Show k DEMOCRACY IS FOR THE I MASSES 1J 1 J I Bryan Reviews the Fight j Made by the Party for if the White Metal PROGRESS THAT HAS BEEN MADE A Study of the Question All 6 That Is Needed We Never Had a Convention in I This Country Which More Cor jcctly Hepresentcd the Sentiment of the People Who Sent the Delegates Dele-gates Than That Convention Which Met at Chicago Folly of I the United States Pursuing a AVaitlng Policy The International Internation-al Bimetallism FaUe PHILADELPHIA Pa Sept 22 William Wil-liam J Bryan left Wilmington Del at 1005 oclock this morning and reached I I Chester Pa at 1023 He made the trip I in a special car attached to a regular I t h train provided by the Chester reception i committee Senator Gray of Delaware j I one or Mr Clevelands main supporters j in the Senate was on the train and at I Claymont came into Mr Bryans car The candidate and senator chatted together to-gether uurfl Chester was reached A large crowd received Mr Bryan at the station At Turner and Woodrow < Park Mr Bryan was cheered by a goodsized audience and made a brief I speech From the stand Mr Bryan I wcnt to the Colonnade hotel where he held a reception leaving there in time to take the 1143 train for Philadelphia Philadel-phia V About 500 people were awaiting Mr Bryans arrival at the Broad street station sta-tion of the Pennsylvania railroad which he reached at 1205 As the candidate can-didate came down the platform with Chairman Curley and the city commit t tee ee L THE CROWD CHEERED HEARTILY andMr Bryan bowed his thanks as he tarried towardE his carriage Mr Bryan Bry-an was driven to the Lafayette hotel which will be his headquarters while M here Awaiting in front of the hotel was a small crowd of people who cheered cheer-ed him as he drove up At the hotel was a delegation of about thirty from the New Jersey state committee Mr Bryan was introduced to the delegation und then went to luncheon At 130 Mr Bryan was taken by boat to Washington Park a summer resort on the New Jersey side of the Delaware Dela-ware river where he spoke this afternoon after-noon Hon J T Wright introduced Mr Bryan Bry-an who said in part 1 met a prominent man yesterday 5 who said that until the Chicago convention conven-tion acted on the subject he had never Investigated the money question and never supposed there was anything in it that the papers did not seem to consider con-sider it worth thinking about They regarded it as a craze and he did not have time as a business man to pay J attention to crazes But when a great national party adopted a platform making mak-ing the money question the paramount issue he began to think about it That was only a few weeks ago t HE GOT TO BE A CRANK He said to me If we dont win this I light it is going on until we do win and I dont care how many years it takes Applause I can appreciate the feeling feel-ing of that man I went through the same experience myself Until six years 1 ago I thought any man who talked about money was a harmless crank I did not listen to his arguments They had no weight with me I studied the question 1 read books on both sides and compared them and the more I read the deeper became my conviction until I became so firmly of the opinion that there could be no prosperity in this country until free silver was restored re-stored that I was willing to risk all 1 had or hoped to have on the correctness of that conclusion Great eVe e-Ve have gone through in Nebraska the same process that people have gone through in other states We began the fight in Nebraska It is the pioneer The platform adopted at Chicago on the silver question was first adopted 4n Nebraska by the silver Democrats there Applause When we did it we iiad bolters too as they have had since ti We had men who claimed to be Democrats Demo-crats who would not agree to our platform plat-form They called themselves better Democrats than we were and voted the Republican ticket to prove it Great laughter We believe the Democratic party which owes its success to THE TOILING MASSES must still stand by them in their figlhft against the few if it deserves to con inJP its existence We organized in 1 Nebraska a Dcmocrauic Aiae silver r sil-ver league The menVbers of that league unlade am open < fight Tta y Sid ntft go around in the ctirk weardms a mask They eald l to the Democracy of the state Were We-re going to take possession ol the machinery ma-chinery of the party if we cam we are gong to submit thite question to the I voters We went out and presented the questions When our staiU convention I conven-tion melt we had three co one and w < 2 adopted that platform which has been reodbpted by the national Democratic conTenrion i Iiere was not a fiercer contest ever fcsie1 Them vre organized a Bimetallic Bime-tallic Democratic National league wfiiiczi went out to db in the aautitern 1 wfcaf thp free silver Democrats in Nebraska 11 braska hud done in that state We carried the question o > the primaries aud the voters InEirucfted the delegaJtea 1 to the county con entim1 and from there to the siLatte convention and from thtere to the national convention When uaer got down there some people came from New York to instruct th dee gaJies who had already been instructed Lauffhtter A dtbtingutehed man who used tO riall himself a Democrat voice Hillno Mr Wlhitney went down and eaid as soon as the people of the west found out how the people of the east felt about this subject he I difcJi not think there WOULD BE ANY TROUBLE to cairryins ills conveniion against sii J 1 c It 1 T T yes He came back hbme and found he did not know how the people of the I east felt about it The DemocraitSc I party in his own state has declared that it unreservedly endorsed the free I silver plank of the national platform and thdt it is the best DemocroAlc platform plat-form ever adopted in this country Applause We never had a convention in this country which more correctly represented the sentiment of the people who sent the delegates than that convention con-vention which met at Chicago It is honor enough to be a nominee 01 a con vemMon for the presidency But it is a higher honor yet to be the nominee of tIDe most Democratic convention ever held 1 in this country Applause It is