The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-09-23
The Democratic Candidate Captures the
Stronghold OF Gold and aepubICaniSm.
ADDRESSES THREE lMhERSE MEETINGS
The Academy OF Music Packed ms
Never Before ard thousands Elnd
toGo Away -DvcrGow Meetings A.
: tended by sluIi!suucs OF wildly
Enthusiastic voters

ier Pa. at 1922. He made the trim i'm
q a, special car, attached TO n regular train.
Tho ca" had been provided by the Ches-
ter Reception Committee
senator Graz. of Delaware, one of Mr..
CleNelanuS main supporters in the Sem
6te was on thy train, and at Claymont.
came INTO Mr.. Bryan's car. The candi-
uate ana the Senator chatted together
uhth CheSter. was reached. The special
car was crowded with members of the
ieception Committee from PHILADELPHIA
and Chester
Ihcre were no incidents on the short
run eScent that those in Mr. Rryans
coaah We're shalsen about by n Quick
stop of the train at the station here
a shattered pane of glass was the total
da1naEe. Mr.. Bryan addressed large
auIience here and left for PHILADELPHIA
CT LA Il. nl
a iarse crowd received Bryan at the
station here. ana many of thos,, com
posing II followed his carriage thro,;;.l,
the streets to Turner X Wuodrow's PARK.
on .huClSon avenue, near the y. NJ C. a
pui!uing where Speakers stand had
sueh erected. Mr.. Bryan was cheered
soou sized audience there and
!iad" q hllef speech. While he was
taiiIihG 1t began to rain. but not hard
eiouGl To cause the audience. to 6isnorea
from the stand MIR. Bryan went to The
.oIohnadc Hotel. whore he held a recep-
1,'.a ,toi!; !eaNin& there in time to take the
ii, ~
had been placed ut the dispasa, M flo
candidate BY the phlladelphia CITY COM
i!!tie". whose members 'accompanicd
him on the short trip
fhiiadeiph'a. Sept. GA crowd of
ABOUT 300 people were QwHftirr AIR Rrv.
an s arrival at the Broad Street Stntjnp
OF the PENNSYLVANIA railroad which he
re2ched ai l2:O2. As the candidaic r,,nc
Gown Inc platform With Chairman cur
ieN ana the City Committee the crowd
hs.I
ms 'thanks nS he hurried towards his
caffiaSe Nh Bryan was driven Ia tbe
LalaNettc Hotel. which will be his hond
Quarters while mere. Awaiting i'm iron,
., me hotel was Il small crowd of pno
ore VINO rheeted Mr.. Bryan as he drove
"n ~ me MOTEL was 4 delegation of
ahont thirtv from the New Jnreoy
stare Committee. headed by Johnson
cornish and Postmaster Harry Paul nf
ui'fhGen Mr.. Bryan was !ntroducad ~
eHe ueieNatlpn, and then went to lunch
con. AT 80 Alr. RrNan was tol:a,, ~.
boat TO Washington Park. a suminn,. ,5 s
Hort on IN" New Jersey side of the Dnlo-
noon ''9 ditcI-
Wien Alr Bryan reached Washing
"ih ne found about 1000 persons
Go!'ec'Sd before the stand facing thn
olcVc!e track. William j. ,rh0mnsnn ~
ploihlheni south Jersey politician nnd
,Wnef vt the park. escorted MIR H,,.n,
I" me stand y burst OF cheering rrseti
~ me nominee as he came forward
,"", d. !. MfiSht introduced AIR Ery-.
IN. VINO SPOKE as follows:
Mr. Chairman and T.ad,rs ana f.o,
teihen;--i nave always been tauobt IN
regard hnolitics rs very serious hrei
ness. In country like this the neonia
haie tne laws. or at least have, q riaht
10 and II they don't improve the onnor-
tunitv they generally enjoy tho n,.;,.i
leEe of suffering because ;hcy have nam-
ieeted the opportunity. -tApplausel ir
me laws are not good the people them
selves are TO blame. In this campaign
one great issue is presented to tho n"n'
ple. If everything is all richt ana w. rbo
YOU wish it to be then Ii ought NOT he
changed. IT the gold standard is a
GOOD thing and we have had If thcsn
many years why is il so many fail ia
apnreciatc its blessings? [ will tell Won
because it's blessings have ONLY rnocbeI
few people who like it, (AppIouse
This is campaign of education in
which tho newspapers are rot doing
their share of the work. (Applause and
lanGhterl There is one thing ahout
truth mat it ccmmends itself TO those
VINO receive Ii, VINO examine it, who in
Vesticate. There is one thing nbcnt
error that 1t is discarded by pennIe
Whcn they get acquainted with it. and
The reason why every day finds more
advocates of free coinage is explained
- ~ ItNl til'il lltt tuilGEC OF silver
IL based upon solid rocks and is de-
fended by arguments which appeal to
the hearts of those who fecl-arru-
ments which are only useless when di
rected to the pockethouk (Appla,Isel
met prominent man Yesterday who
said that until the Chicago Convention
acted on the subject he had never in
Hestigated the money question. and
never supposed there was anythin,r In
it: that the papers did not seem 10 con-
slider II worth thinking about They re-
Garded 1t as craze and he did not have
time as u business to pay. any attention
to craze.
we have gone through in Nebraska
the same process people have zone
throngh in other states. We brn-un ti,e
flfht In Nebraska. The platform Sdont-
ed a. Chicago on the silver ouestinn ,.as
first adopted in Nebraska hy the siIvni
Democrats there. Applause) When
We dld It we had bolteys ,,i,en ~
they have had since. We had men who
claimed TO be Democrats who wouI6 MT
agree To our platform They called
themselves better Democrats than we
were and voted the Republican ticket to
nrove 1t. Great laughter0
Thee was never a fairer contest ever
wagcd. We organized bimetailIc
Democratic League. which went out 10