The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-06
TENNESSEE TRIP TRIUMPHAL.
THRONGS LINE THE ROUTE FROM
MEMPHIS TO NASHVILLE.

DOIut ana RretSnttOus speech
Delivered From IA stand Erected
Near the Railroad TrRcks-A Sun
Large Crowd Addressed at Me-
Kenzie.
Memphis, Tenn, Oct. 5.-William j.
Bryan reached Memphis this morning at
7.1O o'clock from st. Louis, accompanied
by the members of the Memphis recep
ton committee and Senator-elect H. d.
Money of Mississippi, Representative
John Allen of Mississippi and Represen-
tative Benton McMilin of Tennessee. All
through the night crowds of people had
gathered about the train at its stopping
places and cheered for the candidate. At
Cairo, ILL.,, where the train arrived this
morning at 1:SO o'clock, there was quite
a large gathering. Mr.. Bryan retired
early and did not arise to greet any of
the enthusiasts. Representative Allen
appeared in his place and explained that
the nominee was tired out.
Several hundred people cheered Mr..
Bryan at the Poplar street station here
this morning and he was also greeted
with enthusiasm along the streets on his
way to the Peabody hotel, where he had
breakfast with the members of his party
and the local reception committee.
The visit of Mr.. Bryan was made the oc-
casion of a general holidy. Business
houses closed their doors, and even the
banks suspended for the day. 1t was 1920
o'clock when Mr.. Bryan, under escort or
the Nicely Zouaves and accompanied by
the local reception committee, reached
Overton tract, a big open field. where
the speaking took place. He found there
a dense crowd, estimated at 5000 people.
The audience was not composed wholly
of Memphians. Large contingents came
not only from Arkansas and Mississippi,
but from Alabama and Kentucky, with,
of course, large numbers from nearby
places in Tennessee.
Shrin cheers, that increased in inten-
sity, went up from the assemblage as Mr..
Bryan came in sight, and the volume of
sound became deafening as he mounted
the covered platform erected in the cen
ter of the field. On the stand with MIR.
Bryan were Senators Harris and Bate or
Tennessee, E. w. Carmack, silver demo-
cratic nominee for congress from this
district; Representative Benton McMil-
lin of Tennessee, and Col. John Overton,
Jr., chairman of the Memphis reception
committee.
Senator Harris presented Mr.. Bryan,
who spoke for an hour to the Tennes-
scans present. The most interesting part
of his address was his comment upon the
| congressional fight in the Memphis dis
trct. He urged voters to cast their bal
lots for +. w. Carmack, the silver dem
ocratic nominee who is opposed by Josiah
Patterson, the present representative. Col.
Patterson is a gold man, but is supporting
the Chicago ticket.
Leaving that subject, Mr.. Bryan con-
tinued: my friends, I am not here to
interfere in your state campaign or local
politics, but l am here to so deepen the
convictions of those who believe in free
coinage that there will not be a man in
this state who agrees with us who is not
willing to sacrifice anything that is nee
essary to secure the advancement of this
cause. Great applauSe). / am here to
increase the enthusiasm, if can, until the
man who stands in the way of our COM
plete success will be branded as an en-
emy. Great applause) You may find
it best to unity our forces
you are to judge; but, my
friends | want you to remember that you
cannot help our cause by helping those
who are fighting us (Applause). If we
are right in the position we have taken, IL
the democratic party is right in its plat
form. then the man who does not stand
upon that platform, no matter how good
a democrat he may have been before, is
no democrat now. (Applause). And no
man can claim to be friend of mine who
says that he wants to elect me because
regular
there and tie my hands and make me pow
erless. (Applause). l could not feel the
interest that / do in this campaign If all
IN had to command me was party regular
ity (Applause). / appeal to you on a
higher ground than that. have a strong
er claim upon your support than can be
given by regularity of a convention
stand by the right of the American people
to have a financial system of their own
great applause), and therefore, my can
didacv appeals TO every American citi-
zen who believes in the right of the peo-
pie of this country to govern themselves
regardless of the aid or consent of any
other nation on earth. (Cheers). l am not
appeaIng to any sentiments hostile to for
\ eigners. but say to you. my friends, that
that nation does not deserve to be called
q nation which accepts financial policy
oreadv made" from some other country.
Until we have vindicated the right OF this
people to legislate for themselves on eve
ry issue they cannot drive tariff into this
people with a pile driver"
Mr.. Bryan then spoke in the lines of
his well-known argument, beginning:
"The republican platform does not say
the gold standard is a good thing" He
talked about a rising dollar and falling
dollar and about not wanting dollar
so good that nobody could get any, fol-
lowing familiar lines.
on the conclusion of his speech, Mr..
BRYAN was conveyed to the Louisville and
Nashville station, accompanied by a great
crowd OF enthusiasts, and at 1910 O'Clock
he left for Nashville.
Nashville, Tenn, Oct. 5.-Great crowds
greeted william J. Bryan in his eight
hours journey through Tennessee to-day.
People thronged from the surrounding
country to every station where stops were
made.
Dirt-covered men on horseback, their
trousers legs stuffed into high boots scores
of pretty girls in summer costume ana
negro cotton pickers were everywhere 10
be seen.
Mr.. Bryan Travelled in a special train
paid for by those accompanying him.
Arlington was the first stop after leav-
ing Memphis, and several hundred people
there pressed around the rear platform or
the candidates car 10 shake hands with
him. The local militia company, wear
ing uniforms and bearing arms, was
drawn up on the station platform.
Brownsville came next and the crowd
there was large and full Of enthusiasm.
A tremendous crowd was at Humboldt.
1t numbered 5000 or 1000 and was packed
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