The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1914-10-29
hon. ". ]. BYRAN
HONORS WAHpETON
BY Making II q Visit and Deliver.
Ing q Great Speech
Here
MANY WE'RE TURNED AWAY
Because Of Lack Of Room to Edge
Themselves Into the
Building

Wahpeton and Richland county
last Monday. when he made us a
visit and delivered one of his
great speeches here. A man as
busy as Mr.. Bryan now is seldom
takes the time to visit even the
largest cities of the country, and
his coming to- WahpetOn. Aber-
crOmbie and Christine at this time
is appreciated for just what it
means to us all.
It had been intended that Mr..
Bryan should speak here from the
balcony of the Merchants hotel.
where thousands could have lis
tened to him. but the weather was
so cold Monday morning that it
would have been cruel to insist
that our guest should make a
speech an hour or more long out
in the cold, or that those who were
so anxious to hear him should
have to stand out there in order to
do so: so it was decided to hold
the meeting in the opera house,
which is the largest building in
the city suitable for such a pur-
pose. AS it was. the opera house
was densely packed with people a
half hour, or more. before the
hour scheduled for the speech to
begin, and many hundreds more
were unable to wedge themselves
into even the stairway of the
building.
He had arrived in the city over
the G. N. railway from Aberdeen
at 1 los i'm the morning, and stc,-
ped with his party at the Merch-
ants hotel. The band and quite a
crowd of citizens met him at the
depot. even at that unseemly hour,
and Mr.. Bryan expressed his sur
prise and great pleasure at such
a reception to our city.
Mr.. Zones of Rock" who took the
come here from LaMoure to pay
a tribute to Senator Purcell. whom
he had found such :r honorable
opponent i'm the summer primary
campaign. and who had beaten
him so fairly in the race for the
Democratic nomination: Wh'n
Mr.. Bryan was introduced. he re-
ceived one of the greatest ova-
tionS that ever erected man in
WahpetOn. His first remarks were
addressed to the children in the
audience, and after brief talk to
them he requested them as far as
possible to vacate the hall in or
der to give room for more voters,
whom he said hec anne specially
to address at this time. promis-
ing the children that at some flu
ture time he would come back to
Wahpeton and talk to them only.
After paying a high tribute to
Senator Purcell. whom he has
known personally for manv years,
and to Mr.. Fred Bartholomew, the
Democratic candidate for Con-
gress from this district, Mr.. Bry-
an urged upon his hearers the
great Importance at this time of
sending them to Congress to as
sist the President in completing
the great work of reforming our
laws along the lines he has so
satisfactorily commenced. Should
the people send to the next Con-
gress Republican majority in
either house. the Presidents
hands would be I'D so that it
would be impossible to legislate
further along these lines. and the
President would understand. and
the whole world would under
stand, that his peace policies as
we'll as the economic policies of
Mr.. Wilson were not approved by
the people. To avoid such catas-
trophe. let's make sure that we do
our part toward sustaining the
President by electing Mr.. Purcell
and Mr.. Bartholomew.
Mr.. Bryan stated that all the
people are divided into two elias i.
ses, Aristocrats and Democrat"
and we are all one or the other.
and our answers to few ques-
tions will always disclose who are
the Democrats and who are the
Aristocrats. We like those people
who are on our side. and the rea-
son so many Republicans as we'll
as Democrats like Mr.. Wilson is.
that he is on their side and they
are really Democrats. although
they may not know it.
Just to test the genuine popu-
larity of at least one Of Mr.. Will
sons great reforms since he be-
came president. the speaker asked
all those in his audience who pre-
fer to have the money center of
the country in WASHINGTON. where
the present administration has
removed it from Wall St.. to raise
their hands. Before doing so he
predicted that more than fifty per
cent of them liked the change.
When the vote was called for
hands went up from every seat in
the whole house, thus proving it
to be unanimous.
Mr.. Bryan departed on the 40:
25 Milwaukee train for Fargo,
where he addressed another mon
ster meeting at 1 o'clock, and still
another one at Grand Forks in the
evening. He also made short talks
at Abercrombie and Christine. on
the way to Fargo. the train being
held fifteen minutes at each of
these points. and he had many lis
teners at each point.
Every election year lots of bal
lots are lost because the voters
made mistake in marking them.
If you wish to vote a straight tick
y