The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-09-23
WORDS, WORDS, WORDS.
No Respite From Bryan's Ceaseless
Chatter
THREE ADDRESSES MADE BY HIM
YESTERDAY.

Says This Is a Campaign of Education In
Their Part-A Statement Which EIec-
tion Day Is Likely to Disprove.
Chester, Pa, September 21.-William
j. Bryan left Wilmington, DEL, at 1906
this morning and reached Chester at
1923 He made the trip in q special car
attached to the regular train. Senator
Gray of Delaware was on the train and
came into Mr.. Bryan's car. The candidate
and the senator chatted together until
Chester was reached. The special car WAS
crowded with members of the reception
committees from Philadelphia and
Chester.
A large crowd received Mr.. Bryan at
the station and many followed the car
riage that conveyed him to Turner and
Woodrow park, where the speakers stand
had been erected. Mr.. Bryan was cheered
by good sized audience tnere
While he was talking 1t began, to rain.
but not hard enough to cause the audi
enoe to disperse. Hon. Frank B. Rhodes
introduced Mr.. Bryan who spoke as fol-
lows:
shall not keep you standing long In
the rain. simply desire to appear be-
lore you to assure you that If elected I
shall try to carry out the policies set
forth in the Chicago platform. (Cheer ..
Your chairman introduced me as the
nominee of great political party. I am
| the nominee of three parties all agreeing
| that the money question rises above all
| others and must be settled first. We
| have reach ed crisis in monetary affairs
by few syndicates In their interest.
The Republican platform declares in
favor of the present financial policy. and
that means the manner in which 1t has
| been maintained.
The present system means hard times.
All those in favor of continuing hard
times will vote for my opponens. I am
are opposed to hard times will vote for
me. (Applause.)
From the stand Mr.. Bryan went to tho
| Col0nnade hotel where he held q recep-
| tion, leaving there in time to take the
II. 43 train for Philadelphia. A special
car had been placed at the disposal OF the
candidate by the Philadelphia oity COM
on short trip.
Philadelphia, Pa, September 22.-A
crowd of about 500 people were awaiting
Mr.. Bryan's arrival at the Broad street
station of the Penn sylvania railroad
when he reached 1t at 1905. AS the can
didate came down the platform he was
cheered heartily and bowed his thanks.
Mr.. Bryan was taken to the Lafayette
hotel where a small crowd cheered him
as he drove up.
In the evening Mr.. Bryan spoke at
Washington park to about 1000 persons.
Hon. j. T.. Wright introduced Mr..
Bryan, who, in part said: If the gold
standard is good thing and we have
had it 80 many years, why 10 it SO many
fail to appreciate it's blessings? will tell
reached few people who like it. Gap
plause.) A man who likes that sort of
| thing is very much pleased with the gold
standard, but the mum ber Who like it is
growing less each day. This is a oam-
Daign Of education In which the news.
papers are not doing their share of the
work. (Applause.) The reason why
every day finds more advocates Of free
coinage, is explained by the fact that free
| coinage of silver is based upon solid
| rock and is defended by arguments
which appeal to the heads of those who
think and the hearts of those who feel
arguments which are only useless when
| directed to the pocketbook. (Applause.
"We never had a convention in this
country whioh more correctly repre-
| sented the sentiment of the people who
sent the delegates, than that convention
which met at Chicago. 1t is honor
enough to be the nominee of conven-
| tion for President, but it is Ligher yet to
be the nominee of the most Democratic
convention ever held in this country.
(Applause.)
"You have got to restore prosperity by
stopping the fall of prices SO men will
sell what they produce. to get money to
| buy what yon produce. (Applause. Mr..
Bryan gave quotations from John Sher-
| man, James 6. Blaine, and John 6.
| Carlisle, showing them to have formerly
| been in favor of the free coinage of sill
ver."
Mr.. Bryan continued. "If they at
tribute my division of the people into
classes, the idle capital and the products
| of wealth, to the fact that have not had
| as much experience as some others, how
| are they going to explain the language of
divide the classes the same as they do.
except, should say, on one side are the
drones and on the other the bees that
make the honey" (Applause.)
At the conclusion of his address Mr..
Bryan was escorted back to the city,
rested at the hotel until he dined and
went to the Academy of Music to speak.
| Five thousand people were packed
closely in the Academy of Music and
heard VIM. J. Bryan deliver the first of
three addresses made to Philadelphia au-
diences tonight. Many thousands more
swarmed in the streets outside. The
| enthusiastic crowd remained for hours.
| Equally great was the assemblage in
| front of the South Western Democratic
club to hear the third address.
& On Broad street, outside the hotel, a
great crowd choked the page for more
| than an hour before Bryan left the hotel
| for the academy, When Bryan left his
| rnnn to enter his carriRua sevaral HIM