The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1896-07-17
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| Russell of Massachusetts. He immedl-
ately dictated the following telegram to
| Mrs. Russell at Cambridge, Mass:
II have just learned of the sudden
death of Governor Russell and hasten
to express my profound sympath- Your
husbands friends were legion aid they
all share your sorrow"
At stations all along the route people
We're assembled to see the Democratic
candidate At Dresden, Centerview,
Holden, Kingsville, Pleasant Hill,
| Greenwood and other places he was
cheered and at a few of them he spoke
| briefly.
AT KANSAS CITY.
KANSAS CITY, July I6-After a
long journey of / 200 miles through Illi-
nois and Missouri, William j. Bryan
reached Kansas City at $3.50 o'clock
this evening. AT Warrensburg Senator
Cockrell and two reception committees
had Joined Mr.. Bryan's train.
A great cheer went up from the crowd
at the union station here when the
train arrived, and the crowd was SO
great that a way for Mr.. Bryan was
only made with the greatest difficulty.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bryan and the members of
their party were placed in carriages and
driven to the Coates House, where they
peared on the balcony of the hotel and
had dinner. AT 3 o'clock Mr.. Bryan APP
after an introduction by Senator Cock
rell addressed the multitude assembled
outside.
The cheering was vigorous and long
| continued. The multitude in front of
the Coates House crowded the street
and sidewalks and overlooked into side
streets, their numbers being conserva-
lively placed at so, 900. 1t was the most
enthusiastic and best attended meeting
addressed by Mr.. Bryan since his NOM
ination, and he rose to the occasion by
going further into political discussion
than he had gone in any previous
speech. He said:
Mr.. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen:
I said to the committee that 1 would not
make political speech, but in the pres
ence of SO many Interested people L am
afraid that I shall be compelled to break
my promise for just a few moments.
Crhunderous applause) We are coming
upon a memorable campaign. The
platform has been adopted, the great
parties have placed their candidates in
the field, and in a little while you, as
the issues involved.
The platform adopted at Chicago is,
in my humble Judgment one of the
most splendid presentations of party
politics ever adopted by a national con-
vention in the United States. (Cheers.)
L, presents those issues which in the
judgment of the delegates are para
mount in this campaign. 1t is Demo-
and syllable. a Democratic platform
that carries US ba-k 20 the days of it's
| iiIustrious founder, Thomas Jefferson
(applause), and to its most courageous
defender, Andrew Jackson.
There never was a time when the
principles of true Democracy were dear
er to the hearts of the American people
than they are to-day, and it is because
that platform appeals to the hearts of
the American people that you find lam
rising in its support from the Pa
cific Ocean clear down to the place
where the waves of the Atlantic beat;
it is not a platform of section; it is the
platform of our colnmon country, and
appeals to those who love America 1t
Is filled with the spirit of American in
dependence; it is made of the funda-
mental doctrines upon which all true
! government must rest. You will find
in it as its keynote that all men are Gre
ated equal, and that the object of the
Government is to secure to the indi-
vidual his inalienabe right and pro-
tect each man from the humblest to
the greatest in the enjoyment of life
| liberty and happiness. 1t proclaims the
doctrine of civil liberty, and with no less
emphasis it declares the right of every
man to worship his Creator as he
| thinks best. Great applause) 1t
pledges the party to protection of all
without regard to station and condition
| III society, and it pledges the party to
be no respecter of persons, and leaving
| every person to be the Judge of the man
rer, the form and the time in which
| they shall worship or, il they please, re-
fuse to worship the God who gave them
being.
1T is Democratic from the first SEN
tence to the last in the sense on which
Democracy appeals to all who believe in
a Government Of the people. by the peo-
rle and for the people. (Cheers) From
time to time new questions arise, but
but the principles of the Democrats are
true in all times. We simply apply the
new conditions to the principles which
are as eternal as the hills. And this
time our platform has declared that the
paramount purpose on the question is
the restoration of gold and silver coin
age of the Constitution. (Applause)
| All other questions must stand back
until this great question is solved.
-Four years ago we went into cam
paign of which the issue was tariff. The
| tariff is a mere question of taxation,
and the subject of taxation is always
| with US. We may settle it now, but
again and again while there is govern
ment the great subject of taxation is
| always present. But there are times,
such as the time in which we are now
passing, when the action of this nation
upon its financial policy may determine
the welfare of the people not only Of
this nation, but of the world. Not only
now. but for years to come They have
reached q crisis in our monetary legis-
lation. There are those who would
bind this nation ito the gold standard,
but while there are those who would
fasten a European yoke upon the neck
of American freedmen, there are those
who say that this nation shall govern
itself and make its own laws.
I'm speaking with emphasis upon this
subject, 1 beg you not to think that we
who believe in free coinage of silver at
Is TO ! lack charity for those who diff
fer. Tt is not campaign in which we
should use bitter words. i have every
respect for the opinion of those who
differ from US. There are men, there