The San Francisco call., 1896-10-29
BRYAN'S RAID
ON CHICAGO
Talks From Early Morning
Until After Mid
night.
Monster Gathering of Curious
People to Hear the Can
didate.
ELEVEN oRAToRICAL EFFORTS
Eight Thousand We'll. Dressed Women
at One Meeting Are Frantic.
ally Enthusiastic.

| began at 1O A. NJ. ana With 1ntermlSsionS
for meals kept up the work until mid
| night.
1t was hard day, and the nominee re-
| quired all his strength to sustain nim to
the end. The atmosphere was close and
sultry, and inside some of the places where
he made addresses it became so over
charged with humidity that many people
tainted. Mr.. Bryan's oratorical efforts for
the day numbered eleven, including two
that were scheduled at the last minute.
These two were supposed to be exclu-
sively for women, but many men attended
them and led the cheering for the nomi-
nee.
Beginning in the morning with an ad-
dress TO crowd of foreign women, mostly
Poles, at ST. Stanislaus Han. in the Polish
quarter he concluded there in time to
keep promise to speak to an audience OF
business men in Battery D Armory on the
lake front at noon.
Three o'clock found him again, this
time in company with Mrs. Bryan, at Bat
| terry d armory, talking to about 5000 half
suffocated, well-dressed women, who
raved over him as though he were Sec
| ond Paderewski. Between and O. clock
| he addressed an immense open-air meet
! ing in the stockyards district. probably
the most enthusiastic of the day.
General G.. P. Howard, formerly Re-
| publican, a veteran of the late war, and
! brother of General 0. 0. Howard, U. A.,
who is one OF the generals engaged in
stumping the country for the Republican
| National ticket, presided as the business.
mems meeting. }. A. Pugh had been as
signed to present General Howard, but his
speech was nipped in the bud.
81 have the honor" he said, "of intro
ducing to you as your chairman gentle
man who has been in business in this city
for the past twenty-eight years"
| He did not get any further. A clean
! shaven young man with brown felt hat
| jammed on his head came on the stage
| from the wings and a great shout went up
from the audience.
The Democratic National nominee had
been recognized instantly. He took off
his overcoat as the cheering went on and
4 bowed slightly in Acknowledgement of the
warm greeting given as he sat down.
General Howard made little speech
before presenting the candidate.
"Mr. Bryan asks one question" he said.
| "Are these all business men?"
"Yes," came in chorus from the audi
ence, intermingled with shouts of, land
workingmen."
II told him they were business men, ac-
cording to his definition" General How
ard went on.
The crowd understood the reference
even before General Howard told them
what the candidate had said about farm
ers laborers and miners being as much
business men as those who sat in back Of
fees and cornered the money of the world.
When General Howard concluded there
was another uproar. Mr.. Bryan jumped
on chair and tried to quell the noise by
raising his hands. Quiet was finally re-
stored, and he began a speech that lasted
an hour. He said in part:
Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen: am
glad that this meeting is presided over by one
who until this time has been Republican
and by one who was a soldier. lApplause.l
Because in this double character of ex-Repub-
lican and soldier he illustrates the depths to
which society is stirred in this campaign.
AS an ex-Republican he stands as repre-
sentative OF that large and increasing number
OF our citizens who are willing to burst
asunder party ties and to leave party associates
and make their party affiliations suit the con-
victions of the heart. [Cheers.1 And a for
mer soldier he stands as representative of
those who, having willingly offered their
services to make this Nation one, are willing
to-day to engage in this great contest to keep
this Nation, which they helped to save an inde-
pendent Nation rather than province of a
foreign empire. [Cheersl
l am glad to talk to business men. l have
said that those who so often assume to be the
only business men sometimes make great
mistake in assuming that the prosperity of
the Nation rests upon them. am going to-
day to talk to business men and TO say to
them that, in pleading the cause of the farmer
and the laborer, am trying to lay a substan-
tial foundation upon which the business. of
this country can be done. [Cheers
If you who are engaged in merchandise, en-
gagged in the exchange of wealth, suppose that
the prosperity of the producers depends upon
you, you deceive yourselves. Wealth must be
created before it can be distributed. Those
who create wealth could live, although you
went out of business. You cannot live if the
~ Is L,,.s
i believe that that policy is best for this
country which begins with those who toll and
gives them first the inspiration to work and
then protects them in the enjoyment of a
rightful share of the proceeds OF tneif toll, and
proceeds from them up to the other classes of
society which rests upon them. [Cheers
say to you that the Republican platform
adopted this year is fraud. say that it was
intended as fraud [Cheers.] say that the
men who wrote it wrote it to deceive the
that they could not obtain openly. [Cheers.l
Do you say tnat we have no right to inter-
fere with private contracts? ask one OF you
and see whether the Government has any right
to interfere. Upon what theory is usury law
based? 1t is based upon the theory that the
man who borrows money needs to be protected
from the ayarice of the man who loans him
money.
When man tells me that we have not
right to protect the money of the United
States against the conspiracies of those who
would degrade it. tell you that we have more
right to prevent gold contracts silver con-
tracts than you have to prevent one individual
from agreeing TO pay another more than GER
tain rate of interest.
l want to say to you that we who believe in
enforcing the laws against all classes of So
clety are better friends of government than
those who would make scapegoats of little
criminals and then let big ones run at large
and run the Government itself [Applause.1
The very men who would suffer most from
the enforcement of the law are the ones who
seem to be most terribly alarmed for fear there
will be lax enforcement of the law. They
are not afraid that l will encourage lawless-
ness but they know that If am elected, the
trusts will not select the Attorney-General who
will administer the law. [Wilo cheering and
cries of "Altgeld would make good Attorney
General
Mr.. Bryan's third address was delivered
before al audience composed c,ostly of
women. 1t was welI-dressed gathering.
Nearly all the ladies' who attended came
in gowns suitable for afternoon calls.
They crowded into the building as soon as
the doors were opened, filed the limited
number of chairs on the floor and took
possession of all available standing room
and every chair in the gallery.
Several thousand who were unable to