Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-07-17
BRYAN IN MISSOURI.
Cakes Short Speech En- Route, Being Intro
duced BY Bland.

jefferson City, Mo. July 16.-Mr.
Bryan arrived at 1910 r. NJ. Richard
p. Bland joined the Bryan party at st.
Louis. The train stopped at Washing
ton, where Il knot of people had gath
cred to see the nominee. Standing on
the platform Of the parlor car with Mr..
Bryan beside him. Mr.. Bland said to
the crowd: II want to introduce to
YOU the next President of the United
States. / served four years with in the
House of Representatives. / know he
is as true a friend Of free silver as
am, and / want to say If | had the Sc
lection of the silver candidate for
President of the United States, this
gentleman would have been my
choice"
Mr.. Bryan showed some feeling as he
responded: IF this nomination had
gone by merit, II would have gone to
a man who for 20 years, in the face of
great opposition. has kept alive the sill
cause: and in the hour of victory he
will be more entitled to credit than any
other man in the nation"
Mr. Bryan told the audience that cir
cumstances not merit had been the
cause of his selection, and he closed
with the statement that had Mr.
| Bland secured the nomination, he
would have had no more loyal sup
porter in the United States than L."
This incident was repeated at
Chamois. where Mr.. Bland presented
Mr., Bryan to about a hundred people
in the same language he used at Wash
incton.
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| cheers for Bland. Mr.. Bryan led the
hurrah, waving his white hat above
| his head.
rousing reception was given Mr.
| Bryan here by more than 1900 people
who were assembled about the railroad
station. Governor Stone and other
prominent men met Messrs Bryan and
Bland at the train. Mr. Bryan was
presented to the audience by Mr.. Bland
ard Governor Stone as the next Presi-
dent of the United States. Mr.. Bland
took occasion To express his satisfac-
ticn at the choice of the Chivago CON
yeniion and predicted that Missouri
would roll UP for him a majority of
10000 in November. Mr.. Bryan made a
neat little speech on the line of those
previously made.
When Mr. Bryan constituted, Governor
Stone presented Mrs. Bryan as the
next mistress of the White House. and
the Bryan party Withdrew to the train.
which left jefferson City at lis p NJ.
in his speech here, MIR. Bryan said:
Il have just been thinking where
could find in all the country a combina-
ton of circumstances which would
make speech so pleasant as in city
named after the greatest Democrat
that ever lived. in the congressional
district of one of the greatest leaders
the Democratic party has ever known
Richard X. Bland (cheers). presided
over by one of the greatest fighters.
Governor Stone. and to leave nothing
undone, they have just elected as
mayor of the town man named Sill
yer. daughter an:d cheersD Thomas
Jefferson. Dick Bland. Bill Stone and
Mayor Silver, I'm at home here"
Referring to Mr.. Bland. Mr. Bryan
said that the silver leader was needed
in Congress. IF it will not be his
privilege to sign bill giving silver a
place with gold" said Mr. Bryan. lit
may he his honor to introduce a bin
which will place gold and silver on the
same footing at the legal ratio of IS
To l. If | can't say anything about the
ticket nominated at Chicago. / can say
the platform breathes a spirit of the
declaration of independence
Mr., Bryan eulogized Mr. ScwaH and |
said he was sorry he was not on the !
train. Mr.. Bland left the Bryan party |
at jefferson City.