Semi=weekly graphic., 1896-09-26
eRYAN AT eRooKLYN.
He Speaks to Crowded Hall Filled
 With Laboring People.

With LaborinE People.
 ENw YORK. Sept 25-There has per haps never has been such 8 significant demonstration for William Jennings Bryan in the east as that given him Wednesday night in Brooklyn by the combined labor interests. It has been a mooted question whether the laboring people of the east would respond to 8 call for a mass meeting i'll favor of Mr. Bryan, but there was no mistake about the demons -ation at the Clermont rink The capacity of the building was esti- mated at 5000, and every available cor ner was filed with goodnatured hu- manity, while thousands besieged the doors and were refused admission. It was q typical labor gathering. and even the women and children present were filled with the enthusiasm of the oo- casion. It was also meeting far out of the ordinary in it's method of pro- ceedure. Instead of the formal intro- duotion nominating a presiding officer, clean cut man with gray hair stepped to the front of the platform shortly be- fore clock and said
 Twill the audience please take from their seats the song that IS there and join in singing 1t, and they responded so heartily and that refrain, You Shall Not Press the Crown of Thorns on the Toilers' Brow" rang against the un- painted rafters and reeehoed again and again. When it was finished q mighty cheer went up And so it was through out the meeting, and while they were waiting for the arrival of Mir Bryan, who was speaking at another place, they hs- tened to another speech.
 The meeting was presided over en- tirely by the labor organizations, and the stage contained a representative from each local organization. When the meeting WAS called to order every aisle and each corridor was crowded, and when letters were read from E. V. Debs and John W. Hays, secretary of the Knights of Labor, there were vocif- erous cheers.
 Resolutions were adopted endorsing the work of the Chicago convention and proelaiming
 I've believe the present contest to be much more than struggle between the Democratic and so-called Republican parties, more than silver against gold, and is not fight of the poor against. the rich, nor of labor against capital, nor of the farmers against the artisan or mechanic nor the creditor against the debtor class but when sifted, analysed and stripped from all sophistry, it is . battle of the people against the olgarchy of wealth, founded on special privileges, therefore be it
 Resolved, that we pledge our ser vices unreservedly to the earnest and active support of the able young tri- bunal of the people, William J Bryan, for president of these United States, and we ask the support and earnest co. operation of all the toilers.
 When James Bell, chairman of the Kings County Democracy. rapped for order, the candidate had not yet arrived
 In few words MT. Bell named as chairman of the meeting Fighting Judge" William J Gaynor of the su- preme court, whose name was greeted with tremendous applause The judge made neat speech, which was well re. ceived..
 It was few minutes after 10 o'clock when Mir. Bryan appeared, and after the police had fought way through the crowds at the door for him they had to repeat the operation inside, the vast assemblage in the meantime standing upon the seats and yelling themselves hoarse in their adulations of the leader. When MT. Bryan had secured order he made speech which was well ap- 1 plauded.
 MT. Bryan also spoke to full house at the Academy of Music previous to his speech at Clermont rink.