Show enthusiastic receptions TO BRYAN cheer at fredericksburg and washington in a driving rain mr bryan addresses large crowds of people at fredericksburg and at washington some other distinguished speakers also speak washington D C sept 19 A violent wind and rain swept over the city at 6 broke up the bryan meeting und the promise of its comicz prevented it from beine the success it would have been under more pleasant conditions 0 weather the candidate had duft reached the consideration of farewell address when the pelting rain compelled a cessation 0 bis speech although probably 1500 enthusiastic auditors braved the elements and pleaded for him to go on after waiting a fen minutes hoping the severity of the storm might mitigate and he be enabled to proceed mr bryan save up and left the grounds the speakers who were expected to fol jow the presidential candidate including hon T F grady of tammany new york of course found more opportunity to carry out their part of the program the meeting was held in the old baseball park north of the capitol four or five blocks for this occasion a platform 80 feet square had been constructed which was profusely decorated arcand its edge was strung a electric clobes but they were not needed at each corner of the stand the american flag floated the gates were opened at 3 0 clock and at A the hour of the beginning of the meeting there were probably people gathered iu front of the stand and in the grandstand reserved for club members there were at that time a few banners in the field prominent among them that of the bryan club of north carolina which asserted that that was the first state to indorse cryan for the presidency at five minutes alter the hour mr kalbfus chairman of the executive committee called the meeting to order and introduced ex mayor jamea G berret as presiding oer mr berret is an aced gentleman of four score years and bis remarks were inaudible even to those next to him on the platform W A houghtaline reading clerk of the congress read address in accordance cor dance with the general plan to read the document on italis day to all the democratic cluba the throng liete iet attentively throughout the reading and at its dote loudly cheered the bation af the committee was announced among the vice presidents named who were on the stand were senators butler of north carolina harris of tennesee and brewart of nevada the resolutions agreed upon by the executive committee were then presented by john A alark and adopted they unqualifiedly approved the chicago platform heartily and zealously the nomination of bryan and bewail and pledged them full and unyielding support while waiting for the appearance of mr bryan the audience was entertained ly A lipscomb ot the district by this time the crowd had increased to probably people who cheered every especially every one present beg the name af the presidential candi didace he vas followed by HOD cen ton mcmillin of tennessee while mr mcmillin was speaking dark bank of r clouds portending a heavy in the northwest but he people stood in their places waiting for 1 him for whom they had come to hear while they were drifting swiftly down the city the head of the procession lec orting sir bryan was sighted and the band struck up dixie the crowd broke into tumultuous cheers which vere kept up at intervals while he was aking his way to the front of the platform then the demonstration became tumultuous and was kept up for a a despite the efforts of the officials to secure quiet that the candi date might be heard before the 1 came when be was t i chairman berrett there wag a repetition of the applause As mr bryan stepped to the front little mabel cosgrove dressed in white and silver was lifted 10 the stand and presented the candidate a bunch of white rosee which he 1 received mr opening sentence afforded an opportunity or an interruption that caused great applause lie spoke of hie return to the city where four years of official life bad been ebent A yoke on the outskirts elout ed and four icare beginning next march abo applause and laughter following this grew in volume until it inept over the whole audience almost immediately after the candidate beean speaking epe aking the long heralded again gave indications of break ing and the grounds were filled with dust the elements were threatening that many of the audience left but mr bryan continued bis remarks aa the tain began to fall he spoke twenty five minutes aija waa then compelled to stop the rain coming down in lorrenia lor renta mr bryan was dirven to the hotel where be held an exceedingly brief reception to the local committee he was then dirven to the residence of mr bride with whom he lived while a member of congress here mr bryan hastily changed his clothed and secured an overcoat under an escort of eight mounted police the journey to the railroad elation was made and at the train pulled out foe baltimore the meeting at washington washington sept 19 in company with mayor white and alio meinberg mein bere the fredericks burg reception the and the delegation from the district of columbia democracy that met him at mayor whites bouse mr bryan was driven to the railway station of the old tofu several hundred people who nad gathered there cheered him as he stepped aboard the local train which left fredericksburg