The Meeker herald., 1896-10-24
BRYAN AT DETROIT.
IS THREE MONSTER MEEr1sos.
Clo.. of . B..y C..p.ls. I. ni.i,s..-
Th. CANDIDATE WIN Nov r.saes the
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| ular tour OF Mich1g0n Mst night Dy 1d-
dressing the largest throngs Of people
ever gathered at political meetings in
Detroit. From a platform erected
! against the Washington boulevard side
of the Hotel Cadillac, he talked to a
mass OF people which filled the wide
| boulevard and extended far into ad-
! Joining streets At the Auditorium he
spoke to an audience which occupied
every inch of space, while Thousands
stood outside. waiting for a possible
sight OF the candidate. Lastly. he ap-
peared upon stand erected at the
Woodward avenue front of the city
: hall, before crowd which was SO
great that 1t stopped all street car and
other traffic entirely.
The candidates train was met at the
Woodward avenue station. three miles
from the center OF the city, by the Re
ception committee. The procession Of
carriages trotted down WoodGas1
avenue and to the Hotel Cadillac by
rear alley entrance. thus avoiding the
crowds on Michigan avenue. A mighty
roar of enthusiastic applause went up
from the crowd as Mr. Bryan appeared
and tremendous enthusiasm was Kept
up the entire evening.
In the auditorium speech by Mr..
BRYAN he defended. first, that plank IN
the Chicago platform, declaring Tor
the Income tax. He quoted from the
dissenting opinion Of Justice Brown,
and said in part:
MY friends, there will be no good
coming to the American people from an
attempt to shield any public servant
from the honest criticisms Of the peo-
ple whom he serves. No Judge who
gives an honest opinion. who follows
his duty as he sees 1t. will ever object
to criticism of his acts by the num-
blest citizen in the land. so, my
friends, when our opponents tell us
that we are trying to cast reflection
on the Supreme court, we can plant
ourselves upon the precedent set Iorth
In history. and can answer the charges
of all our critics. But we shall not
stop here. When did this spasm OF
virtue take possession Of the Republi-
can marty? Ex-President Harrison
seems to be deeply touched by our crit
icism OF the Supreme court, ana yet
ex-President Harrison was mempef
Of the Republican party when that
party reduced the number of judges
on the Supreme bench in order to pre-
vent Andrew johnson from appointing
a successor of those retired, ana theh
when he went out Of office Increased
the number of judges, in order to give
uuUtueI INepuui,va. ps vrIs,cns {. c""
to appoint six OF these Judges.
"My friends, l only refer to these
things to show you how shallow and
how baselcss and how hypocfitical ts
the criticism OF the Democratic plat
form. Well. they say that there Is an
ottAr plank that is dangerous. And
what plank is 1t? 1t is the plank that
declares against government br injunc-
tion, and approves Of n bill WHICH pass
ed the Senate giving trial by jury In
certain contempt cases. You say that
the plank Ia wrong. Then, my friends.
II our plank is wrong, the bill which
we approved is also wrong, and yet
when that bill went before the Senate
the opposition was so small to that just
bill that they did not even call roll
| upon its passage That is the bill
which we indorse. That is the policy
set forth In our platform. We demand
| that this bill shall be passed and that
/ In these contempt cases, the man
charged with contempt shall be given
trial by jury instead Of being brought
up before the judge and fined by him
without any appeal. But. my friends,
the best evidence that that plank ia
sound, Is to be found that whenever
| man goes to attack that platform he
does 1t indirectly instead Of opposing
| the plank. That Is the best evidence.
Our opponents dare not condemn that
plank. because my friends, the right
Of trial by jury is too dear to the
American people to permit any man to
20 before the public and condemn a
bill which gives trial before jury of
ones peers.
Now, there is another plank which
they object to. They say that the
Democratic party is opposed to the en-
forcement of law. 1 have heard men
stand before the public and accuse the
Democratic party Of being In league
with lawlessness and being unworthy
to be trusted with the enforcement Of
law. My friends, II that platform,
adopted at Chicago, is endorsed by the
, people, 1 shall he the one to occupy the
executive position and to carry out
that platform. challenge our oppo-
nents to find In any act or utterance of
mine Justification Of the charge, that
II elected, 1 would not enforce the laws
Of the United States"
At the City Hall Square Mr. Bryan
made only brief speech.
This morning, accompanied by his