Show greetings to bryan en route CHICAGO TO SALEM thousands of enthusiastic admirers 9 they crowd around the train at every stopping point between chicago and salem and the candidate shakes them by the hand speeches demanded will remain in salem a few days and then go to lincoln champaign july 13 mr bryan made bia first campaign speech at champaign where the train stopped twenty minutes A flat car had been improvised into a speakers stand and from this mr bran addressed his audience consisting of 1500 people he was escorted from the train by col J R wolfe col 8 bazey col W H purcell J R scott and J W orr the reception committee As the crowd here was larger than that at any other point was its potency aa a nobee maker greater col wolfe introduced mr bryan and mrs bryan who accompanied her husband to the stand was led forward with old time gallantry and introduced as mr bryans most excellent aue anis caused a great cheer 1 I have not been in your city since 1879 said mr bryan that year I 1 was a student at the illinois college ana I 1 attended an inter contest at this place 1 I am not going to make a political speech this evening here a email boy who bad suddenly become aware that a big man was in town let out a vigorous hooray this produced a roar of laughter in which bryan joined t have just been talking some in chicago and am sort ot between speeches this is an important campaign in my judgment it is the most important campaign this country has through in a time of peace the issues are those which affect every man woman and child in the nation and I 1 beg of you that you shall appreciate the important part you bear in this campaign this is the greatest nation on earth it is in advance of all other nations its advancement is because our form of government is the best on earth because being in the hands of the people it can be made as good as the people desire if our laws are good if our laws are just it is because our people have force to boake I 1 believe there is more justice in the people than is expressed through the representatives if laws are bad it is the fault of the representatives of the people and so must be remedied by the people there are those who have the idea that patriotism can only be manifested in time of war I 1 was too boune joune to go to the war but in every campaign uch as this you and I 1 have a chance to show our patriotism our is the most perfect form of government because it ie the best that the people can offer for a display of patriotism every real economic question is a great moral question when you bome to the settlement of a question like that of the present campaign morality te invited the financial question is the most important issue in this campaign and I 1 wish that you would study it that you may understand the way it affects you and your interests there is no class to which the question can be corn bitted because no one class can be trusted to take care of it before the campaign is over the discussion will turn on one question ie this nation great enough to legislate for itself it seif we believe we are strong enough to determine conr own financial policy without waiting for any other nation on earth cheche Che cre it ie not a complicated question quee tion every great economic question is at least a great moral question ond when it comes to be settled it can only be done by the great common people of the nation the politicians too have tried to settle the money question the people have tried to settle the money question but it will not be settled until the people have a chance to express their opinions and it will not be settled until then and from that there is no appeal the people cheered mr bryan as the train pulled out at tolono mr bryan shook hands with an enthusiastic crowd and at cloa the county seat ot county he did his beet to let the thousand or more gathered there have a chance to do the bame thing arcola with several hundred people witnessed a of this brief greeting mr bryan stepped the car to the platform and was immediately surrounded by men women and children the women were out in large numbers at nearly every station and many of them biad with them their children whom they were anxious to show to the demo cratic candidate mattoon III july 13 mattoon with its inhabitants turned ont a large proportion of its people and a brass band to greet the young candidate fully a thousand people pressed about the rear platform of mr aryans car and when he appeared the cheer that went up was given with a vim mr bryan was introduced by hon frank and yielding at last to the importunities for a speech he made these remarks 1 I have been taught to believe that a public cervant was but a public man chosen for a certain term and to do a certain public work you cant always tell whether a man will make a good hired man or not some times he makes a good hired man and some times he docant doe ant we have a splendid platform adopted at chicago and I 1 believe that any man who faill carry out that platform will be a good hired man for the people of the united states cheers this will be a campaign in which there will be a great deal of feeling more feeling than at any limo since the war in a campaign in which you or I 1 have indulged there will be certain feelings on both sides you will find there those who will say that the platform adopted at chicago will be ruinous to the country on our aide you will find