The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-08-26

| aC Alpaly at 4.OJ D. m, when tue ceth- didate appeared on the platform of his
 car he found confronting him rush
 ing, confused throng, and as he was recognized by those composing It great cheer went up. Crowding and el- lowing, shouting and bowling, a thou sand men and boys endeavored to push | their way to the points of vantage, and 1t was only by dint of hard work that a force of policemen was able to make
 way for the nominee and his wife. MT. Bryan reached the carriage ln waiting after a severe struggle. Then he turned around and saw Mrs. Bryan | being crushed in the mass of people A | look of alarm passed over his face and he started to rush back into the crowd. | But just then the police succeeded in | forcing a passage for Mrs. Bryan and l she reached the carriage without in- | jury.
 Ex-Senator Norton Chase and Louis | w. Pratt, collector of internal revenue | for the district, met MT and Mrs. Bry- | an at the train in behalf of Senator l Hill, and after they had taken their places beside the senator's guests the | carriage whirled away, followed by cheer after cheer, to Wolferts Roost, | Senator Hill's suburban home. A re- | ception committee of one hundred dem- ocrats had also met MT. Bryan at the | station. Senator Hills guests, who had | assembled at his home to greet MT. and Mrs. Bryan, were Judge and Mrs. D, Cady Herrick, MT and Mrs. Louis w. | Pratt, ex-Senator Chase and General and Mrs. Ferdinand F. Earle of New York Aside from the bare announce | ment of the names of the guests, the | senator tonight declined to have any | thing to say concerning the dinner It | was stated, however, by some of those who were present that Senator Hills greeting to MT Bryan when the latter | drove up was very courteous and pleas l ant.
 This evening 10000 people gathered
 in front of the City Hall and listened
 to political speech by MT. Bryan. MT. Bryan appeared at the park shortly
 before ' o'clock. A temporary stand,
 decorated with bunting. had been erected. A band stationed on the plat form announced that the young Ne
 braskan was near by striking up Hail to the Chief" A moment later MT.
 Bryan flushed with a struggle through a throng of enthusiastic supporters,
 came as though from catapult | through the doorway leading to the
 stand, followed by ex-Senator Chase
 and Collector Pratt A tremendous
 cheer went up, which was repeated
 again and again.
 When the cheering had ceased Mir
 Bryan said:
 Fellow citizens-In the presence of
 this immense audience it is hardly nec-
 essary to announce that the presiden- tial campaign Is open for business. (Applause.) It gives me great pleasure to be permitted to address, even for a
 short time, the citizens of Albany and I it's vicinity. I esteem it a privilege to be able to defend in your presence the policies which I believe will bring pros | perity and happiness to the American | people.
 i Tn this land of free government the people express themselves through par ty organization. It is the only way in which we can give active force to our convictions. Without party we fight without hope of success. Parties meet | in their conventions, adopt their plat forms and go forth to the people, ap-
 pealing for the suffrage of those who
 believe that through that party and by the policies expressed in that plat | form they can best serve the country
 and protect their rights.
 "The democratic party at Chicago met | in convention and there the majority of the democrats of the United States | speaking through their legally chosen
 representatives laid down a platform
 and nominated ticket. It is not to ! be expected that every person will all ways find in any platform all that he
 desires and nothing that he does not like. But when citizen comes to vote | he acts with that party and endorses 1 that platform which gives to him the | best assurances of securing the most 1 important things he desires. It is pro- per, aye, more, it is necessary, that the candidate who stands upon a platform | shall endorse the utterances of that platform, and I stand before you to de-
 clare, in your presence, that I endorse every word and every syllable of the platform adopted at Chicago. (This l sentence was delivered with great vigor and emphasis and was enthusiastically [ applauded.)
 ''But while I do so expect in this campaign the support of many demo- crats who are not willing to endorse all that the platform declares for. (The | hidden meaning of this sentence seem | ed to be understood by the audience, which applauded vociferously). In a campaign there Is always some over- l shadowing issue; there is always one
 great paramount question, which, more
 than any other. will determine the al- | legiance of those who support the tick l ct. And in this campaign we appeal | with confidence to those people who are opposed to a longer continuance of the
 gold standard policy of the United States. (Cheers.)
 "Our oponents have at last taken a definite position on the money question l The republican platform adopted at St Louis declares that the gold stand
 ard must be maintained in this nation
 until other nations shall consent to it's abandonment. We believe that that declaration which commits us to a gold standard until other nations come to | our relief, is equivalent to declaration in favor of a permanent continuation of gold standard, because we do not
 believe that other nations will take pity
 on us before we take pity on our