The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-10-22
ACTOR HGRNE FOR BRYAN.
New York WorId.)

New York WORLDLY
James A. Herne. actor and play
wright, will appear for the next three
weeks on the stump, as we'll as on the
stage. He spoke in Lyric hall last night
not as quaint old Captain Dan Marble
in sag Harbor," but as an eloquent
and forceful advocate of Bryan's cleo
ton. 1t was his first speech of the
campaign. He viii put in all his spare
time between now and election. he
said, talking for Bryan and the Demo-
cratic platform.
Mr. Herne's debut as a stump speak
er places him at once in the front rank
oI campaign orators. He made great
MT, and his we'll shaped sentences. his
bright and witty references to cam
pdlSn issues, eloquent appeals to voters
ana nerce assaults upon the admins
tratlon and Republican campaign man
ayers, We're aDplauded to the echo.
Inc speech was under the auspices
OF the Henry George Bryan and Stew
en5on club, and Henry George presided
ana introduced Mr.. Herne.
Inc acHor began by paying a pathetic
uloute to the late Henry George, and
sild ne was a George follower in every
doctrine laid down by the famed advo-
cate of the single tax. MIR. Herne read
an epitomized outline of the Kansas
City platform.
Those are the doctrines said he,
that must be upheld by the people of
this country at the ballot box on Nov.
b. The salvation of the American re-
public depends upon them
Pitching into the administration, he
said with all the fire that marks the
climax in ''ShOre Acres" in the light
house scene:
1T cost $50, O0O. 900 to defeat BRYAN in
h.|e
fourfold to the bands of capitalists.
But the American people are becoming
aroused, and three times $50. 0OO. 600 can
not re-elect Mr.. Mckinley
This set the crowd Wild. and they ap-
plauded even more vigorously when he
went on:
The first vote ever cast against the
Declaration of Independence will be
cast Nov S, when the first Republican
puts his ticket in the ballot box. Nov
will be memorable, a fateful day
MI Herne paused for several mo-
ments, held his hands outstretched
over his head and exclaimed: God
save our republic,"
Bryan stands today the foremost
figure in American politics. he contin-
ued- He viii fill the place so long left
vacant by Abraham Lincoln. Some
people may say he leaped into fame by
tidal wave of enthusiasm stirred to
action by the one marvellous bit of ora
tory at Chicago in 1896, and some may
say that because of his striking and
picturesque figure in politics, l. as an
actor, was one of those carried away
by this wave of eloquence. I have never
seen the man in his life. and have
never heard his voice. but even if had
been impressed by his first speech I
declare that his speech of acceptance
at Indianapolis this year proves that he
Is not man of mOmentary creation a
Chicago, but a statesman such as mod
ern times can rarely boast
Mr.. Herne again paid his respects to
Mr.. Mckinley. He stands for OoiIitar-
ISM" said he. ut was militarism that
drove some of our best citizens from
Europe He declared that the war with
Spain was for the suffering Cubans
who were striving for their independ-
ence. Yet this man took solemn oath
when he became president TO fulfill the
principle of American liberty laid down
by the constitution and Declaration of
Independence"
After devOting a large part of his
speech to the single tax doctrine of
Henry George and declaring that if he
had been able to induce one man to
vote for Bryan he would feel rewarded
Mr.. Herne closed by quoting in true
tragedian style from Shakespeare's
''Cassio:"
THE grace of heaven, before, behind
and on every hand enwheeI thee
around
With this he dismissed his audience
Mr.. George called for a rising vote Of
thanks to Mr.. Herne for his sDeech
Everybody stood up and applauded