The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-10-16

date at Big Rapids. but the Bryan sup
porfers in the town were not to be out
done and they, too, had provided fer
the distribution OF the ribbons bearing
the Nebraska mans name.
White was also the color used by
The silver people. so nearly everybody
in the audience of 1000 at Big Rapids
had the white insignia of political faith.
The cheering was very hearty, and Mr..
Bryan responded with a speech full
of fervor.
Again were the yellow Mckinley
hodges noticeable at Howard City.
where Mr.. Bryans audience numbered
about 1,500. All of the twenty min
utes' stop was taken up by the candi-
dates speech. Charles r. Slight, DEM
ocratic Union silver candidate for gov
ernor of Michigan, with his wife and
daughter. Joined Mr. Bryan there and
accompanied him to Grand Rapids. The
800 people gathered at Greenville heard
a short speech. Belding, the location
of the well known silk manufactures,
turned out at least 5000 of its inhab-
itants and residents of the vicinity to
give Mr.. Bryan welcome. Four white
horses drew his carriage to the speak
ing place, and sixteen young women
ALTERED IN WHITE AND SILVER
shivered in the raw atmosphere in
company with their comrade, whose
dress carried out the intended typifi-
cation of the ratio between the two
money metals. Much enthusiasm was
shown during the nominees address.
The largest crowd of the journey was
encountered at Ionia, which was
reached at SIT. The street leading
from where the train halted to the
court house, where Mr. Bryan spoke, a
distance of more than 200 yards. was
thronged with humanity and when the
candidate mounted the stand erected
over the court house steps he faced a
densely packed audience of between
5000 and 10000.
Many bands had been engaged for
the occasion, and the half hour spent
by Mr.. Bryan there was as elaborate
in display as he has had in any town
of similar size. The enthusiasm was
rampant
AT 5.45 The, Bryan special, with a car
containing the Grand Rapids reception
committee attached, left Ionia for
Grand Rapids. 1t stopped on the way
at Lowell 10 let some people see the
nominee and shout for him, and reached
Grand Rapids at 6:45 p. m.
From the time he reached Grand
Rapids until he escaped to his special
train and went to bed, Mr.. Bryan was
the recipient of
A CONTINUOUS OVATION.
A couple of thousand people were at
the Aldina, Grand Haven & Milwaukee
station when he arrived, in company
with Charles r. Sigh and Justin R.
Whiting, respectively candidates for
governor and Acknowledgements of
Michigan on the Democratic union sill
yer ticket. A special trolley car took
him n Cracoa,,t 10,
into carriage drawn by four white
horses and was carried off by round
about way to avoid the throngs in the
streets to Campdu square, in the heart
of Grand Rapids. An open-air meeting
was scheduled there, and it proved to
be one of the largest ever addressed
by the candidate. A fair estimate
placed the crowd at $4,000. Mr. Bryan
was well received. He was introduced
by George Hummer, Democratic candi-
date for congress in this. the Fifth dis
trict, and made a twenty-minute speech
and then hurried off to the Powers
house to address an enthusiastic aud
fence almost entirely composed of Ia
dies.
THE WOMEN ADHERENTS
of the Bryan and Sewan ticket in Grand
Rapids had initiated their sisters of
Minneapolis and Duluth and secured
the opera house for their exclusive use.
From the Powers house Mr.. Bryan
went to Lockerby hall, said to be the
largest auditorium in the state, and
made his third and last speech to the
5000 demonstrative people packed,
damned and huddled together there.
w. F. Knight, who brought the Michi-
gan delegation over to Bryan at Chi
cago, presented the nominee, and John
W. Tomlinson of Alabama followed in
speech that was heartily received.
When the nights ordeal was over, Mr..
Bryan went to the Livingston hotel. to
get Mrs. Bryan, who had been holding
a reception there, and together they
were driven to the depot, where the
Bryan special was waiting The train
was taken to a siding out of town,
in order that the candidate and his
party might pass the night undis-
turbed.
Strangely enough, Mr.. Bryan's speech
to the ladies at Powers opera house
tonight was the most important deliv-
cred here. 1t contained some new mat
ter. and was noticeable for Mr. Bryan's
criticism of Messrs. Ingersoll, Halstead.
Carlisle and Harrison. He said, in
part:
You will remember that a few years
eeR -AASAC a. u SlC&l AC6l VI ldlh
about a character. 1 don't know
whether ] ought to call it character
or two characters, but it was
DIR. JEKYL AND Mr.. HYDE
You win remember that the same per-
kon appeared at different times in
different characters. One time the man
was a good man. benevolent. kindly
disposed. AT another time. the same
person was q mean man, d villain,
seeking to take human life. Ny friends,
we have the character of Jexyl and
Hyde illustrated well. when we come
TO discuss the silver question, because
we can cite you number OF men who
have been both Jekyl and Hyde. We
can cite you a number of men who
have been kindly disposed and inter-
ested in the public welfare at one time.
and who. at another time have been
supporting a system that means more
misery, according to Mr.. Carlisle, than
all the wars, pestilences' and famines
that have ever occurred in history.
tApplause) / want TO call your atten-
ton to two or three persons who have
said one thing al one time and another
thing at another time on this money
question. Our opponents have been
able to bring into this campaign all the
movable guns in the country They
- -4SeSo vi lHsIT sue, anu are
sending out over the country a great
ns.si-r
PIECES OF LARGE ARTILLERY.
and one of the ablest speakers that
they have sent out is Colonel Ingersoi
who brings to this money question his
great ability as an orator. Mr.. Incer-
soil is now using his great weapon.
ricicule, against silver Let me show
you what he once said on the other
side of the question, and he will have
10 talk a long while before he can an
swer what he has said on our side.