The San Francisco call., 1896-10-10
BRYAN JOURNEYS
IN SOUTH DAKOTA
Drawn Through Sioux
Falls Streets by Men
and Women.
Girls Take a Hand and Carry a
Banner Saying No Gold.
bugs Need Apply"
REPEATS FORMER SPEECHES,
And incidentally the Boy Orator Says
Pleasant Things to People Who
Greet Him.

C1OOA FALt1S, 1.g OCG. - ONcE
100 men and women drew William j..
Bryan through the muddy streets of Sioux
Falls to-day ana thousands of people from
that place and from nearby points in
South Dakota, Iowa and Minnesota
turned out in the cold rain to do him
honor Mr.. Bryan never had a reception
more heartily enthusiastic. When he
reached Sioux Falls at O'Clock he was
placed in an open carriage and the
wildly cheering residents grasped the at
tached ropes and drew him along to the
house of G. E. Jewett, where he had
luncheon, an elaborate procession accom-
panying him. Eighty veterans of the
war acted as a personal escort. A feature
of the parade was big wagon filed with
girls dressed in white frocks. who are do
ing missionary work for the Democratic
candidate by "tabooing" men who believe
in the gol3 standard. They bore banner
inscribed. mo goldbug need apply"
There was cavalcade of mounted men in
the procession sorting Mr.. Bryan. The
schools of the city were closed and near
Mr.. Jewett's residence the pupils were
drawn up in two lines, through which the
candidate passed. The girls had small
flags and waved them vigorously.
The rain had become steady downpour
when MIR. Bryan reached the point where
the speech making took place. Despite
the drenching they received, the crowd of
10000, including 1000 Nebraskans, who
came en- the excursion train, showed the
heartiest enthusiasm and were ever ready
to shout their approval of Mr.. Bryan's re-
marks.
Mr.. Bryan was presented by John A.
Bowler, chairman of the State Central
Committee. The candidate spoke only
eighteen minutes, devoting his remarks
principally TO defending Senator Petit
grew, who sat on the platform, from the
charge of disloyalty in leaving the Repub-
lican party with Senator Teller at St.
Louis, He said:
All things considered, this is one of the most
remarkable meetings which it has peen my
pleasure to address during this campaign. The
interest which has been manifested, the zeal
which you have shown, evidence a desire on
the part of those who have turned out under
these unfavorable conditions TO testify their
determ ination to do their duty in this Cam
paign. appreciate the interest which you
| are taking. l appreciate the. attendance OF
! the bsttle-scarred veterans of this country
| lcheersl, and can assure them that their in
| terest, the interest of the old soldier, will be
safe in the hands OF those who believe that
i
! own business. lCheers.l The soldier will not
| find it necessary to put his interest in the
hands of those who believe that we must pro-
cure the consent OF foreign nations before we
can act our tines on the financial policy.
| (Cheers1
am glad to come to this city, because in
coming it gives me chance to say word in
defense of Senator Pettigrew among his own
people. Tremendous cheering.l My friends,
| there are times, there are occasions which try
| mems souls To leave ones party associates
iz q n m Tar a IN nnn anil Z
! TO do is that duty when the person who leaves
! is one who has received honors at the hands OF
his party, but nv friends, believe that Sena-
/ tor Pettigrew did the manly thing and the
| courageous thing when he determined TO pro-
tect the interests of the people in this State in
| stead OF bowling under The yoke OF the gold
standard. [Great eheering.l
l am glad TO have the bond syndicate against
me, because when am elected they will not
! come down and try TO get me to sell bonds to
| them at 81 041z when they are worth ST. 10
! (Great applause.l But notice this. my friends
| that the people who have left the Democratic
| party do not give their real reason fo1 leaving;
| in fact, may be wrong to say they have lett
the party. They have been dragged out of the
! party by the great corporation interests that
run them. [Cheers.l
| HURON, S. D., Oct. 9.-It was $3.50
| o'clock when Mr.. Bryan arrived here on
his special train, two hours behind time,
accompanied by Senator Pettigrew, John
Tomlinson of Alabama member of the
| On the run up from Sioux Falls stops
were made at Montrose, Salem. Canova,
Villas and other places. Crowds were al
all of these places, and Mr. Bryan spoke
several times. at Salem a brakeman
named Desmond, from Omaha, was badly
crushed between Mr.. Bryan's car ara an
other which he was coupling to it.
A big audience greeted the candidate
here. In his speech Mr.. Bryan said:
| Huron is dependent upon agriculture
directly and indirectly. Mr.. Mckinley said in
] $780, in the report which accompanied his
| tariff bill, that agriculture was depressed and
! that there could be general prosperity in
| this country, SO long as the farmer was not
| prosperous. The only remedy which the Re-
| publicans now propose to better the condition
| of the farmer is rariff. If tariff fails for
| thirty years to prevent depression, what
| reason have farmers to hope that it will be
more successful now? [Cheers.l There is a
cause which lies deeper than any system of
! taxation. so long as the gold standard pre-
walls there must be general fall in the prices
| OF agricultural products whether we have a
| high tariff or a low tariff, and so long as the
| farm products are falling in value there must
| be hard times among the farmers, and the
| farmers cannot suffer without bringing in suf-
| fering to the other classes, which are de-
pendent indirectly upon the farmer for pros
perity [Cheers.l
MASS OF DEMOCRATS.