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cBssasd wIli sessssn until the swell-
ing t,de of his poPsl.r,ty places hi N
On next Nove@t,er .. psssidsss slsct
Of tbs vepuhlsc.
lettering the state along the Ar
kansas valley his tour frosa Lamar
TO Pueblo ssd Colorsdo Sprlags wss
like . trss~phisl psocs.saoa. lie
spoke literally TO thoSsand~ ct every
sosn and cisy Monday nornias he
arrived st beaver TO be eruesed st
the depO< by three Thousand cheer
lng admiFess aad after . few brief
wOsds to be ~h.sked away i. an
sutomobile On q series Of sad.ences
and sE,ssches and addresses. one
hosr 10 college ssudents, the next to
ministers, the next TO chamber Of
commerce gathering and last Of all
to the 1000 bsnqsesers aud s.other
1900 spectators ut III Jebel semple
that evening
Ar. bryan began his address at
ten clock and spoke for two ho~rs.
1t ives q most comprehensive review
Of political conditions aud . great
patriotic address in which American
citizenship rose superior to partisan
politics. Introduced by Congress
Inaa John +. Shafro4h, Mr.. Bryan
stepped upon the platform, looking
. little older, and little more bald
than ussal, for the strenuous life Of
twelve years has shown even upon
the constitution Of = lion, aud the
temperate habits of Christian gen
tlemsn. But the vast audience rose
at him in = whirlwind of applause
that lasted FIVE minutes.
The first twenty minutes was
. masterpiece Of wit and humor
and pointed sarcasm Then he took
up in detail the plsnks Of the great
platform Of 1896 and proved how
each one had been vindicated by
events. Tie republicans ridiculed
and traduced that platform and the
csndidstes of thst year but have
bees tosead 70 sccep4 The idsas these
sAvsaco6.
Mr.. Bryan ssid in part:
A year ago last fall Senator Bevc-
ridge made . speech to the republi-
can club of our city, and in the
course OF his So 'cch he said some
nice things about me, but ne said
that was Just dreamer and that
President Roosevelt did things.
Well, didn't pay much attention
to it at the time, but in a few days
Speaker Cannon called me dreamer
and then ! sat up and took notice
uaughter) and in little while Gov
ernor Cummings OF Iowa called me
dreamer, and it began to look seri-
Gus daughter; aud then Governor
Hanly of Indiana called me dream
er, and ] saw that my poor testi-
mony would be of little value
against the testimony Of four great
men. so decided to plead guilty
and Justify daughter
We'll, ! went back to the Bible
and | found that it mentioned
dreams and dreamers and the most
CONSPICUOUS of the dreamers in the
Bible was Joseph, and the Bible
tells us that because Joseph told his
dreams TO his brothers his brothers
hated him; and one day his father
sent him out where the brothers
were keeping their flock, and they
saw him coming afar off, and they
said. Behold. the dreamer cometh,
and they plotted to kill him, and he
is not the last dreamer who has been
plotted against il this old world.
Laughter)
Finally they said, NO, we will
not kill him; we will Just put him
in a pit, which is equivalent, | sup
pose, or was at that time, to defeat
ing him for Office. Laughter
And then some merchants came
along and they sold him to the mer-
chants and they carried him down
into Egypt, and the brothers de-
ceived their poor old father and told
him that the wild beasts had de-
voured his son. but they were rid of
the dreamer. and time went on and
they had almost forgotten him, when
a famine came. Laughter
"Yes. famine came and they
went down into Egyp: to buy corn,
and when they got there they found
the dreamer and he had the corn
Laughter and applause. And ]
made mp my mind that it was not
SO bad after all to be a dreamer if
von had the corn. John Boyle
O'Reilly says that the dreamer lives
forever, while the toiler dies in
day.
Thomas Jefferson. the worlds
greatest dreamer, saw a people op-
pressed and he had a vision of a