for washington at 1 9 p m the journey of the democratic candidate from fredericksburg Frederick eburg was without notable incident except at alexandria seven miles from washington at quantico a couple of hundred people cheered mr bryan heartily the crowd at alexandria numbered fully persons and expressed enthusiasm without stint during the ten minutes the train remained there mr bryan made a speech punctuated by cleere and the reports of a cannon arriving at washington at fire minutes past four the train being 25 minutes late mr bryan alighted amid the cheers fellow pa at the afar end ot the train shed of the baltimore and potomac station the iboa people who were wedged in behind the bars of the train shed took up the cheers and their echoes were heard from abo throats of fully people congregated in the streets outside it was only with the utmost difficulty that the police were able to keep back the enthusiastic crowd every man of whom and many women sought to reach and hake the hand of the candidate surrounded ty I 1 the local committee aad be of the congressional committee mr bryan was conducted to bis carriage and hurriedly driven to the metropolitan hotel after a brief rest and luncheon carriages were again taken and the party proceeded to the old babe ball park where it had been preceded bouie two or three hours by a crowd at locco mr bryan eald mr ladies and gentlemen I 1 grateful to you for the very cordial welcome which you have extended 0 o me as I 1 return to the city in which four yeara of official life were ebent I 1 I 1 desire to call your attention to two plank in the adopted at chicago before touching on other matters connected with the campaign I 1 speak of these two planks because they concern the people who live in the district of columbia the chicago platform contains I 1 big plank we favor the admission ot the territories of yew mexico oklahoma and arizona in the union as states and we favor the early admission of all having the necessary population end resources to entitle them to statehood and while they remain territories wo hold that the official appointed to the government of any territory together with the district of columbia and alaka should be bona fide residents of the territory or district in which the duties are be perfumed perfo med let me read another plank we are opposed to life tenure in the public bervice eer vice we favor appointments based upon merite fixed term ol 01 office nd such au administration ot the civil laws as wll afford equal to of fit ness except as otherwise provided bv alie constitution of the united states we are in favor of A civil service reform that means something and not a civil gerv ce until be can ret his friends into office and the service just as lie ie going oat eo as to keep bis friends in we believe in appointments baerd upon merit and such a method of appoint ment ae will open the offices to men of ed fitness fit nese our opponents are doin as much for us in this campaign as we are able to do for ourselves of all the public documents recently issued the most important one is the letter just riven to the public written by the secretary of the treasury from which I 1 desire to quota this sentence it id the duty of the secretary of the treasury and of all other public officials to execute in good faith the policy declared by congress con grees and mark aliese words and whenever he ceball be satisfied that the silver dollar cannot be kept equal in the purchasing power with the fold dollar except by receiving it in exchange for the gold dollar when exchange is demanded it will ba nis duty to adopt that course I 1 want you to mark these words because in those words the secretary ot the treasury tells you that whenever the secretary Is it i necessary lie will commence redeeming silver dollars in gold I 1 rail your attention to it because I 1 want to emphasize the deceptions which have been practiced by this administration on the money question when this administration advised the repeal of the sherman law you were told the repeal of the sherman law would remove the difficulty and yet ad soon as the sherman law was repealed the same authority promised relief u as that was repealed came to congress with the demand that the greenbacks and treasury notes be retired liy an iesue of gold bonds in order to stop the drain on the cold brooe ding with hia after a brief intermission caused by a violent gusto wind mr bryan said the secretary of the treasury informs you eliat if the greenbacks and treasury notes were all retired so there would noi be a dollar of paper money to be presented for gold yet it would be his duty to commence to redeem the silver in cold and to start another bendles chain that would drain the treasury according to the doctrine laid down by mr carlisle you cannot stop the drain upon the treasury until you retire all the silver dollars and leaving lothine but gold in tho vaults I 1 am clad that our opponents are thus compelled to expose to the public eye their heart leEa and criminal policy I 1 am lad that they have told the people we must hae boid alone and thus have confessed that we re in the hands of two blinking syndicates and must pay them what they want talk about monopolies and here 1 they propose to establish the moat r gigantic trusi a money treet let the