The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-10-16
SPLENDID OVATION FOR
BRYAN At HANNH'S HOME
Cleveland Gives Him Greatest Reception of the Cam
paign--C Canton Also Has Warm Greeting.
Large and Enthusiastic Crowds at Other Ohio CeS-Mon
nett Trust Object Lesson.

Cleveland, O., Oct. 15.-The recep-
this city. Hanna's town. was the most
brilliant he has received on his entire
tour. The Central armory, holding
many thousands of people, where he
made the first speech of the evening,
was filed to the point Of suffocation,
and Bond street, q broad thOroughfare
leading from the HOIlenden hotel, and
along which Mr.. Bryan was to pass
to reach the armory, was so densely
crowded with people that it was diff
cult to get through the mass.
Mr. Bryan arrived at the armory at
7:35, and when he entered the hall a
vast throng of people in the building
rose as one man to greet him. waving
hats and handkerchiefss
The demonstration continued for sew
eral minutes, and when Mr. Bryan
arose to present Mayor Jones of To
ledO, who was first tC address the aud
fence. the demonstration was renewed
While Mr. Bryan was making this
preliminary presentation, il became
necessary for him to ask a hundred or
more Democrats on the stage to sit
down. They all kneIt on the floor,
whereupOn Mr.. Bryan remarked that
Satan trembles when he sees SO many
Democrats on their knees The re-
mark was greeted with laughter
Mayor Jones received a compliment
airy welcome he said that he was in
the campaign because he was against
the war in the Philippines and against
the enlargement of the standing army.
He was not there as a partisan, but
as a supporter of the fundamental
principles of human liberty.
Mr. Bryan mounted a chair when he
began to talk a few minutes past 8
o'clock He began by saying that the
campaign enter the home and affect
the lives of all our people
Prayers to Hanna.
Referring to the financial legislation
of the last session of congress, Mr.
congressman who knelt regularly
every morning and prayed to Senator
Hanna to give US this day our daily
opinion. The remark was greeted
with laughter and cheers.
Mr. Bryan again outlined his argu-
ment in support of an income tax. and
then took up the question of trusts. He
compared the trusts to leecheS, and
said they were all drawing blood from
the American people, expressing the
opinion that il was about time 10 do
something for the leech habit
When, after making quotations from
President Mckinley and Governor
Roosevelt, Mr. Bryan jokingly referred
to Senator Hanna as the head of the
Republican party, he was again
cheered.
He denied that the United States had
any title to the Philippines that &C
cords with the Declaration of Independ-
ence, and he again explained his rea-
sons for assisting in securing the rati-
fication of the peace treaty He eX-
claimed:
Republicans, aren't you ashamed OF
yOurselVeS2 If your president had 10
depend upon his defeated rival to Sc
cure the ratification Of this treaty, you
ought to commend instead Of condemn
me-" The point called forth one OF tbs
most pronounced demonstrations OF the
meeting. MI Bryan spoke for an hour
and ten minutes, and the dense crowd
held its footing to the end
While Mr.. Bryan was speaking al
the Central armOry, thousands of peO-
pie who were unable 10 gain admission
10 the building gathered around tht
HOIlenden hotel, from the balcony OF
which addresses were delivered by ex
Attorney General MOnnett, Mayor
Jones of Toledo, ex-CongresSman Ton
Johnson and others.
At $3.50 D. m Mr.. Bryan having con
cluded his speech at Central armOry
appeared on the HOllenden hotel bal
cOny, where he was introduced by Mr.
Johnson. The presidential candidate
was greeted here by tremendous cheer
ing. which continued for several min
utes He spoke briefly, discussing i'm
DerialiSm and trusts.
Probably 1000 persons were packed
together in the immediate vicinity o
| the hotel in the evening.
Mr. Bryan left tonight at 1880 70
New York. His special car, the Ram
/ bier was attached to a regular train
/ on the Lake Shore, to arrive in New
/ York at 2:35 o'clock tomorrow after
/ noon. The train will only make tn
regular stops on the way, and it is no