Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-08-17

Iowa is not 4.
the minute the ,,oy v..,o., VI the
Platte, the hero of one democratic ma
tional campaign, stepped to the mid
die of the platform of the Auditorium
last night. For fully two minutes The
more than five thousand people in the
vast audience cheered themselves
hoarse as William Jennings Bryan
bowed first to one side and then to the
other, awaiting the subsistence of the
outburst of applause. When he first
entered the building the cheering COM
menced. He came in the back way, the
stage entrance, accompanied by Sec
retary Walsh, State Secretary Hoffman,
Father Nugent, of Des Moines. and
one or two others. AS several OF the
more observing caught sight of him,
the cheering commenced. and the man
from Nebraska was made TO fully real
iAe that tine state that he an the
Brvanites had considered doubtful.
for him in 1900 was with him, anyway
so far as the demoe ratio party was
concerned.
The Auditorium was packed with
people long before the time for opening
the exercises. Tickets of admission
We're as scarce us robins in the dead of
winter All day long the membe:s OF
til state conmittee We're besiegetl BY
deicgatcs for tickets for themselves and
their friends, and the result was that
;n audience appeared which more than
taxed the capacity of Dss Moines' new
Auditoriuh. tile pride OF the city.
While the building is yet far from conf
ipleticl. jhe scene presented from the.
stage lns: night was beautiful one
psel.gf,n4 head ii ti,e srelke. waved all
3nans,iallN iafsS Asnes8ean flag. bui.
sss,',rnne Il, 5iy. tiit. .el never eal.-
ses attention 10 iF VI Btintiiis and mays
were eGnspisliGiss aretisfs! the stage anl
hoNss. while o3 ;..te Stage were several
.arge Vases OF cit; flowers a; The end
can cage. painted yellow. rather
singular coincidence. for ihc democrat
lie eagle should he painted silver.
That l','van is Il master in the art o
clever speech- was more than
proven last night. For two hours he
held the closest attention of his au-
dience, but from a political point of
view did not enter into the discussion
or any question deep enough to even
call for an argument in reply. To use
the Bowery term, it was a .'ioilying"
sneech. Just such u one as is neces-
sary for the purpose he intended it.
TO keep the people in line for BRYAN in
1900. AS l said before. for two hours
he made witty comparisons, told funny
stories, remarked about this and that
in a humorous way, and quoted the
CHICAGO Times-Herald. Abraham Lin-
coin. and few other GOOD republi-
cans.
Father Nugent, of Des Moiues, whois
also a fine speaker, introduced Mr.
BRYAN with ten minute address, ut
sos o'clock, calling him THE man of
the people"
Mr.. Bryan began his address by say
ing that he had no more doub. of the
triumph of our cause than, in the ris-
ing OF tomorrow's sun. He first took
IN the money question, after stating
that he believed every p.anlS of the
Chicago platform was r;att, is sight,
and will be right in 1900. This IS a
fore@one conclusion. n he expects 10
run for president on tbs dc ,aocra;i;, lick
ct then. and made the statement shat
he wrote part Of that Platform. His
speech had for its foundation that the
republican party was putting the dol
lar before the man. and the tlemocra tic
party w;ls attempting 10 put he nan
before the dollar. He favored the, in
come tax. and brought, arguments 10
make His hearers understand that an
income tax would take much of the
burden OF the war off their shoulders.
He dwelt al length on bimetailism,
claimed that it was Andrew Jaclson's
law. and said that he cared not whcth-
err thew called it free silver. bimetal-
lism. or what. if thev would only give
'us" gold and silver upon an equality
at the mint, with the ratio of Ii TO |
(cheers). without the aid or consent OF
any other nation. This, he declared,
was the jackson law, and this was
what they wanted. This was the only
reference made by the speaker TO free
silver. He brought forth again that
worm-eaten argument that if the farm
ers had cheaper money they could buy
more goods at the stores, the stores
could buy more from lhe factories, and
everything would boom.
On the trust question he dwelt for
about twenty minutes. He declared
the federal government should legislate
and down the trusts, and not the state
governments. On the army and i'm
periulism question he spent the remain
der of his time but without bringing
forth any real arguments against eN-
| panson He told of the number of
Years that Spain had fought the Fill
ipinos. and then said the United States
had purchased quit-cIaim deed. OF,
rather. an option on the fight, This
brought down the house. He brought
| the matter down to question OF dol