The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-07

uTeSs there to an audience that was near
~ II not quite equal, TO those he spoke
10 at columbus, O., and on Boston Com
mon, the banner crowds of his campsien
Another tremendous throng awaited him
outside Iomlinson hall, where he spoke
from the balcony at 4:30 oclock Tonight
he addressed two more great gatherings
one inside and the other outside Tomli1-
son nall. There is no doubt that the num-
Der OF people who heard him here to-day
exceeded by far the aggregate of his au
ulehce IN any other city since the cam
paign began
ESTIMATES of the size of the crowd before
Whlch Mr.. Bryan appeared at the state
mousse go as high as 10000. A very con-
serNatlVe estimate Is $4,000. The people
were packed in solid mass tightly
Wedged together and movement was abso-
lutely impossible. From the temnora ~
stand erected in the state house yard.
GOV Matthews introduced Mr. Bryan. A
peuIam OF enthusiasm broke forth from
Ihe gatherlng, and it was some time pe-
lore Mr.. Bryan could proceed. His speech
was frequently interrupted by wild cheer
ing.
He said: "This city enioys the unioue
distinction Of being the birthplace and a
deathbed of so-called party Great and
prolonged cheering and laughter 1t
cans itself the national democratic party
when it does not expect to carry a single
county in the whole nation Cheers and
laushter). 1t calls itself a democratic
party but was organized for the express
purpose OF electing republican candidate
for President. Great cheering). II il
was big enough to justify a name, 1 would
call 1t a stupendous fraud cloud laugh
teri. But 1t is too small to be called stu
pendous. daughter and cheers). | will
call 1t transparent fraud (Cheers). 1t
was the first political convention ever
ran
OF the committee nominated a ticket that
they did not expect to vote for, in the
rrst place, and where men have received
nomination and don't want to be voted
for. Cheers and laughter).
The minority at Chicago opposed free
coinage on the ground that it would inter-
fere with International bi-metallism.
Naughter) There could be no clearer evi-
dence OF intended deception than is found
in the fact that the minority at Chicago,
when they had things all their own way,
repudiated the principle they stood on
there and came out in favor of a gold
standard instead of international bi-met-
allism. Continued cheering) My friends
1 am willing. to meet an open enemy in an
open field, and concede to an open enemy
all the rights and privileges of open war
fare, but when our opponents call them
selves advocates of sound money and
want to fasten upon us an unsound finan-
cial system, when they call themselves the
advocates of honest money and deal dis
honestly with the American people, when
they say that they are members of a demo-
cratic party and yet employ speakers and
openly say they are going to vote the re-
publican ticket, that party does not de-
serve to be treated like an open enemy in
this campaign. Great cheerng) My
friends, I haveno criticism to make of any
man who believes that an election of the
Chicago ticket would destroy this coun-
try, and who in that belief votes the repub-
lican ticket, but, my friends, when a man
wants to elect the republican ticket and
then has not the courage to bear the odium
of advocating it, it is an entirely different
matter. (Great cheering)
"Give it to Bynum,' cried voice in the
cheering.
"If you want to know that distinguish
ed citizen continued Mr.. Bryan.
distinguished, came from the crowd
Mr.. Bryan continued: The gentleman
suggests extinguished citizen Great
cheering and laughter). but l will say
distinguished because he has a past,
whether he has any future or not
daughter and cheering) If you want to
know what he said about the gold stand
ard let me read from his speech in favor
of silver in 1886; Again the advocates of
gold approach us with open hands and
smiling countenanee, but ! fear with a
dagger concealed beneath their coats.
(Cheers) All. my friends, he understood
the nature of the animal before he began
to associate with it. (Cheers and laugh
teri He is right in his description. The
gold standard never fought an open fight
My friends, instead of saying now that We
will adopt oime tall!sm and drive other
nations to it, he says that we will stand
by the gold standard until other nations
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peat what Mr.. Bynum quoted from Sen
ator ingalls, in that speech" Mr.. Bryan
then quoted several paragraphs, begin
ming. mo enduring fabric OF
national prosperity can be build
ed on gold" and followed the
quotations with these remarks: Those
are the words of the distinguished repub-
lican senator, and those words are true.
Gold is arrogant, tyrannical in time of
peace, and it deserts any nation in time
of war and never is a friend when a
friend is needed (Cheers) And yet our
opponents are insisting that we shall
maintain this gold standard until foreign
ers come to our relief"
The rest of the speech was devoted to
a discussion of the silver question on lines
familiar to readers of his previous ad-
dresses. When he was nearly through
people in the audience called out: Hit
Bynum again" "Give it to Cochran"
The six black horses that drew Mr.. Bry-
ans carriage from the state house to
Tomlinson hall cavorted in excitement all
along the way past the cheering people
on the sidewalks. About 5000 were in
the audience there. They were quite as
enthusiastic as the vast throng at the
state house. Mr. Bryan spoke from the
balcony of the hall.
Before starting out to make his night
speeches, Mr.. Bryan was waited on by the
Bryan and Sewall commercial traveller $
club with a request for a speech. He ad-
dressed the members for few minutes at
the Grand hotel.
His first speech tonight was from a
stand in Court House park, where crowd
of Is. coo enthusiastic people were gathered.
He spoke a few minutes only and then
went to Tominson hail to address mass
meeting of workingmen. Six thousand was
the audience, packed, iammed and huddled
together The cheering that greeted the
candidates entrance lasted sixteen MIN
,rtes. Alonzo McClelland. president
OF the Cleveland club, presented Mr..
Bryan With a cane made Of the tips or
buffalo horns, and then INTRODUCED him to
the asesmblage, which cheered him some
more.
In his brief address Mr.. Bryan compli-
mented GOV Matthews and spoke Of how
deeply he had been touched by the loyal