The herald., 1896-09-08
bRYAN'S LABOR D']Y 5 PEEC
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Ienu MIN, because that man cannot be
offended by anything. (Applause.)
l have known of men who thought
that because they loaned a man money
that, therefore, as long as they held his
notes, he must vote as they wanted him
to or risk foreclosure. Haughter.) I
am not afraid of offending any man who
has that opinion, because the man who
would use loan to intimidate citizen
has yet to learn the genius of the insti-
| tutions under which he lives. (Great
! applauce.) / cannot impress upon your
minds any more important truth than
this that your BALLOT is your own, to do
with it as you please, and there is no.
! body that must be satisfied with your
vote, save your judgment and your con-
science. CA voice: You will be salts
fed" Just at this point the limb of
tree broke DOWN.
Mr.. Bryan--Dont worry, my friends.
| A voice-''They are coming down out
of the gallery"
| "He has not made the rl:g,ai;e that
some make-he does not saw off the
limb that is under him, as some men are
| trying to do when they destroy the pro-
ducer. (Applause.) There is only one
| person, there is only one citizen, in this
country who can prove himself unwor-
thy of the ballot which has been given
| to him, and that is the citizen who either
sells it or permits it to be wrested from
him under coercion. CA voice-'Or tries
to sell others.D (Applause) Whenever
a man offers you pay for your vote he
| insults your manhood. And the man
| who, instead of insulting your manhood
| by an offer to purchase, attempte to in
| timidate or coerce you, insults your cit
, izenship as well as your manhood. Gap
| plause.) My friends, in this world peo-
pie have just about as much good as
! they deserve; at least the best way to
secure anything that is desirable is to
| first deserve that thing. If the people
of this country want good laws, they
themselves must secure them. If the
people want to repeal bad laws, they
alone have the power to do it. Govern
| ment presents contest every day. In
a government like ours every year pre-
sents to the citizen an opportunity to
prove his love of country; every year
offers him an opportunity to manifest
his patriotism. 1t is said that eternal
vigilance is the price of liberty. Yes,
not only for nation, but individual Wig
ilance is the price of individual liber-
ty. The citizen that is Indifferent is
citizen who is apt to be misruled. The
citizen that Is alert to make the govern
ment what it ought to be is the citizen
who has the best chance of living under
good laws and wise and beneficent in
stitutions.
Let me leave you just one parting
word. Let me urge you, whatever may
be your ideas on political questions,
whatever may be your idas as to poll
cies proposed from time to time by var
ious parties, let me urge you to make
it your highest ambition to prove your
selves worthy of that greatest of all
names-an American citizen.
Il thank you" (Great applause).
LEAVES FOR HOME
Mr.. Bryan took the $3.50 Burlington
train for Lincoln, Neb., stopping at Au-
| rora, Ill, for a twenty minute speech
| at about $3.50. There We're about 400
people at the depot to see him away,
but there was no demonstration.
"A NATIFICATION
LINCOLN. Neb., Sept 7.-Hon. Will
| liam J. Bryan will arrive here tomor-
row and be formally notified by the Ma
tional Silver Party of his presidential
nomination. An effort is being made
| to have the affair carried out on an
| elaborate scale. The local committees
| have been busily engaged for several
days perfecting arrangements and the
/ general plan of the ceremonies Is now
| outlined and the work of filling in the
details is going rapidly forward. The
| formal notification will probably take
place on the north front of the stats ,
house during the afternoon. Congress-
man Towne and Ignatius Donnelly are
booked on the program for speeches
| at the meeting.
| George A. Groat of Cleveland, Ohio,
| the chairman of the notification COM
mittee, arrived today. Mr.. Groat will
make the principal address at that time,
but it is expected that Senator Teller
| will be present and speak.
| LONDON OPINION.
| LONDON, Sept. S.-The Daily News
this morning publishes a column inter-
view with Hon. Hillary A. Herbert,
secretary of the navy of the United
| that there are any real dissensions be-
| tween the north and south or between
the east and west. The threats of west
! ern secession were hardly worth deny
ing, and nothing was heard of them in
| America.
mo doubt" said Mr.. Herbert, "some
of the gold Democrats will feel obliged
to vote for the Bryan ticket becuase
Bryan carried the Chicago convention
but many will not do so. In my opin-
| ion, the Bryan movement has reached
it's height and is now declining
Il should be sorry to say" Mr.. Her.
bert continued, that the slverites are
fanatics and fools. Many of them are
! good men, but l think the silver party
| is mistaken in it's aims and policy"
Mr.. Herbert said to the Daily News
representative that his official position
prevented him from speaking more
| freely.