The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-08-28
Buffalo Gave Candidate Bryan
a Grand Ovation.
THOUSANDS GREETED HIM
He Shook Hands With the Peo-
pie For Two Hours.
a GREAT SPEECH LAST NIGHT
Only 1000 Could Get Into the Hall 10
Hear Him While Unnumbered
Thousands Filled the
Streets.
Streets.
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Buffalo, n. y, August 27,-Appar-
.ntly the entire population of Buffalo,
he home of Grover Cleveland, turned it's
ootsteps tonight toward Music Hall,
where Candidate Bryan addressed A.
90 people, as many as could be packed
within the four walls, while unnum-
bered thousands filed the neighboring
streets. The day in Buffalo witnessed
the greatest ovation Mr.. Bryan has re-
ceived in "the enemy's country and
the night meeting, which ended it,
attracted almost, if not quite, as many
would-be auditors as the notification
in Madison Square Garden.
Upon their arrival in the city from
Erie, at half past three, Mr.. and Mrs.
Bryan were escorted to the Genessee
hotel. A reception was held for two
hours in the hotel parlors in the after
noon when Mr.. and Mrs. Bryan shook
hands with constant line of callers.
Mr.. Bryan was escorted to the hall
by the Cleveland Democracysf the
city's Oldest party organization, and
by ward clubs, bearing torches. The
line of march was along half mile of
Main street, crowded almost as thckIy
as was the hall, and red fire and can
ION announced the candidates coming.
Hon. Chas. +. Tabor was chosen
president of the meeting and when
the list of vice-presidents was read the
name of Norman E. Mack, editor of the
only free silver paper in Buffalo, was
.cheered almost as enthusiastically as
Mr.. Bryan's had been.
Mr.. Bryan, on being introduced, eN-
pressed his qualification over the large
gathering, and said:
Il shall carry back to the people of
the West the news-nOt the news
either, because it is no longer news
that the Chicago platform is supported
and endorsed not by the West and
South alone, but by all the toiling
millions of the East as well. Great
applause).
THE SUPREME ISSUE.
''While a platform covers a great
many questions necessarily because
there is no time when there is but one
subject, yet, while there are various
planks and various issues, there must
be in this campaign one supreme issue.
That issue is made between those who
believe in a gold standard and those
VINO oppose a s5Oiu SUdnuafu. InSFe Is
no middle ground; those who are not
with us are against us. There is no
place between the lines for people TO
stand.
1--WE must judge people not by their
words, but by their acts. Our OppO-
nents tell us that they will try to Sc
cure an international agreement and
they simply want to maintain a gold
standard until other nations will help
us to let go of it. Can you trust the
people who wrote the st. Louis plat
form to restore bi-metall;sm? Never
until you can wipe out the Scriptures
and gather figs from thorns and grapes
from thjstIes x
''The Democratic party is opposed
to gold standard not only opposed to
it, it is unalterably opposed to it; it
is so much opposed to it that it will
not permit the American people to be
bound by it though every nation on
earth shall demand it. We did not
achieve independence for the purpose
of bowling to the yoke of any foreign
power.
HEART VS.. THE POCKET BOOK. |
"The arguments in favor of bimetal-