The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-09-13
ST. LOUIS TAKEN BY STORM.
BRYAN MAKES THREE SPEECHES
TO IMMENSE CROWDS.

Several Thousand People start the
Great Ovation on His Arrival at
the Railway StatIOn-The Crowd
at COncOrdia Park Estimated at
$4,000 to 2O,OOO-A Crowd of Equal
Proportions at the Auditorium and
at SpOrtsman's Park.
St. Louis, Sept. 12.-Three big audiences
were addressed by William j. Bryan to-
night, and each gave him an ovation, of
which any man might be proud. Dur
ing the hard day of travelling, Mr.. Bryan
had spoken as little as possible, in order
to preserve his voice for the trio of
speeches here, and his vocal organs were
! consequently in pretty good condition.
| Reaching St. Louis from Kansas City at
! 6:l5 O'clock, in company with Gov. Stone,
Lon V. Stephens, the democratic candi-
| date for governor of Missouri, and other
| prominent politicians, Mr.. Bryan was
| greeted at the union station by a crowd
of several thousand people, who made
the spacious train shed ring with their
shouts. After supper, at the Planters
hotel, Mr. Bryan, at o'clock, started out
on his round of speech-making. doing
| the jumping from place to place in a
| special trolley car.
Concordta park, the Auditorium and
Sportsmen's park were the places where
he spoke. Concorda park has a great
open amphitheater, its terraced sides
furnishing seats for the multitude that
had gathered there. Tonight every bit
of space on the floor and on the terraces
was taken by spectators, and when the
democratic candidate arrived, he found
an audience of between 5000 and 10000
people. The scene was picturesque, with
the solid lines of humanity along the
sloping banks of the arena, each slightly
higher than that below, while Chinese
| lanterns, suspended from many trees,
threw a soft light over the assemblage.
Mr.. Bryan was received with round af-
ter round of applause, and after an intro
ductlon by H. j. Brady, chairman of the
state central committee, made an address
half an hour long.
The great auditorium. where Maj. Nc.
Kinley was nominated by the republican
| convention is more than three miles away,
and when Mr.. Bryan arrived there at S:45
! o'clock he found the interior packed from
floor to ceiling with people anXiuoS to hear
him talk 1t is stated that $1,000 chairs
had been placed in the hall, and tonight
not only did every chair have an occu-
pant, but at least 5000 people crowded the
stage, its aisles, and the spaces back of
the galleries. The heat was enervating
| and several women tainted Private John
Allen, congressman from Mississippi, en-
tertained the vast audience until Mr.. Bry-
an arrived. 1t was intended that Mr..
Bryan should be introduced by Virgil Rule,
| but Mr.. Rule could not still the tumult
of enthusiasm that ragged when the dem
| ocratic candidate appeared. Men and wo-
men stood on chairs and waved hats, hand
kerchiefs and fans. The applause last
| ed ten minutes and ceased only when Mr..
Bryan, taking matters into his own hands,
waived the introduction and began the adj
dress.
1t was the same story over again at
| Sportsman's Park, which Mr.. Bryan
reached at 1915 o'clock. The crowd there
was equal to that at the auditorium and
was quite as enthusiastic
The Introduction was made by President
| Wickard of the Travelling Mems Club.
Mr.. Bryan's most important speech was
! that at Concordia park, while that at the
| auditorium had a local significance in Mr..
| Bryan's remarks about a statement of st.
| Louis banks published in the afternoon
| papers as to why they do not pay out gold.
In his speech at Concordia Park, Mr..
| Bryan said that in order for his hearers
to understand the question of money he
| desired to submit few arguments in be-
| half of the restoration of free coinage of
silver 81 want TO submit for your consid-
Grafton" he continued, 1.-TWO or three prop
! ositions and / believe that they are so
clear and so plain every one of you here
can recognize the force of them. In the
first place the republican party in its plat
| form and through its public men is making
| an effort to supply the people Of the Unit
| ed States with a sufficient amount of mon
ey to do business. (Applausa.) If were to
| tell you that a grown person could wear
| the clothes of child you would think me
| foolish. If l told you that a grown person
| could live on food necessary to sustain life
| in a child you would call me foolish, and
| vet they call these men financiers who as
sumo that a people growing in population
| can survive on a money decrease in its
| mint (Cheers.) | want you to remember
| now the figures which am going to read
to you. These figures are taken from a
| government publication issued on the first
of July, 1896. Now, give me your atten-
| ton my friends. In this government
publication issued by the treasury depart
ment on the first Of July, 1896, find
statement of the amount of money of all
kinds in circulation among the people for
the various years. Let me call your at
/ tentiOn to the amount mere Tor the years
1894. 1895 and 1896. In 1894 the amount OF
money in circulation according to this re-
port was 81, $50, 900, 900. In 1895, the amount
| of money in circulation had fallen to 81
Col 600 OOO a decrease in one year Of sFg,-
100000. On June 80, 1896, the amount IN
circulation had fallen to $l,5O6,0 100000. It
means that in two years time. according
to the treasury reports. the amount Of
money in circulation among the people
| had fallen about S155, 100000 In amount. In
other words. I'm this time there has been
a decrease Of nearly ten per cent I'm the
amount Of money In circulation among the
people. This my friends, according to the
treasury report and this report shows
that while the per capita circulation in
1894 was s24. Is per capita, In 1896. IL had
fallen to S2i 10. fall Of more than 50 per
capita. (Chegfs) Now. have called
vour attention. TO this decrease shown by
| the treasury report, let me show you, my
friends, tkat instead Of being a decrease
there shculd have been an increase each
| year.
"sena tor John Sherman made speech