Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-10-13
THE DAY WITH BRYAN.
The Democratic Candidate Makes Speech
es In South Dakota.


The Democratic Candidate Makes Speech.
| es In South Dakota.
Huron, S. D., Oct. 1O.-One hundred
and twenty men and women drew Will
liam j. Bryan through the muddy
streets of Sioux Falls, S. d., Friday
and thousands of people from that place
and from nearby points in South Da
kota, Iowa and Minnesota turned out
in the cold autumn rain to do him
honor. Mr.. Bryan never had reception
more heartily enthusiastic. When he
reached Sioux Falls at two o'clock he
was placed In an open carriage and the
wildly demonstrative male and female
residents mentioned grasped the at
tached ropes and pulled it along to the
house Of G. z. Jewett, where he had
luncheon. The rain had become q
steady downpour when Mr.. Bryan
reached 1.-THE oval" a bicycle track near
the city, where the speech-mal1ing took
place. Despite the drenching they got,
the crowd of 10000 showed hearty en-
thusiasm. During his remarks, Mr..
Bryan said:
Defends Senator Pettigrew.
IT am glad to come to this city, because
| in coming 1t gives me a chance to say q
| word in defense of Senator Pettigrew,
among his own people. My friends, there
are times, there are occasions which try
mems souls. To leave ones party associ-
ates is not an easy matter. and far more
difficult does that duty become when the
| person who leaves Is one who has re-
ceived honors at the hands of his party;
but, my friends, / believe that Senator
IlaN+t a = la -
courageous thing when he determined to
| protect the interests of the people in this
| state instead of bowling under the yoke Of
the gold standard. He could not obtain the
consent Of his judgment and his con-
science to surrender the interests of the
people of this state merely because tho
republican party had gone back on its rec
ord and turned itself from the people as a
whole to the Wall street tinancier. Down
east, the gold-standard democrats, no mat
ter how high they may have stood in the
party service, no matter how much they
have been honored by the democratic
party, have not hesitated to leave tho
democratic party the moment the demo-
cratic party made a determined assault
upon the great trusts and syndicates and
corporation interests. They have been
supporting them for private gain, and II
those democrats who have received much
Mt the hands of the democratic party can
abandon the democratic party in the great
fight for the common people of this coun-
try, the western republicans are justified
in coming to our aid and filling up the
ranks which have been depleted by those
democrats who left u.s."
At Huron.
1t was $3.50 o'clock when Mr.. Bryan
arrived here on his special train. On
the run up from Sioux Falls stops were
made at Montrose, Salem, Canova, Villas
and other places. Crowds were at all
of them and Mr.. Bryan spoke several
times. His speech in this city was brief
and upon familiar times.
at Aberdeen.
Aberdeen, S. D., Oct. 1O.-The elab-
crate preparations for Mr.. Bryan's re-
ceptiop here were not fully carried out
On account of his late arrival. He
made an extremely brief speech to q
large audience in the grain palace and
then returned to his special train, i4
which he will travel to Fargo. N. D.
MUST REMAIN SILENT.
President Cleveland Says He Cannot Par
ticipate Actively In the Campaign.
Chicago, Oct 10.-J. Sterling Morton,
secretary of agriculture, addressed an
audience Of 5000 people in the Audi.
torium Friday evening upon invitation
of the American Honest Money league,
The meeting was opened by e. Burritt
Smith, who read letter which had
been sent by the league inviting Presi.
dent Cleveland to make gold speech
in Chicago, and the reply thereto. The
president responded by saying that
inasmuch as he was anxious to do all in
his power to aid the league in its work
he regretted that he would be unable
to accept the invitation, that his Off
cial duties would prevent, and in any
case he would hardly deem 1t consistent
with strict propriety to mingle actively
in the pending campaign. "While it
is impossible" he writes, "that any of
my fellow-citizens have the least doubt
as to my sentiments on the vital guess
ton which at this date absorbs largely
the attention Of our people. the worle
of advancing sound financial ideas and
the labor of enforcing lessons of public
and private honesty and morality 1 feel
must be prosecuted without such par
ticipation on. my part as you suggest"