The herald., 1897-07-08
! BRYANS SPEECHES
: IN LOS ANGELES ;
AN APPRECIATION

| Thousands had been standing for long
before he began. They remained stand
ing to the end. Their lips moved as If
repeating his words. They craned for
ward that nothing might be lost They
laughed with his sallies. and broke into
roaring cheers to punctuate his higher
| flights. Surely it was triumph to hold
the people so. There are no words of
complaint that the show was not up to
the playbills. That the orator filled all
expectations was attested by the quiet
with which his hearers listened, and by
the noise which they made in applaud
ing.
But you can't tell the Los Angeleno
| that there ever was a greater speech.
Today's effort is to him what the 'Yel-
low Kid" calls de best ever" He
doesn't want anything more. His cup
of satisfaction brims. He has been fed
with arguments which he will force
down the throats of his opponents. He
has added to his stock of opposite illus
trations, and he has learned what a
man must be to be really and truly an
orato
| One comforting thing about Bryan Is
that he doesn't abuse his opponents.
He calls no names. But he crucihee.
| Carlisle and John Sherman were quoted
in a way to make them appear pitiful in
the light of their recent utterances. but
there was no word of detraction, no
rough questioning of their honesty OF
purpose. Californians have come to
think that force in oratory means the
hurting of epithets. After hearing Bryan
| they will wonder the more how a man
may be forceful and still remain good
natured.
| Bryan is never twice alike. He does
not say the same thing over and over
again with poll-parrot repetition. At
one time he reaches a far higher mark
! in the way of a rousing enthusiasm than
at another But of course he does not
change every illustration or every argu-
ment for every town. There are some
pet stories which point moral in al
most every one Aof his extended ad-
dresses. So San Francisco may get
something of what Los Angeles had to-
day, but the two speeches will be in no
sense the same.
! Today he talked as from a text-the
equality of men before the law. He used
the day as a patriotic insistence that
the people should think wherein our
government falls short of granting that
! equality test on which it is founded.
Then he applied the equality test to
taxation, showing that the avoidance
of payment of taxes in just proportion
was no better than the larceny of one
mans money by another. So he said
the Fourth of July was godd time for
the. cultivation of a public conscience
which would properly brand the tax
shirker. Then he applied his text to the
income tax.
Hold on. I had written all this be-
fore going to that banquet taking
happen. But it has happened San
Francisco will not get that great speech.
Los Angeles has had it. The banquet
brought it out. Bryans voice was
husky, so there was nothing of the en-
pirical about it.-it didn't depend on
sound. But the speech tonight made
the speech of today seem cheap. There
was not one illustration, one simile,
one metaphor, one conjunction of words
that 1 have heard since Ogden. 1t was
absolutely new. 1t was delivered with
the dramatic force that springs from
intense conviction. So men got upon
their feet, waving their napkins like
mad Women sat with tears running
down their cheeks.-Edward H. Hamil-
ton in San Francisco Examiner.