The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1896-09-03
GREATEST OVATION
In "Enemy's Country" Given
Bryan at Buffalo.
THE PRESIDENTS OLD FRIENDS
Were Out In Force to Make the Candi-
date Feel at Home - He Addressed
1000, While Thousands Filled tho
streets-The Farewell at Erie.

of Grover Cleveland, turned its foot.
steps last night toward Music hall,
where Candidate Bryan addressed 1000
people, as many as could be packed
within the four walls, while unnum.
bered thousands filed the neiRhboring
streets. The day in Buffalo had been
the greatest ovation Mr. Bryan has re.
ceived in "the enem Us country" and
the night meeting which ended 1t, at.
tracted almost If not quite as many
would be auditors as the notification in
Madison Square Garden. Upon their
arrival in the city from Erie, Mr.. and
Mrs. Bryan were escorted to the Gene.
see hotel.
There they were quartered in apart
ments which had been occupied by
Mr.. and Mrs. Cleveland just before the
election of the president to his office
and upon the walls of which hung por.
traits of the president and his wife. A
reception was held for two hours in the
hotel parlors, when Mr.. and Mrs. Bryan
shook hands with a constant line of
callers which still stretched long half
q block outside of the building when
the doors were closed upon the last
comers.
Mr.. Bryan was escorted to the hall by
the cleveland Democracy, the city's
oldest party organization, and by ward
clubs bearing torches. The line of
march was along half a mile of Nam
street, gcrowded almost as thickly as
was the hall, and red fire and cannon
announced the candidates coming.
Hon. Charles +. Tabor presided
Mr.. Bryan, in opening, said he would
carry back to the west the word that
the Chicago platform is endorsed not
by the west and south alone, but by the
toiling millions Of the east as well
[Great applause.l
He then said
/ 1 am aware that in the writing of q
platform IL Is impossible to suit the opin-
ions of all; l recognize that people who
| think will differ and that we often find in
platforms things with which we cannot
fully agree and we fail to find I'm plat
forms sometimes attention of policies
which we regard as important. But plat
forms are not written by all of the party;
they are written by majority of party
(applausel and when majority of party
writes a platform, the others In the party
must either stand upon it or get out Of
the party. Applause. There is no other
plank now, except the rule of majority
or the rule of n minority and 1t Is better
for minority to be alienated than for the
voice of a majority to be suppressed. Ap.
plause. You can support those who
stand upon the Chicago platform, although
you may dissent from parts of 1t. But
stand upon the Chicago platform because
/ believe in 1t from beginning to end,
every word.
While platform covers great many
questions necessarily, because there is no
time when there is but one subject, but
while there are various planks and vari
GUS policies, there must be one supreme
and in this campaign there is supreme
issue, the issue Is made between those who
believe in u gold standard and those who
oppose gold standard. There is no mid
die ground; those who are not with us are
against us, There is no place between the
lines for people to stand, [Applause.
The Republican platform does not say
that gold standard is good thing. There
are those who are supporting the Republic
can party who believe that a gold stand
ard is good thing, but they have not the
courage TO risk the issue before the peo
Pile who have suffered from gold stand
ard. Applause Wemust Judge people
not by their words, but by their acts. Oui
opponents tell us that they will try to Sc
cure an international agreement, and that
they simply want to maintain a gold
standard until other nations will help u.
to let go Of it. Laughter and applause,
Can you trust the people who wrote the
ST. Louis platform to restore bimitallsmi
Never, until you can wipe out the Scrip
lures and gather figs from thorns and
grapes from thistles. [Applause.l Those
who are responsible for the gold standard
are not the ones to whom we look for de
liverance. As we'll might you have asked
Pharoah to lead the children of Israel out
of bondage as to ask the Republican party
to break the shackles OF n gold standard
Applause.
The Democratic party Is opposed to q
gold standard, not only opposed to 1t, 1t II
unalterably opposed to 1t; 1t Is so much op
posed to it that it will not permit the
American people to be bound by it though
every nation on earth shall demand II
Applause. We did not achieve independ
ence for the purpose of bowling to the yok,
of any foreign power. Applause.
Let me suggest two or three questions
for you to put to yonr opponents, They
are not new questions; have suggested
them before. / shall suggest them again
In the first place IL you find a man who Is
opposed to the Democratic platform, asl
him II he believes in a gold standard. 1
he says he does, tell HIM he is man with
out party, because no party in the
United States ever declared for u golt
standard. Applause. There are poo
pie in this country who had not studie(
the money question until the Chicago
course, because they had been reading
the eastern newspapers, that the gold
standard must he all right, but when
they got TO studying the question they
fouDd out that the arguments which sup
port bimetallism are based upon the soliC
rock of truth, and they have been coming
over to the cause of bimetallism with
rapidity never before known in the his
tory of the United States, Applause
The arguments in favor of bimetallisn
are directed toward the intellect of tn,
man who thinks and to the heart of tn,
man who feels. The gold standard argu
ment is directed to the pocketbook of the
man who wants to live while others die
Applause.
Who in this nation will defend the golt
standard as a good thingP And II n,
party has arisen In more than centur!
OF progress, II no party this year has
arisen that tells the American people thai
the gold standard confers blessings upoI
the human race, who will say that VIZ
must keep thing that is bad until for
eign powers shall take pity upon us ant
relieve us of this burden. [Applause]
II man says he Is in favor of bimetal
lism, you ask him how much he is IL
favor of It. II he says he wants bimetal
lism, ask him what other nations h,
wants to help and If he says he is willing
to wait for other nations, ask him how
long he is willing to wait Applause
When we declare Tor independent actor
we do not offend those who live In othel
lands; we do not appeal TO any feeling o
hostility against those who are not cit
gems of the United States. We simpl
uphold the dignity of 70,000,000 Of peopl
, TO whose care alone must be committe
the policies which are good for themsel
YES. Applause,] II some man living Ii
a foreign land We're TO ask his nation l.