The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-03-25
GREAT LEADER GREETED
BY IMMENSE CROWDS
Delivers Magnificent Speeches in Salt Lake and
Ogden to Thousands
Warmest Of Welcomes Given the Man Who Will Lead the
Party to Victory in the Nation at Next Election.

The great leader Of Democracy, the
man who is the inspiration Of all those
forres and tendencies which make for
government Of the people, for the peo-
ris and by the people, has come to
I-tah to aid in adding one more con-
gresham to the gallant minority that
now sits in Washington.
W. J. BRYAN. who Will be the next
candidate of Populists, silver Repub-
Iicans and Democrats for the presi-
dency. arrived in Ogden yesterday at l
o'clock. He came to tell the people Of
Utah why Judge William H. King
should be sent TO congress, and to en-
courage them in their struggle against
trusts and government by close cor
porauon. To this cause in which he lis
bound up, and to which he has devoted
his life he gave two mighty and elo-
quent speeches yesterday. At Ogden
and at Salt Lake ne rose to great
heights and stirred TO profound enthu-
siasm thousands and thousands of per-
sons. He even brought tears TO their
eyes. for when he referred in his SER
iOus, sincere manner to the death of
soldiers fighting in the Spanish war,
many women in Ogden wiped away
from their eyes tears that came III
spite Of efforts to keep them back.
He poured forth in d torrent of logic,
sarcasm, irony and humor for hours,
and with his changing moods, his aud
fence rapt in sympathy, felt disgust
and contempt for political forces OF
evil. or laughed at the Wit fired against
them For Mr.. Bryan scared to mighty
heights. His plain Anglo-SaXOn, laden
with thought, went direct to the hearts
Of his audiences. He uses few of the
tricks and quirks Of glittering elo-
quence: It is the force Of what he says
and how he says it. rather than his use
OF tunetul words and melOdious SEN
fences which appeal 10 the people. And
he was never in better form than in
his two speeches OF yesterday. Vast
audiences Of the east which have filled
20 suh0catiOn spacious amphitheatreS
have never been treated TO greater in
teliectUal feasts by him.
Men who have heard him time and
again during many years declared yes
terday in Ogden that he made the
greatest speech they ever listened to-.
Hon d. II. Peery. who had heard in
the great past those giants, Calhoun,
Clay and the terrible Webster. vowed
that he rose above them. An old. far
mer Of Ogden, Potts Ingham, who
voted for Buchanan and listened to
Lincoln said his speech was the equal
Of any Of those Of the martyred presi-
dent.
The enthusiasm which this man,
barely i'm the prime Of life, at an age
when most statesmen are growing into
prominence, is wonderful People hang
upon his words. his gestures and the
idsa OF his raven-black eye. Sentences
delivered during that part of his speech
HH-a referred TO expansion and imper-
-AHSm We're terrible in their force. He
denounced i'm awful scOrn the argument
IAd' the Philippines must be retained
prDdGee their trade would pay, and
tHal human life must be sacrificed to
tAe greed of syndiCates formed to eX-
POT the FllpinOs. Lifting his arms
hlsh. b. aEela.med:
on. 3.I- That those who want to
puI lat- trade with human blood
Wound purchase if with their own blood,
rather than that Of others sons"
And again. Il dare the Republican
i&rty TO put a price on human life"
sentences Ike these were received
with deafeninE cheers.
Sat Lake has done itself nroud in it's
reception Of Mr. Bryan. Yesterday was
amos holiday. and it had about il
"A tLe street corners or wherever two
.. th..- were gathered together. almost
'-e spirit OK Fourth Of July