men who own the coid deal it out to the other seventy mill iopa of i american citizens I 1 denounce that policy as more cruel and heartless than would the domination of foreign power I 1 would rather as 1 have aid put OUT army in the handa of s foreign general or our navy in commack of a breien admiral than to put the treasury department in the bands of eee who would barter it away to syndicate I 1 would resist such a financial policy with as much ae I 1 would the progress of an invading army only when mr lincoln wae a andi date for office bome one aid to hi OK 1 I hope the lord ie on your eide bod be replied that he was more anxious to be on the lords side I 1 am glad that in this campaign we have eo many vii deecee abst an overruling providence ie on our side and in no one instance that I 1 know of ie that overruling providence 0 o distinctly and clearly manifesto oe ia the recent letter ol 01 the secretary of the treasury let me ask you a question pid the administration when it recommended the repeal of alie abberman law believe it would cure our trouble cries of no and cheers it it did then the administration was so absolutely mistaken that you have the right to disregard and distrust the knowledge of the administration on this question if the administration knew trtat jhb repeal of the aberman law would not bring relief then you have the light to die truEt the li of the administration which would thus ED PAGE RECEPTION TO FIEST mend one policy and pardue another here the threatening clouda began to ditch their contents upon the audience and the buntin ff ched ite colors upon spectators on the pat forni dyeing them ed and blue abdis criminate ly A foredt of umbrellas roee in the audience and one chivalric spee emulating sir walter raleigh took off bis coat and threw it about mr bryans shoulders standing himself in bare sleeves in the pelting rain this elicited cheers from the crowd but nevertheless the began rapidly to be divested ol 01 spectators shouts were raised for mr brynn to go on and disregarding all the inconveniences he continued I 1 the administration knew when it recommended the retirement of the greenbacks and treasury notes as means of stopping the drain on the gold of the public treasury that after they were retired policy be propose such secretary now recommends it was dishonest in not taking the people into its confidence at the time if it did not know that then let it confess its ignorance of finance and of the lawe ot the country does the administration knoy now that when it starts to redeem the silver dollars in gold it will start another endless chain which will drain the treasury an endless chain which will continue until they retire all the silver dollars and substitute bonds in their place now dont think my language is harsh here a voice in the crowd shouted out it is not half harsh and this was greeted with applause mr bryan continued these men are the public servants of the american people and they have no more right to betray the people into the hands of the of london than benedict arnold had to attempt to the american army rain became till more intense at this point and notwithstanding cries from the audience of hit em again a general run for shelter wa started mr bryan continued all I 1 have to say about the letter at this time here lie same coadjutor in the crowd shouted out and that settles it whereupon there was an outburst of laughter and cheece now continued mr bryan in the few moments left me let me call your attention to the language used by the father of his country in the message given to tin world one hundred years ago oday washington said in that message there can be no greater errors to expect or calculate upon reaF favors from nation to nation it is an illusion which experience cure which a just pride ought to discard those who were expecting foreign nations dominated by the creditor classes who profit a rising dollar to join with us in stopping stop pins the rise in the boiar are doomed to disappointment and it difficult see how any person can expect silver to be restored toiler right ul place aid when we have waited for twenty years only to find sur opponents more hostile than ever aye covertly threatening that they will use I 1 the notes which the hold to con arol our financial if relief le to come to abe american people it must come from the american people themselves and on tins day when ire celebrate the aoe hundredth anniversary of farewell address we may revolve toi achieve our financial independence without the aid of any nation at thi yount the storm tsok slon of the aue eting and an ate and indecorous exit WM begun although crees were raised by ahe crowd of go on acan wont hurt you give it to mark hanna etc Car nages were in waiting lor mr bryan and ether distinguished guests and they all took their departure without having ai opportunity of Sst ening to a bleech of mr grada which waa supposed to ix an effective anwer to the recent address of mr boarke cockran at va sept lot up at dawn and off for washington atT waa the manew in which william J bryan began bia pro gramme for today he arrived libat 9 deliver edia speech at 11 and left washington at 1149 p m arvan was from richmond by a reception committee beaded by captain several stop were made fraas the route ashland the seat |