sufiicienc honor to be nominated by the machinery of a party but it is a higher honor still to be nominated by the people of a party regardless of the machinery Applause Since that platform was adopted tttie people have commenced to study the money question ques-tion I WHAT DO THEY FIND They find that the people of the west umd south who have been asking for the restoration of bimetallism instead of trying to ruin the country are trying try-ing to save iL Great applause Your people are producing manufactured products here largely Where do you gelt your consumers Wipe out the farming population and where will you sell the goods you produce How are you going to increase your markets By increasing the number of people able to buy what you produce Will you do that by making dollars dearer No dollars do not eat They devour a great deal but they dbnt east LaugWter How are you going to create markets By increasing dollars in the hands of the few No you have got to restore prosperity by stopping the fall of prices so men will sell what they produce to get money to buy what you produce Applause Mr Bryan then gave quocatlons from Joiho Sherman James G Blaine and John G Cairltele showing them to have formerly been in favor of the free coinage coin-age of sliver Mr Bryan continued as follows The goad standard newspapers think we wont be able to get silver into cir culaition if we had free coinage I want to tell you that they will be mighty glad to have subscriptions paid even in silver dollars if these people whom they have been trying to destroy in the iateirets of the foreign capitalists will continue to receive their papers into their houses Great applause Our opponents who are so confjdtent that money cam beat argument in a campaign cam-paign are GLAD TO USE SILVER DOLLARS for a campaign fund Applause Mr Bryan then quoted Prince Bismarck Bis-marck as being in favor of bimetallism I and as saytag that the United States I should take the lead in adopting it Mr Bryan continued Agiinst this waiting policy with the twenty years of adverse experience behind it we offer an aggressive policy by which the United States will lead the nations of the world to the restoration I restora-tion of gold and silver as money You I say it is American to brag about what we can do I reply that it is English you know tb think we cant db anything any-thing Laughter We have reached a great crisis and the question presented pre-sented to the American people is shall theUnitedi States have a financial policy pol-icy of its own or must the people receive re-ceive their finances ready made from some foreign land Cries of No never It is a question upon which much will depend I beg you when you vote to consider the responsibility responsibil-ity which rests upon you and so vote that you may tell your children without with-out a blush for which policy you voted in 1896 Applause I3f WEST ATKGIXIA Bryans Itinerary Has Been Della v Rely Arranged WASHINGTON Sept 22lIr John T McGraw of West Virginia a member mem-ber of the national committee at Democratic Dem-ocratic headquarters today arranged the itinerary for Mr Bryan during the three days the candidate will be at the disposal of the West Virginia state committee Mr Bryan according to I this arrangement will leave New York on the night of the 29th of September I and reach Washington at 7 oclock on the morning of the 30th over the Baltimore Bal-timore Ohio railroad He will leave Washington at S a m Sept 30 reaching reach-ing Harpers Ferry at 940 where he will speak for twenty minutes Arriving Ar-riving at Martinsburg at 1030 he will have one hour and fifteen minutes and at Cumberland where he is due at 215 p m he will be given fiftyfive minutes By special train over the West Virginia Central the party will be taken to Keyser arriving at 340 where a stay of one and onehalf hours will be made The run will then be made from Keyser to Grafton for a night meeting which will be held at S oclock October 1 leave Grafton at 6 a m for Clarksburg where he will arrive at 10 oclock and remain for I one and onehalf hours Arriving at Parkersburg at 230 the party will remain re-main one hour The trip from Parkersburg Parkers-burg to Wheeling will be made by special spec-ial train reaching Wheeling at 730 for a night meeting After this Mr Bryan will leave for Charleston arriving ar-riving there early on the morning of the 3rd He will speak at 10 oclock remaining for one and onehalf hours The party will then take a special train to Huntington arriving there at 1 oclock giving an hour and a half to the people af that point At Hunting ton Mr Bryan will bid farewell to West Virginia and take the regular Chesapeake Chesa-peake Ohio train the fastflying Virginian Vir-ginian for St Louis to attend them the-m < > eting of the National Democratic clubs He will be accompanied through West Virginia by a special escort committee A GREAT SPEECH Xo blotter AVliere He Goes He Drams Dig Ant1iel1ces PHILADELPHIA Sept 22Five thousand people packed closely in the Academy of Music with a seating capacity ca-pacity of 3200 heard William Bryan 11 deliver the first of three addresses made to Philadelphia audiences tonight Many thousands more swarmed in the streets outsidfe the buildings and those I he addressed when his indoor speech i was concluded I An enormous crowd remained for I i hours outside the hotel Lafayette wait i ing to get a glimpse of the candidate Equally great was the assemblage that I thronged Broad and Wharton streets I in front of the Southwestern Demo I I cratlc club to hear the third and last I address of the evening I In all Mr Bryans campaigning he j I never drew crowds of greater magnitude i i magni-tude and the Academy of Music was I entirely inadequate for the principal Bryan demonstration It was packed FROM DOOR TO GALLERY I The doors had to be closed early in the 1 evening for the building would hold i no more and those inside were pressed together as tightly as could be But j I the throng inside the academy was as nothing in point of numbers compared to the packed masses in the streets On Broad strest > outside the hotel Lafayette a great crowd choked passage pas-sage for more than an hour before Mr Continued on Page 6 > if ti Yiii |