Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-07-16

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pleased with all they saw, up to GER
tain point; they took with them JOY
GUS hearts and cordial greetings, but
many came away with the feeling of
the victim of the "shcll game" or
bunco sharp, that they had received
very little from their party associates
in return. Fortunately, however, this
feeling does not apply to Mr.. Bryan.
The mistakes were made by the local
politicians, in the effort to scramble
over each other, disposition that is
manifested there, we were told, on all
occasions. Mr.. Bryan's individuality
made the demonstration q success de-
spite all this foolishness.
The people began to gather at Multi
nomah Field at 5 80 p. NJ, before Mr..
Bryan had arrived from Gladstone or
been spirited away by the Watsonian
contingent. BY o'clock, the Oregon
ian says there were 5000 people seated
on the benches of the grand stand and
hillsides. From that hour it rapidly
increased, until fully 10000 people
(Oregonian figures again) were on the
grounds. Fully one-half the crowd
had to stand, in the open space of
level ground of a couple of acres,
which may be likened to the arena of
n Roman amphitheater as described
by ancient writer's. The evening being
warm, with the crowd surging to the
center, where the speakers stand was
placed, and packing those on the inner
circle like herrings in q box, it may be
conceived that such conditions did
not conduce in any very remarkable
degree to advancement of personal COM
fort. Then the long wait, till the rev.
elers chose to release Mr.. Bryan from
martyrdom, was not calculated to i'm
prove the temper of the average Amer
lean citizen, who is always impatient
under restraint. 1t was Z 40, by the
Oregonian's clock, when an open ba-
rouche entered the main gateway,
with Mr.. Bryan, Mayor Pennoyer, and
Messrs. Starr and Davis of the local
committee. The cry of "Here he
comes" was followed by the people
who were seated rising en- masse, and
the visitor was greeted with hearty
cheers and the waving of hats by the
men and handkerchiefs by the ladies,
amid the widest enthusiasm. Arriv-
ing at the solid phalanx around the
speakers stand, the police had abso-
lutely to force n passage for the car
riage through the struggling mass Of
people. Here, for a time, there was
excessive danger from the crush, but
the people, many Of whom were ladies,
stood the pressure with wonderful for
titude, and the stand was finally
reached. Mr.. Bryan's appearance on
the platform was the signal for an
other outburst of popular favor.
When the cheering had subsidized, Mr..
Starr, Chairman of the Democratic
Central Committee, introduced Mayor
Pennoyer rs a man who needed no in
PRODUCTION to the people and who
would present Mr.. Bryan to the audi
ence.
Mayor Pennoyer was quickly on his
feet, and addressing the great assem-
bly, as " fellow-citizens," said:
"About nine months ago, some two
or three weeks prior to the last Presi-
Dental election, had the honor of
introducing to Portland audience,
Senator Ben Tillman, of South
Carolina. There are probably thous-
ands in this audience who were present
at that meeting. 1t was held at the
corner of Sixth and Ankeny streets,
in front of large stone building oc-
cupied by wholesale drug firm. That
house had been doing business in
Oregon for over 40 years, and it was a
profitable business until the country,
during the last year of Harrison's ad
ministration, was brought down to a
gold basis, when the trade and profits
dwindled so that at the time of that
meeting that firm was really in hard
lines. AS we all know, the Republi-
can party announced that Mckinley
was the advance agent of prosperity
and that following his election, money
would become plentiful, and business
would be revived. Every member of
that firm had faith in those assurances +;
they voted for Mckinley, and he was
elected. Nov, What was the result?
In less than six month after his cleo
ton that firm failed, the money put
III and the money made was all lost,
and now the men comprising that
hrm-lntelligent and competent bust
ness men, now without money and
without business-have joined the vast
and ever-swelling army of the unem-
ployed, which is daily picking up its
recruits in nearly every household in
the land. But they were not the only
business men in Portland that were
deluded. There are hundreds of orr
property-owners that voted for Nc.
kinley only to find out that their
storehouses are still unoccupied, or, if
rented, the rents they receive are in.
sufficient to pay the taxes.
The poor Hindoo mother who
threw her innocent babe, clinging to
her breast, before the wheels of the