The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-09-23

Gratis had done in that State. We carried.
the question to the primaries, and the
voters instructed the delegates TO the
county convention, and from there 10
the State convention, and from there
10 the National Convention. We never
had convention in this country which
more correctly represented the sentiment
OF the people who sent the delegates
fhan that convption which met at Chi
cago. 1t is honor enough to be the NOM
lnee of convention for n President,
but ii Is q higher honor yet 10 be the
nominee of the most Democratic con-
vcntion ever held in this country. CAp-
DlauSc.) Since thnt platform was adop-
ted the people have commenced to study
the money question. What do they
lind? They find that the people of the
WHst and South who have been asking
Tor the restoration of bmetalism, in
stead OF tryins TO ruin the country.
are trying TO save 1t. Great applauscD
We are trying to help our people. That
IS true. But | war. to tell YOU that our
people cannot buy of YOU unless they
can sell what they raise. You have
many truck farmers. When they take
What they nave to sell into town they
lind tha's the market Is rather dun ana
what they get is Small compared with
what ii used 10 be. Does it mean the
people of Philadelphia are not n hungry
rs they ever Were? | venture the asser-
ton there is more hunger here in Philn-
delphia than there was five years ago.
(Great applause) Is II because people
have lost their taste for good things
which you produce? No, there is a.
much taste as ever, If they could only
set u chance to try il on something
Great appiause0
aih Bryan gave quotations from John
sherman. James G.. Blaine John G. Car
Isle. showing them TO have formerly
peen IN iaror of she free coinage of sill
vci.
Marck as being in favor OF birnetallism
ana as saying that tho United states
should take the lead IN adopting. Mir
Bryan continued:
Against this waiting policy, with the
! twenty years of adverse experience be
nlnd 1t. we offer IN aggressive policy
by which the United States will lead iio
nations OF the world to the restoration
OF SoId ana silver as money You saw II
Is american 10 bNaS about what we can
ac reply that 1t is English. you know
10 thlhk we can't do anything. Qlaugh-
'eE) We have reached a great crisis
| and the question presented 10 the Amcr
icAn people is. shall the United Stnres
nave u iinnncials policy OF its own. or
must the people receive Their finances
ready MADE from some foreign land?"
tCries of NO. never'o IT is = nuastio,
upon which much will depend.
NJ Inc conclusion of his address. Nh.
hlEah was escorted back to This c5t,-
anu rested az the hotel until II. dinnI
ana Went TO the Academy of Music ia
speak. ~
Five t1'usand people packed c,oseI,
| in The Academy of Music with = enot
ln@ capacity of SOC heard William, +
i'rNhn deliver the first of three ad
dresses made TO Philadelphia audi
ehces tonight. Many thousands more
sWaIihed IN the streets outside the
oui!din% and these he addressed yyhnn
ms indoor speech was concluded An
enormous crowd remained for hnurs
outside the Hotel Lafayette aU;uiiin.r IN
get glimpse OF the candidate. t.u,ioIIy
great was The assemblage that thiongad
t,FoAu ana Wharton streets. in front of
he Southwestern Democratic Cluh In
near the third ana last address of tho
evening. In ali Mir. Bryan's campairn
ing he never drew crowds of greatn,.
magnitude. The Academy of Music was
entirely Inadequate for the uriurinaI
iSHVan demonstration. 1t was p1cLn1
rom lioor 10 gallery The doors bnd tn
ne closed early for the building wOuId
ho!d no more. and those inside were
pressed together as tightly as could be
but the thronG inside the Academy
was nothing in point of numbers com
nared to the packed masses; in tLn
StfectS. ON Broad street outside the
fotel lIat&Neite. great crowd choked
massage for more than ali hour before
MI BRYAN left the hotel for the Aca6
''i'' S''7'iNt ~ NtultieS was lnDDSEi-
nle ana even the extra squad of police
ment. who We're sent to clear away for
Mr. Brvan at the entrance, founl much
dlilicuItN in forcing their way through.
When Mr.. Bryan left his rooms to
enter his carriage several hundred men.
VINO had been held in check i'm the lobby
and corridors OF the hotel. broke
through the line OF guards ana rushed
after him peli nell. With Alr. Rryan
were Chairman Curiey of the CITY IKE.
Gntive Committee: eX-Cougrcss,,,ln
Kerr. of PENNSYLVANIA; Congr asslnan
Sulzer. of New York. and member; a.
The local committees. Several OF these
were caught in the rush ana failed 10
keen uu with the candidate Pieces OF
i'irniture were overturned ana 4, crash
ing OF glass bore witness to the ..rca:
rush that marked Mr.. Eryail's passage
through the hotel. The candidate wa;
sent lying along the corridors without
regard to dignity, pushed through a
narrow doorway and reaced to his car
rage by way of the SAMSON street on
trance. thus cluding the crowd on Broad
street.
There was another crush At the Acad-
emy. but Mr. Bryan was finally landed
on the stage. looking very much like the
centre rush in a football game after at
temptinG the flying wedge. Outside the
Academy was another great mass L.
humanity packed deep in Broad street.
and looping over into the ADJOINING,
thoroughfares. 1t was q good-tiaturcd
crowd and seemed willing enough 10 bo
,Atl al "a n nI 1NT