The herald., 1896-07-10

he shouted with bitter intensity: 'some
Danton, some Robespierre, but you have
not a president who will follow him. y
This thrust brought inarticulate yells
from the galleries. Bay state delegates
stood on their chairs and sent up three
ringing cheers as Villas concluded.
THE BOY ORATOR
The demonstration that followed the
speech of Villas was submerged beneath
storm of cheers that greeted the ad-
vance of William j. Bryan. the boy or
ator of the Platte, whose star as presl-
Dental possibility had for twenty-four
| hours burned brightly on the convention
hearth. The ovation given him was Sec
ond only to the one bestowed upon the
| New York senator. More than thous :
and men were standing. and the air was
| full of paper and hats. -Four times
cheers spent themselves and rose again.
Bryan stood with smile playing on
| his face and uplifted arm motioning fo:'
| silence. Even the attention given TILL
| man and Hill did not equal the breath
| less eagerness with which they listened
| to and leaned forward to catch the words
| of this young man whom many western
| ers consider their foremost orator. They
were not disappointed. He spoke de-
| preciatingly of himself. But" he add
| ed, the humblest citizen in the land
when clad in the armor of Righteousness
| is stronger than all the hosts of error"
| This struck the keynote which sounded
to the rafters Thereafter the silverites
sent up yell after YELL after every strik-
ing period. The causes of silver. he de-
clared, was the causes of liberty, of hu-
manity; therefore he deprecated any de-
nuncietion of President Cleveland, be-
cause the issue was not to be brought
down to the level of personality To the
complaint of the East that the silver
men would not discuss the question, he
replied the convention was assembled
merely to render judgment ordered by
the plain people. But greatest of all was
the enthusiasm stirred by his compare
sons of the business man of the street
and him who in a back room cornered
the money of the world.
BRYAN'S SPEECH.
Mr.. Bryan of Nebraska said:
Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the
Convention: 1t would be presumptuous
indeed to present myself against the dis
tinguished gentlemen to whom you have
listened if this were but measuring
of ability, but this is not a contest Of
persons. The humblest citizen in all
the land, when clad in the armor of a
righteous cause, is stronger than all the
hosts of terror that they can bring. 1
come to speak to you in defense of a
cause, holy as the cause of liberty, the
cause of humanity. When this debate
is concluded, a motion will be made to
lay upon the table the resolution offer
ed in commentator of the administra-
ton, and also a resolution in condemna.
ton of the administration. 1 shall OBJ
ject to bringing this question down TO
the level of persons. The individual is
but an atom. He is born. he acts, he
dies; but principles are eternal. and this
has been contest of principles. Never
before in the history of this country has
there been witnessed such contest as
that through which we have passed.
Never before in the history of American
politics has great issue been fought
out as has this issue by voters them
selves. On the 4th of March, 1895. few
Democrats, most of them members of
congress, issued an address to the Dem.
ocrats of the nation, asserting that the
money question was the paramount is
sue of the hour; asserting also the right
of the majority of the Democratic party
to control the position of the party on
this paramount issue: concluding with
the request that all believers in the free
coinage of silver in the Democratic party
should organize and take charge of and
contro, the policy of the Democratic
party. Three months later, at Memphis,
an organization was perfected and the
silver Democrats went forth openly and
boldly and courageously, proclaiming
this belief and declaring that they
would crystalline in a platform the dec
laration which they had made; and then
began the conflict with a zeal approach
ing the zeal which inspired the crusad-
ers VINO followed Peter the Hermit. Our
silver Democrats went forth to victory
until they are assembling now, not to
discuss, not to debate, but to enter upon
the judgment rendered by the plain pep
pie of this country. In this contest.
brother has been arrayed against
brother and father against son. The
Warmest ties of love and acquaintance
and association have been discarded.
| Old leaders have been cast aside when
! they refused to give expression to the
sentiment of those whom they would
lead, and leaders have sprung I'D to give
! direction to this cause of truth Thus
has the contest been waged, and we
have assembled here under as binding
and solemn instructions as ever We're
fastened upon representatives of the
people. We do not come as individuals.
Why as individuals we might have been
glad to compliment the gentlemen from
New York (Senator HID. but we know
| that the people for whom we sneak
would never be willing to put him in a
| position where he could thWart the will
OF the Democratic party. | say that
it was not a question of person. 1t was
a question of principle land it is not with
gladness, my friends, that we find our
selves brought into conflict with those
who are now arrayed on the other side.
The gentleman who just preceded me
Gov. RusselD spoke of the old state of
Massachusetts. Let me assure him that
not one person in all this convention en-
tertains the least hostility to the people
of the state of Massachusetts,. but we
stand here representing people who are
the equals before the law of the larges,
citizens of the state of Massachusetts
When you come before US and tell us we
! shall disturb v0ur buSinpSs interpctc