Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1896-09-05
A GREAT 0UTP0URING
BRYAN SPOKE THREE TiHES N
ONE EVENING.
Most Enthusiastic Demonstration
Since His Speech ut Madison
Square Garden.

demonstration SO SOclISIOuS anu So
spectacular as that Which the city Of
Cleveland gave him tonight, and no
where else with the possible exception
Of New York have so many people at
tempted TO hear him talk. Two great
meetings listened 10 Mr. Bryan, the
first in the Central armory, where $4,000
people were packed, the second in Mu-
sic hail. which held 5000, and after
wards ne spoke to several thousand
from the balcony Of the IlollcnGen
hotel.
Bands and marching campaign clubs
We're numerous about the streets, and
with thousands or strangers in its
gates, the city bore a holiday aspect.
Special trains brought out Of town
clubs in during the afternoon; 500
came in on Il train from Canton, the
members of the Bryan club of that city
and their friends; two trains came from
Akron, and others from Cuyahoga and
other Ohio and Pennsylvania points
For two or three squares the streets
about the depot We're thronged, when
the cannon announced the arrival of
the train on which the candidate came.
There was a band to escort him to
followed by several ward organizations
and clubs.
The armory doors We're thrown open
a $50 and d few minutes later the
space was filled to'the doors. Not on
ly> We're the aisles jammed, but men
were clinging on window sills, high
up and hanging in all sorts Of lmros
sible places In both the Cleveland
ta11 E l-n tIC,> ai+:
where Bryan has spoken, the police
arrangements We're utterly inadequate.
Workingmen We're in q larga major
ity at both meetings: they We're free
and easy, peeling off their coats, sing
ing and disporting themselves general
ly in a good-naturedly turbulent way.
An arm holding a hammer surmounted
with the words, "1he Friend of Labor"
was blazoned across the big trans
parency Of the armory. Two of the
great comers We're 'GeneraI' COXey,
late of the commonweal army and his
lieutenant and son-in-law, Carl
Browne, whose appearance upon the
platform, where they pre-empted front
seats, brought down tremendous
howl, in response to which the Gen
eral' rose and bowed. The shirt
sleeved crowd attempted TO persuade
CoXey to speak, but, failing, listened to
the music Of glee club and sang THE
Star Spangled Banner" and March |
ing Through Georgia. in a many
thousand voiced chorus, with thunder
Gus effect.
When Bryan came down the stage 1T
s o'clock, escorted by j.. T.. Holden Of
the Cleveland Plaindealer, he inspired
a fierce cheer which continued for
three minutes, with waving hats and
handkerchiefs, and which was contin-
ued all the time the temporary chair |
man was trying to work in his speech
The armury audience was the largest
Bryan had addressed indoors except
the one Of Madison Square Garden
The Music hall crowd was half as large
and none left the hall The Music han
crowd was entertained BY local aud
itors during its two and q half hours
waiting.
In his speeches at both places, Mr..
Bryan devoted himselm mainly to the
financial question.
Brynn's Address.
Mr. Bryan opened his speech in the
armory with the following words:
What is the meaning Of this enor-
nous outpouring Of the people? No
ordinary occasion would produce this
scene. No ordinary campaign would
stir mems hearts as they are being
stirred today. Your presence, your on
thusiasm, testify to the fact that this
year the people are thinking as they
have not thought before in recent
years And well they may. In this
campaign two mighty forces are al
rayed, and they are engaged in
struggle which means much to both.
When Mr.. Carlisle in 1878 was discuss
ing the money question he said: The
struggle now going on can not cease,
and ought not to cease, until all the in
dustrial interests of the country are
fully and finally emancipated from the
heartless domination of syndicat2s,
stock exchanges and other great rom-
binations Of money grabbers in this
country and Europe
For the last 20 years that heartless
domination has increased in its sever
ity and within the last three wears
that heartless domination mas grown
more and more intense, until today the
people are confronted with this propO-
stion: Are the American people able TO
govern themselves, or must this gov
ernment be thrown over to the syndi-
Gates to carry on a scheme they think
best for their private pro1it?
The speaker at once took up the plat
forms Of the Chicago and st. Louis
conventions, and asserted that the GUS
tom of political parties in past years Ct
adopting ambiguous and meaningless
platforms had been abandoned. There
was an issue, and the line was drawn,
No, rnI Nir4,
gold standard was conceived in avar-
ice" and "fastened upon this country
by fraud" and the speaker declared
that could be only continued py
fraud and deception.
At this juncture some one created
great applause by shouting Down
with Mckinley.'
Bryan said the republican party at
ST Louis had such an opportunity as
seldom comes to party, adding: THE
administration had ADVANCED the gold
standard, had forced through under
whip and spur a law that repealed the
purchasing clause of the Sherman
law. The administration had issued
bonds in time Of peace, and worse tran
all, it entered into contract win q
few financiers in New York ana Lon
don, by which it paid those 1inanclefs
an enormous profit for protecting the
treasury, which 70000,000 Of people
stood ready to protect. But the repub-
lican party did not denounce those
transactions"
Mr. Bryan repeated his argument
that the republican platform confesseS
the gold standard to be bad, when it
says it ought to be abandoned, and
yet confesses it's impotency to govern
This country when it confesses that it
must ask for foreign aid.'
The speaker said that the country
was but upon the threshold Of period
of depression, which was indefinite IN
duration if the gold standard were tc
be- continued, and if times were hard
now. he asked, what might be ex-