The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-23
DEMOCRACY Is
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Bryan left the hotel for the academy.
Passage to vehicles was impossible,
and even the extra squad of policemen
who were sent to clear a way for Mr..
Bryan at the entrance, found much
difficulty in forcing their way through.
When Mr.. Bryan left his rooms to
enter his carriage, several hundred
men who had BEEN held in check in
the lobby and corridors of the hotel
broke through the line of guards and
rushed after him peil-meil. With Mr..
Bryan were Chairman Curley, of the
city executive committee; ex-CongTess-
man Kerr, OF Pennsylvania; Congress
man Sulzer, of New York, and members
of the local committees. Several of
these were
CAUGHT IN THE RUSH
and failed to Keep up with the caIdi-
date. Pieces of furniture were over
turned and a. crashing of glass bore
witness to the great rush THAT marked
Mr. Bryan's passage through the hotel.
The candidate was sent flying along
the corridors without regard to dignity,
pushed through a. narrow doorway and
raced TO his carriage by way of the
SAMSON street entrance, thus eludEng
the crowd ON Broad street. There was
another crush at the Academy, but Mr..
Bryan was finally landed ON the stage,
looking very much like the centre-rush
i'm football game after attacking the
flying wedge. Outside the academy was
another mass of humanity, packed deep
in Broad street and looping over into
the adjoining tfloroughfares. 1t was
good natured crowd anti seemed willing
enough to be entertained by campaign
orators who spoke from trucks and
other conspicuous places.
1t was $40 when Mr.. Bryan reached
the Academy of Music. A wave of en-
thusiasm swept through the overcrowd-
ed auditorium as he came on the stage.
John w. German, chairman of the
Democratic state committee, introduced
Mr.. Bryan, who received another ova-
ton as he stepped forward to speak.
Almost every sentence he uttered was
followed by loud cheers.
Mr.. Bryan spoke as follows:
The great gold standard papers ask
why l come to Pennsylvania. I have
nothing to conceal. 1 come here to Sc
cure, if possible, the electoral vote of
the state of Pennsylvania. If you with
hold that vote, l come upon another
mission. That is to tell the people of
Pennsylvania that the agitation for free
coinage will never cease until the gold
standard is
DRIVEN BACK TO ENGLAND.
You say the craze is dying out You
may apply to it such epithets as you
will, but the silver cause will not die,
because truth never dies, You ask why
know why this cause is true. 1 could
give many reasons, but one is sufficient
that every enemy of good government
is against it. You know a cause as
you know an individuality the COM
pany it keeps. Your cause appeals to
the masses, because they are interested
in effectual laws. Our cause is opposed
| by those who want to use the govern
ment for private gain, because we are
opposed to a government instituted for
such purposes. Your city is called the
City of Brotherly Love- l come TO
proclaim TO you the gospel described by
the name of your city, and yet, you
say you will give 100000 majority
against the doctrine. CA voice: Never
/ 1 come to defend financial independence
in a city which declared national indie
pendence more than 100 years ago. The
issue
RAISED NOW WAS RAISED THEN.
People then said we could not get
along unless some foreign nation
! looked after usi Some today stand
in the same position! Did the Repub
lican party tell us that they are go
ing to get foreign nations TO help US?
Did they tell you why, for twenty
years, they failed to help us when we
asked them? No, but they simply
waited until until until. I believe
the men who wrote that platform did
not want bimetallism, but wanted the
gold standard permanently. They in
tended that platform to hold the peo
pie who want the gold standard, and, if
! possible, to conciliate those who do not
want the gold standard. The platform
was intended to deceive the voters, but
is it dignified TO deceive voters?
Oaughter) No political party ever
went before the country on a gold
standard platform
MI Bryan presented the various
platforms from 1884 TO 1890 and con-
tinuedl:
THE record is clear. The Democratic
party has never declared for a gold
standard, and no man in office ever
advocated a gold standard after he
was elected until he had betrayed the
people who elected him. Great ap-
plause.) l deny the right OF any pub
lie servant to secure office upon a plat
form and then abandon il after he is
elected l was reared in
DIFFERENT SCHOOL OF DEMOC-
RACY.
When I find my conscience viii not
permit me to carry out a platform on
which | am elected, | will resign and
let some other man hold the office.
That is the record of the Democratic
party, and / stand here, not only as
the regular nominee, but as represent
ing principles which have been Demo-
cratic from the time there was Dem
ocratic party. Our opponents tell US [
am radical. 1 am conservative. The
goldbugs who think l am radical, have
Joined with the Populists of Texas,
who think 1 am not radical enough. l
believe in law and order. I do not be-
lieve any man, small or great, should
be permitted to defy the law. If
would stop half wey many of these
people would like me. If l would say l
am in favor of enforcing the law
against the small offender, 1 would be
good man. When L say 1 am in favor
of enforcing the law against the great,
l become a dangerous man. Danger
Gus to whom? Dangerous to the peo
pie who are eating the bread they
earn? No. Dangerous to the people
who are eating the bread somebody
else earns.
You can find mem who were talk
ing for free coinage three months ago,
who will tell you that tl1Ry are in a.
position where they cannot say any
thing. They have note at the bank
and cannot pay it just now, and they
are not at liberty to advocate what
they believe, for fear the note will be
called in and the sheriff wild close
them. This government has either got