The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-11-04
BRYAN ONHIS WAY HOME
Closes Campaign In Chicago
and Starts West.
GREETS FORMER FOES
SPEAKS TO MEN WHO CHANGE
TO HIS SUPPORT.

Chicago. Nov. 3.-with four address
ses in Chicago and one at Harvey.
/ William Jennings Bryan today prac-
/ tically closed his long campaigning in
1 the struggle for the presidency. To-
night from in front of the Union
1 League club, on Jackson boulevard,
Mr.. BRYAN reviewed, amid a din of
i glare of fireworks an immense parade
/ of Democrats which marked the close
/ of the campaign in Chicago and late
/ tonight left over the Burlington road
/ for his home in Lincoln. where he,
| with his family. viii receive election
/ returns next Tuesday
Today. the third Of Mr.. Bryan's
! speech making in Chicago, was mark
/ ed by tremendous crowds at each of
the five meetings addressed by him,
I and the parade tonight developed into
/ one long ovation, the cheering for the
/ Democratic presidential candidate be-
/ ing almost incessant from the time he
/ stepped on the reviewing stand until,
/ rather weary from his arduous work of
/ the past three days. he stepped into
/ his carriage and was driven TO the
/ union station
At noon today the Iroquois club gave
/ a banquet in honor of Mr.. Bryan, at
/ which many of the members who OPP
/ posed in 1896 pledged him support on
next Tuesday.
At 10 o'clock Mr.. Bryan began his
| days speech making at a big out door
meeting in front of the Transit house,
/ FoTty-second and Halsted streets. the
! center of the stOckyards district Three
/ other meetings were also addressed by
/ MIR. Bryan during the afternoon. At
| 2:30 p. m. he spoke at an open air
I meeting at Maxwell and Union streets.
1 At D. m. he addressed an open air
/ meeting on the lake front, Washing ton
! street and Michigan avenue From
! there Mr.. BRYAN took a suburban train
1 to Harvey, where he addressed a big
/ meeting of fOundTymen and mill
/ hands The final meeting Of the day
/ and the last of Mr. Bryan's remarkable
| campaign, outside of his own state,
! was at the Calumet theatre, in South
! Chicago. From there Mr.. Bryan went
! at once to the reviewing stand on
| Jackson boulevard. where for an hour
! he stood and bowed as the hosts Of
/ Democracy marched by and cheered
/ their leader.
Principle Before All Else.
In his address before the Iroquois
/ club Mr.. Bryan said in part:
"A man amounts to very little in this
! world except as he stands for some
/ great principle I know that whatever
good viii you manifest toward me is
/ not manifested toward me as an indi-
/ Vidual but merely toward me as the
! represent ative of great party which
! stands upon the principles which you
I believe in. We cannot tell what the
/ future is for anyone or any nation. l
| have challenged the credentials Of
/ these men who have been going up
/ and down the land pretending to tell
/ US what this nations destiny is.
! believe no man is able to see the end
/ from the beginning, but that God does
/ moi ire tf 10
| requires of US is that we do our duty
/ as We see it, and when we do our duty
! as we see it we are relieved from fur
/ Their responsibility.
Il am glad in this campaign that we
| have the support Of many who were
| them haTshly, as l did not when they
/ left US, because + believe that the
! great majority of them left because
/ they conscientiously believed that the
( country was in danger. I. did not agree
/ with them in that / did not believe
| the people or the country would be in
/ danger because Of my election, and
| make the statement 10 you now that If
| I had been elected We would not now
| be confronted by the crisis that is be-
| fore US. l believe that those who voted
/ against me were, at least in nearly all
! cases, men who voted against me be
/ cause they thought that they were do
/ ing their duty TO the country
/ Z believe the issue today is even
| greater than was the issue of 1851. for
/ then the question was whether we
! should have one or two republics, but
/ the issue in this campaign is whether
we shall have a republic.
Makes Appeal to Conscience.
our appeal has been to the con-
/ science and the judgment of the Amer
I lean people. l am glad that this is the
/ only kind OF an appeal that We could
make. If it is Tny destiny to be the
/ president of the United States, l do
not want to feel that / am president
! because somebody was bought to vote
/ for me or compelled TO do it against
! his will. I believe, with those who be-
! lieve in the principle we stand for that
/ if I am elected there is a great work
| before me; and if 1 am called upon to
/ perform that work I want to feel that
/ I have behind me the hearts of the
/ American people as well as their votes.
and thereafter my one purpose in life
/ will be 10 disappOint no honest man
/ who voted for me.
| Il cannot hope that my administra-
/ ton, if elected, will be free from mis-
/ takes, for ! contend that perfection is
not to be found In this world and that
/ all we can do is TO approach il as near
| ly as we can with the light before us
| and with sincere purpose to do what
/ is right / cannot hope not To make
| mistakes. but I promise you that if
/ am elected there viii be four years in