The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-17
HOSTS GREET HIM
A Crowd of 10000 Hear Bryan
At Kansas City.
r,4.-. Eo,.v-
Cheer Enthusiastically Every
Period of His Speech.
HIS WORDS MODERATE
COunseIs the People to Study
And Allure Bitterness.
He Pays a High Compliment to
Ex-GOv. Russell.

Kansas City, July 17-Ten thousand
people stood packed in the thoroughfare
in front of the Coates House and howled
themselves into a perfect frenzy Of de-
light and enthusiasm over VIM J.
Bryan, the Democratic party nominee,
last night. The cheering began at least
an hour before the presidential candi-
date was advertised to appear and it
was kept UP with an occasional lun
until the distinguished free silver advO-
cate appeared on the balcony of the
hotel
Then the vast throng broke out with
redoubled energy and gave him an ova-
ton that was not unlike that he re-
ceived after his famous speech at the
Chicago convention. Upon their ar
vivaI at the hotel Mr.. and Mrs. Bryan
were given suite of rooms. After
an hours rest they went to dinner with
Senator Cockrell and several other dis
tinguished citizens of Missouri. When
dinner was ended they were presented
to a number of prominent Democrats
and their wives in the ladies' parlor.
Meanwhile a military band was Civ
ing concert in the balcony from which
Mr.. Bryan afterward spoke. AS the
band played the crowd gathered. 1t
assembled by twOs and threeS and
500. As the crowd increased the up
roar grew in volume until it wound up
with mighty shout at the appearance
of Mr.. Bryan.
Henry s. Julian, chairman of the
Jackson county central committee, in
trOduced the silver orator, and in doing
SO he said that he took great pleasure
in presenting to the citizens of Kansas
City and Jackson county the next Pres
ident of the United States. Then fol-
lowed another uprOar of delight from
the assem- bled hosts of Democracy
which lasted for several minutes. W hen
the cheering ceased Mr.. Bryan said:
Mr.. Chairman, Ladies and Gentle
men: Great applause.) 1 stated to
the committee that I would not make
political speech, but in the presence Of
I will be compelled to break my promise
for just a few moments. (Great ap-
plause,) We are entering upon a mem
Orable campaign The platforms have
been adopted Two great parties have
placed their candidates in the field and
in a little while you as citizens will be
called upon to discuss the issues in
vOlved.
The platform adopted at Chicago is.
in my humble judgment, one of the
most splendid presentations of public
policies ever adopted by a national con-
VentiOn in the United States. (Enthusi-
astic applause and cheering) 1t pre-
Sents the issues which in the judgment
of the delegates are paramount in this
form in every sentence, word and syl-
liable. Tremendous applause.) A Dem
ocratic platform that carries the party
back to the days of its founder, Thomas
Jefferson Long and continued APP
plause), and to its most courageous de-
fender. Andrew Jackson. Great ap-
plause.)
There never was a time when the
real principles of true Democracy were
dearer to the hearts of the American
people than they are today, and it is
because that platform appeals to the
hearts of the American people that you
find them rising in its support from the
Pacific ocean clear down to the places
where the waves of the Atlantic beat.
1t is not the platform of section. 1t
is the platform of our common cOun-
try and appeals to those who love man
kind to arise in it's defense. (Great
applause-)
1T breathes the spirit of the declara-
ton of independence; it presents those
fundamental truths upon which all true
government must rest You viii find
in it, as it's keynote, that all men are
created equal, and that the object of
government is to secure to the fndiVid
ual his inalienable rights and protect
each man, from the humblest to the
greatest in the enjoyment of life and
liberty and happiness. Enthusiastic
applauSe.)
1T procIaims the doctrine of civil
liberty and with no less emphasis it
declares the right of every man to
worship his creator according to the
dictates of his own conscience. Cheer
ing and applause for three minutes.)
It pledges the party to the protection
of all without regard to station or con-
dition in society and it pledges the
party to be no respecter of persons
and leaving to the persons to be the
Judge of the manner, the form and the
time they shall worship or if they
please, refuse to worship the God who
gave them being. CHEERS and contin-
Ued applause) Democratic from the
first sentence to the last in the broader
sense in which Democracy appeals to
all who believe in a government of the
people, by the people and for the peo-
pie. (Applause)
From time to time new questions
arise, but the principles of Democracy
are true in all times and Chimes We
simply apply to the new conditions the
principles which are as eternal as the
hills and this time our platform has
declared that the paramount public
question is the restoration of the silver
coinage of the nation. (Cheers.) All
other questions must stand back until
this great question is solved. Four
years ago we went into a campaign
where the great dividing issue was the
tariff question. The tariff question is a
question of taxation and the subject of
taxation is always with us. We may
settle it now and again. but while there
is a government the subject of taxa
ton will be ever present.
But there are times such as the
times through which we are now pass
ing when the acts of this nation upon
its financial policy may determine the
welfare of the people not only of this
nation but of the world, not only now
but for years and decades to come. We
have reached crisis in our monetary
legislation. There are those who would
chain this nation to the gold standard
but while there be those who would
fasten a European yoke upon the necks
of American freemen, there is but one
question and that is can this nation
govern itself and make its own laws
for its own people. (Wild applause and
cries Hit them again.)
In snealking with emphasis upon