The Portland daily press., 1896-11-16
"ABOVE THE FLOOD. 2
Fopocrat Bryan Wildly Waves His
Arms
GETS SECOND WIND AND GOES TO
TALKING AGAIN.

Addresses the Mary Bryan Silver Club OF
Lincoln-Then He Talks to the Men In
the Evening Thinks His Cause Is Bet
ter Off Than Ever Before.
Lincoln. Nebr., Novsm Der 14.-An
audience of ladies which packed the
funke opera house from pit to dome
greeted ". J. Bryan this afternoon. The
ADDRESS, which was brj eff, was given by
invitation of the Mary Bryan Silver club
OF Lincoln. Mr.. Bryan congratulated the
ladies on the part they had taken as
the friends of bimetaIlism and expressed
his heartfelt appreciation Of the efforts
made in his behalf. After referring to
the campaign in a general way, the
speaker said that among the new things
OF this campaign was the speaking to
audiences of those who could not vote.
But he said, he liked to talk to women
on political subjects. He referred pleas
antly to the influence OF women over the
husband. He would rather, at the be-
ginning of a campaign, have the wife
than the husband on bis side. There was
chance then of getting both. Speak
ing OF the tendency to keep out OF poll
tics because of the fear Of contamination.
Mr. Bryan said; Politics is going to
stay In this country. Because we ignore
politics, we cannot get out OF politics.
We should prepare ourselves and our
children SO that politics may be so pure
that any body can take part without
being contaminated
Mr.. Bryan was warmly applauded
throughout his address. He spoke 80 min
utes and at the conclusion he and Mrs.
Bryan were occupied an hour in shaking
hands with the crowd.
Under the auspices OF the Lincoln
Bimetallic club. and tho Travelling Men s
Bryan club, and what was. known during
the campaign as the Bryan Home
Guards, MIR. Bryan tonight delivered
his first formal address since the election,
sounding what is generally accepted as
the keynote OF himself and his followers
in the campaign which is to continue
for the free and unlimited coinage of
gold and silver. Mr.. Bryan was given
his home city. The meeting was held
at the Funke Opera house, which was
crowded. Mr.. Bryan was in good voice
and never in his many speeches before
Lincoln audiences, has he spoken with
greater vigor and earnestness. MIR.
Bryan was loudly cheered when he made
his first appearance this evening. He
NJ
saying in part:
"We have passed through this cam
paign and been defeated and l want you
TO remember this, that there is not in
this land a single advocate Of free coin
age who is not willing to abide by the
decision of the American people without
complaint. You do not find among the
silver men those who say as dlstin-
guished Republican i'll New York said:
We may not abide by the result. You
do not find among US persons who will
stand up and express doubt as to whether
the will Of the American people Is su-
preme. The people who say that you
found among the great corporate inter-
ests Of this country which are ensrenohed
behind the Repu blican party and who
threatened not 10 abide BY the decision
the American people. Among the men
who called US anarchists you find the
ones who limited at possible means by
which the will of the people could be de-
feated. ] am proud that in our ranks
we had men who love this form of gov
eminent; but accepting without COM
plant the results of an election Goes not
mean that we shall surrender our con-
viotions or that in the future we shall
fight with less earnestness than we have
fought in the past. You must remem ber
that some party has always been defeated
and yet the parties have not gone out of
existence because of the defeat. Renem-
Der that the Democratic party lived for
many years without even having won a
presidential election and 1t lived after it
won and then failed to get The President
elected. believe we have made great
progress In this campaign. We have not
made the progress Nc hoped to have
made. We have not achieved the results
which we expected but the cause of BIZ
metallism was stronger the day after
election than it was at any day during
the Champaign. / want to say shis and
your observation will bear out my re-
marks thai we went into this fight dis
organized army. We came out of it a
fighting force that has never had supe-
rior in history. l understand that the
Republicans will keep Up their organi-
zatlon. l advise you to keep up your
organization.