Semi-weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings Co., S.D.) 1894-1898, 1896-08-29
Aomocratic Candidate Enter
tained at the Home of
Senator Hill.
l.,d 70 Be Purely Social, but
Politics May Have Been
Discussed.
lddressed Ten Thousand Per-
sons on the Issues of the
Campaign.

ALBANY, Aug. So.-Aho eoSohu u"J Va
William J. Bryan's trip westward from
be seclusion of Red Hook was an
ventful one, crowded with variety OF
Incidents of travel, including pictur-
soue reception at summer hotel, a
;rring speech to crowd of working
ben at the town of Kensington, and
Eliminating in great meeting at Al
any, where the candidate spoke to a
sowd estimated at from 1000 to O,OOO,
acked in the city hall square, under
he shadow of the state house.
Before the demonstration Mr.. and
FRS. BRYAN sat down to dinner with
enator Hill and prominent Albany
Democrats at the senator's magnificent
ONE, Woolferts ROost, whittier they
yere driven directly from the depot.
those who met the Democratic candi-
late and his wife at
Mr.. Hills Much Discussed Dinner
vere Supreme Court Judge Herrick
md wife Louis w. Pratt, collector of
ustoms, and wife, and Horton Chase,
|hairman of the city Democratic COM
hittee, which, with other local organ
cations, had the meeting in charge.
or nearly three hours Mr.. Bryan was
he guest of the New York senator,
ind, although every participant in the
(inner averred that it was purely a
ocial affair, their descriptions were
aiken with grain of salt, it being the
General impression that an understand
hg was reached which will insure to
Hr. Bryan the support of the party or
tanization in the state.
The crowd began to gather in the city
hall square two hours before the meet
hg, and when Mr.. Bryan faced them,
he people were
Packed In Solid Masses
|yer several acres of pavement and sod.
lr. Bryan was introduced by Chair
nan Chase of the Democratic city COM
hittee and spoke with more than his
customary oratorical force, and, consid-
ring the size Of the crowd, he was
listened to with the most fiattering at
ention. Once the speech was marred
BY small knot of Republicans, who
Interrupted with struggling cheer for
Mckinley. Before the speech was fin
XShpd darknaSc coma on apd rod lpbtc
klndled on the outskirts of the crowd,
Threw crimson glare over the field of
eeads. AT the close of his speech Mr..
bryan shook hands with the people who
iimbed upon the platform. He was
iriven to the station, preceded by a
pand and crowds of citizens, who
ormed in line and marched along
cheering.
IN the course Of his speech Mr.. Bryan
eaid:
IL Is proper, aye, more, it is necessary,
mat the candidate who stands upon a
PLATFORM shall endorse the utterances of
ns platform, and 1 endorse every word
anu every syllable of the platform at Chi
Cago' But while do so, expect, in this
Ianpaign, the support of many Demo-
crats who are not willing to endorse all
that the platform declares for. In cam
eaign there is always some overshadowing
ISSUE ana In this campaign we appeal
WIN confidence to those people who are
opposed to a longer continuation of the
Eoiu standard policy in the United States.
(or opponents have at last taken a def
rne tn, position upon the money question.
he Republican platform adopted at St.
louis declares that the gold standard
rnuse pe maintained in this nation until
other nations
shall Consent to It's Abandonment.
we believe that that declaration which
on,iniIs us TO gold standard until other
| ols a come to our relief is equivalent to
: J; s.;ucciafatlon in favor of permanent con-
sanuation of the gold standard because
", we uo not believe other nations will take
cw cu upon us before we take pity upon our
~ ~; people. We then have to consider
s ~ question:: Ought the American peo-
M Tn 70 submit longer to gold standardY
ao Democratic party has begun war of
yH termination against a gold standard.
W. W. ask no quarter; we give no quarter.
~ snail prosecute our warfare until
~ Sneie Is not an American citizen that
es yo 10 advocate the gold standard policy.
sto rou ask why. We reply that the gold
man 1"nuard Is a conspiracy against the hu.
;a,' ian race, and that we would no more
,On IL than we would join an army
.ssos soning to despoil our homes and de-
'1foS our families.