The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-03-22
MAKE READY FOR BRYAN.

William J. Bryan, the great common
err, the peoples champion. the fearless.
faithful and incorruptible advocate Of
bimetanism, will be in Utah next Sat
urday. He will speak at Ogden in the
afternoon and at the Exposition build
ing in this city in the evening.
In all likelihood william ]. Bryan
viii be the next president of the United
States.
Four years ago he was introduced TO
the people of this country. In Tune he
was nominated for the presidency, a
young man, a westerner, a bimetallist
and stranger to nine-tenths of the
voters Of the republic
-Four months later he received 6.511,-
17S votes for the highest Office in the
gift of the people-more than Harrison
or Cleveland or Blaine ever received
in aspiring to the same honor.
Mr.. Bryan was handicapped by DEM
ocratic dissensions and Republican rid
icule Of silver as a western craze, by
eastern prejudice, by a goldbug de-
preston through which the country
was just passing, by malOdOrous Cleve-
landism which left it's responsibility
with the Democrats while it threw its
support to Mckinley, by the combined
opposition of all monied combinations
in this country and in England, by
lack Of years and acquaintance which
counted unjustly but heavily against
him, and against all these obstacles
he made the most remarkable fight
ever a man made for right and for
principle.
Against him were arrayed all the
trusts and syndicates and bankers of
national influence; against him were
employed all the wiles and agencies
of corruption, coercion, misrepresenta-
ton aud Islander that imperial wealth
enthroned in Wall street could muster;
against him were arrayed the hirelipgs
Of the money power. scores of sUbsi-
died newspapers and well-paid attor-
heys Of organized greed.
He made his fight almost alone. He
was not only a stranger at the begin
ming of that memorable campaign of
1896 but he went forth the exponent
of what was to many people a new doc
trine-"the disturber of our monetary
system" as the bankers put it-and he
had to meet sectional prejudice, finan-
cial bigotry and educated insolence
wherever he went in the east.
The people have learned a. few things
since they USED to threaten Bryan with
violence and break up his meetings in
1896. They have learned that he is a
grand man, a true friend Of the masses.
an earnest advocate Of an imperishable
truth. They have learned that his doc
trine is one Of the foundation rocks
upon which this government was built,
that it is a principle as sound today as
II was in the days Of old, that in it
lies the only hope of the people, the
only salvation OF the government.
And so Bryan has been meeting with
rousing receptions all over the east.
He should have an enthusiastic well
come to Utah next Saturday. Let it
not appear that just as the east be-
comes converted to what the west has
always preached the preacher is falling
from grace. Let not the boast of the
goldbug leader, that when we want
the west well buy it." be verified. Let
Utah do her duty and show her loyalty
and devotion to principle.
Mr. Bryan should have a royal recep-
ton at ogden and the capacity of the
Exposition building in this city should
be taxed to its utmost Saturday night