The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-10-02

men jammed themselves into the To,
small Auditorium last night, or, baff1et
In gaining entrance, clustered around its
portals in the hope of seeing, If they
might not hear, William Jennings Bryan.
That they had similarly surged, and
similarly seen or heard in 1896, did not
seem material, unless it was the i'm
pulse that inspired them-the greatest
tribute that could be paid to the orator,
who was once Nebraska's, but is now a
nations.
Mr. Bryans public addresses in st. Paul
and Minneapolis have now reached that
number where fingers run out in recount
Ing them, but each recurring visit finds
the same hubbub of excited, eager audi
tors struggling for a chance to hear him.
Those who heard him for the first time
last night, and there We're many such in
that vast asre1nblage, heard voice that
grated somewhat on the ears, due to
recent and long-continued tax on the ora
tors vocal resources, including number
of recent outdoor addresses in a Minneso-
Ia autum, but every one in the hall
heard him.
And If 1t did not ring with the same
clarion tones that electrified a sweltering
convention In Chicago, and heralded to
the world an orator whose skill it had
not known, that voice still possessed the
same verility which-carried it through the
campaign of 1896, the wonder of public
men the world over, and which has pre-
served it in seemingly good condition for
use in the campaign of 1866.
DAJTT
Last nights address was shorter than is
usual with Mr.. Bryan He had to hurry
to Minneapolis, and he was delayed in
arriving at the hall 1t did not go into
fights of eloquence; the presidential
nominee was content to confront CITY
which supported his opponent four years
ago with a vigorous arraignment of the
Republican party and its leaders to full
I'LL what 1t and they had then promised
the voters, including this constituency
And the arraignment, even though
limited in time, was vigorous. Con-
trasts between the Republican party Of
now and a generation ago, were terse
and pointed, to the standard of epigram.
From beginning to end the speech was
replete with fnasterfully drawn COM
PARSONS or anthitheses, and toward the
close he summed up. in some especially
pointed ones which won immense favor
with the audience, even if they We're tend
er points with some hearers.
SOME PROBLEMS IN PERCENTAGE.
''In 1885," exclaimed Mr.. Bryan, ''the
Republicans worried lest you should force
them to so per cent dollar, yet now
they have of their own making an IS per
cent citizen in Porto Rico, and no one
knows what per cent citizen we still have
in the Philippines
Another very effective parallel was
drawn when he said: "Four years ago
they told us we could never get along
successfully with a double standard in
our money system The white and the
yellow metals could not be maintained
at a parity, but they are now trying to
maintain the white citizen in the United
States on parity with the yellow sub
ject in the Philippines"
PAYS TRIBUTE TO LINCOLN.
Mr.. Bryan was diverted from his review
of the campaign issues at the opening
by the presentation of handsome edition
of the life of Abraham Lincoln on be-
half of a colored peoples organization
Presenting q Democratic nominee with
the biography of one of the greatest
leaders of the political organizations for
nearly half q century opposing his own
was somewhat novel, and even pictur
esgue incident in politics. But the way in
which the name of Lincoln was used to
conjure Democratic enthusiasm indicated
clearly that If any partisan glory ever
attached to the official acts of Lincoln,
the legacy has been lost by the present
leaders of the organization to which he
belonged.
Then coming into the issues of the cam
paign, Mr.. Bryan's plan of campaign
showed change from 1896.
Then he was marshaling, as it seemed,
the voters for aggressive action in their
own behalf against an enemy whose home
was vaguely defined, except that one of
or two speeches implied tha: it was down
East.
Last night Mr.. Bryan led his hearers
not to the battle for their rights but
In pursuit, as he would have it, of
disorganiZed and fleeing foe. The Repub-
lican party had forsaken the field it had
chosen for the battle ground of four years
ago. and the Democracy must rally its
forces in the defense of absolute right
and justice, and compel the Republicans,
when they had finally been able to select
their weapons, and agree upon plan of
campaign, to assume the offensive.
SAY THEY CHANGED FRONT.
They had at first, he said, insisted that
the battle must be waged en- the money
question, but between the time of the
Philadelphia convention and the accept
ance of the nomination by President Nc
Kinley, they had discovered that their
dalyings with the money question dur
ing the last four years had made that
unsafe ground, and at the behest of Wall
street, the leaders of the party had
abandoned that bone Of contention
President Mckinley and Mark Hanna
had repealed the Philadelphia platform
already.
They now wanted to fight 1t out on the
tariff question. The tariff had been an
Issue in 1892, and they wanted to go back
there, and If the Democrats tried to meet
them there. the speaker averred, he had
no doubt the Republicans '.,buld change
front again and want to keep going back
from ditch to ditch till the time of the
Civil war. They had so far failed to do
the things they had promised during the
campaign of four years ago, and had done
so many things which no one had any
idea they would do at thu time, that
their cause this time was puzzle for
It's leaders, editors and orators to eX-
plain or defend. Argument failing them,
in this last resource, Mr.. Bryan predicted
that before election that would resort to
epithet and vilifcation.
Mr.. Bryan freely discussed the trusts,
in spite of Mark Hanna's declaration
that there are not any trusts, declaring