Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1896-10-30
Bryan Preaching Free Coinage GOsl el
in the Pivotal State of
Illinois.
STEVENSON is HELPING HIM
People by Thousands Rallying to
Hear and Cheer Their Great
Champion.

in Chicago at 3:3O p. N. over the Alton
road and was met at a depot by a larg'
and enthusiastic crowd. The rush wa
so great in the narrow space of the frs
floor of the Alton depot that the police
had difficult task to prevent the people
from being injured. The Cook County
Marching club and silver clubs, with t
large number OF bands, were waiting fol
him on Canal street and as soon as ht
appeared the march was taken for Bat
terry d, on Michigan ven
A short parade through the
down town streets preceded the arrivaI
at the battery. Entering the city from
Brighton park, where Mrs. Bryan ap-
peared on the platform, there we're
crowds at every street crossing until the
Union depot was reached. While the
crowds were dispensing after the Bryan
demonstration, the sidewalk in front of
No, l2l Canal street gave way and nearly
100 people were precipitated into the
basement, a distance OF y fJot. Many
received slight injuries.
Mr.. Bryan spoke as follows:
"Fellow Citizens: AS | returned to
your city to take part in the closing
hours of this campaign, ! have witnessed
today a scene which impresses and leads
me to believe this great city of the west,
which rests upon the prosperity of the
mass OF our people and which cannot
prosper without they prosper, will
throw its influence one week from today
on the side Of an American policy for
the american people. | am not vain
enough to believe any part Of the extra
ordinary enthusiasm which | have wit
messed between the Missouri river and
Atlantic coast is intended as a personal
tribute. applause and cries of Yes.
Iesy No, my friends, | want you to be-
lieve me when | say in this great CON
test it is the principles for which the
candidate stands and not the candidate
that have called forth this great demon.
stration. There is only one thing for
which | claim any credit, | believe you
(ard others have expressed themselves AS
you have expressed yourselvcs) have con-
fidencc that | will carry out
pledges which | have made in this cam
paign. 1t is simply your confidence
that will do what | believe and promise
to do aud carry out the ideas for which
10 the campaign | stand, and for this
only | can claim any credit. IL | were
other thar true 70 the principles which |
advocate | would be beneath the con-
tempt Of those whose sutfrages | ASK. /
do believe that in this campaign a great
question is to be determined, for the
present at last. | do believe the settle
ment Of that question affects every man,
woman, and child in all this land, and
when / see the people stirred as they
have seldom been stirred before ! believe
they appreciate the responsibilities of
citizenship, and hat they intend that
their ballots shall be cast for that tinan-
cial policy which they believe to be best
for themselves, their neighbors, and their
country.
81 appreciate, too, the kindly feeling
that has prompted the gift from the
Hebrew democrats.
.(The gift referred to was a silver star,
in the center of which was Bryan's
picture. The star wah presented to Mr..
Bryan by John Winberg on behalf of the
Hebrew democrats of Chicago.)
"Our opponents have sometimes tried
to make it appear that when we de.
nounce the financial policy advocated by
the Rothschilds we are attacking q race.
We are not. We are as much opposed
to the financial policy Of j. Pierpont
Morgan as we are to the financial policy
OF the Hothschilds. We are not attack
ing the race. We are attacking greed
and ~avarice, which know no race or re-
ligion, and | do not know OF any class OF
our people which, by reason of their his.
tory, can better sympathize with the
struggling masses in this campaign than
can the Hebrew race.
1.-THE bible teaches US that the chill |
dren OF Israel were in bondage, and ask
cd for a tightening OF their burdens.
Pharaoh said: They are idle, make
them work harder and they will not com
plain Pharaoh has been the same in all
days. No matter to what race he be-
longs, no matter in what age he
lives, Pharaoh lives upon the labor
OF others, and Pharaoh always wants
to stamp out complaints by making
the load heavier. When we have a
great contest and whenever the right
is arrayed against might, the example
OF David and Goliath is always cited to
give inspiration to those who fight for
truth. David conquered, not because he
was strong, but he conquered becauee
he was on the side Of truth, and / think
that in the contest our Hebrew friends
will liken me TO David"
At this point Mr.. Bryan excused him