![]() ![]() Pro-silver representatives mobbed Bryan as if he’d just scored the winning goal in overtime. Even a few goldbugs were moved to applaud. When he finally concluded, exhausted, an unusually loud and long ovation filled the chamber. Though he’d planned to speak for only an hour, Bryan went on to speak for three, pausing only to sip a concoction of beef broth for refreshment. Senators were drawn to the House chamber, and the public galleries filled. ![]() Bryan held the chamber spellbound, and word of his oration spread instantly throughout the Capitol and even the city itself. Work-worn and dust-begrimed, they make their mute appeal, and too often find their cry for help beat in vain against the outer walls, while others, less deserving, gain ready access to legislative halls. On the other side stand an unnumbered throng, those who gave to the Democratic Party a name and for whom it has assumed to speak. “On the one side stand the corporate interests of the United States, the moneyed interests, aggregated wealth and capital, imperious, arrogant, compassionless. ![]()
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