Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-09-11

CHICAGO, Sept. 10.-Wi1liam J. Bry-
an was the guest this morning of the
Nebraska Bryan Club of Chicago, at
reception held at the Sherman house.
Col Bryan having shaken hands with
200 or more people, was introduced by
NJ. v. Cannon, president of the club,
and said in part:
Great changes are taking place. |
am glad to meet here not only those
who were with me in the early days,
but l am glad to meet some who were
against me in the early days. I find
here persons who voted against me in
1896 and | am glad to meet them.
have forgiving nature. Oaughter)
I am perfectly willing to forgive all
they bring forth works meet for re-
pentance Qaughter.) I am glad to
get back the gold Democrats who wan
dered away. If had known that SO
many of them were coming back |
would have made arrangements to nave
had manufactured a barge number OF
candy fatted calves to give to those
who were returning, as evidence that
the prodigal IS welcome at home. Gap
plause) And | am just as willing to
have those come to the party who were
Republicans in 1896 | met man this
morning who is now a member of this
club who told me that he voted the
Republican ticket in 1896, and that he
had been down In Mexico about six
months of the time since. and that
lie Had Made More Money
in six months in Mexico than he had
made in the other three years and
half under the prosperity that he had
been enjoying in this country. Zap
plause.l
My friends, we have to meet the is
sues, and the club organization is OF
advantage. 1t is good because, first,
III brings together those who are sup
porting our principles, and, second, by
coming together they gather an enthu-
oiasm and inspiration that takes them
out ana makes them do good work.
Now, the work done in a campaign
is not done by candidate nor by the
committee. The candidate does what
he can, the committee does what it
can, but the work of the campaign is
done by the individual voter who goes
out and talks and circulates literature
and applies the lessons of experience,
and | want to commission the members
OF this club to go out and convert just
as many as possible. (Applause)
Our people are aggressive The Repub-
IcanS are on the defensive We are at
lacking the Republicans. They are try
ing to explain and to defend, and | be-
lieve it will be impossible to defend their
policies before the American people
We have country now in which the
people can
Determine What They want
We insisted in 1896 that we should
have a chance to determine our own
financial policy without asking the aid
Or consent of any other nation. that
we were able to decide for ourselves
what it should be and used to suggest
that if man wanted to defend the gold
standard upon its merits that we were
prepared to meet HIN upon that. que5-
tiion. But then he would not defend it
upon its merits, and proclaimed that he
wanted bimetalism but he said we
could not have 1t until somebody else
Lee us have It.
we insisted that the question wss
not one which could be discussed with
out the abandonment by all sense of
homer by he American people CAP
plause.) So now we say that this ma
/tion has right to determine its poll
cies and that when the American peo-
pie want thing that concerns them
they can have that thing, and that we
shall not transfer legislative power
from our people to some other people.
am willing that we shall initiate what
ever other nations have that is good,
but l do not believe that this nation
is compelled, by force of circumstances.
to initiate anything that it does not
like and dnps NOT want Ia nnlanSnl