The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-08-10
IN CHICAGO.
Bryan Speaks to Thousands
From Clifton House Balcony.
Vast Crowd Surrounds the HO-
tel at Chicago.
THROUGH ILLINOIS.
Crowds at the Stations Before
Reaching Chicago.
Bryan Makes Many Speeches
Varying Each One.
THROUGH ILLINOIS.

Chicago, Aug. 1O.-LOng before the
hour arrived which had been announc-
ed for the coming of the Bryan party
Saturday evening, the street in front Of
the Clifton House, from the balcony of
which Mr.. Bryan was to deliver his
brief address to the people, was crowd
ed with a dense throng completely fill
ing the space between the building lines
and curb-stones. The open windows of
the adjacent buildings were filled with
crowds of ladies and gentlemen and
even the super-structure of the L road
on the Wabash avenue side of the hotel
was lined with rows Of spectators like
a flock of blackbirds on a country
fence The crowds below suFged and
sweltered in the heat and manifested
considerab BILE good-natured Impotence
at the delay in the proceedings, owing
10 the non-arrival of the guest of the
evening.
Eight o'clock passed, the quarter was
struck and still no speaker. The throng
became dense. their yells and cries be
came louder and more pronounced and
everything Indicated the growing anx-
iety of the crowd to hear what Mr..
Bryan had to say.
At last when s:35 had arrived Mr..
Bryan came up on the platform and
was greeted with immense cheering
from the multitude below. The party
was escorted to the hotel by the Cook
County Democratic Marching club
Captain Farrell in command. and the
police with great difficulty made way
for the carriage drawn by four white
horses to the entrance of the hotel on
Madison street Mr. Bryan sat in the
barouche with his face wreathed in
smiles and his hat in his hand, and
bowed repeatedly in response to the
shouts of welcome.
He was followed by Mrs Bryan and
the balance of the party and after their
disappearance from sight the crowd
surged in and filled up the gap, as did
the parted waves of the Red sea upon
the hosts of Pharaoh. After a brief
interval Mr.. Bryan appeared upon the
balcony.
William J. Strong, chairman of the
reception committee of Cook county,
appeared with Mr.. Bryan and delivered
a brief welcoming address. When the
applause which followed the speech Of
the chairman greeting the nominee had
Subsided, Mr. Bryan said:
Mr.. Chairman, Ladies and Gentle
men: 1 have no language, fellow Citi-
zenS, that will express the emotions ex-
cited by this, the most remarkable
demonstration that ever witnessed. In
no other country is such a scene posi-
bic. In no other country can the peO-
pie take up a private citizen and make
him their instrument to accomplish
their will When I see this assem- blage
tonight and when remember what the
newspapers say. I am reminded of what
one of our friends said, that there was
NOBODY on our side except the people,
and as I look into the faces of these
people and remember that our enemies
call them mob and say they are
menace to free government, I ask who
shall save the people from themselves
I am proud to have in this cam
paign the support of those who are
proud to call themselves the common
people If 1 had behind me the great
trusts and combinations I know that
sWOuld no sooner take my seat than they
would demand that I should use my
power to rob the people in their behalf.
But having rather the support of the
great masses, I know that when they
give to me their ballots they shall unite
in saying this one thing: DO your du-
ty and we are repaid These are the
people who ask no favors of the gov
eminent. These are the ones who sim
ply say let US observe equality befQA,
the law. Give equal rights to all ariF
special privileges to none I am glad
to have the support of these people. be
cause I know that when the nation is
1mpeFiled every able-bOdied man of
them will shoulder his musl1et to save
the country. and those who are good
enough to offer their blood on the altar
of their country in time of danger are
good enough to trust in the quiet hours
of peace.
I am simply on my way from my
western home to the great metropolis
of the nation to accept there at the At
lantic seabOard the nomination given
in this city but few weeks ago am
glad that as go can take them your
greeting so kindly expressed in the
words of our chairman, who, though a
Republican heretofore, is a patriot to-
day. And to those of your brethren
who. like, you, are the bone and sinew
of the nation, can take greeting and
tell them that you are their friends
and that you will stand by them and
help them to emanciDate themselves
from the domination from which they
suffer. can go to them and tell them
that you draw your ideas of what this
nation ought to be from one of the
great philosophers of the east. I can
repeat to them as I repeat to you the
language Of Ralph Waldo Emerson. He
says:
will have never a noble,
NO lineage counted great;
Shall constitute q state.
Shall constitute a state
upon this enduring foundation can
be reared q government like ours. I
can take to your eastern brethren greet
Ing, and in the language of Abra ham
Lincoln, can say that the people of the
west and south are ready to join with
the people of the east in declaring that
a government of the people, by the peo-
pie and for the people shall not perish
from the earth"
At the conclusion of Mr.. Ervan's
speech there was an uproarious dem
onstration from the crowd that fairly
made the building tremble. The people
shouted and cheered and blew horns
and made every sort of noise to demon
strate their approval of what had been
said. And long after the speaker had
left the balcony the throng fingered in
the street and called for him to come
out again The speech seemed entirely
too brief and they were hungry for
more.
Upon leaving the balcony Mr. and
Mrs Bryan went to the main uarlO5 of
the Clifton Hone rrl,ns,o q. -. -.