The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-15
Bryan Makes Speeches at Sew
eral Kentucky Towns.
He Addresses Three Immense
Audiences at Louisville.
10000 IN ONE CROWD
Bryan Shows the Regularity of
His Nomination.
Would Rather Have the People
Than All Newspapers.

Louisville. KY, Sept. 15.-Three
speeches delivered in three different
parts of the city to large crowds con-
stituted last nights work of VIM. ].
Bryan in this city.
The first of these speeches was at
Phoenix Hill. where the candidate of
three parties addressed an audience
variously estimated at from $4,000 to
10000. There were at least 5000 people
IN the assemblage which listened to him
at the Haymarket, and double that
number at Wizards hotel
IN the first speech Mr.. Bryan took oc-
casion to indirectly pay his compli-
ments to the National Democratic con-
Vent1on nominee by advising his audi
ence to either vote the Republican
ticket or to cast their ballots in favor
OF the Chicago ticket The other two
speeches of the nominee were short and
nave been covered to a great extent by
other addresses of Mr.. Bryan.
The train bearing the Bryan party
arrived IN Louisville at 7:45, a quarter
OF an hour ahead of scheduled time
The nominee was driven Immediately
TO Wizards hotel and a. quarter of an
hour later was on his way to the first
meeting of the evening. The whole
drive was a continuous ovation to the
candidate, although in one portion of
the route through which the party
drove, there were continuous cheers
for Mckinley
mediately surrounded by a bowling
mob and it took the combined efforts Of
20 policemen to force a passage to the
platform for Mr.. Bryan His appear
ance on the speakers stand was the
signal for uprOarOus applause and
cheering. He was introduced to the
assemblage by ex-Congressman Asher
@. Caruth, and said in part:
Ladies' and Gentlemen:-We are en-
tering upon a campaign. AS we have
nothing to conceal, tell you frankly
1 have come to Kentucky because
want the electoral vote of Kentucky in
November. applause and cries of
you will get then.D AS the regular
nominee of the Democratic party I
might appeal to you on the ground of
the regularity of my nomination I
might call your attention to the fact
that the Chicago convention was reg
ularly called by the regular authority
and that from all over the union Dem
Ocrats assembled in the regular way to
select their delegates to the conven-
ton. / might call your attention to
the fact that no convention ever held
in this country more accurately re-
hected the sentiment of the party which
selected the delegates than did the Chi
cago convention. Great applause) In
no convention within this generation
have the voters themselves taken so
active and so influential a, part as did
the Democratic party take in the Chi
cago convention. If you have regard
for the will of the majority of your
party regularly expressed, then, my
friends, can appeal to you on the
ground that I am the nominee of the
party in the regular way. Great ap-
plause.) But 1 shall appeal for your
support on higher grounds than party
regularities. (Cheers and applause)
Il expressly release so far as I am
concerned, from the support of the Chi
cagO ticket, every Democrat who be-
neves that the success of that ticket
would imperil our country. (Great ap-
plause and cries of Good, gOod) They
that are not for US are against US"
Continuing, the nominee urged his
hearers to remember that the ballot
was given them as a sacred trust, to be
used as they believed to be right. The
issue was clearly defined, he said on
the one side being the money grabbers
of this country and Europe" and On
the other the toiling masses. He then
entered into a bitter denunciation of
the recent government bond deals and
of the officials and bankers who were
parties thereto. He commented upon
the fact that all the newspapers"
were not with the Democracy in the
present campaign, but asserted that
would rather have the people than all
the newspapers put together. He
added:
I'VE would like to have the newspa-
perS with US because we hate to have
our people get mad every morning
when they read the papers. (Great
laughter) I do not know of any one
thing that has caused so many people
to forget the resolve they made on the
I do not know of any one thing that
has made so many break that promise
as the gold standard editorials which
appear from day to day"