Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1896-09-30
BRYAN,s PHILADELPHIA SPEECH

l
His speech here was made at thu
Academy of Music, which has seatins
capacity of about 5000. All the avail
able space in the building was occupied
| two hours before Mr.. Bryan arrived
Gathered in the street outside the
Academy were fully $4,000 other per
| sons. who stood patiently until 1890 p
M. hoping to see or hear the candidate
Many of those who succeeded in get
ting inside the Academy had .thei
clothing almost torn from them.
| number of cases of more or less sever,
injury were reported TO the police, on
Man with a broken arm being taken Il
| the hospital. Hundreds of policemen
were powerless to keep the crowds il
| check.
CROWDS IN FRONT OF HIS HOTEL.
Mr.. Bryan made his headquarters O.
the Lafayette Hotel, two blocks from
the Academy, onss::Broad street. Ii
front of this over 5000 persons gather
ed, hoping to get at least glimpse o
the candidate.
Since it was not possible for him te
make his way down Broad street to the
Academy in his carriage, he was con
Quoted through the basement and
kitchen of the hotel and out of the real
to side street. through which he
walked to the Academy. He managed
to make his way to the stage entrance
| and got inside after an experience with
the crowd that he will long remember.
When he appeared on the stage the
cheering lasted several minutes. He
said in part:
TELLS WHY HE CAME.
II will tell you why I come to Pen.
nsylvania. l come first to secure. il
possible, the electoral vote of the State,
[Applause and cheers.] If you deny
that, if you will not give me that vote,
if we are defeated in this campaign,
then / come upon another mission, and
that is to telf(the people of Pennsyl-
vania that the agitation for free coin
age will never-eease in this country un-
til the gold standard is driven back to
England.
"THE SILVER CAUSE WILL NOT DIE"
"They say that the craze is dying out
care not what they call the silver
cause. You may apply to it such
epithets as you will, but know that
the silver cause will not die, because
the truth never dies, [Applause.
You ask me why I know that this
cause is true? l can give you many
reasons, but one reason is sufficient
that every enemy to good government
is against free silver. You can know
a cause as you can know an Individual
by the company that it keeps. Ap
plause.
"Our cause appeals to the masses OF
the people beause the masses are inter
ested in equal laws. Our cause is op
posed by those who want to use oul
government for profit because we are
opposed to government instituted foI
any such purposes. fApplause.
FINANCIAL INDEPENDENCE"
Your city is called Philadelphia,
the City of Brotherly Love, come to
| proclaim to you the gospel that is
described by the name of your own
city, and yet you say you will give a
hundred thousand majority against
that doctrine. [Cries of mo, no
never."] l come to proclaim financial
| independence in city which saw the
Declaration of independence signed
more than a hundred years ago
[Great applause
''PATRIoTIsM FROM LOMBARD
STREET,
| You say that this city, in which
the forefathers gathered when they
were willing to defy the foreign powers
and declare their independence. yoU
say that this city is afraid to have ii
nancial independence? | shall not de
clare that the descendants of our fore
fathers of a hundred years ago have
lsunk so low unless you write it SO a.
the ballot in November. [Great ap
plause.
1.-The issue which is raised now wal
raised before. There were people ther
who said that we could not obtair
independence unless some foreign
nation would help us. There arr
those who say it today, and these who
say it today stand in the same position
as those who said it then. [Applause
The people who hundred years agt
declared in favor of foreign supremac!
we're the people who had busines
dealings and acted as the agents o
the people who employed them owe
there. You have no banks in this citl
today which are not controlled by tn
Influence of London, and l have no
more respect for the American VIII
takes his patriotism from Lombard
street than for the tory who took hi
patriotism hundred years ago from
England. Great applause.]
THE QUESTION OF DIGNITY.
| One of the papers said that Lacked
idignity. A Avoice-"You're all right''
Ny friends, have been looking int
1.-The matter, and do you know that
would rather have it said that lacket
dignity than to have it said that
Hacked backbone to meet the enemie
of this government who conspir
lagairst this nations welfare in Wal
jstreet. Great applause. What othe
President did they ever charge will
lack of dignity? lCries of ''Lincoln
and great applause Yes, my friends
they said it of Lincoln and jackson
too. [Applause. and cheers for Jack
lson] Then Jefferson lacked dignit,
also.
| 'Now. my friends, I tell you hoy
ldignifed | think a man ought to be
OF course, you know everybody ha
his own idea of those things. believ
THAT a man ought to be dignifiet
lenough, not too dignified and not lack
ing in dignity. Now, it might be NOR
have people come to see me. Lion,
applause and cheers. But you know
that said was not going to promis
! to give anybody an Office, and there
1fore great MANY people who nigh
leone to see a candidate under som
circumstances would not come to se
me at all Great applause.
"And then our people don't hav
money to throw at the birds? [Ap
plause and laughter Why, our peo
pie want more money and if the,
could come all the way to Nebraska t.
see me it wonld show that they hat
money enough now" Applause.
Mr.. Bryan then entered into al
elaborate discussion of the silver ques
tion in his characteristic stvle.
/ To Attempt to Cure
catarrh hV the nse of so calIad hloo.