The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-15
BRYAN RAISES HIS BANNER.
THE KEYNOTE FOR THE NEXT
CAMPAIGN SOUNDED.

Is Supreme-They DO Not Surrcn-
der Their Convictions, However,
and VIII Not Fight Less Earnestly
in the Future-The Speakers Re-
ceptiOn IA Flattering One.
Lincoln, Neb., Nov. 14.-Under the aus
pices of the Lincoln Bimetallist Club, the
local Travelling Mems Bryan Club ana
what was known during the campaign
as the Bryan Home Guards, William J.
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. MIR.
Bryan was given flatterlng reception by
the people of his home city The meeting
was held at the Funke Opera House,
which was crowded to the doors. Mr..
Bryan was in good voice, and never Ia
his many speeches before Lincoln audi
ences has he spoken with greater vigor or
earnestness.
1t was Bryan day in Lincoln, beginning
at o'clock this afternoon. when the
democratic candidate spoke to ladies' only
and concluding shortly before 10 o'clock,
when he rounded out his effort before a
crowd. which was unable to gain admit
tance to the opera house, and waited pa
tiently for his appearance at Bohannan's
hall.
Mr.. Bryan was loudly cheered when he
made his first appearance this evening.
He spoke deliberately and with emphasis,
saying in part; "Mr. Chairman, Fellow
Citizens: 1 don't know that l can make
myself heard for any length of time. My
voice, which has served me we'll for sew
eral months, during which it has been
sorely tried, is worse to-day than 1t has
been at any time during the campaign.
II want to say a word for the future.
We have passed through this campaign
and we have been defeated. and l want
you to remember this, that there is not in
this land single advocate of free coin
age who is not willing to abide the decis-
ion of the American people without COM
plant. (Cheers) You do not find among
the silver men those who say, as a dis
tinguished republican in New York, said:
we may not abide by the result You
do not find among the silver men persons
who will stand up and express doubt as
to whether the will of the
people who say that, you find
among the great corporate interests
of this country, which are entrenched be-
hind the republican party and who
threatened not to abide the decision of
the election unless they could continue to
represent the American people. Among
the men who called us anarchists you find
A. "a . aat1 Ia htF
which the will of the people could be de-
feated. l am proud that in our ranks
we had men who loved this form of gov
ernment, that no matter what the people
say, they rule and we bow to their su-
premacy.
But, my friends, bowing to a decision
and accepting without complaint the re-
suit of an election does not mean that
we shall surrender our convictions or
that in the future we shall fight with less
earnestness than we have fought in the
past. You must remember that in the
history Of this nation some party has al
ways been defeated and yet parties have
not gone out of existence because OF de-
feat. Remember that the democratic
party lived for many years without ever
having won a presidential election and 1t
lived after It won a presidential election
and then failed to get the President
elected because it Is the opinion of
the democrats of this nation
that Samuel J. Tilden was elected Presi-
dent Of the United States and yet the peo-
ple who supported him were willing to
abide by a decision of a tribunal instituted
for the purpose of settling that dispute.
II say the democratic party has lived
through defeat and the republican party
has lived through defeat; all parties have
lived through defeat II they had anything
to live for, and when our opponents tell
us that this defeat means the annihllation
of those who believe in free silver they
take counsel Of their hopes instead of their
Judgment Great cheering).
II believe that we have made great
progress In this campaign. We have not
made the progress which we hoped to have
made; we have not achieved the results
which we expected to achieve, but, my
friends, the cause of bimetallism was
stronger the day after the election than
1t was at any day during the campaign.
/ want TO say this and your observation
will bear out my remarks, that we went
into this fight a dlsorganized army; we
came out of 1t a fighting force that has
never had superior in history (Applause.)
Now we have passed the stage Of argu-
ment.
II want to suggest to those who are
going to continue the organization Of the
clubs that they meet at stated times, say,
once a month or at such times as the
members of the club may decide, and at
this meeting they discuss public questions.
/ understand from the papers that the
chairman of the republican national com
mttee has suggested that they will also
keep up their organization. am glad of
It. / have never advised those who be-
1eycd with me to do a single thing that
I would not advise our opponents TO do,
and when 1 advise our people to keep or
ganized and to keep discussing, / advise
our opponents TO do the same thing, be-
cause IL they would discuss more and
think more, there would be less of them.
loud cheering and great applause)
NOW, / would like TO see all the silver
clubs In the United States maintain their
organizations, hold regular meetings and
discuss these question, and / would like
to sec all the republican organizations
kept up and their meetings keep up, and
then / would like TO see Joint debates be-
tween our organizations and theirs, be-
cause, my friends II they can convince
our people that we are wrong we have
no claim upon our people, and II we can
convince them that we are right then
think we will not only have claim, but
we will successfully assert it." (Ap-
ulauaql