The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-15

OMAHA, Neb, Sept. 14-W. Bourke
Cochran spoke at the Coliseum tonight.
to crowd estimated at 1900 people.
Secretary of Agriculture Morton pre-
sided.
Several thousand too many tickets were
issued, and what with the heat and the
breaking down of benches and people go
ing out, it was twenty minutes before or
der could be gained.
Several thousand Bryan Fnen, including
several silver clubs en- masse, were in
the audience and cheered every reference
made to Mr.. Bryan.
Mr.. Cochran began by saying that he
was profoundly grateful for this hearing.
and that the west would give to a man
from New York. a. state which MIR. Bryan
had denominated
"'THE ENEMY'S COUNTRY"
such an audience. He hoped never again
to hear a citizen of this land speak of
any part of it as the enemy's country"
He had the highest respect for Mr. Bry-
ans character. Personally. it was above
reproach. That was, he said, what made
his candidacy on the platform that was
made at Chicago by Populists capturing
the Democratic convention so dangerous.
If the nominee was dangerous man on
that platform there would be less TO ap-
prehend.
If all Mr.. Bryan had said about the
crime of 70 and the dealings with Euro
pean money changers were true, our gov
eminent
MUST BE A FAILURE.
If free coinage would raise the rate of
wages to the laborer, he himself, not pro-
Tossing oyerweening love for the laborer
but simply ON the theory that it would
free coinage. He had asked Mr.. Bryan
upon what wages were based, and Mr..
Bryan had not answered him, because he
could not. To raise the price of every
thing would accomplish nothing. The
agitation would be useless if Mr.. Bryan
raised the prices of commodities above
wages-it would be injurious to the la
borer, while if wages were pushed above
commodities, it would injure the farmer
No one would pay 81 for a days labor
when he could get it for $1.50. Wages are
not regulated by philanthropy.
Mr.. Cochran said he had been a great
traveller but ne had never seen people so
prosperous or crops so abundant as these
this year in the west, except that cloud,
the agitation of free coinage, had been
cast across the country. But this cloud
would be cleared away in November by
the triumph of national honesty and
honor The best news he could take back
east would be thGt he had seen IN this
city the largest audience he had ever
seen, and that the
BRYAN CAMPAIGN HAD COLLAPSED.
Secretary Morton made brief speech
on taking the chair, but even the reporters
could not catch his words, and It YVES
merely pantomirne to the audience, which
was struggling for seats and yelling "Sit
down" to those who stood in the aisles.
In the attempt to seat so vast an audi
ence, planks were used, supported at
either end by a chair. People crowded
upon these until the boards broke, and
those who were seated had to stand.
Hundreds of these boards broke, and the
result was the crowd was spotted fire.
ouentIy with small groups of standing
people who had no place to sit and could
get neither in or out. When the meeting
was called to order, these standing groups
interfered with the sight of those sitting,
and confusion followed Cries of "Sit
down" were continuous from those sit
ting and were responded to with Kisses
by those standing. The trouble, If any
there was, was in issuing of tickets TO
more than the seating
CAPACITY OF THE COLISEUM
and then throwing open the doors for
all others to crowd in BY the use -
other chairs and boxes. the broken planks
were again made to do service, and after
the people had again been properly seated
there was no further disturbance. and Mr.
Cochran was accorded respectful hearing,
except that his reference to Bryan on two
or three occasions was greeted with
rounds of applause by the friends of that