(Mr. Bryan speaks of a gold Democrat who had announced that he was going to the
Democratic National Convention in Chicago to carry the convention for the gold standard.)
(A voice: "Was that Dave Hill?")
"No, that was W. C. Whitney. He said that notwithstanding that a majority of the
delegates were instructed, he had no doubt that when the Democrats of the south and west found out
how the Democrats of the east felt, there would be no trouble about carrying the convention for
gold, which was simply saying that the men who went there instructed would betray their constituents
and vote against what their constituents demanded. But, my friends, when the convention met we had a
scene that will be memorable in the history of this country. (Cheers.) Those delegates who came
instructed could neither be driven from their instructions by threats nor drawn by persuasion, but
they carried out the will of people who sent them there, and that Democratic convention was the most
Democratic convention that this nation has seen for twenty-five years." (Cheers.)