Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-08-14
Mr.. Bryan at Madison Square.

After journeying from his home in Lin
coin, Neb., to Chicago, and from Chicago
to New York by easy stages, making nu-
merous speeches on the way and shaking
hands with thousands of people, William
j. Bryan reached the last named city on
Tuesday, and on Wednesday evening he
was formally notified of his nomination
for president by the Chicago convention,
before an immense assemblage in the Mad
ison Square garden.
In spite of the deadly heat a crowd gath
cred in the streets large enough to fill the
the great hall many times, and the one
thousand and more policemen detailed for
service there were scarcely able to. prevent
disastrous crush and panic at the en-
trance. A wild scene of turmoil took
place when the doors were finally opened.
Men, women and policemen were jumbled
together in an indiscriminate mob. Men
tore each others and their own clothes in
their frantic endeavors to gain admission.
Shrek after shrek came from the women
in the struggling mass, and two or three
tainted. The police, with a vigorous use
! of clubs, soon formed line, and after
MdIu lutIt was u stIllDldllCH OF OTOeI. lne
galleries and boxes began to fill in brief
time. From floor to roof the garden was
crowded with human beings. When Mrs.
Bryan entered a box near the rostrum
there was great cheering which continued
and increased until she arose and bowed
her Acknowledgements. When Bryan him
self appeared on the platform at s o'clock
pande monium regned and the demonstra-
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Stone of Missouri delivered the notification
speech, which declared that the work of
the Chicago convention had been the work
of the plain people and that Bryan W
their candidate. /.
Mr.. Bryan's speech occupied an hour
and 40 minutes in its delivery. 1t was dis
appointing in that Mr.. Bryan essayed none
of those dramatic flights of oIatory or
feats of rhetoric for which his public eff
forts are notable. Instead he held him
self for the most part to an argument on
the silver question, but without presenting
anything which was new, or which has not
been said before in different form. At the
outset he disclaimed for the Chicago plat
form the charge that it was anarchistic, or
contains any menace to private security
and public safety. He defended the in
come tax plank of the Chicago platform
and the right of the convention TO criticise
the supreme court decision. Upon the sill
yer question his argument was the familiar
one that gold monometallism has caused
the financial ills from which we suffer,
that farmers and workingmen have been
the worst sufferers, that the struggle
is that of the many as against the few,
that If bimetallism would be a good thing
with the help and consent of other nations
it is good thing of itself, and that the
patriotic spirit Of the American people
would maintain gold and silver at parity
should "the cause of the people" prevail
and free-silver legislation be enacted. His
peroration, addressed to the "citizens of
New York." was eloquent and impressive,
Like all of the free-silver arguments, So
called, this speech was made up in the
main of a great mass of confident and
oracular assertions without facts from his
tory or human experience to sustain them.