Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-08-20
Bland on Bryan'S Address.
THE MISSOURIAN SAYS THAT THE
DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE HAS
GAINED STRENGTH.
The Party is Dead as to Old and
Worn Out Issues, Says Silver
Dick"-A Battle For Principle.

man after the Madison Square speech
and its attendant scenes than before.
He gives many aso His conclus-
ions are, in part, as follows:
"Mr. Bryan is essentially a Demo-
crat in all that the word implies. That
the people believe that he is such a
man was shown by the enthusiasm of
the masses exhibited for him on his
trip from his home in Lincoln, Neb.,
to New York, for it may be said with
out e~xaggeration that probably never
before in the history of the country
was there such an exhibition of enthu-
siastic devotion to a man and to the
cause that he represents as was dis
played at every station where his
train stopped. Crowds thronged into
the towns from the country, and the
people all joined together in giving
him a hearty greeting. Indeed, it
looked like a mob from Lincoln to
New York, and the nearer We got to
New York the larger the mob. 1t was
difficult to get from the train to the
depots and from depots to hotels, and
from hotels to opera houses, such was
the enthusiastic demonstration for the
candidate.
81 think it may be said, without fear
of denial, that if MI. Bryan is elected
he will use every legitimate power to
carry out the pledges he has made to
the people. His honesty of purpose
is evident. His enemies grant that.
His friends are Satisfied upon that
point. The effect of his journey from
the West to the East is now seen and
acknowledged by all. No one has the
hardihood to dispute that it was a grand
success so far as exciting an interest
among the people in the issues in
volved in this campaign is concerned.
No n can deny hat the immense
crowds which greeted him along the
way are evidences that the people are
with him in this campaign. Especial
ly is this SO, since, although people
may have come-and many did come,
no doubt-out of curiosity to see a
man who had been nominated for the
presidency by the dominant political
party, yet those who witnessed these
demonstrations and meetings did not
fail to observe that nearly all who
were thus assembled, whether they
numbered 500 or 5000 or 10000, were
shouting and cheering, and giving ev-
idence of their sympathy with the
man and the cause he represents. 1t
has aroused the people to discussion
of the issues involved earlier and
more earnestly than they have ever
been discussed in any previous cam
paign. This has been one of the effects
of his trip from the West to the East.
"Another effect of his trip has been
to encourage the friends of Democracy
and to confirm them in the opinion
that they have a candidate with all the
ability and all the sincerity and phys
ical power to lead to victory. The
demonstration in New York City at
Madison Square Garden was a mag
nificent ovation to him. The immense
throng that was admitted to the thea
ter and the tens of thousands who
were unable to gain admission and re-
NAMED outside to hear him from the
hotel balcony is evidence that SO far
as the laboring and producing masses
of the people are concerned he has
their confidence and their sympathy
"His speech at Madison Square
Garden was an able defense, if defense
it might be called, of the Chicago
platform. 1t was more than that. Il
! was a powerful attack upon, and, as
regard it, an unanswerable argument
/ against the single gold standard ant
the present condition of our finances
1t may be said that my zeal for thii
cause may lead me not only to over
estimate the strength and character o
D our candidate, but also the strength
of the cause he represents, yet the
public man who now ~hesitates, ana
especially the Democrat who now lag
: behind in this great battle will flint
himself, not only isolated at this time
t but for all time to come, as a Demo
t crat, for it can be set down as certain
as the future can be predicted, tina
: the old-time Democracy, which ha
, made its battles on the slavery ques
t ton and the war question andal thes'
: questions, is dead, and dead forever
And old-time leaders must compre
: bend this fact. When I say the part.
is dead, / mean that it is dead as t,
= those past issues. l do not mean to sa!
that the Democratic party itself i
: dead, but, on the contrary, it has new
: life and new vigor, and is now on the
Y high road, not only to victory in thi
campaign, but to popular favor TO,
I many, many years to come.
, SIT may be called the resurrection o
D the old issues of Jefferson and Jack
, son, in which the people took NJ
D Democracy to do battle against plu
tocracy in all its forms; against thu
: Hamilton theory of government which
meant government by the classes, in
stead of the masses. These issues ART
8 now renewed, and are to be agair
fought out, and the Democrat WHIT
cannot stand in the party upon thes'
issues IS right in leaving it and goini
0 to the party of Mckinley, which sup
ports simply the old Hamiltonial
theory.
"As a representative of this new
: departure of Democracy, / know o
no man who is better fitted for bel nj
a leader of the party than Mr.. Bryan
~(Signed.) ar. p. BLAND"
There are not three cases in a hun
bred OF woman's peculiar diseases tina
DIR. Pierce's Favorite Prescription wi
not cure. 1t saves the modest womal
the humiliation of physicians exami
nations and "local treatments" 1t
sale exceeds the combined sales of a
other medicines for women. Thous
a ands of grateful women have bee
rendered healthy and happy by 1t
: use, and the experience and testimon,
of many of them has been included /
DIR. Pierce's Common Sense Medics
q Adviser. Sent on receipt of 81 one
1T $780, - onaf ~ rnoflsn