The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-11-03
DAY DEVOTED TO NEBRASKA.
SILVER NOMINEE GREETED AND
CHEERED By FRIENDS AND
ENEMIES ALIKE.
LAST SPEECH MADE AT MIDNIGHT.
No Apprehension as to the Verdict
Which the Nation VIII Register
Today.

spoke the last public word, incident to
his campaign. He had then made
seven speeches in Omaha, beginning at
o'clock in the evening, and had pre-
ceded the nights work with fifteen
speeches made during the day, at the
following places, all in the state of
Nebraska: Seward, York, Aurora,
Grand Island, Hastings, Harvard, Sar-
onville, Sutton, Grafton, Fairmont, Elk
eter, Friend. Dorchester, Crete and
Lincoln. He had travelled during the
day 299 miles.
1t had been Mr.. Bryan's original in
tention to speak in every congressional
district in the state during the day, but
this was found to be inpracticab1e, and
he entered only four of the six. Not
| withstanding all the speeches of
today were made in his own state.
Mr.. Bryan made no special appeal to
state pride, nor did he dwell upon state
issues, beyond an appeal here and
there to his friends to give loyal sup
port to the silver state and congress
sional tickets while they We're casting
| their ballots for the Bryan electors
\ He praised Gov. Holcomb's admins
| tration of state affairs and repeatedly
called attention to the futility of all
efforts to secure reforms, even with a
favorable disposed chief executive,
without a congress willing to cooper
ate with him. He dwelt, in the main,
however, upon the national aspects of
! the campaign and appealed to his hear
! erS for support, upon the same general
principles which he had advanced as
| essential in speeches made in other
.ciI0 iIsl1. ysif tod 11T0iti nS
The two most telling speeches of the
day were made at Hastings and Lin
! coin, though he made some short ad-
| dresses which were pronounced by his
| friends as worthy to be claSSed as
philippe in character. His strongest
| efforts were generally directed at
| crowds containing more than the usual
number of persons decorated with gold
| badges The demonstrations in the
way Of greeting and of applause were
/ exceedingly cordial. Those who wore
| the yellow insignia treated Mr.. Bryan
with entire respect, and in some in
stances applauded his utterances.
At no time in the campaign has Mr..
/ Bryan been in better physical or men
| tai condition than he was for his clos
! ing day. He appeared to realize that
! he was nearing the end of an arduous
| siege, and he did not make the usual
effort to conserve his physical energies.
| impaired, full range. He spent a great
er part of the time than ordinarily be-
| tween speeches chatting with friends.
In these conversations, he did not dis
play the least nervousness over the
near approach of the crisis of the cam
paign, and to all outward appearances
he was quite as unconcerned as were
any Of his company.
At Hastings, Mr.. Bryan spoke of the
circulars which had been sent out by
the Republicans and also told the peo-
pie Of his impressions of his Eastern
trip. He said, in part:
1 have been absent from the state some
two months, and I have been reading in
Republican papers that there We're certain
Republicans in Nebraska who thought this
state was too far West to furnish a presi-
dent, and that man did not know anything
about the money question unless he lived in
New York, where he was surrounded by
London fog all the time. heard that there
were some Republican farmers out here who
thought prices were not low enough, and
they going to try to continue the gold
cents a bushel. Well. I am glad to find that
these Republicans did not tell the truth in
their dispatches, and to find so many people
testifying to their faith in bimetaliism by
coming cut today and doing what they have
been doing all over the country, using their
voices until their voices are hearse.
Since ! left Nebraska. early In September,
/ have been as far East as the Kennebec
river, and / want to tell you there is a sill
yer sentiment in Massachusetts and Maine
that is as intense as 1t is in Nebraska
When / have found q man who lived upon
money, and whose money was increasing in
value under a gold standard, / have gener-
ally found an advocate of the gold standard,
whether he was in Nebraska or Massachu-
sets; but when I found a who worked
for his living, I generally found a man who
sympathized with you in your struggles
When l have found corporation attorney,
whether he was in Nebraska or in the East
| have generally found a man who believes
in gold standard; but when l found young
man who was trying to make his living and
to rise in this world without being a favorite
Of a corporation, / found a man who
against trusts and syndicates and in favor
of the common people. Whenever found a
man who was connected with the coal trust
| found man who was a gold standard man;
but when / found who was opposed to
trusts and wanted to so make the laws that a
representative of coal trust could not sit
by every freside and collect tribute from ev-
cry family, l have found friend, whether
he was here or in the East. You have been
| told by circulars issued here that | was 3op-
| posed to the laboring man, or had a poor
| opinion of him. l want you to look at my
! four years in congress, and you will find
| whether I have been the friend of the la
4 boring man or not
| After our opponents had found themselves
4 driven from every battlefield upon which
| they dared to fight, then, in the closing days
! of this campaign, they, have attempted to re-
| sort to fraud and to forgery, and you may
| find in this community letters purporting to
be written by the chairman of the Populist
committee Of this state asking you to save
the state ticket and sacrifice the national
ticket. I am authorized to denounce the let
ter as fraud and forgery by Mr.. Edmis-
ton, whose name is signed to 1t. But the
fact that they resorted to these things shows
! the desperation of their cause. If they had
a cause which appealed to the people of this
country, it would not have been necessary
for them to resort to fraud out here and to
intimidation and force wherever they can re-
4 sort to those tactics. 1 want you to be as
| anxious for the election of congressman from
| Nebraska in favor of free coinage as you
are for the election of an electoral ticket that
will select a free coinage president.
When Mr.. Bryan closed his last
| speech in Omaha tonight, his linen was
| as wet from perspiration as if it had
4 been in the bath tub, but he was still
as buoyant and professedly as hopeful
/ as he had ever been in the campaign.
] He declined to make any statement
| for publication as to his hopes Of the
! outcome Of tonlorrow's contest. He sa' d
| to friends, however, that he still felt
absolutely confident and expressed the
| belief that tomorrow's results would
| justify his most sanguine claims. He
| exhibited with much interest a tele-
| gram from Chairman Jones expressing
continued confidence.
Mr.. Bryan has changed his plans.
| and will not return to Lincoln until
| tomorrow morning. He will take the
| $50 train and reach his home soon
| after 10 o'clock. He expects to cast
| his vote Immediately after arriving.
| 1t will be necessary for him to swear
| In his vote, as he has not had an op-
4 D0rtunitV TO register