Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-09-01
CROWDS LISTEN TO BRYAN.
n Great Reception Given the Demo.
cratic Candidate

cratic Candidate.
Two great crowds listened to VIM. T.
I Bryan, the democratic candidate for Pres,-
lent, at Cleveland, Ohio last night, tho
hrst in the Central Armory, where l6Ooo
people were packed. and the second in
Music Hall. which held 5000 Afterward
| ne spoke TO several thousand more from
the balcony of the Hollenden Hotel
Bands and marching campaign clubs
| hlled the streets. and with thousands of
strangers the city bore a holiday aspect.
Special trains brought out-of-town clubs
| during the afternoon. Five hundred cana
/ on one train from Canton. two train loads
came from Akron and others from Lorain
Cuyahoca and various Ohio and PennsyI-
Nanla towns
The streets about the depot were throng-
ed when cannon announced the arrival OF
The train on which the candidate arrived
az 6:.'o pm There was parade to escort
| him TO the hotel and another after dinner
from the hotel to the armory.
The armory doors were thrown open at
| q O'Clock, and fifteen minutes afterward
every foot OF space in the building was
hiied to the doors Not only were the
| aisles damned. but men Were clinging to
| window sills high up and hanging in all
| sorts of impossible places
The Gro "ding was almost as great as at
the jamestown assembly Saturday, and q
stampede would have produced a terrible
| disaster. An arm holding "A hammer sur
| mounted with the words The Friend OF
Labor was biazoned across a big trans
parency in the armory.
! Two of the first corners were General"
Coxey. late of the commonweal army. and
his lieutenant and son-in-law Carl Browne,
who took front seats on the platform Tho
| crowd attempted to persuade CoXey to
speak, but failing. listened to the music of
a glee club and sang Star Spangled Ban
| ner' and Marching Through Georgia" in
chorus. with thunderous effect.
! When MIR. Bryan appeared the stage
at o'clock. escorted by MIR. l.. h. Holden
of Cleveland, he inspired n cheer which
| continued for three minutes. with the wav-
| ing of hats and handkerchiefs.
| Charles 2. Salem introduced the presiden-
tial candidate at the armory meeting and
Arnold Green at Music Hall where NJ.
/ Bryan went after finishing his first speech.
Besides the candidate. speeches were made
at the armory by NJ. A. Foran and Judge
McMath. and the Music Hall crowd WIS
entertained by local orators during it's two
and a half hours of waiting. In his
speeches at both places Mr.. Bryan devot-
! ed himself mainly to the financial question.
Mr. Bryan said among other things:
| THE gold standard was conceived in ava
! rice. 1t was fastened upon this country by
fraud, and it can only be continued by de-
| ception. "a voice: Down with Mckinley
| Great applause,.
| THE gold standard never fought an open
| fight in all its career. 1t carries the mask
of the burglar and the knife of the
| Sassin. When il was fastened upon this
country in 1873 the American people had
| never discussed it and no party had ever
| gone before TIE people urging a single
| measure that leaned toward a gold stand
ard. Every step has been taken at night
| and without the knowledge consent OF
| the people.
Did the platform say that the gold
standard was good? In the presence of the
| isery that il has wrought even the repub-
| lican party. with all its audacity. did not
| dare to advocate gold standard.
IF anybody comes to YOU and tells you
4 tt at the gold standard is good you ask
him who said If anybody tells you IL
is a blessing. ask him why political
party in the United States has ever found
\ L out
| What does the platform say? Why. IL
I pledges-pledges the republican party to get
! rid of the gold standard and substitute hi
4 metallism-when foreign nations will help
1 us to do it.
| ut confesses the gold standard bad when
| ii says it ought to he abandoned. and yet
| confesses its impotency to govern this
| country when it confesses ii must ask for
foreign aid"
On his way to Cleveland from Chautau-
! qua. n. V, Mr.. Bryan made speeches at
Mayville and Ripley. at the latter place
| talking to 1900 farmers gathered for tho
/ picnic> of the Knights of Maccabees Much
| of the country through which he passed
seemed TO be republican in its complexion.
AT Madison the republican club turned out
| with badges. a banner and a bass drum.
cheering Mckinley and bowling at Bryan,
but Ashtabula furnished an enthusiastic
| crowd of 1900 partly free silver republic
cars.