Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1896-09-25
Of Quakers Fight to Hear Bry
an Speak.
Forty Thousand People EndeayOr to
Crowd into Hall with a Seati2g
Capacity of but 3OOO-PeopIe Hurt
in the struggle for Admission.

and other authorities, exceeded any out
pouring of the people on a similar oc-
casion in the history of the city. He
spoke at the Academy of Music, which
las a seating capacity of about 5000.
Every available inch in the house was
occupied two hours before Mr. Bryan
arrived, and experts estimated the au-
dience at fully Coco Gathered in the
street outside of The academy were fully
$4,000 people, who stood patiently until
1890 hoping to hear or see the candi-
date. The crush was something awful
Many of those who succeeded in getting
inside the academy hal their clothing
almost torn from them Many cases of
more or less injury were reported, one
man with broken arm being taken to
the hospital Hundreds of policemen
were powerless to keep the crowds in
check. He said in part:
The gold standard papers ask why I
come to Pennsylvania. I have nothing
to conceal. I will tell you why I came
I came first to secure if possible the
electoral vote of the state. If you deny
that, if you will not give me that vote, if
we are defeated in this campaign, then I
came upon another mission, and that is
to tell the people of Pennsylvania that
the agitation for free coinage will never
cease in this country until the gold
standard is driven back to England.
They say the craze is dyiRg out,
care not what they call the silver cause;
you may apply such epiteths to it as you
will but know the silver cause will not
die because truth never dies. Applause.
You ask me why know that this
cause is true2 I can give you many
good reasons; but one reason is sufi-
cient, that every enemy to good govern
ment is against free silver. You can
know a cause as you can know an indi-
vidual by the company that it keeps.
Your city is called the City of Brother
" Love. I come to proclaim to you the
gospel that is described by the name of
your own city, and yet you say you will
give a hundred thousand majority
against that doctrine I come to pro-
claim financial independence in a CITY
which saw the Declaration of Independ-
ence signed here more than a hundred
years ago Great applause. You say
this city, in which the forefathers gath
cred when they were willing to DEFY the
foreign wers and declare their indie
Pendense. you say this city is afraid to
have financial independ .nce? I shall
not declare that the descendants of our
forefathers of a hundred years ago have
sunk so low, unless YOU assert it with
the ballot next November. Applause
You have no banks in this CITY TODAY
which are not controlled by the infu-
ence Of London and have no more re-
spect for the American who takes his
patriotism from Lombard street than l
have for the tory who took his patriot
ism hundred years ago from England.
One of the papers said that I lacked
dignity. I would rather have It said
that I lacked dignity than that I lacked
TO meet the enemies who con-
spire against this nations welfare in
Wall street. What other president did
they ever chan sc with a lack of digni I
": TCries of Lincoln and great ap-
plause Yes. my friends, they said it
Of Lincoln, and of Jackson. TOO. Then
Jefferson lacked dignity, too I believe
a man ought not be too dignifed, but
nor lacking dignity.
Now It nigh be more dignifed if
l would stay at home and have people
come to see me. Long applause But
YOU knc'- at l said was not going to
promise an, yydy an Office, and therefore
some people who might come to see a
candidate under some circumstances
would not come to see me at all. Aad
hen all our people don't have money to
brow at the birds.
The nominee then attacked the finan.
,ial plank Of the republican party. He
iaid the republicans were arguing that
rec coinage of silver was simply in the
interests of the mine owners. Yet he
aid their platf 5rm declared for interna-
iona bimetallism. Uproarious APP
clause followed when he asked whether
bimetallism would not
lelp the mine owners just as much as in
dependent bimetallism. And would not
bimetallism, ne added, help ]
he debtor class as much as independ-
mt bimetallism'