Show REED ON THE COAST I I 1 He Expresses Surprise at the < ilan nitnde of the Audience Before Him LOS ANGELES Ca Oct 27Hon Thomas BL Reed addressed a audience of fully 25000 people at Athletic park here this afternoon The demonstration was the largest of the kind ever witnessed In southerr California The parade following fol-lowing Mr Reeds arrival was most striking fully EOQQ being In lne The weather was very unfavorable but the rain ceased long enough to permit Mr Reed to speak for an hour In discussing the financial question Mr Reed said In part For the first time in my life I find myself addressing a audience so great a to render it Impossible for me to reach half of them It seems that the cause of righteousness has obtained a strong foothold on the Pacific coast One of the Issues of the campaign Is whether the magnificent industries of California are to find a correspondingly grand market la the United States It is remarkable what a little sound argument will accomplish We have been dawdlng with the silver question for along a-long time but now that we Have had a free frank discussion of that question it is astonishing to find how little there Is in i it This country is not gverned by superior men butby the common sense of the average citizen of the United States Money Is simply a means whereby goods and real estate are to be transferred from to another That Is its sole one man an Tat is pu pose and when you have enough for this the rest i3 dead wesht Mr Reed delivered a brief address In the evening and departed for the north on a late train |