who claim that the restoration of the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the present ratio of 16 to 1 can be accomplished without awaiting for any other nation on those who will be acne fitted by the rise of the dollar are in favor of raising the value of the dollar but those others who are the people do not want the value of the dollar to rise when it depresses the value of human toil when those who are bene fitted by the rise of the dollar ask you what kind of money you want tell them you want money you want a dollar that wll be juat not one that will take from the labor and producing classes of the world cheera effingham july 13 the crowd to greet mr bryan here was small but was enthusiastic so much EO that mr bryan consented to make a speech standing on the rear platform he said fellow citizens I 1 remember that less than a year ago I 1 stopped off here bor a few hours and emoke at the court bouse at that time we were anxious that the democratic party should adopt platform which was democratic since then a great struggle has been going on and lest week it in the national convention and that convention adopted a platform that was democratic in every line and word and they go before the country appealing to the people on that platform here the train moved out and the end of the speech was lost in cheece for mr and mrs bryan edgewood july 13 night had fallen by the time the train bearing mr bryan to salem reached this place and the fireworks threw into relief the little knot of people gathered at that station mr bryan shook hande with a largo number of them mrs bryan was presented by mr scott mathews aa the better part of the family and the cheers which followed the announcement were of the heartiest the amin drew out from edgewood at at salem salem july 13 mr bryau reached salem the place where he was born and ebent hie boyhood at ll 11 ON PAGE CONTINUED FROM FIRST laoel tonight alie town expected the visit and the great crowd of lormer neighbors of alio young candidate who turned out to do him honor a not sparing in the exercise of lung power it was only two weeks ago that mr bryan was last in his native town it had been a ead vianit lie had come to attend the funeral of his mother who did not live long enough to see her eon receive the highest compliment that could be paid him by his party nearly everybody in salem knows mr bryan and the reception biad a deeper dignin caage than the others along the route salem is a typical western country beat of the old sort it has a public square surrounding the court house fronted by ite two hotels and a number of dwellings it booked as though avery one of salema 1200 inhabitants had turned out to meet their cormer townsman and mr bryana band was shaken with a vigor that threatened to put it in the hospital for some time his three sisters live here and r they were the happiest of those who clustered around the orator and lold how proud they were of his success which the nominee traveled tha bis miles between odin and 1 salem vaa made up of ordinary aches and the one mr and mrs entered was crowded with people going east from st louis A seat was found for theia in the center ot the car and they were surrounded by the pass eagers the chort trip was soon over and when the train pulled into aaflein at 11 mr and mrs bryan were given an ovation by the town people the little tofu has been in a great state ot excitement all day and tonight when mr bryan arrived the townspeople turned out en masse at the station on the arrival of the train a salute was fired nearly every house alone broadway and main street was illuminated lumina ted by chinese lanterns aud i candles mayor lakey and a reception committee met mr bryan at the station and placed mrs bryan by his side in an open carri afie decorated with flowers and drawn by two spirited horses with a cheering all thy way the procession passed up broadway and then turned down main street to tho home ot mr bryans sisters the solem braad band was in the lead followed by a roman candle brigade while a detachment of horsemen brought up the rear the misses bryak with a number of relatives were gathered at the old home to receive their distin brother here were also the i three children of the candidate aben tho greetings were over mr bryan stepped to the veranda of the house a modest cottage and after the cheering che erine had ceased he addressed the crowd as follows fellow citizens I 1 dont know what to say more than to thank you there is no spot that ever becomes su dear to a man ns the spot when cling the memories of his aa childhood I 1 have come back to salem every few months and as long as I 1 live no spot will bo so dear to me as salem cheers I 1 assure you that I 1 appreciate the friendly interest you manifest because in this there Is no party but friends of all parties those friendly and those opposed to the principles which I 1 advocate are here I 1 wish you might have bad with you tonight the gentleman who occupies the place on the national ticket with me I 1 wish you could know mr sewall while acquaintance with him has not been long I 1 think he is a manly man I 1 wish toe could come here and become acquainted with you I 1 may have an opportunity to eay something on wednesday and I 1 can only say tonight that I 1 am deeply gratified with this reception in the place of my birth I 1 can only eay thank you for your consideration good night i |