| Show TALKS TO MICHIGAN BRYAN OPENS HIS CAMPAIGN AT PORT HURON port huron alch april 30 nearly all the leaders of the michigan democracy and hundreds of the rank and file came to port huron today or the dual purpose of seeing and hearing the bartys standard bearer wm jennings bryan and of attending the state convention which will meet at noon tomorrow to select delegates to the national convention another incident of the gathering today was the seventh district democratic congressional convention which this afternoon unanimously nominated congressman justin R whiting as representative on account of the presence of mr bryan the congressional convention was held in the cites largest and handsomest auditorium the colonel appeared toward the close of the convention proceedings and received an enthusiastic reception tonight mr bryan addressed another crowd of in the same hall the speaker was loudly cheered when be reiterated his belief in tree coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 concerning the philippine issues he said if we abandon the idea of self govern ment in the philippines we cannot long retain belt government in the united states it we send an army of men to stifle aspirations for liberty in the orient those soldiers when they return home will surely have become impregnated those ideas of oppression the must be either a citizen or a savage 1 I challenge any one to cite any despot in all time upon whom more autocratic to power has been conferred as a ruler than that conferred upon the president by the puerto rican bill mr bryan warned the people against being misled by the notion that the president could rightly depart in gov arning the new dependencies from the plain provisions of the constitution which he has sworn to uphold |
