The San Francisco call., 1896-11-03
BRYAN'S FINAL
SPEECHES MADE
Rapid Tour of Nebraska
With Colonel Irish on
His Trail.
Grows Fierce and Passionate
When Confronted by the
Golden Colors.
LOTS OF CHEERS FOR M'KINLEY
But the Boy Orator Is Tolerated and
Given a Fair Chance 10 Have
His Say.

that he would be found preaching the
doctrines contained in the Chicago plat
form up to the very eve of election, and
to-day saw the fulfillment OF that prom
ise.
A special train, to which was attached
the private car Idler, the one in which
Mr.. Bryan has travelled for a month, left
the Burlington station here at 6:45 this
morning for the final journey of the Dem
ocratic candidate before election day. Mr..
and Mrs. Bryan, with a number of the
National nominees Nebraska supporters,
occupied the Idler, while others of lesser
note were on board another coach. Chair
man James T. Dahlman and James Oshea
of the State Central Committee were in
charge of the trip.
AURORA, NEBR,, Nov. 2.-Several hun
dred people were waiting in the crisp
morning air at Burlington station at Lin
coin to-day to see the candidate off. They
cheered when Mr.. and Mrs. Bryan, with
their little daughter Grace, who is to make
the trip with them, appeared and they
sent up big shout as the train moved off.
At the first stopping place Bryan was re-
minded that the opponents of the Chicago
ticket in his own State were active. This
was at Seward, which was reached at 1886
O'Clock. Gold badges were displayed there
: in large numbers, but Bryan was not in
terrupted in his fifteen-minute speech.
The Republicans also organized a coun-
ter display at York. Yellow ribbons were
noticeable among the crowd OF 1000, but
did not number more than a sixth of the
entire audience. The cheering was very
hearty when Bryan assembled the plat
form erected for speaking purposes.
1t was intermingled with some shouts
for Mckinley. Bryan said some of the
people i'll. Nebraska seemed to be much
AFRAID that it would become popular TO
have a President from the West. He
could not understand, be said, how
farmer could be In favor of the gold stand
ard, and he went on to tell his reasons
for making the statement, substantially as
he did in previous speeches.
HASTINGS, EEBR., Nov. "A keen
east wind blew fercely through the RANKS
of those VINO gathered to hear Mr.. Bryan
at Hastings. 1t was there that the Demo-
cratic candidate crossed the path of John
P. Irish, his old opponent in joint debate,
who is camping on the trail of the Demo-
cratic candidate through Nebraska.
Colonel Irish reached Hastings on his
special train just before Mr. BRYAN left
this place, and the Republican meeting
began when the silver meeting was over.
People had gathered from far and near to
hear the nominee. Ten thousand of them,
mainly farmers, made up the assem- blage
that greeted with wild cheers his appear
ance on temporary stand. The audience
WAS plainly in ympathy with his views
and showed Its intensity of partisan feel
ing in shrill shouts. Gold badges were
few and far between. White ribbons bear
ing the word bryan" in two-inch letters
were pinned on the hats and breasts of
men, women and children. 1t was truly
an nnf fhI1cI oct ia fhrnr nd ox6
the principal speeches of the day. Mr..
Bryan spoke as follows:
Mr.. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen: have
been absent from the State some two months
and have been reading in Republican papers
that there were certain Republicans in Ne
braska who thought this State was too far west
TO furnish a President [Laughter1 ] have
heard it stated that some Republicans out
here thought a man did not know any thing
about the money question unless he lived in
New York where he was surrounded by Lon
don fog all the uEe. ICheers.l 1 heard that
who thought prices were not low enough, and
they were going to try TO continue the gold
standard so that oats would go down to cents
bushel. tCheers.l Well, / am glad to find
that these Republicans did not tell the truth
in their dispatches. Laughter and applause.l
] nm very much gratifed to find so many peo-
pie testifying to their faith in bimetalllsm by
coming out to-day and doing what they have
been doing all over this country-using their
voices until their voices are hoarse. Zap
plause.l
Since left Nebraska have been as far East
as the kennebec River, and want to tell you
that, no matter what the papers may say,
there is a silver sentiment in Massachusetts
and Maine that is as intense as it is in Ne
braska. lCheers.l When l have found man
who has lived upon money ana whose money
was increasing i'll value under gold standard
have generally found an advocate of the gold
standard, whether he was in Nebraska or Mas
sachusetts; but when I found a man who
worked for his living generally found a m an
who sympathized with you in your struggles
Ny friends, we started out to fight this cam
paign on great issue, and our opponents pre-
tended that they were perfectly willing to
very far until they tried to get away from the
money question and get on to the tariff ques-
ton, but when they tried to talk tariff they
found that the people wanted to put prohibi-
tory tariff on foreign financial policies before
by discussed the rest of the schedule
When they wanted to talk tariff they found
that the farmers thought that if the money
question could be settled by international
ton in me same way cheer feie TbeT tenesd
they could not bring the tariff question in to
this campaign until after they had settled
attend to its own business and have financial
policy suited to its own people. [Cheersl
The Republicans have in their platform in.
dorsed the financial policy of the present
administration, and that means more bonds
and less money, while our policy means more
money and less bonds. After our opponents
battlefield upon which they dared to fight,
then in the closing days of the cam.
paign they have attempted to resort to
fraud and to forgery, and you have found
in this community letters purporting to
have been written by the chairman of the
Popuist committee OF this State. asking you
TO save the State ticket and sacrifice the Ma
tional ticket. l am authorized to denounce
the letter as q fraud and forgery by Mr.. Ed
miston, whose name is signed to it. tGreat
applause.] But the fact that they resorted to
these things shows the desperation of their
cause. Ii they had a cause which appealed to
the people of this country it would not be
necessary for them 10 resort TO fraud out here
and 10 intimidation and force, wherever they
can resort to that anywhere. [Applause1
Mr.. Bryan then reverted to State issues
and spoke in advocacy of Governor Sias
a. Holcomb's candidacy for reelection.
. Continuing he said:
We are not seeking votes under false pre-
lenses. So far as am concerned have tried
to present before the people from the Missu uri
River TO the Atlantic coast the issue of this
campaign.
have tried to defend bimetallism as best
could and show 10 the people that it is TO the
interest OF SO out Of every 100 TO restore the