Show DEMOCRACY IS FOR THE MASSES r a Continued from Page 15 Bryan left the hotel for the academy Passage t vehicles was impossible and even tflite extra squad of ad eve te ex policemen I whO were sent to clear a way for M > Bryan a the entrance found mUCh I difficulty in forcing their way through i When Mr Bryan left his rooms to I enter his carriage several hundred men who hail beem held in check In the lobby and corridors of the hotel broke through the line of gas and rushed ate him peMmeM With Mr Bryaii were Chairman Curley of the I city executive committee exCongress man Kerr 0 Pennsylvania Congressman Congress-man Sulzer of New York and members of the local conunititees Several of these were CAUGHT IN THE RUSH and failed t keep up with the candidate candi-date Pieces of furniture were overturned over-turned an a crashes o glass bore witness to the great rush that marked I Mr Bryans passage through the hotel The candidate was sent flying along the corridors without regard t digniliy pushed through a narrow doorway and raced t his carriage by way of the Sansom street entrance thus eluding the crowd on Broad street There was I another crush a the Academy but Mr Bryan was finally landed the fm21y laded 0 stage looking very much like the centrerush in a football game after attacking the flying wedge Outside the academy was another mass of humanity packed deep in Broad street and lopping over into the adjoining thoroughfares I was a goo natured crowd and seemed willing enough to be entertained by campaign orators who spoke from trucks ad other conspicuous places I was 846 when Mr Bryan reached the Academy of Music A wave of enthusiasm en-thusiasm swept through the overcrowded overcrowd-ed auditorium a he came on the stage John W Gorman chairman of the Democratic state committee introduced Mr Bryan who received another ovation ova-tion as he stepped forward to speak Almost every sentence he uttered was followed by loud cheers Mr Bryan spoke a follows The great gold standard papers ask why I come to Pennsylvania I have nothins to conceal I come here to secure se-cure if possible the electoral vote of the state of Pennsylvania I you withhold with-hold that vote I come upon another mission That is to tell the people of Pennsylvania that the agitation for free coinage will never cease until the gold standard is DRIVEN BACK TO ENGLAND You say the craze is dying out You may apply to i such epithets a you 1 will but the silver cause will not die because truth never dies You ask why I know why this cause is true I could give many reasons but one is sufficient that every enemy of good government is against it You know a cause as you know an indivIdualby the company com-pany it keeps Your cause appeals to the masses because they are interested in effectual laws Our cause is opposed I by those who want to use the govern ment for private gain because we are opposed to a government instituted for such purposes Your city is called the City of Brotherly Love I come to proclaim to you the gospel described by I the name of your city and yet you I say yau will give 100000 majority I against the doctrine A voice Never I I come to defend financial independence i in a city which declared national independence inde-pendence more than 100 years ag The issue RAISED NOW WAS RAISED THEN People then said we could not get along unless some foreign nation looked after us Some today stand in the same position Did the Republican I Repub-lican party tell us that they are going go-ing to get foreign nations to help us Did they tell you why for twenty I years they failed to help us when we asked them No but they simply waited until until until I believe the men who wrote that platform did not want bimetallism but wanted the gold standard permanently They intended I in-tended that platfoim to hold the people peo-ple who want the gold standard and if possible to conciliate those who do not I want the gold standard The platform J was intended to deceive the voters but I is it dignified to deceive voters Laughter No political party ever went before the country on a gold standard platform Mr Bryan presented the various platforms from 18S4 to 1890 and continued con-tinued tnuedlTe record is clear The Democratic party has never declared for a gold standard and no man in office ever advocated a gold standard after he was elected until he had betrayed the people who elected him Great applause ap-plause I deny the right of any public pub-lic servant to secure office upon a platform plat-form and then abandon I after he is elected I was reared in a DIFFERENT SCHOOL OF DEMOCRACY DEMOC-RACY When I find my conscience will not permit me to carry out 3 platform on which I a elected I will resign and let some other man hold the office That is the record of the Democratic party and I stand here not only as the regular nominee but a representing represent-ing principles which have been Democratic Demo-cratic from the time there was a Democratic Dem-ocratic party Our opponents tell us I a radical I am conservative The goldbugs who think I am radical have joined with the Populists of Texas who think I am not radical enough I believe in law and order I do not believe be-lieve any man small or great should be permitted to defy the law I I would stop half way many of these people wouldl like me I I would say I am in favor of enforcing the law against the small offender I would be a good man When I say I am in favor of enforcing the law against the great I become a dangerous man Dangerous Danger-ous to whom Dangerous to the people peo-ple who are eating the bread they earn No Dangerous to the people who are eating the bread somebody else earns You can find mere who er talking talk-ing for free coinage three months ago who will tell you that they are in a position where they cannot say anything i any-thing They have a note at the bank and cannot pay it just now a they are not at liberty to advocate what they believe fo fear the note will be called in and the sheriff will close them This government has either tem gvem got t be run in THE INTERESTS OF THE PEOPLE or else has got t be robbed in the kv terest of a few syndicates Any body who enjoys being robbed ought to fall desperately in love with the Repubii can party becaiuse ic means to continue con-tinue the same sort of thing which they have done for more than four years I feel it my duty to defend the administration to this extenic that i is simply carrying out the policy of the preceding Republican admiinisitra tion and applying that policy to a little more aggravated condtdtm Wear We-ar not going to change the size of the silver dollar or the gold dollar but we propose that any man who owes a debt shaiti be able to pay it i either gold or silver We are not going to say that contracts already made under the present law which permits contracting con-tracting against silver shall be changed but we are going to < say that hereafter no man shall be permitted by contract to demonetize what the government makes legal tender We are going t say hereafter no man can call a debtor into his office and tell h if he does not strike OTIIC coin and write gold he will FORECLOSE THE MORTGAGE and take his property I he tells us he wilL not loa money in this country under such laws we will tell him to loan h money somewhere else ad 1 1 < 0 i if he does n6 like the laws the people make for their protection we wilt teU him t g to some other country where the laws suit him The time has coma when the people should refuse t beheld be-held up and sandbagged by a few men I who assume money is more precious I than commodities We have usury I laws saying a man cannot collect more I cnot m than 8 cemtain rate of interest In these transactions do not always thee tlsatos men do no aways I stand upon an equal fong and therefore the government steps in t I protect the weaker from having his rights trespassed upon If it is right I to say a man shall b permitted to collect more than a certain inte of interest in-terest ic right for the government to sa when it ha declared a certain kind of money is legal tender that no man shall write a contract saying that ma slaJ wrte cntct syig t3t that law is a lie They talk about gotfl a ifn was divine I is in the sense that lit is their god I is not divine i is matter and a Instead of being a real god ll thing to be worshipped we are told that when the children of Israel mode it into a calf and beg to worship lit it displeased God and be ground it into powder Mr Bryan did not sea at the overflow over-flow meeting ir front of the Academy of Music a was expected but went direct to Broad and Wharton streets where 15000 people were congregated Mr Bryan acknowledged the greetings greet-ings of the assemblage and stated thaic I he was too hoarse t address them and requested that they read his Adadenry of Music speech He then I rlted and was drivem t his hotel |