The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-21
ENTHUSIASM At FEVER HEAT
FOR BRYAN AND FREE SILVER
lhe Chicago Auditorium Packed to Suocaton by Cheer
ing Advocates Of the White Metal-A Ringing De-
nuncation Of Trusts and imperialism Eloquent
Orators Present the Great Issues of the
Next Campaign

pie crowded into the Auditorium to-
night despite the sweltering heat, to at
tend the political meeting given under
the auspices of the Chicago platform
1t was from first to last a silver meet
| ing, an Altgeld meeting, an antitrust
| and an anti-expansion meeting. All of
| the speakers save Ex-Governor Stone of
Missouri, who was ill and talked for
| less than two minutes declared in favor
| of 16 to l and against the war in the
Philippines. The speech of Mr. Bryan
| evoked great enthusiasm among his
hearers, especially when he declared
that the American government should
pursue in Luzon the same policy as
was pursued in Cuba. The Philippines,
he said, came into our possession by
accident of war, and, being there, they
| should have been treated on American
principles and not on those practiced
by European governments. The policy
| OF the United States, he claimed should
have been to create a republic in the
| Philippines and say to all the world:
Hands off and let that republic live"
His audience was in sympathy with
his suggestions regarding the Philip
pines and punctuated his speech with
| cheers.
The meeting was largely made up of
the local adherents of the Chicago plat
form and personal followers of ex-Gov-
ernor Altgeld. The meeting. therefore,
partook somewhat of the nature of a
personal tribute to him. Many Of the
speakers alluded to him in laudatory
terms and at every mention of his name
the audience shouted approval Mr.
Altgeld did not occupy a seat on the
platform, but throughout the meeting
| remained in the rear part of an upper
! box and only made his appearance at
| the front of the box when the demand
| of the audience to hear from him be-
| came too loud for Chairman Darrow to
subdue. About one-half of the MEM
bers of the national committee occu-
pied seats on the platform, the balance
OF them failing to put in an appearance.
Chairman Darrow made a short ad-
dress, defining the objects of the meet
ing and urging his hearers to stand
| firmly by the principles enunciated in
the Chicago platform of 1896. He intro
duced the first speaker, Judge James
+. Tarvin of Kentucky who spoke as
follows:
Democracy and the People.
For the first time since the close of
the civil war, a great national political
organization stands free from the do
minion of the organized money power
of the land. The democratic party in
1896 declared and accomplished its inde-
pendence, and thereby parted company
with the Clevelands, the Whitneys, the
BelmOnts and other representatives of
capital 1t is our desire that the demo-
cratic party shall retain its indepen-
dence and stand as the representative
and agent Of the labor and the producer
of the nation.
Every man is entitled to receive for
himself all that he can earn by his
own labor. That is the democracy of
to-day, that Is the meaning of the Chi
cagO platform, that is the end we are
seeking to attain. No political party
ever born can accomplish it, but the
spirit of human freedom, born in the
| human heart and growing and develop
ing through centuries and ages can ac-
complish it and will accomplish it, act
ing through human organization, and
that spirit is acting and striving to-
day by and through the democratic
party as its representative and We to-
night, are seeking to retain the means
and instrument through which that
spirit will dominate this country and
government and finally rule the world,
and bring to the dust every crowned
head and every monarchial government
on earth.
Cities Are Corrupt.
I'm your efforts to put into applica-
ton the principles of the Chicago plat
form, in the administra tion of this gov
ernment you will find opposed to you
the political forces and agencies of the
great cities of New York, of Chicago,
of Indianapolis. of ST. Louis, of Gin
cinnati and of Louisville. To those in
control of those cities, the patronage of
the city departments is of more value
than the election of a congress and a
president and they would bargain away
any principle on earth for the sake of
a deputyship in a municipal office. You
must look to the country and to the
small towns for the bulk of your sup
port and for the hope of your success.
But you can and you will win. The
common people have the numbers. You
have hundreds of votes where organized
wealth can buy or intimidate one. The
weakness of McKinleyism and coward
Ice of Algerism cannot stay you; the
brutality of Hannaism cannot crush
you; the corruption of Crokerism can
not oVerwhelm you: individual thought
and individual freedom, the subsection
OF party to principle, will give to you
the government that jefferson dreamed
OF: that jackson fought for, that Lin
coin prayed for and died for and that
Bryan lives and contends for"
The mention of |the name of Altgeld
by Mr. Tarvin produced a great demon
stration, men standing upon their
chairs and cheering wildly. The next
speakly, who was neatly introduced,
was James F. Brown of New York VINO
said in part:
New York Staunch.
II am not here to make a speech, but
as chairman of the Chicag go platform
democracy | desire to assure the demo-
Gratis of Chicago that the democratic
masses of the state of New York are
true to the Chicago platform and to
William j. Bryan. We also desire to
warn each other of the dangers that lie
before us between now and the next
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