The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-30
To jamestown.

CLEAN, N. Y, Aug. 29-Mr. Bryan
made the trip from Hornellsville to
jamestown in a special car furnished
by the jamestown committee. On the
train was a committee from James,
town and clean. There were a few
stops.
a big crowd had gathered at Wells
Vile, but the train whirled past so
rapidly that all the candidate heard
was the echo of the cheers and the
faint strain of a band. Cuba was the
first stop. A big crowd was there and
Mr.. Bryan shook hands with many.
The train reached clean at $40 p. m.
ana MI. Bryan was given a rouSing re-
ceptlon. Mr.. Bryan spoke from the
rear platform of the car. Three thou
sand people were in the crowd and
they cheered with vigor.
MT. Bryan arrived at the Jamestown
with cheers by a thousand people crowd
ed there and along the embankment
overlooking the track He and Mrs.
Bryan were taken to the Sherman House,
whence, after supper, they were con-
Veyed to CeIeron, on Chautauqua lake, in
special trolley car. The convention hall
at Celeron has seating capacity of 5000,
but fully 10000 people were damned into
1t long before the Bryan party came at
3 o'clock. Outside there were
to get to the doors. The party was en-
to fight hard to keep from being
crushed by the curious men who
swarmed around them. When Mr.. Bryan
stepped upon the platform, he was greet
ed with fierce, shTiH cheer which in
its intensity suggested the Chicago con-
vention. Everyone stood on their chairs,
waving handkerchiefs, and the cheers
kept up for several minutes. After this
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to being panic, and under the condi-
tons there a, panic would surely have
resulted in loss of life.
Mr.. Frank H. Mott introduced Mr..
waiting for quiet. The people kept
crowding in at the doors and pressing to
the front. Mr.. Bryan begged those in
the aisles to get out lest a panic should
result. and by word and gestures i'm
plored them for order, but he could not
get it. Members of the committee took
turns at exhorting the people to keep
back, but they were not needed One
excited man in the gallery got hearing
and cried out: 60 out for heavens
sake; there will be panic and people
will be killed"
Others in the audience made similar
appeals. Mr.. Bryan declared that
HE WOULD NOT SPEAK
under such dangerous circumstances. Mr..
Sibley, one of the committee, announced
w
speak in the open air if the people would
go out Finally the intelligence was con-
veyed to the people that Mr.. Bryan
would talk outside after the indoor meet
ing and Mr.. Sibley would talk outside
Immediately. Several hundred were in
duced to leave, and then, after thIrty-five
minutes of struggling against the deter
mination of more people than the hall
would hold to hear him, Mr.. Bryan was
able to begin his speech
The address delivered was largely on the
lines of his speech at Hornellsville today.
He put the audience in good humor i'm
mediately by the statement that when so
many people gathered together on such
occasion and put themselves to so much
personal discomfort in a banner Republic
can county, he was afraid to go into any
Democratic counties to speak.
He devo ed himself almost entirely TO the
issue of the campaign. At the outside, he
predicted that there would be
SIXTEEN REPUBLICANS
for every Democrat lost by the Chicago
ticket. He accused his political opponents
of having brought about panic to Sc
cure the accomplishment of private ends.
They forced issue after issue of bonds, re-
CARELESS of prices, and the tax payers had
to pay the prices. Mr.. Bryan spoke of the
Democratic administration as one whose
financial policy had aroused the ire of the
producers of wealth. The Republican
party. he said, lost it's opportunity in not
denouncing that policy and by offering to
give to the people silver, as it ought to
do. If the Republican party had eSpouSed
the cause of the people, no human agency,
he said, could prevent their victory in this
Mr. Bryan laid stress in the
claim of the Republican party that it had
struck the shackles from all the slaves,
and he gained great applause by his state
ment that it was now attempting to fasten
the letters upon 100000 of free men.
GOLD IS A COWARD"
was one of the expressions used by Mr..
Bryan. 1T has ever been a coward, and
the reason the advocates of the gold
standard are towards is because their
bring them to the realization
that they bring ruin to the human race"
AS in most of his speeches, Mr.. Bryan
contended that the st. Louis platform adj
vocated the abandonment of the gold
standard All his references to foreigners
loudly cheered, particularly his statement
THAT if you cannot expect pity from st.
Louis, how can you expect it from Lom-
bard street,"
during the evening was when he said:
I'VE, as Democrats, are glad to get rid
of those Democrats who are using the
party for private gain. L say
bid them god speed into the Republican
party. And / say that whenever one of
these Democrats makes a hole to get into
the Republican party it will be big enough
to let out ten honest Republicans who
want to come to the Democratic party"
Great cheering.)
His appeal to his audience as patriots to
destroy the Republican party was loudly
cheered.
Mr. Bryan, with a few pleasant words
from the hall. 1t was IL o'clock
when they reached the Sherman house I
Mr.. Bryan was obliged to shake hands /
with hundreds of people until near mid
night