The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-10-30
WALLS OF
HUMANITY
FIJI the Streets Outside of the
Nine Halls
Where Bryan Made Speeches In
Chicago Last Night.
HAS TO MAKE A FIGHT
To Get Inside the Buildings
Where He Speaks.
Crowds Enormous and Wildly
Cheer the Candidate.
HAS TO MAKE A FIGHT
MIGHTY STORM BURST
Over the City But Crowds Do
Not Decrease.
Police Patrol Finally Necessary
to Open a Way.

to Open a Way.
Chicago. oct 80.-After a hard days
campaigning William J. Bryan return
ed To Chicago last night arriving at
the Northwestern station at 7.30 p- IN.
IA crowd of several hundred people met
him AT the depot and cheered Justify
rs he left the car Mr. Bryan had
c1ned before reaching Chicago, and was
2net ait the train by the reception com
nittee which was to guide him about
the city He entered a carriage at the
station and was driven directly r1 the
nail at which he made his first address
AT each meeting addressed he was en-
Enthusiastically greeted by large crowds.
The first of q series of nine speeches
was delivered at Stanislaus hall. Brad
ley and Noble streets. Alr- Bryan was
greeted with an audience of fully 10000
people packed into one solid mass Df
humanity in the hall. but fully as many
more elamored in vain for admission
on all sides of the large building
Twenty little girls dressed in white
sang the cred. White and Blue" at
the conclusion of which one of their
number carried an enormous bouquet
Mr.. Bryan. after thanking the peo-
PIE for their cordial welcome spoke in
part as follows.
IVY hen 7 see YOU cheering and Civ
Ing expression to your appr0Val-Whe
] heard YOU cheering those remarks
q bout national Independence, and when
7 recalled the early history of the
Polish people, L can ina agine that In
each one of you again lives the spirit
of k0sciusko. and that the love of lib
erty and freedom which YOU manifest
win be the best guarantee that in this
campaign you VIII not vote to submit
the destinies of The American people
to the domination Of foreign Influences.
You viii be called upon, i'm company
with other Americans, to decide next
Tuesday what shall be the financial
policy of this nation.
You have heard all arguments, you
have studied the question and as if
events themselves were coming to our
aid in this great currency struggle. you
have only to read in the evening papers
how scarce money is in New York.
where they tell US there is enough and
to spare. The telegraph brings US
news from New York that money there
is SO scarce that they are charging
all the way from 50 to 100 per cent for
sc, yet, in spite OF this scarcity in spite
of the embarrassment which this
scarcity presents TO the business men
of New York. the money lenders who
can profit by their high rates of inter
est Will make atHdayits that this is
the greatest system of finance that was
ever conceived You need not be sur
prised if the holders Of great funds Of
money are willing to indorse the gold
standard. when the gold standard
makes more frequent business extremi-
ties
"If YOU ask these gold standard fin
anciers what are the chances of cleo
tion. they viii tell You the Republican
candidate is absolutely certain TO win
You ask them what is the reason for
the panic in Wall street. and they WOn
tell you it is the agitation of the silver
question and the fear silver viii tri-
umph When they want to excuse q
panic they always excuse it on the
ground that it is the fear of silver, and
when they talk to you about prospects
OF the future they always tell YOU there
is NO danger at ali Of silver triumphing,
that gold is absolutely sure
Now, my friends, why did not these
people down in New York. instead of
getting exclted-why did they not go to
Eepu blican headquarters and find out
that it was absolutely certain AIcKin-
ley would be elected and the gold
standard would be preserved.
But in spite of all that there is pan
lc there is a scarcity. and the only ex-
planati0n they give you is that 1T is sill
yer agitation Ny friends, III is not sill
yer agitation that makes money scarce;
Sit is the scarcity of money that makes
silver agitation in this country Ny
friends I want the business men of
Chicago and of Illinois and of the Uni
ted States to know that these men who
stand behind the gold STANDARD are the
very mon who IN the eNtreIilitles OF
this nation. profI-by the distress which
their financial policy brings TO the great
mass of the people and 4 want these
whether they want to present them
selves at the mercy of these men who
profit in the stringency and by the em-
barra ssment which their policy brings.
I want to impress upon the minds of
those present that the strlngeney in the
money market-this rise in the rate Of
interest. not only here. but in London
Germany and the Bank of France-al
testify that the nations are era bling for
the little gold there is and that instead
or relieving the panics or bringing con
hdence. the declaration Of our nation in
favor of the gold standard. viii simply
make money scarcer and times harder
end prices lower
And now, my friends it win declare
far gold unless on next Tuesday YOU
east your ballots for the restoration of
the money of the constitution"
Leaving St Stanislaus hail Mr. Brv-
an was driven 90 halls in the north and
northwest portions Of the city in the
following order. Lincoln Turner hall on
Diversoy street, Garfield Turner han
On Garfield avenue and Larra bee street.
Savers hau on ColbOrn and Southport
avenues Coral Turner hall in Belmont
hvenue. North Side Turner hall on Clark
lvenue North Side Turner hall on Clark
and Chicago avenue. Aullen's hau.
Brands g han and A1phonse hall
All Of these meeting places were