, 1896-10-19
Mr.. GURLBY'S ADDRESS.
MAENNERCHOR HALL AGAIN
FILLED TO LISTEN TO REPUB-
LICAN DOCTRINES.
The Arguments of Mr.. Bryan are TAX
en- Up and Discussed in a Forcible
and Logical Manner-One Of the
Most Powerful Addresses OF the
Present Campaign.

The speech of w. F. Gurley OF Oma'
ha last Saturday evening was one Of
the most finished and eloquent address
es of the campaign. 1t was free from
the invectdve and bitterness sometimes
employed to rouse the ~prejudices o.
an audience, and stated the issues o.
the campaign fairly and f%orcefully. Mr.
Gurley. being personally we'll acquaint'
ed with Mr.. Bryan, was well fitted to
state fairly the character of the mar
who is contesting for the highest office
in the gift Of the American people. We
think that many Of those who were op-
posed to the speaker cannot but think
more highly of his III than otherwise
on account of his fairness and his pol
ished n of presenting his views
The speaker was introduced by Hon
Stephen w. Downey.
After speaking of Mr.. Bryan as he
knows him, and calling the attention oil
his hearers to Bryan's past record on
the tariff and other questions, Mr.. Cur
ley spoke in part as follows:
Mr.. Bryan asserts that he holds a d.
vine commission to represent what he
is pleased to style the masses. He holds
that as between the common people and
The classes" he represents the COM
mon people. I stand here to say to you
that any man who would make his cam
paagn for the presidency upon am ap-
peal to the prejudices Of men, basing
that appeal upon a state Of facts which
does 10 exist, is not only unfit for that
highest office in the gift OF a republic,
but is absolutely and utterly lacking
in that spirit Of lofty patriotism which
through all our history has character
lied the SOL of the American republic,
and has given to American citizenship
a dignity beyond the power Of kings to
confer.
When Bryan was in the City OF Chi
cago, he quoted the poet Emerson to
show that fishermen, choppers and
plowmen constitute a state; and he n
deavored to impress upon his hearers
that although for more than a century
this nation has been dominated by the
classes, that the hour was now at hand
when the common people whom he had
come to represent were to be brought
into their common heritage-the right
to govern themselves. The democratic
candidate for the presidency is either
wilfully or wofully ignorant Of the his
tory of his country. If he does not
know that the will of what he chooses
to call the common people" is already
~emblazoned upon the pages Of our ma
tional constitution, and the statute
books of the states. He is either will
fully or wofully ignorant of the his
tory Of his country II he does not know
that for more than half a century the
great leaders of this republic-the men
who have written the history Of this
nation in letters Of living light, ex-
pressing the will Of the common peo-
ple-have come from the cabins Of the
fishermen. the choppers and the plow-
men who constitute a state. Has he
forgotten? II he has, the people Of
America have not forgotten. that Abra-
ham Lincoln was born in a cabin as
rude and cherries as that which shell
tered the Babe of Bethlehem. He
struggled with adversely in the woods
Of Kentucky, obtaining the rudiments