Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-10-06
AT NASHVILLE
His Welcome Was Enough to Arouse
Trebly Tired Man.

LreDly Ilred MIL
Nashville, Tenn, Oct. 5.-Three speech
es was the task William ]. Bryan found
before him when he rea ched Nashville at
1886 o'clock this evening, after hard day
of it across Tennessee from Memphis.
But the nature of his reception here was
sufficient to brace up any man suscepti-
BILE to ordinary human feelings. The rail-
road station and the streets in its vicinity
were thronged when his train rolled in,
and all along the route to the Haymarket,
where his first speech was made, deep
lines of people cheered him. An artillery
salute was fired by a section of Battery
A, Tennessee state troops, and a large
number of political organizations. took
part in the escort procession. Twenty
six clubs from places in middle Tennes-
see were in line, on foot and on horse
back. Some of these contingents rode
thirty miles to be present. About 5000
turned out tonight. Excursion trains had
been bringing in big crowds all day and
long before Mr.. Bryan came thousands
of strangers augmented the crowds of
Nashville people on the streets
The Haymarket is spacious enclosure,
estimated by measurement to hold $4,000
people. 1t was pretty well filled tonight
and the figures of the audience there
range from 25,000 to 100000, The gather
ing was like all those Mr.. Bryan has adj
dressed in Tennessee-wildly enthusiast
tic. ever ready to yell shrilly its approval
of the national nominees utterances and
intensely partisan in its expressed feel
ings. Senator Bate introduced Mr. Bryan
and the closely packed people cheered
themselves almost hoarse. He spoke as
follows:
Speech at the Haymarket.
Ladies' and Gentlemen: 1t was my
good fortune to visit Nashville more than
a year ago, when we were beginning the
fight which resulted in securing the con-
troll of the democratic national conven-
ton l remember with pleasure my visit
then, and it gratifies me much upon re-
turning to find that the sentiment in
favor of the immediate restoration of the
free and unlimited coinage of both gold
and silver at the present legal ratio OF l6
to (cheers). without waiting for the aid
or consent of any nation on earth, has
EXPANDED until today vast majority of
the people of Tennessee are arrayed un-
der a double standard banner.
II beg to thank the young men who
have opened this meeting with out cam
paign song, our battle hymn 1t might be
called, for in this fight for the defense of
the homes of this land, the humble home
as the pa1atial home, we well might take
as our battle hamn that most beautiful
of all songs, Home, Sweet Home
(Cheers). Our warfare is in one sense ag-
gressive, in another sense ii is defensive.
asking for remedial legislation. It is ag-
gressive in the sense that are insisting
that something shall be done, and 1t is
defensive in the senes that we are fight
ing for our homes and our people from
the Invasion of foreign financial policy.
(Cheers).
"As l passed through the streets to-
night and listened to the acclama tions of
the people l could easily believe that
was in a city so near to that sacred spot,
the Hermitage. (Cheers). can under
stand why the people of this state. and
especially of this portion of the state,
should feel so deep an interest in the
cause which is being represented by the
Chicago platform, because, my friends,
we are lighting today the battle that An
drew jackson fought when he was in
Office. (Great cheering).
1--WE find arrayed ag ainst us the same
combina tfons, the same aggregation of
wealth. the same abuse against him, we
meet the same Intolerance that he met,
we suffer from the same abuse that he
suffered from; every name is applied to-