Cheers.l
Those who will be principally benefited
by the rise of the dollar are in favor OF
raising the value OF the dollar. But those
others, who are the people, do not want the
value of the dollar to rise when it de-
presses the value of human toll. When
those who are benefited by the rise of the
dollar ask you what kind of money you
want tell them you want good money.
You want a dollar that will be just, not
one that will take from the labor prcduc-
ing classes of the world. [Cheers.l
EFFINGHAM, ILL. July 13. = The
crowd to greet Mr.. Bryan here was small
but it was enthusiastic, so much so that
Mr.. Bryan consented to make speech.
Standing on the rear platform, he said:
"Fellow-citizens-I remember that less
than year ago / stopped off here for
few hours and spoke at the Courthouse.
AT that time we were anxious that the
Democratic party should adopt platform
which was Democratic. Since then
great struggle has been going on, and last
week 1t ended in the National Convention,
and that convention adopted a platform
every word, and they go before the coun-
try appealing to the people on that plat
FORM"
Here the train moved out and the end
OF the speech was lost in cheers for Mr.
and Mrs. Bryan.
EDGEWOOD, Ill, July 13.-Night had
fallen by the time the train bearing Mr..
Bryan TO Salem reached this place, and
the fireworks threw into relief the little
knot of people gathered at that station
Mr.. Bryan shook hands with a large num-
Der of them. Mrs. Bryan was presented
by Scott Matthews as 1.-THE better part OF
the family" and the cheers which followed
the announcement were of the heartiest.
The train drew out from Edgewood at $780,
ODIN. ILL. July 13.-The train bring
ing William ]. Bryan and party to South,
ern Illinois drew into the depot here at
$3.50 tonight. A cannon and brass band
augmented the enthusiasm of the people
wheE the Democratic candidate stepped
from the car. Odin is the junction of the
Illinois Central and Baltimore and Ohio
Southwestern, and it was necessary for
the Bryan party TO change cars for Salem.
While the cannon saluted, Mr.. Bryan,
led by the hand and escorted by many
hundreds OF his old friends, walked TO the
New Virginia Hotel, where he held short
reception to many personal friends. He
was "Will" and "Billy' to q number of
those who pressed forward to greet him
and called by familiar names by many of
the residents. Although Mr.. Bryan had
decided not to talk at Ojin he was forced
to break the resolution and consented to
make few remarks. Colonel n. B. Nor
rison, chairman of the reception COM
mittee, introduced Mr.. Bryan as the next
President, and when the enthusiasm had
quieted down, Mr.. Bryan made pleasant
little address without any politics in it.
He did not want them to expect speech,
he said, because he had not yet been noti-
fed of his nomination. He had had an
inkling Of it through the press, but he
thought it better to wait until the formal
notification came. Mr.. Bryan expressed
his happiness at being once more among
bis friends at Odin, in the county where
he had spent his boyhood days.
He did not know when he left there
thirteen years ago that he would come
back as the representative of a principle
in which all his auditors were interested.
He was deeply touched at the manifesto
tons of good will. He had no enemies
here, he felt sure. and one of the pleasant
est things to him was that in Marion
County he had not an enemy and never
had. Mr.. Bryan then delivered some Ie-
marks on the power of circumstances.
It was curious, he said, how they
marked out Une's career. He had been
placed by circumstances as the standard
bearer of the Democratic party. The
party wanted some one to carry out the
platform and circumstances pointed to
him. If elected he was but to hold the
office of President for a little time and
then he would step down and out and
give all Difference to the man who would
succeed him. He never thought of our
office-holding system, he said, without
thinking of our simplicity of Government.
Every office-holder was merely the
creature of the peoples will, and when
ever change in the political situation &C.
CURED he would leave his situation and
another would take his place. The Amer.
lean people, said Mr.. Bryan, knew no
divine right of kings. They were the ones
who directed the affairs of state, and the
safety of the Nation was in the corr mon
people of America, the greatest country
on earth.
SALEM, ILL. July 13.-Mr. Bryan
reached Salem, the place where he was
born and spent his boyhood, at IL o'clock
tonight. The town expected the visit.
and the great crowd of former neighbors
of the young candidate. who turned out to
do him honor. were not sparing in the ex-
ercise of lung power. 1t was only two
weeks ago that Mr.. Bryan was last at his
native town. 1t had been a sad visit, for
he had come to attend the funeral of his
mother, who did not live long enough to
see her son receive the highest compli-
ment that could be paid him by his party.
Nearly everybody in Salem knows Mr..
Bryan, and the reception had deeper
significance than the others along the
route. Salem is typical Western county
seat of the old sort.
1t has public square surrounding the
Courthouse, fronted by its two hotels and
number of dwellings. 1t looked as
though every one of Salem's 200 inhab-
itants had turned out to meet their former