Show henry george the single and of progress and poverty was at the chicago convention and heard bryan deliver eloquent pica for silver which waa also a reply to filae hill and russell and his impre asiona are here given but at length to close the debate bryan of nebraska took the stand and with hie first words thero began a scene which I 1 think must bo without parallel not merely in the history of american conventions but in the history of the world a display of the power of well chosen speech to move great masses of men that can hardly before have had its equal all the imagination pictures of demosthenes and cicero all that we leave heard of tho great orators of the tongue was realized in a vaster audience than any orator of bygone times could have addressed I 1 listened to bryan then known as the boy orator of the platte when he first went to con gross his oratory then was high of its kind but bad something of a flavor As be stood on the platform today I 1 could see that the years bad matured him in appearance but I 1 did not realize how it had matured bis power graceful in figure and fine of feature be faced the applause which greeted him when he began to speak his clear penetrating et modulated tones soon compelled an attention that deepened aa he proceeded pro seeded to put in well chosen words the thoughts which were in the breasts of the their earnest demand their defiant purpose the man had come for whom such a hall and such an audience seemed the most fitting garniture when he ended with the climax of thrilling peroration abo feelings of the rapt sea broke into a cyclone of enthusiasm expressed in every possible way to illustrate the power of oratory the logic and the magnetism possessed by william jennings bryan we take aliese a radical gold paper ex attorney general john P awe to the majority report pro that firpo coinage if adopted went down with the rest of the contracts minority report this amendment was honored by the notice J bryan of nebraska who made a most stirring answer to the attacks of the gold men on the majority report in reference to this amendment he eadd no attempt ie made TO effect existing obligations made payable in gold and none will be made bat where was your legislation protecting debt existing in 1873 made payable in sold or silver when the first step for the of bilier wa staken the cold men of the delegation heard his speech in silence but the majority admitted its power and nil baw but did not wonder at its remarkable effect on the great convention when states having silver candidates of their own to present tore their markers up from the floor and rushed with them to the side of bryan strong men moved by wonderous enthusiasm caught the orator in their arms and raised him on their shoulders from which position he reached down to shake bands with hundreds of delegates bryans burning words roused the maryland silver men who had not been demonstrative during the cessions of the convention they leaped to their feet and cheered with ather silver men and when the great demonstration took place they were standing on their chairs and waving their hats wildly HENKY hakea those comments on the democratic convention what was foreshadowed at st louis when teller and bis associates broke away from the republican convention came with the clustering standards in the chicago coliseum whatever name it may yet take the party of the common people the party that jefferson called republican Ee and the party that jackson called democratic the party so hoped for by all who are tired of politics that have meant no more than a gle between ine and outs is here aga inand in its first battle or not it cornea with power the lists are cleared and the champions cham named against a shield of gold ie set a shield of silver but these are only symbols on the ono side is content with things they are on the other is bitter sense of wrong and a passionate desire for a fuller and freer social life tho areat jurist eald that the volume of money of ultimate redemption regulates the prices of commodities modi ties eb will make low an abundance produces high bricea therefore when the nations of europe in 1873 commenced their tight silver by acts of the money of ultima tn redemption was cut in two and prices of commodities commenced to go down and have been on a downward course ever since the denver republican takes note of the attitude of the english prees in the coming election and says the english press is very much exercised over the action of the chicago convention ven tion and especially in connection with the platform adopted the candidates aro accepted as representing the platform Is it not a little strange that these english take so lively an inter in what re are doing or talking about doing in the united states it they feel sure that the gold standard can ba maintained regardless of what the united states may do it is true that they express themselves ag though they viewed the prospect from a purely disinterested te standpoint and they would have ua think that it is rather in friendly sorrow than in a spirit of objection that they declare that alie action taken at chicago was a fatal blunder the deep interest the english press e exhibiting for tho american gold standard should convince americans of the correctness of the silver mens position and the disadvantage of continuing to legislate to satisfy england the great creditor nation |