Show WAS A DRY BANiU T Served4 Only Ice Water and Coffee Sere Silver Men 4 BRAE BREAD WITH BKFAN t ENDING OF THE BIMETLLLIC ENIG TH LEAGUE CONVENTIO1 4 Many Speeches Made by Distinguished Distin-guished Orators Bryans lubject Was The Second Battlefeefers to New Questions and New Issues 0 H P Belmont Makes alTalk 4 Louisville Ky June 2Seven l n tired and fiftynine blmetallists from all parts of the United States broke bread tonight with the Hon William J Bryan at the dollar banquet at Fountain Foun-tain Ferry I was given by the executive execu-tive committee having charge of th2 convention of the Ohio Valley league of Bimetallic clubs I was strictly a being dry banquet served only ice water and coffee At the table with Mr Bryan sat ex Governor J E Campbell of Ohio Oliver ver H P Belmont of New York ex Senator J C S Blackburn of Kentucky Ken-tucky the toastmaster exCongress man A C Drinkwater of Massachusetts Massachu-setts Congressman John J Lentz of Ohio and Congressman John S Rhea of Kentucky Toastmaster J C S Blackburn I Black-burn was Introduced as the next i United States senator from Kentucky Congressman John S Rhea of Kentucky Ken-tucky responded to the toast William Jennings Bryan the Champion of Our Cause and Leader of Our Hosts Mr Blackburn then Introduced Mr Bryan who responded to The Second Battle Mr Bryan reviewed the issues and conditions of the last campaign reasserted asserted his adherance to the Chicago platform and added But destiny ha come to our rescue with new questions and new issues In this connection he declared I against the administrations Phillpplia policy saying that the > Republican party had cast overboard aR worthless ballast the declarations of independence indepen-dence He also condemned the trusts Hon George Fred Williams of Massachusetts Massa-chusetts responded to the toast Imperialism Im-perialism a Menace to Popular Government Govern-ment O H P Belmont of New York was among the several other speakers In the course of his speech Mr Belmont declared that the whole people rich and poor were disgusted with both the foreign and internal policy of the McKinley administration He said there was a wide feeling that corrup tion had taken hold of the government to such an extent a to be barefaced He eulogized William Jennings Bryan I a the man to deliver the people from Republicanism and Hannaism |