The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1896-09-18

| Hon William Jennings Bryan.
voice for the trio of speeches here, and
his vocal organs were consequently in
pretty good condition. Reaching st.
Louis from Kansas City at 6:i5 in COM
pany with Gov. Stone, Lon. " Stephens,
the democratic candidate for governor
of Missoufi and other prominent pol
iticians, Mr.. Bryan was greeted at the
| Union station by a crowd of several
thousand people, who made the spa
cious train shed ring with their shouts.
After quick supper at the Plant
er's hotel, Mr. Bryan, at eight o'clock,
started out on his round of speech
making, doing the jumping from place
| to place in a special trolley car.
Concordia park, the Auditorium and
| Sportsman's park were the places
where he spoke. Concordia park has
great open amphitheater, it's terraced
sides forming the seats for the multi
tudes that had gathered there. Last
night every bit of space on the floor
and on the terraces was taken by
spectators, and when the democratic
candidate arrived he found an audi
| ence of between Is, 1000 and 20. 900 peo-
! pie. The scene was picturesque, with
the solid lines of humanity along the
sloping banks of the arena, each
| slightly highly than that below, while
| Chinese lanterns suspended from many
trees threw a soft light over the as
semblage.
Mr.. Bryan was received with round
after round of applause and after an
introduction by Ii. j. Brady, char.
man of the state central committee,
made an address half an hour long.
The distance between Concordia
Park and the great Auditorium, where
Maj. Mckinley was nominated by the
republican convention, is more than
three miles, and when Mr.. Bryan ar
rived there he found the interior
packed from floor to ceiling with peo-
pie anxious to hear him talk. 1t is
stated that Is, 900 chairs had been
placed in the hall. and last night not
only did every chair have an occupant
but at least five thousand people
crowded stage, aisles and the spaces
back of the galleries. The heat was
enervating and several women tainted
Private John Allen, congressman from
Missis ssippi, entertained the vast audi
ence until Mr.. Bryan arrived and kept
lies, particularly those about Gen.
Palmer, the gold democratic nominee
for the presidency.
1t was intended that Mr.. Bryan
should be introduced by Virgil Rule,
but Mr.. Rule could not still the tumult
of enthusiasm that ragged when the
democratic candidate appeared. Men
and women stood on chairs and waved |
hats, handkerchiefs and fans. The |
applause lasted ten minutes and ceased |
only when Mr.. Bryan, taking matters
into his own hands, waived the intro |
duction and began his address.
1t was the same story over again at |
Sportsman's park, which Mr.. Bryan |
reached at 1918. The crowd there |
was equal to that at the Auditorium
and was quite as enthusiastic. The |
Introduction was made by President |
Wickard of the Travelling Mems club. |
Mr.. Bryan's most important speech |
was that at Concordia park, while |
that at the Auditorium had local |
significance in Mr.. Bryan's remarks |
about a statement of St. Louis banks |
published in the afternoon papers as |
to why they do not pay out gold.
Mr.. Bryan reached the Auditorium
at 9;l5 p. m. and following an inter |
esting address by ex-Lieut. Gov. john
son, said
If the republican party had declared in favor |
OF gold standard its orators might have |
gone before the PEOPLE and advocated the gold |
standard as a good thing To have done so |
they would have had to close their ears to the |
cry Of distress which comes up everywhere.
But had they declared for gold standard they |
would at least have had something to advo-
cate. But they did not do it. |
The advocates of q gold standard did not de-
clare for a gold standard. Whyf Because /
those who favored gold standard never fought /
an open fight in their lives. Cold is q coward.
1t viii not meet its enemies in an open field, |
and those who advocate gold standard have
never been willing to face their enemies before /
the American people. Let me give you an evil
dence of the fact that our opponents are not
willing to take The American peopleinto their
confidence and declare before them the policy /
which they desire.
This night recalls my last visit to this hall |
little less than three months ago. attended |
a national convention held In this hall saw
here adopted The first platform ever adopted /
by national convention in all the history of
the United States. which declared that the
United States must depend upon foreign ma
tions for permission 70 do what our people de-
sired to do.
Isaw adopted in this hall platform which
pledged the republican party to get rid OF
gold standard and substitute bimetallism as
soon as the leading nations Of Europe would
help US to DO SO. Before an audience that did
not equal this. saw this platform made. and |
l am delighted that an audience greater in
size. gathered not from all the Union, but from
q single city, has met in this same hall to pro-
nounce condemnation upon that Platform
Politics my friends, is at times serious bust-
ness, and politics this year Is more serious