Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-23
SENATOR GRAY MEETS BRYAN
Administrations Standby Dis
posed to Be Gracious.
SHAKEN UP BY QUICK STOP
1t Was Raining at Chester, But the Nominee
Said liuch in Paragraph
HIS STAY IN THE QUAKER CITY WAS BRIEF
Went Across the River and Told the Truth
to Five Thousand Jersey Men, Who
Took 1t All In-The West
Virginia Itinerary.
HIS STAY IN THE QUAKER CITY WAS BRIEF

Chester, Pa, Sept. 22.-William j. Bry-
an left Wilmington, Dell at 1906 o'clock
this morning and reached Chester, Pa,
at 1923. He made. the trip in a special
car attached to regular train. The
car had been provided by the Chester re-
ception committee.
Senator Gray of Delaware, one of Mr..
Cleveland's main supporters in the SEN
ate, was on the train, and at Claymont
came into Mr.. Bryan's car. The candi-
date and the senator chatted together
until Chester was reached.
The special car was crowded with
members of the reception committees
from Philadelphia and Chester. There
were no incidents on the short run ex-
cept that those in Mr.. Bryans coach
were shaken about by quick stop of the
train at the station here. A shattered
pane of glass was the total damage. Mr..
Bryan addressed a large audience here
and left for Philadelphia at :43 a. m
A large crowd received Mr.. Bryan at
the station here and many of those come
posing 1t followed his carriage through
the streets to Turner and Woodrows
park, on Madison avenue, near the
Young Mems Christian association
building, whsre a speakers stand had
Deen erected. MI. Bryan was cneefeQ Dy
good s zed audience there and made a
brief speech. While he was talking it
began to rain, but not hard enough to
cause the audience to disperse
Vtry Shore Speech at Chester.
Hon. Frank q. Rhodes introduced Mr.
Bryan, who spoke as follows:
Il shall not keep you standing long in
the rain. l simply dssire to appear before
you to assure you that if elected / shall
to the best of my ability carry out the
policies set forth in the Chicago plat
e form. (Cheers, and a voice, That's
what we want.o
"Your chairman introduced me as the
nominee of great political party. l am
the nominee of three parties, all agreeing
that the money question rises above all
others, and must be settled first. We
have reached a crisis in monetary affairs
where our financial policy has been run
by few syndicates in their interests,
and the question now is, whether the
people shall take charge aud run the
government in their interest. The repub-
lcan platform declares in favor of the
present financial policy, and that means
thu manner in which 1t has been main
tanned. The present system means hard
times. All those in favor of continuing
hard times will vote for my opponent.
/ am satisfied to have them do so if all
those opposed to hard times will vote
for me- (Applause).
From the stand Mr.. Bryan went to
the COlIcndue motel, Wnere ne nelu re-
ception, leaving there in time to take
the II AS train for Philadelphia.
special car had been placed at the
disposal of the candidate by the Phla-
delphla city committee, whose members
accompanied him on the short trip.
At Philadelphia.
Philadelphia, Sept. PA crowd of
about 500 people were awaiting Mr.. Bry-
ans arrival at the Broad street station of
the Pennsylvania railroad, Wn1eh ne
reached a 1906.
AS the candidate came down the plat
form with Chairman Curley and the city
committee the crowd cheered heartily,
and Mr.. Bryan bowed his thanks as he
hurried towards his carriage. Mr.. Bryan
was driven to the Lafayette hotel, which
will be his eadquarters while here.
Awaiting In front of the hotel was
small crowd of people, who cheered Mr..
Bryan as he drove up
At the hotel was a delegation of about
thirty from the New Jersey state com
mittee, headed by Congressman Johnson
Cornish and Postmaster Harry Paul of
Camden,
Mr.. Bryan was introduced to the dele
CATION and then went to luncheon.
At 13O Mr.. Bryan was taken by boat
to Washington park, summer resort on
tn New Jersey side of the Delaware riv-
er. where he spoke this afternoon.
Speech at Washington Park
Phila adelphia, Sept. 22-When Mr.. Bry-
an reached Washington park he found
about 1000 persons collected before the
stand facing the bicycle track. William
J. Thompson. a prominent south Jersey
politician and owner of the park, escorted
Mr.. Bryan to the front of the stand. A
burst of cheering greeted the nominee as
he came forward
Hon. J. T. Wright introduced Mr.. Bry-
an, who spoke as follows:
"Mr Chairman and Ladies and GentleS'
men: / have always been taught to re-
gard politics as very serious business.
In country like this the people make the
laws, or at least have right to, and If
they don't improve the opportunity they
generally enjoy the privilege of suffering
because they have neglected the opporlu-
nifty (Applause) If the laws are not
good the people themselves are to blame.
In this campaign one great issue is pre-
scented to the people. If everything Is all
right and what you wish 1t to be, then lt
ought net to b. charged.
'sIf the gold standard is good thing
and we have had II these many years
why is 1t so many fail to appreciate It's
blessings? l will tell you: Because Its
blessings have Only reached few people,
who like 1t. tApplause)
This is a campaign OF educatlon IN
W ich the newspapers are not doing their
share of the work Applause and laugh
ter) There is one thing about truth, that
1t commends itself to those who receive
1t, who examine 1t, who investigate.
There is one thing about error-it is dis
carded by the people when they get ac-
quainted with it and the reason why
every day finds more advocates of free
coinage is explained by the fact that free
coinage of silver is based upon solid rocks
and is defended by arguments which ap-
peal to the heads of those who think and
the hearts of those who feel--arguments
which are only useless when directed
to the pocketbook. tApplause)
Il met prominent man yesterday who
said that until the Chicago convention
acted on the subject he had never inves-