The herald., 1897-06-26
THE COMING OF WILLIAM JEN
NINGS BRYAN


nings Bryan to the Pacific coast we may
well regard as an event Of happy sig
nificance. Though it is long call from
! now until 1900, yet it may be conceded
that the presidential campaign Of thai
year will, on the 5th day of July next, be
virtually initiated. in this city. by oul
expected and distinguished guest. AND
this whether Mr.. Bryan be the next pres
idential nominee of his party or not.
It Is we'll that the army Of the Ameri.
can people, mobilizing for the second
great struggle for freedom from the
blight and tyranny of class Legislation
and its rapacious brood Of trusts an6
syndicates, should have this earnest an6
Devoted champion come out to the Pa.
cific coast to the extreme western
boundary Of our country, as to the mi
tial point of the new campaign. The
west is the congeniaI cline of freedom
Of speech, and that has not yet been leg
islated away from the people with their
right to define the kind of currency that
suits them. The people of California
believe in free men, free speech. and are
daily becoming more and more impressed
with the Importance of restoring to our
currency system the free coinage of the
silver dollar as the means to the recuper-
alton of the business interest of the
country at large.
%o -
from the lips of man, who is not in the
pay of stock jobbers and money kings,
sentiments expressive of their own con-
victions of constitutional right and JUS
tice, not only as regards economic ques-
tions, but as affecting the welfare of the
whole body polite. The people believe
Mr.. Bryan to be such man. Every day
this belief is spreading. Every day
breaks in party lines occur and through
the crevasses the rushing current of pub
lie sentiment receives new strength and
carp and snarl.
assent with civil leer,
And. without sneering, teach the rest to
SneeT.
A man such as Mr.. Bryan cannot be
put down. He is the exponent and, in
a certain sense, the embodiment of a
great and righteous cause closely affect
ing not only the happiness and prosper
ity of the American people, but their
very existence as a nation of freemen
There are no narrow partisan rejudices
to 'crib, cabin and confine" the useful
ness aimed at by the peaceful revolution
he advocates. Nor is there any mystery
about it. To use the language of the
Indianapolis Sentinel, all that the masses
Of the people ask lis that the laws which
have been enacted for the benefit of
trusts and money sharks shall be wiped
from the statute books and that the
government shall conf1ne its sphere to
the legitimate ends of rendering justice
and maintaining order instead of becom-
ing the tool of corporate rapacity and
Shylock greed"
That is gospel that no honest man,
no matter what his party affiliations,
can consistently object to.
In subservient day and generation,
when the average leaders of public SEN
timent gauge their opinions of measures
and men by the effect such opinions may
have on their private fortunes and are
prepared to trim their sales to catch
every breeze of thrift, blow from what
ever point of the political compass it
may, it is cheering to men who work for
living to hearken unto the honest, COM
Jennings Bryan.
We have said that his coming to the
Pacific coast will initiate the campaign
of 1900. In point of fact that campaign
was initiated when the much -heralded
prosperity" to follow Mr.. McKinley's
election 'for sure" turned out a vote
catching fake. Early after November
5, 1896, the earnest and determined men
who had given the Democratic candidate
for the presidency 6500, 600 votes tacitly
and by universal consent reformed their
u,
with Gods help, to wage, four years
hence, winning battle. Not in the his
tory of the political world has such
thing occurred before. 1t simply makes
clear and forcible the sober earnestness
of the people to redress their wrongs; to
resume control of the government-their
own government-the burden of whose
support they bear, whose taxes they pay
in the very sweat of their face This is
the secret of the Bryan invitation, and
coming to this far off western land, and
the echo of his welcome to California,
rebounding from the peaks of the Sierra
Nevada mountains, will rekindle hope
of better times coming in the hearts of
the hard working masses in every state
in the Union.
NO TYPHOID EPIDEMIC