The Holly chieftain., 1904-09-23
COL 0kEL BRYAN SPEAKS TO AN
If1ffENSE CROWD In DENVER

Fully twenty thousand people
greeted William ]. Bryan at Coliseum
/ hall in Denver last Thursday night.
7 The capacity of the hall is about thirty
! FIVE hundred. Not a particle of stand
] ing room was left at 1:15 O'Clock in
! the evening. The crowd massed on
the outside and extended from one end
of the block to the other. Colonel
Bryan spoke briefly on the outside and
then WAS escorted through the dense
throng to the hall and the following is
. portion OF the magnificent address
delivered by him
Mr.. Chairman, Ladies and Gentle
men-1 did not come to the mountain
states to speak, but to rest. ! have
been speaking a good deal the last ten
years. and / thought l needed little
rest. LAughter.) 1t is hard, however.
not to speak when l hnd people will
ling to listen. 1t Is such pleasure
to speak to a Colorado audience that
l think shall come back. II not in
vited. shall come here and spend
vacation and speak while l am resting
UAughter)
This is a splendid crowd, but I
think we all recognize the persons who
built this hall did not know much
about ventilation. 1t is uncomfortable
for me. and am sure 1t must be for
you. However, l think l can say in
short time some of the things which
need to be said in this campaign.
II have talked in this room on the
money question. am not going to
speak on this topic tonight, but the
fact that do not is not entirely due
to no inclination OF mine. daughter
and applause)
About Gold Plank.
When l went down to St. Louis l
was anxious to have the platform SO
written that could talk on the money
question, but l found SO many in the
convention anxious to put in the gold
standard plank. l could have talked
good deal If they had put 1t in. but l
did not want 1t inserted, and thirty
four others did not want 1t inserted,
and there were only fifteen who did
want 1t, SO 1t was left out. We could
not get in what we wanted; they could
not get In what they wanted, SO we
lett 1t out altogether.
while believe in the money ques-
tion and expect to have chance to
discuss 1t at some future time, there
Is SO much to discuss in this campaign
that can find ample subjects for a po-
litical talk without touching that Ques-
tion.
Il wish our candidate agreed with
the platform of 1896 and 1900, but he
does stand with us on questions of vi
tai Importance to the American peo
Pile, even though believing in the gold
standard. .,a
Other Questions Now.
81 have been discussing economic
questions for many years. except in
1900, when | discussed Imperialism. l
expect to discuss these questions all
my life, but can ignore them in this
campaign because there are certain
things which have been forced into
politics by eight years of Republican
rule, and II we get them out in the
next four years we shall have done
something in the interest of the Amer
lean people.
Il wish to speak OF some Of these
| things, especially those which have ref
| erence to Colorado. Perhaps had bet
| ter take up local questions before ]
touch upon the national issues. have
/ found that the situation in this state
is of absorbing interest to its citizens
and may assume very important ma
tionai bearing in this campaign. Your
| state issues will probably determine
| more votes than those which confront
the people generally.
my friends, we have got to meet the
labor question. Do not delude your
selves with the idea that it can be
| avoided. For years it has been grow
| ing question. The Republican party
takes the side of organized capital and
believes in voting money out OF the
pockets of the people into the pockets
of the corporations, leaving the cor
porations to make such division as
they may see fit among their employees.
Decide for Yourselves.
For a generation the Republican
party has been insisting that they vote
money into the pockets OF the manu-
facturer and he will take care Of the
laborer. The situation We see to-day is
the result. You can decide Tor your
selves whether the men who have
been given the money have divided 1t
properly. Suppose you should adop-
this principle In your own lives. Let
a man leave his property to one sen,
| with instructions to divide 1t among
the other heirs; what would be the
result? You know he would take the
lions share, and pay little regard to
its equitable division.
1.-The laboring man has but one force
in this world to get his share of money
and that is the labor organization.
There is a movement on foot to-day
among employers to destroy the labor
organizations and thus destroy the only
means the laboring man has of secur.
ing his part Of the prosperity of the
country. believe In the eight-hour
day, yet have worked sixteen hours