The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-09-26
BRYAN ON BOSTON COMMON
THE CRoWD ON THE HISTORIC
 GREEN NUMBERED 75,OOO.

Twelve Thousand Persons Greet the Candi- date at the Depot-Police Powerless to Control the Mob-Sewan Greets His Run ming Mate--Hon. Moody Boynton Well comes Bryan to the Massachusetts Capi- tal-Scene on tho Common One Not Soon to be Forgotten--The Immense Throng in Good Humor
 Boston, Sept 25-William J. Bryan arrived in this city at 6S7 this after land street station. He was met by delegation of the Bryan-Sewall- Will jams club. Perhaps 1200O people had assembled to get a glimpse of the can- didate.
 A great deal of care had been exer- cised by the police to handle the crowd at the station. But all of the elaborate arrangements were set at naught when the train rolled in. The crowd surged down upon the police and swept them away as if they were men of straw. Again and again the police made a mo- ble stand to control the crowd, but each time they were forced up against the side of the train that had brought Mir Bryan. After few minutes MT. Bry- an appeared upon the platform of his car. There was a cheer and a mighty rush by the crowd.
 The police resorted to force and at last pushed the crowd back and made way for MT. Bryan and MT. Williams. The candidate then walked through the station to Kneeland street, the crowd yelling all the time. When he finally reached kneeland street, where his carriage was in waiting, the crowd in the street, which filled the whole neighborhood, cheered vociferously again and again.
 MT Bryan quickly entered the car raige and was driven to the American house, where, after a short reception at which few members of the Bimet- allie union and Hon. Arthur Sewall of Bath Me, were present, he took lun- cheon with sixty silver men. At the luncheon Colonel Stephen w. Nickerson presided. At the close of the dinner Colonel Nickerson introduced Hon. E. Moody Boynton, who welcomed Mir Bryan. Mr. Bryan responded in a few serious words Then MT. Bryan ap- peared for a moment before the crowd in the main dining hall of the hotel. MT. Bryan made a One-mlnute ad- dress.
 It was then 7:10 and MT. Bryan was due to begin speaking on the Common at 6:45. It was 7:30 before he finally arrived, and he found gathered about the temporary stand that had been erected near the corner of Beacon and Charles streets from 50,000 to 75,000 peo- pie. Police officers said that the crowd numbered at least 75, 900. MT Bryan said it was the largest gathering he had addressed. It is safe to say that few times, indeed, has a larger crowd gathered to hear a speaker on Boston Common The speakers stand was surmounted by two arc lights, and even then the outer edge of the crowd could not be seen by the aid of these. It was bowling, pushing, good-natured, po- lice-resisting crowd
 MT. Bryan was introduced by James S. Mellen of Worcester.
 Mr. Bryan, in response to MT. Mel lens introduction, said:
 Thus far from my Nebraska home I am glad that I can greet you as fellow citizens of a country. I shall not at tempt to make myself heard to all as- sembled here I have spoken to a num- Der of audiences, but never to one that seemed to reach so far away in the dis tance as this. Applause I will speak to trose who are nearest, and those who are in Rhode Island and Maine I Irfs fhnca We have entered upon a great contest.
 For years the people of this country who have been studying the money question have felt that no general pros- perity could be restored to the people until gold and silver again entered the hints on equal terms and issued from the hints as equally legal tender mon- ey. come to Massachusetts to pre- sent the gospel of democracy as l un- derstand it. I do not claim to have any authority except that conferred by the democratic convention If you doubt my democracy I can point to that convention as a better certificate than any bolting democrat can find.
 But while I come as the regular nominee of the democratic party, also come as the nominee of two other par ties-parties which have joined in mak- ing the silver question the paramount issue of this campaign; and out in this meeting in the open air, where i am afraid to talk very long lest I suffer the consequences which sometimes fol- low outdoor speaking, l simply desire to present for your consideratio ton two or three questions. We lay down this proposition-that the more money there is in the country the easier it Is for any person who has something to sell to get his share of that money.
 Our opponents plant themselves up- on the doctrine that the less money the whole people have the more money each individual will have. That is a mathematical proposition which you cannot find in any arithmetic, but It seems to be proposition upon which the republican financiering is based. We say that while the dollar goes up, property must go down, and that fall ing prices and falling property mean hard times. If you ask us how this gold standard affects the farmer we tell you that the gold standard lowers the price of the products of him who sells. without lowering his taxes or his debts.
 '.If you ask us how the gold standard affects the laboring man we reply that it destroys the onpOrtunity for labor