The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1913-10-27
BRYAN IN CAMBRIDGE
Addresses Large Audiences at the
Grand Opera House AND the Au-
ditorium Saturday Nighf-Crowds
Estimated at More Than Three
Thousand.

| tary OF state in the CABINET o.
President Woodrow Wilson, aftel
addressing large meetings, at Prin
cess Anne, in the morning, and al
Easton in the afternoon, addressed
two monster meetings in Cambridge
at night. The first meeting wa:
held at the new Grand Opera House
and it was conservatively estimated
that there were twenty-five hun
drad persons in the building and in
the side approaches. After the meet
ing there, Mr.. Bryan went to the
| Auditorium, where he found the
building packed and damned with
persons who had been there since
about seven o'clock, when the doors
| were opened. The crowd was esti-
mated at the two places at between
three and four thousand.
The meeting at the Opera House
was presided over by Judge w.
Laird Henry. After the pleasant
formal.ties of the opening, Mr.Bryan
spoke concerning the candidate for
Senator, the Hon. Blair Lee, and
said:
81 know Blair Lee. 1 have known
him for a great many ysars. I
think it is something like II or
IS years since 1 first became &C
quainted with him, and in that
time l have met him frequently. 1
have been associated with him in
timately. 1 have watched him
grow and I have taken a great deal
of pleasure in the political progress
of Blair Lee. This is not far from
Washington down here in Maryland.
1t is no great task for me to come
down and speak for him.
my friends, 1 would come fur
ther than this to speak Tor Blair
Lee. 1 would cross the Continent
if by so doing could hep to put
him in the United States Senate.
He is the kind of a man that we
need in public life. He In "a man
whose ideals are high, whose con-
ception of public service = exalted
and whose sympathies are broad.
They include all the people, / say.
I am glad to be here If can by
coming help to make more contain
his election.
"But then I am here for another
reason. 1 am here also because the
action of Maryland in the: election
this fall will be taken as an indica-
ton of your attitude toward the
national administration. wen a
man as prominent as Blair Lee will
not be known personally many
men outside the State, an when
the people of other States read the
returns the first words tIose re-
turns will bring will be that Mary
land has either approved or disap-
proved of President Wilson's ad-
ministration. Therefore. have
right to beg you to bear "a mind
that your vote will have 1n influ-
ence in the shaping OF pqflie opin-
ion and in the Informing Of the
nation of your esteem for ME Presi-
dent in the White Hours!
Now. it is not only that, tut in
the election of Senator you will
either help him or you win hinder
him. We have a majority In the
Senate and we can get along with
that majority. 1t is very close,
though. We would like to have
more and we can use few more
good Democrats in the SeIate, and
especially as good Democrat as
Blair Lee. And I think IT Is per-
fectly proper for you to- have in
mind when you vote whether you
are going to help President Wilson
to carry out his program and keep
his pledges or whether you ire go
ing to try to obstruct him and in
terfere with the working sof his
plans.
''This is not only a fair assump-
ton. but the candidate for the Sen
ate on the Republican ticket has
seen tit to give expression to that
very thing. Mr.. Parran said,
| think on the 18th of this month
that Blair Lee wanted to be cleo.
ted to uphold the hands of the
| President, but Mr.. Parran said he
desired to be elected in order t1
tie the hands of the President. Their
is a great deal of differences as tt
whether you uphold his hands OF
tie his hands. The real effect Of
| this election, so far as 1t concerns
the Senate, is whether you are go.
ing to send a man there to act
with or act against the President.
Gin order that you can decide in
telligently whether you want tt
help that President or hinder him
think I ought to tell You some
thing about the President and about
what he is doing. I know no better
way of telling you how to cast youl
vote intelHgently than to make
plain the kind of man you have
before you and the work he /:
trying to do.
eff he is not the right kind of 6
man, the more you can completed!
tie his hands the better, but II h
is the right kind of a man you d.
not want to tie his hands. II h.