The Portland daily press., 1900-10-17

demOnstrat1V9. When the lights were
all turned on, there came a brief cheer.
The big semi-circular electrical display
over the speakers stand bore the por-
traits OF the two Democratic candidates,
the Democratic emblem and the Demo-
cratic watchword, credited to Mr.. Croker,
'We swish to Remain Free People, In
great letters of light.
Then the band struck up national
air as the people recognized Yankee
Doodle'' they got up in their seats, with
uncovered heads and waved thousands
of small American flags shouting the
words of the song.
Mr.. Bryan entered the garden at 7.15
O'Clock. AS COL Bryan, escorted by
Mr.. Croker, mounted the speakers stand
the cheering was continuous. The two
climbed The stairs and made their way to
the front followed by the reception COM
mittee. Mr.. Bryan and Mr.. Croker fire.
quenly bowed to the vast audience. Just
behind the two, Mayor Van Wyck escort
ed Edward M. Shepard, who acted as
chairman of the meeting. The cheering
continued; now dying down, now being
renewed with increased vigor. Then
Mr.. Croker rose, hesitated a moment
and raised his hand for silence.
Instead of ceasing. the cheers broke
forth louder than ever. After nearly
10 minutes the applause began to die
out. Mingled cheers and Kisses, the lat
ter for silence, lasted minute longer.
''Three cheers for our next President, 4"
brought out the final cheer. but an effort
to repeat it was drowned in cries of
''Put him out.''
The enthusiasm nearly carried the
crowd away. When quiet was restored.
Mr.. Croker took Mr.. Shepard by the hand
and introduced him to the audience as
chairman of the meeting. Before Mr..
Shepard could get into the subject of
which most of his address was devoted,
the crowd got impatient to hear Mr..
Bryan that Mr.. Shepard could not pro-
ceed. He suddenly stopped and intro
duced President Guggenheimer of the
council, who offered the formal resoIu-
tions of the evening. These welcomed
Mr.. Bryan and Mr.. Stevenson to New
York, approved the Kansas City plat
form; opposed Imperialism; protested
against an enormous standing army as a
menace to the republic; praised the vol
unteer army as being sufficient in emer-
genoy; opposed entangled foreign ALI
ances; sympathized with the Beers: de-
nouncsd trusts; pledged the party to
bring back to the people constitutional
government and charged the Republicans
with having raised a gigantic corruption
fund to debauch the suffrage.
Mr.. Shepard then introduced Mr.. Bryan
in few short sentences.
Mr.. Bryan stepped to the railing as the
throng broke afresh into cheers. He
raised MS hand for silence, but the cheers
did not subside.
'sThree cheers + or our ext President, -
came from the audience, Mr.. Bryan rails
ing his hand in depreciation. The crowd
was about to become quiet when flash
light bomb went off in the centre of the
room. There was great excitement and
disorder for a moment, and calls for the
police. A dozen police rushed to the
spot where the man sat who had fired
the bomb, grabbed him and hustled him
and his camera into the aisle and out OF
the garden. Mr.. Bryan began by refer
ring to the vast audience before him and
said that it indicated an interest in the
campaign which must be gratifying to
all who realized the importance of the
questions involved. He declared that he
was not vain enough to accept the en-
thus1asm manifested as personal tri-
butte to himself because he said, 1.-THE In
dividuaI counts for nothing except that
he may be the Instrument used by the
people to carry out their own WILL"
He Immediately entered upon a defense
of the Democratic cause. He went on
to say that the party draws the line be-
tween honest wealth and predatory
wealth. He declared that no honest in
dustry, no honest occupation, no honest
man need fear the success of the Demo-
cratic party.
Taking up the Republican declaration
of principles, Mr.. Bryan said that that