The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-09-30
COCHRAN TALKS
FOR BRYAN

Chicago. Sept 29.-W. BourlSe Cock
ran of New York. in opening his west
ern campaign itinerary here tonight,
spoke to an audience that crowded the
Coliseum, built to seat 12,000 persons.
The speech was made under the
auspices of the Anti-ImperiaIst league
and attracted thousands who were I'M
able to enter the auditorium. The
crush at the doors when Mr.. Cochran,
accompanied by Mayor Harrison and
others, arrived was so great that scores
of men and women tainted, and both
Mr.. Cochran and Chicago's executive
were jostled and half suffocated.
United States Senator Jones and his
wife were caught in the thrOng and
only by heroic efforts was Mrs. Jones
rescued from injury.
Mr.. Cochran was entertained by the
IroquOis club at dinner. and at 8
O'Clock escorted by two bands. the Cook
County Democratic Marching club, city
and county officials and several hun
dred citizens, proceeded to the Coli
scum En- route the speaker was
cheered, his name being connected with
that of Bryan The marching club
provided fireworks and other means of
illumination along the line of parade
Mayor Harrison introduced Mr..
Cochran, who Immediately began an at
tack on the imperialistic policy of the
government. He said:
We are told by our Republican ad-
VerSarieS that one issue of this cam
paign is the preservation Of our ma
tiOnaI prosperity. 1 accept that issue.
l go farther and [ say that on the
results of this election depend not
merely the prosperity of the American
people, but the prosperity of the whole
human race. 1 believe that ReDrSli-
cans and Democrats will concede the
establishment of this republic was the
most important contribution to human
progress since the birth of Christianity
The benefit OF this republic to the hu-
man race was not the adoption of a
written constitution. 1t was not the
distribution of the powers of this gov
eminent into various departments
Long before the convention met TO de-
hberate; long before the Declaration of
Independence had been proclaimed in
Philadelphia. executives had admins
tered governments. parliamentS had
adopted and judges had interpreted
laws. But never in the history of the
race until the American people came
together TO frame the system under
| which they intended to live, was a gov
eminent established, not an infamous
assumption of divine intervention but
upon the consent and on the will of the
/ people to establish justice, to provide
! for the common welfare and to pre-
serve to the people and their posterity
the blessings of civil liberty.
Experiment a Success.
THE fruits of that experiment have
! been visible all over the world They
proved that the only sure pathway TO
prosperity is obedience to the moral
| greatness, material, Intellectual and
| moral. a fountain that flows in ever in
| creasing abundance among those who
remain faithful to the source. And
now We are asked to change this SyS-
| tenn of government for a system such
as other countries are every day dis
carding. We are asked to abandon
| these Institutions which are the SUI
preme fruits of Christian civilization,
| embOdying- in themselves all that has
been achieved for human rights since
| the doctrine of human equality was
I first preached on the shores of Lake
/ Galilee, and we are asked to surrender
net because there are any signs Of i'm
pending failure, but because il has
| achieved the very plentitude of sue
| cess Surely this raises not merely the
| issue of American prosperity but the
/ issue of human progress.
Inconsistency Of Mckinley.
The Republican candidate offers us
professions of morality which are the
most unexceptionable. We find him
/ shooting down people in the eastern