The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-10-16

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, Oct 10
Tbree speeches in Grand Rapids round
ed up William ]. Bryan's second DAY
of campaigning in Michigan. His iieia
was the lower peninsula, beginning at
the straits of Mackinaw at dayoreaN'
When he concluded his remarks at the
last of the highly enthusiastic meet
ings here tonight he had added sixteen
speeches 10 his unprecedented list
Although the day was raw and gusty'
Mr.. Bryan drew large crowds at every
stop. AS on yesterday. he encountered
many OF the yellow Mckinley badges
that have caused him to indulge III
tart comments several times.
It was evident that the badges mad
been distributed through some con,
certed means, for they We're nearly all
alike those at one town being similar
in size and in pattern to those seen at
another. They were noticeable par
ticularly by their number at Traverse
City. Cadillac and Howard City. There
was intense rivalry between the ke-
publican and Democratic managers at
Rig RAPIDS, in the distribution OF NC
Kinley and Bryan ribbons. but as all
were white in color the Bryan people
seemingly made a better showing than
+tei, onnonents did. Some of Mr..
Prvan's audiences We're very demon
strative and all along the line of his
progress he
WAS WE'LL RECEIVED
from the time he began his speech
making TO a crowd of early risers just
after daybreak at ST. 1gnace on the
azvest shore of the straits of MacSinaw.
Stops were made during the day at
Mackinaw City, where Mayor Pingree,
candidate for governor OF Michigan on
the Republican ticket, shivered in un-
ohtrusive effectiveness among the
crowd: Petoskey. Charieviox, Bellaire,
Traverse City. Cadillac. Reed City, Big
RAPIDS. Howard City, Greenville, Beld-
ing Ionia Walton. Manton and Lowell
and at all exceD. the last three
speeches were delivered by the nomi-
nee. The Grand Rapids meetings. three
in number, far exceeded in attend
ance anv &c those addressed by Mr..
Bryan en- rou.e.
His biggest crowds along the way
We're at Ionia. Big Rapids. Traverse
City. Cadillac. Reed City and Bedding,
ranging in attendance from 2,500 to
about 10000.
When the nominees train reached st.
1gnace on the straits of Alackinaw at
$50 a. m. he found quite a large crowd
OF shivering people waiting for him.
Although Mr.. Bryan had not eaten his
breakfast, and was
ATTIRED ONLY IN NIGHT SHIRT,
trousers and overcoat. he made a good
speech and was cheeTed vigorously.
The special train was taken across the
straits on barge and reached
Mackinaw at o'clock. Here was an
pther large audience of 1000 or more,
Of
Bryan was more suitably attired for
speechmaking and made a vigorous
address No less than four brass bands
were at hand. and despite the early
hour the meeting was a great success.
Mr.. Bryans third speech was made
at Petoskey. where his train arrived at
SOS. and made a stop of twenty
minutes More than thousand people
were in the crowd that cheered the
nominee when Mr.. Hampton, the
Democratic candidate for congress in
this district introduced him. A num-
her Of men there wore badges in
scribed: An honest dollar" and MOTTO
ing these. Mr.. Bryan said:
II want to address my remarks TO
those who are wearing those badges
or which are written An honest dol
lar / do not know whether they are
intended to mean that those VINO wear
them are in favor of a gold standard
o., free silver ('.Sixteen to one"
shouted some one.) And Bryan smiled.
and did not make further reference to
the matter.
Several hundred people at Charlevoix
heard a brief speech from THE great
est hero of the nineteenth century,
as Mr. Bryan was called by the gentle
man who introduced him.
4 short stop was made at Bellaire.
and Mr.. Bryan spoke TO about 300
people.
AT Traverse City. a lumber port on
Little Traverse Bay. Mr.. and Mrs.
Bryan rode 20 a vacant lot in the town.
where the candidate after an introduce
lion by Mayor Harry Davis, delivered
a speech. The crowd was estimated al
6.eoo Mr.. Bryan said in part:
IN advocating free coinage. I don't
mean TO claim that ] am infallible. but
do want you to understand that 1
believe what / say, ana when l tell
fyou that. in my judgment. there can
lie no prosperity in this country until
bi4netaliism is restored to the Ameri-
can peonle
] AN TELLING WHAT 1 BELIEVE.
(. (cheersD Not only am I telling you
/ that what / now believe, but l am
telling you WHIT the Republicans used
to believe, although they have now
surrendered their convictions and per
rnitted their party 20 act for them in
stead OF acting tor themselves. Mr..
Mckinley stands for a financial policy
that intends to make money the master
and all things else the servant; he
stands FOR financial policy that In
tends to make the property of the
world cheaper than ever before, by
making the money of the world dearer
than Il ever was before"
At Reed City. The congregation that
greeted Mr.. Bryan numbered $500,
about the same a. at Cadillac. and
showed considerable enthusiasm during
his speech. Yellow gave way TO white
in the way of the hodges worn by the
guld people in the crowd that saw and
beard the Democratic national candi-