Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-09-25
BRYAN AT BROOKLYN.
E. Speaks to Crowded Hall Filled
 # With Laboring People.


 xs. sDeaks to Crowded Hall Filled
 With Laboring People.
 NNw YORK Sept 25.-There has per sHeps never has been euch 8 significant Demonstration for William Jennings Bryan in the east as that given him Wednesday night ill Brooklyn by the Ss S8csambined labor interests It has been a sznooted question whether the laboring SDeople of the east would respond to g cnlI for & mass meeting in favor of MT. Bryan, but there was no mistake about E3ae demons -ation at the Clermont rink. The eapec;t- ef the building was esti- Mated at e000, and every available COT. xlfr was filed with goodnatured hu Inanity, while thousands besieged the doors and were refused admission. It Wna typical labor gathering, and even the women ard children present were s6lied with the enthusiasm of the oe- {ssion It was also a meeting far out gof the ordinary i'll it's method of pro- ceedure. Instead of the formal intro- dhction nominating a presiding officer, [ clean cut man with gray hair stepped te the front of the platform shortly be- iere o'clock and said:
 Z Will the audience please take from fheir seats the song that is there and join in singing it. and they responded % heartily and that refrain, e'You Shall Not Press the Crown of Thorns on the Ioiiers' Brow" rang against the un- Tainted rafters and reeehoed again and |Ngain. When it was finished mighty 4heer went up. And so it was through ont the meeting, and while they were
 aiting for the arrival of Mir. Bryan, who
 las speaking at another place, they lis- bned to another speech.
 | The meeting was presided over en-
 rely by the labor organizations, and be stage contained a representative fom each local organization. When 2fhe meeting was called to order every isle and each corridor was crowded, md when letters were read from E. V. $Rebs and John w Hays, secretary of he Knights of Labor, there were vocif- rous cheers.
 F Resolutions were adopted endorsing he work of the Chicago convention nd proclaiming
 # We believe the present contest to be nnch more than struggle between the pemocratic and so-called Republican parties, more than silver against gold, |sad k not fight of the poor against. |8ne rich, nor of labor against capital, or or the farmers against the artisan mechanic nor the creditor against the eDtor class but when sifted, analysed no stripped from all sophistry, it is a1tie Of the people against the oligarchy wealth, founded on special privileges, Therefore be it
 "esolyed, that we pledge our ser 8ices unreseryedly to the earnest and |kc'iVe support of the able young tri- 1ahal Of the people, William J. Bryan, [os president of these United States, no We ask the support and earnest CO., operation of all the toilers.'
 when James Bell, chairman of the
 ihgs County Democracy, rapped for Proer' the candidate had not yet arrived
 III lew words Mir. Bell named as Aa'fman Of the meeting Fighting 1use William J. Gaynor of the su- ie,he court, whose name was greeted "i'u tremendous applause. The judge @'aae neat speech, which was well re- A,ha. - x. ~ ieW minutes after 10 o'clock "eh MT Bryan appeared, and after I0 poiiee had fought way through 'o ofoWos at the door for him they had
 -epeat the operation inside, the vast
 eAAoiage In the meantime standing
 on the seats and yelling themselves ,w, ~@'se h their adulations of the leader
 en NIT. Bryan had secured order he KY, aus speech which was well ap- M Bryan also spoke to full house s ' sas Academy of Music previous to his peech at Clermont rink