The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1896-09-23
BRYAN IN PHILADELPHIA
Disappointed Thousands Unable
to Hear the Candidate,
STREETS THRONGBD WITH PEOPLE.

SIX thousand People Crowd Into the Acad- |
emy of Music Long Before the Speakers
Appearance Overflow Meetings Ad-
dressed by Local Orators.
, PHILADELPHIA, Sept 23.-Mr. Bryan
made his first campaign speech In New
Jersey yesterday afternoon at Washing
ton Park, a pleasure resort a few miles be-
low this city. He spoke from the grand
stand of the bicycle track inclosure, and
fully q, 600 stood for over an hour and lis
tened to him. John 5. Wright the fusion
candidate for congress in the First New
Jersey district, presided and introduced
the distinguished visitor. In the course
of his address, which aroused the greatest
enthusiasm, Mr.. Bryan said:
II have always been led to regard poll
tics as n very serious business In coun-
try like this the people themselves make
the laws, or at least they have n right to-
and If they do notimprove the opportunity,
they enjoy the privilege of suffering, be-
cause they have neglected the opportunity.
In country like this if laws are not good
the people themselves are to blame
"If everything is all right if the financial
policy of the government is exactly what
changed. A speaker went from Philadel-
phia to Tennessee, and in making speech
down there he told them that the gold
standard was the best standard in the
world and that we had had it for twenty
years, and when he got through gentle
man went up to him and said Did l
understand you to say that the gold
standard is all right? Yes he says,
the gold standard is all right Did l
understand you to say that we have had it
for twenty years. Yes; for more than
twenty years We'll, then,' he says
why amt we all rightp
Lincoln was once asked what he
thought of a certain mans speech He
answered: L think that man who
would like that sort of a speech would be
very much pleased with it. That is the
way it is about the gold standard. A man
who likes that sort of thing is very much
pleased with it. but the number who like
that sort of thingis growing less each day.
"This is a campaign of education in
which the newspapers are not doing their
! share of the work. 1 met man yester-
day, prominent man, a well to do man,
! who said that until the Chicago conven-
tion acted on the subject he had never in
vestigated the money question. He said
he had never supposed that there was any
! thing in it, that the papers did not think
| it was worth thinking about, that they re-
| garded it as u craze, and he did not have time
as business man, to pay any attention to
crazes, but when great national party
adopted n platform making the money
| question the paramount ISSUE and declar-
ing in favor of the free and unlimited
coinage of silver, he began to think about
it. That was only "A few months ago and
he said he had got to be crank on it.
about six years ago | began to study
this question, trying to find out what was
right. 1 compared the books that l read
and read on both sides of the money
question, and the more l read the deeper
became my convictions, until became SC
firmly of the opinion that there could be
no prosperity in this country until free
silver was restored, and the white meta
was put again by the side of the yellow
metal and given free access TO the mint
as gold is given. l became so convinced
that 1 was willing to risk all l had oi
hoped to be upon the correctness of thai
conclusion.
1--WE never had convention in this
r country which more clearly, more cor
rectly, more completely represented the
sentiment of the people who sent the dele
gates to the convention which met at Chi
cago. My friends, it is honor enough tC
be the nominee of n convention for pres
dent, but it is higher honor yet to be thi
nominee of the most democratic conven
tion that was ever held in this country
1t Is sufficient honor to be nominated by
the machinery of the party, but it is l
higher honor still to be nominated by the
people of party regardless of the ma
chinery. Since that platform was adopted
J the people down here have com menced Il
study the money question, and they fine
that the people of the west and south
who had been asking for the restoration
of bimetallism, instead of trying to ruiz
, this country, are trying to save this coun
try from the ruin that would overtake it.
The balance of Mr Bryan's Washington
, Park speech was "a resume of the existing
industrial depression and an argument b
show that it was caused by contraction o
! the currency.
Mr.. Bryan was greeted in Philadelphi
J last night by crowd which, according T.
the police and other authorities exceeded
J any outpouring of the people on IA simila
\ occasion in tho history of the city H
spoke at the Academy Of Music, whicl
J has q seating capacity of about 5000
, and on the stage was occupied two hour
J before Mr. Bryan arrived, and expert
\ estimated the audience at fully 5000
Gathered in the street outside the Academ.
were fully 5000 people, who stoo,
\ patiently until lO:30 p. m, hoping TO Sc
, or hear the candidate half dozen over
} flow meetings being addressed by loca
speakers.
4; The crush was something awful Man,
: Of those who succeeded in getting insid
& the Academy had their clothing almos
c torn from them Many cases of more o
2 less severe injury were reported to the pc
: lice, one man with q broken arm beinl
{ taken to the hospital. Hundreds of police
I men were powerless to keep the crowds il
4 check.
MIR. Bryan made his headquarters at tn
q Lafayette hotel, two blocks above tn
: Academy, ON Broad street In front o
0 this over 5000 people gathered, desirous q
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