The herald., 1896-08-11

| of ladies and gentlemen the streets re-
sounded with the continuous clamor
from the thousands of throats. Many
marching clubs pierced the stubborn
crowds amid showers of pyrotechnics
| and a roar that would have riYaled
| Niagaras thunders.
The evening meeting had been an
nounced to occur at o'clock in the
Grand opera house and the Avenue the
ater. kindred halls side by side and
owned by the same parties. Each hall
| will seat between 25O0 and 5000, and
! meetings We're to be held in each. Long
! before the doors were opened the en-
tire street in front of these structures
was packed full along the entire block.
and after the doors had been opened and
| the structures were filled. the crowd
| outside suffered little apparent diminu-
| ton.
I About 100 policemen were on duty
at the various entrances and in the
course of the early evening there was an
| incipient riot in which one person was
/ severely beaten and some of the officers
had their brass buttons torn Off
When Mr.. and Mrs. Bryan and men,
bers of their party rode around from the
hotel and entered the first, both of them
were packed to their full standing room
capacity. and it is said that half who ap
piled had not been admitted. The
crowd fingered outside in noisy but
peaceful disappointment singing cheer
ing and burning red fire; a tolera BILE
rain soon after the speaking began di
minished it but little, the street remain
ing full until the meetings closed.
AT the first meeting Mr.. Bryan was
introduced by MIR. James Mills. editor of
the Pittsburg Post, and spoke as fol-
lows:
Ladies and Gentlemen, Fellow Citi-
zens: thought it might be necessary in
| coming so warm toward the east to
bring a few of our people to keep up the
enthusiasm While l presented the truths
set forth in the Democratic platform.
! cloud cheering) But after have seen
a few audiences like this I wondered
whether 1 might not take back few of
you to set an example of enthusiasm to
the people of the west daughter and
| cheers.)
| There is no more wild west" it is the
wild east. tremendous cheering and
cat calls.)
\ voice: You're brick" (Cheers
and renewed laughter)
Mr.. Bryan. resuming: II am not ex-
| pected to enter into discussion of the is
sues of the campaign because it is not
! considerate to discuss the campaign-at
| least for a candidate to do so-until he
| 4.
nation"
\ voice. with a Hibernian accent:
"The people knows about it," Gaugh-
ter and cheers.)
Mr.. Bryan: Therefore I am going to
leave to those who come after me the
discussion of such questions as may be
pertinent at this time and shall simply
thank you for this extraordinary and
| unexpected manifestation of interest.
When l left home 1 told them that was
coming upon campaign in what was
now considered the enemy's country,
and which we hoped"
A voice interrupting: Go east young
man; so east" daughter and cheers)
| Mr.. Bryan: but which we hoped
would be our country before the cam
paign closed C'Right, right" and ap-
I plause) Therefore l have been more
! than gratified to find that it was not
/ Necessary to open the campaign in the
east; it has alreday been opened there.
But 1 shall promise you this, that in the
progress of this campaign not a single
| private in the ranks will stand nearer
to the enemy's guns than he in whose
hands is the standard" (Cheers)
We are prepared to defend our plat
form. 1t presents, as we believe, these
! policies which are for the best interests
! of all people, and we are not terrified be-
cause our enemies have sought to apply
to us epithets and hard names when
they find it impossible to oppose the po-
sition which we have taken" Cap
I plause)
They shall not be permitted to put US
on the attitude of opponents to govern
| ment but we shall show them that there
is a difference between defending a gov
ernment and defending the vicious leg
! islation niaugurated by the government
( for private ends. tremendous cheering.
I Andrew Jackson. the man than whom
! there never waS braver, truer Demo-
orat, has expressed it well in these words:
There are no necessary evils in govern
| ment: its evil exists only in its abuses.
1t is true, my friends, that which we at
tack is the abuses of the government
| and not the government itself
My friends, in this campaign, there
is only one great issue. If that is set
tied it will not give us a government
perfect in all its details. but that one
question must be settled first before
other questions can be settled. a natior
that is not able to adopt it sown final
cial policy is too impotent to legislat'
on any question where the people arr
I concerned. (Cheers) We do not say
tfey are less honest than we, but we dt
say that when they attempt to say to th'
American people that we must be de
pendent upon the legislative act of som'
other government, it matters no
how honest they may be, we dare not en-
trust legislation in their hands. Nout
cheers)
II have said that in this contest WI
have a repetition of the contest of 1776
and in this campaign as in that, a lin
will be drawn between the patriot ant
the tory, and when I say it, do not sa.
it, my friends to criticise the man whit
says this nation is not great enough t
legislate for its own people. He believes