The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-10-22
BRYAN'S DETROIT RECEPTION
HE ADDRESSED THE LARGEST
THRONGS THAT EVER AS
SEMBLED THERE.
STREET CAR TRAFFIC WAS STOPPED
So Dense Were the Crowds-He Also
Had an Immense Demonstration
at Saginaw, Where Sew
eral Women Tainted.

Detroit, Mich, Oct. 17.-William j.
Bryan completed his spectacular tour
of Michigan tonight by addressing the
largest throngs of people ever gathered
at political meetings in Detroit. From
platform erected against the Washington
boulevard side of the Hotel Cadillac he
talked to a mass of people which filled
the wide boulevard and extended far
into the adjoining streets.
At the Auditorium he spoke to an
audience which occupied every inch of
space, while thousands stood outside,
waiting for a possible sight of the can
didate.
Lastly, he appeared upon stand erect
ed at the Woodward avenue tiremen's
hall before a crowd which was so great
that it stopped all street car and other
traffic entirely.
The candidates train was met at
Woodward avenue station, three miles
from the center of the city, by the recep-
ton committee. The procession of
carriages trotted down Woodward ave-
nue. and to the Hotel Cadillac by a rear
alley entrance thus avoiding the crowds
on Michigan avenue. A roar of en-
thusasm went up from the crowd as
Mr.. Bryan appeared, and the tremendous
enthusiasm was kept up the entire even
ing.
At the Washington boulevard meeting
Mr.. Bryan said, in part:
I'VE have lost the support of some
democrats, but, my friends, it is only
the big democrats who left us. The rank
and file of the party are still true to the
traditions of the party. In this con-
test, where plutocracy is arrayed on one
side and democracy on the other, the
democrats who leave us in the face of
the enemy must understand that they
surrender all claim to authority in the
democratic party and all claim of respect
of those who love Jefferson and Jackson
Great applause) We are fighting the
same fight that has been fought in every
generation. 1t is a fight that comes in
our form of government over and over
again. In times of peace and quiet the
great aggregations of wealth silently OBJ
tain possession of the government. They
have used instrumentalities of the gov
eminent for private gain. They have
used the powers of government for pub
lie plumber and then, when the people be-
came discouraged, when the people
gather themselves together to drive out
of power those who have abused gov
eminent, those in the enjoyment of
special privileges always entrench them
selves behind bulwark raised to con-
tribute magnificent campaign funds for
return to power, expecting to get back
more out of the people than it cost to
buy an election. But the American peo-
pie have never failed in any crisis in
the past, nor have they reason to believe
that they will fail in this great crisis. 1t
is true that we have on the other side as
great campaign fund as was ever
raised in American politics. 1t is true
that they are resorting to intimidation
and coercion as they never resorted to
them before, but, my friends, while
money talks. money don't vote in the
United States. Great applause) In
this campaign we believe that the rank
and file of voters of the United States,
knowing what the gold standard has
done. knowing what the gold standard
is doing knowing what the gold standard
must continue to do, will prepare them
selves for one supreme struggle, and in
that struggle the conscience of the
American people will prove supreme over
the SynlicatpS trusts and combinations y