The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-03
CHEERS FOR The LEADER
THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE YELL
THEMSELVES HoARsE.
Many Prominent Men From All Over
the Country Are Present-O. h. P.
Belmont Is Popular-Number of
Enthusiastic Speeches Made
Bryan Makes a Short Talk.

persons who have come from points
outside of the state to attend the Dem
ocratic carnival. put in an appearance.
AS the leaders mounted the stand they
were loudly applauded. When Mr..
bryan appeared it was as if the sound
| Whlch emanated from the thousands of
throats would tear out their Innings
Annong those present We're: Q. H. P.
Beimont and Congressman william
Sulzer of New York; Ex-Governor
Stone. Major H. w. Salmons of ST.
Louis, ex-state treasurer of Missouri
Colonel NJ. c. Wetmore of st. Louis.
the antitrust millionaire; Governor
pan w. Jones of Arkansas, Governor
Joseph d. Savers of Texas, Congress
man Champ Clark of Missouri, ex-Gov-
ernor T. t. Crittenden of Missouri, J..
u. Johnson of Kansas, chairman of the
national Democratic executive commit
tee; Samuel 3. Cook chairman of the
state Democratic executive committee
OF Missouri and manager of the ways
and means committee Of the Democrat
&c national executive committee: Con-
gresham j. w. Bailey, r. p. Henry
and r. f. Burke, United States Senator
Horace Chiffon, Hon. Thomas Camp
bell and many Texas leaders
Governor Stone Speaks.
In addition there were also present
Colonel Fred Fleming, James A. Reid
and L. T. Wilson, all of Kansas CITY.
who are here for the purpose of boom
ing that city as the location of the next
national convention of that party.
Ex-Governor Stone was the first
speaker. At the close of Stones speech
the temper of the meeting was mani
tested by cries of Bryant" Bryant"
in stentorian tones from every portion
OF the throng. varied with calls for
| '3pl000nfi Rn1roOnf oh
yourself!" The crowd would take no
refusal, and from his seat in the back
end of the speakers stand the New
Yorker arose to receive an ovation. The
! calls that reached his ears were long
drawn out and of terrific volume It
was the old rebel YELL
Governor Jones of Arkansas was the
next speaker. When Governor Jones
closed there We're prolonged cries for
! Mr.. Bryan. The programme arranged
fer the morning had not been COM
pleted and his time had not yet ar
rived.
Bryan Makes Short Talk.
The calls continuing, he responded in
a short talk, party organization being
! his theme. He did not believe all the
votes cast for him the last time were
| counted, and that many were counted
against him which were not cast The
II
vantage IN 1896 of such an organization
in the beginning of the campaign as it
had now. The rank and file of the
party has been fighting ever since the
polls closed. and in defeat has been
more hopeful of success in 1900 ever
since the election day than the Repub-
| lican party in victory.
Congressman Bailey, Democratic
leader Of the house, and Senator Chill
ton then spoke. The inner wheel in the
carnival is the senatorial race in Texas.
Senator Chiffon will stand for re-elec-
ton and it is generally understood that
Mr.. Bailey will oppose him.
AT the afternoon meeting the crowds
were larger. if anything, than in the
morning. General Cabel presided and
| Congressman Champ Clark of Missouri,
Congressman Hugh Dinsmore of Ar
kansas and Ex-Governor Adams of
Colorado were the speakers.
Last Nights Meeting.
Tonight there was a large procession,
composed of the labor organizations of
Dallas. After the procession had
passed, the night meeting was called to
order, and Congressman William Sulzer
of New York addressed the assemblage.
William J. Bryan was next intro
duced, and he was. received with great
! enthusiasm. He said. in part:
Lincoln, in a message to congress in
the early COS, said that no man was to
be more trusted in our government than
the man who tolls in poverty. am not
fiattering you when l tell you that the
supporters of a Democracy by gov
eminent when the people rule, gov
eminent of the people. by the people
and for the people must find its support
among tn people who work, among the
common people, if you please, and there
is no better indication of the departure
of the Republican party from the peo-
pie than is to be found in the fact that
whenever a man now speaks of the
plain people, as Lincoln described them,
or of the common people, as the Bible
calls them, he is denounced as a dema-
gogue, something like this-that man is
a statesman whose ear is strained to
catch the slightest pulsations of a pen
or a book, while he is a demagogue who
tries to listen to the heart beat of hui
manity.''
ALI Are Equal.
Mr. Bryan spoke at great length on
this line, saying that whenever the gov
eminent touches the American citizen
all must stand equal before the law
that the government in its executive,
legislative and judicial departments
must know no difference between high,
low, rich and poor, great and small
utes' handling. The Chicago platform,
free silver and the trust questions were
discussed volubiy by the speaker.
Continuing, he said:
But pardon me for dealing so long
with what you may call old issues. 1
want to speak of new issues. If we
could go to the country today on the
very same platform that he had in
1896 and have no other issues presented
than the issued then presented, / be-
lieve that we could win our fight, but
providence has been good to us, and
in the last two years issues have been
presented to us in addition to those
which we had in 1896.
The New Issues.
I'VE have not only grown on the old !
issues, but we have grown on the new /
ones The Republican party today
stands for large army. In 1896 we
had $4,000 soldiers in the regular army, /,
and in December 1898 Republican
president asked for 100000 soldiers in |
the standing army, making an army /
four times as great as that of 1896, and |
IL any Republican tells you that the |
president wanted these soldiers to beat |
down an uprising in the Philippines, |
you tell him that a Republican 1,resi |
dent asked for 100000 soldiers two !
months before there was any uprising |
in the Philippine islands,
"At the time the president sent his /
message to congress, in the early part
of December, there was no uprising
anywhere. The treaty with Spain was
practically agreed upon and there WIS
no evidence of any necessity for large |
army except as a permanent policy of /
this government. and so that when Mr..