Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-06

dred people gathered about the station to
see him on and when he made his way TO
his car. he lpaS repeatedly cheered. The
first stop was at Arlington, and Mr. Bryan
shook hands hands with a few OF the hun
dreds of the people who had assembled at
the depot ~ brownsville and Bells NJ.
Bryan made short speeches. Fully as large
a crowd greeted ihccandidate at Humboldt
as had welcomed him at Memphis. Mr..
Bryan spoke TO them briefly Confnng his
remarks mainly, to the evil influence OF the
trusts and corporations There was another
great crowd at Milan. so large, in fact that
II caused tbe1 nominee to remark that he
thought he had spoken to everybody in Glib
son county at Humboldt. 1t was an appre-
ciative audience aud applauded and
chcered the candidate at the end Of
every sentence. At Mckenzie there was a
crowd Of several thousand Huntington
turned out fair crowd to hear Mr Bryan
upon his arrival there at 4;20 this afternoon.
He was introduced to the audience from
the rear platform of the train by Senator
Harris. Camden was reached at 500 and
the scene was but repetition of those be-
fore. Mr.. Brysn spoke but minute before
the train pulled out The train rolled into
the Nashville station at S:35.
Mr.. Bryan began his speech at the Hay
market by referring to the "evident growth
Of tho free silver sentiment" here since his
first visit to Nashville about year ago.
He then said: Il beg to thank the young
men who have opened this meeting with our
campaign song our battle hymn it might be
called, for in this fight fer the defense of
the homes of this land, the humble home
as well as the palatial home we well might
take as our battle hymn that most beauti-
ful OF all songs Home, Sweet Home (Ap-
plause)
an declaring in favor Of bimetallism we
are standing upon ancient ground. The
free coinage of silver is no experiment. Il
is endorsed by the history Of the human
race 1t has the sanction Of all the great
statesmen of this nation from the begin
ning OF our constitutional history down to
1873. No person will assert that the Amer
lean people abandoned bimetalism after a
full and complete discussion. If you read
the records of that time you will find that
the newspapers which are quick to
grasp upon any item OF news and so
ready to spread it before the pub
lie did not understand and ex-
plain that the law of 1873 demonetzed
silver, closed the mints to the coinage OF
the white metal and left us with gold only
as our standard money metal. Our oppo-
nents say we do not need any more money.
Let mo show you that our fnanciers them
selves acknowledge our need of more money
Our iinanciers reioiced at the thought Of
money coming back here from abroad. If
we have enough rcGey in this country now
why should we want single dollar to come
from any other country?"
Continuing, MT. Bryan asserted that the
financial system advocated by the repub-
lican party struck at the very foundation of
society, and threatens to destroy all that
rests upon 1t. He said the issue was now
clear cut In the drawing of the lines 4"
ne said we have lost some democrats in
this fight, but l am mighty glad most of
those whom we lost were generals. We have
not lost many privates in the army. We
might have kept all the democrats who are
gone, If we had been willing to pay the
price they asked. If we had been willing to
make the democratic party the agent to
fasten plutoGfacy upon the people, we could
have kept every man who has left us. But
we had to choose between throwing over
board those who have been millstones about
the neck of democracy, and throwing over
democracy itself and we tried to save
democracy"
After concluding his Haymarket speech
Mr.. Bryan was taken to the Athletic park
where he made a ten-minute address At
the populist meeting, which Mr.. Bryan ad-
dressed after his speeches at the Hay
market and Athletic park he expressed his
appreciation of the honor done HIM by the
populst party and also his qualification that
the democrats and populists had been able
to unite upon stn electoral ticket in so many
states. He said If fusion was not arranged
IN tennessee he hoped the populists would
cast their votes for the democratic electors
and thus mahSpSsire of their election as TO
vote TOT popStst electors who had no hope
Tcans. ~ of'o"
Mr. Bryan left az midnight for Louisville.
In the morning he speaks at Jeffersonvlle.
Ind, and during the day at other points,
ending in tbe pyeniup ar Jn6iannpnliS