The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-22
RepubIicaps Ont I'm Force.

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Were as thin as they ever have heard"
Republicans Ont I'm Force.
Muncie was a hotbed of politics when Mr..
Bryan arrived there shortly before 3
O'Clock. Every man, woman and child wore
a badge and every man. woman and child
shouted for his or her candidates. There
were counter demonstrations. An hour
after Mr.. Bryan reached the town VIM. D.
Bynum was to speak to the gold Demo-
Gratis, and in the evening the Republicans
were to listen to W. J. Campbell, ex-presi-
dent of the Glass Blowers Association. All
three meetings were widely advertised. On
either side of the street those who wore
the yellow Mckinley badges were lined, and
they shouted for their favorite as the car
riage containing Mr.. Bryan passed by. 1t
was a distinctively Mckinley crowd in the
city. AT the ball park Mr.. Bryan faced ar
was nothing to disturb the harmony of the
meeting. ON the way back to the train the
demonstration for Mckinley was renewed.
Inc combination rallies brought a great
crowd. possibly $1,000 people, whose politics
badges worn. and tonight a local Popocrat
confessed that there were three Republic
ans In the city cheering for Mckinley to
morning was to have been ten miles long,
coming from four counties, but the actual
count showed it to contain less than LOCO
voters. and it required but thirty-six min
uteS Tor 1t to pass 81 given point, while
twice that time was consumed by the
parade on the occasion of the recent visit
or the war generals in Muncie. The parade
Is acknowledged to have been a tizzle. A
big crowd of the curious heard Bryan. but
the enthusiasm was frozeH. and State
Chairman Martin, of the committee, was
the speaker. Mrs. Bryan occupied a seat
beside her husband in the stand prepared
for them at the baseball park. The Demo-
cratic police force feared Republicans
would injure their idol and guarded his
carriage two deep, but not the slightest dis
turbance was offered. Even the glass
workers did not PROFOUND some questions
they were anxious to ask Bryan.
Cost $50 "a Minute Mt Anderson.
At Anderson the Bryan parade was a
bitter disappointment. as it was intended
to be one that would inspire the followers
or Tree silver with hope and the Repub-
Means with dismay. Ever since the date
OIL Bryan's coming was announced Ander-
son Popocrats have declared that thew
would outdo anything ever attempted in
Madison county. But for some reason the
crowd did not materialize for the parade.
ana when the line was formed it took but
eighteen minutes to pass a given point.
and none estimated the crowd in excess of
Two thousand. w. r. Myers, e~x-Congress>
man Brookshire and several others were
Booked to speak from the courthouse steps,
'H~H SAN Eoi dlSDdl1ued There were
no speakers, principally because there were
no people congregated there. Fully a third
of the crowd wore yellow ribbons. The
Bryan train was scheduled to reach Ander-
son at 3 o'clock, but it was an nour and q
half late. Thousands of people waited
from 2 O'Clock till he arrived. A large
platform had been erected in a field along
the tracks of the Big Four, a quarter of
a mile west of the station. During the long
wait Dave Gooding tried, as best he
could, to entertain the people, who pushed
and jostled good naturally. For two hours
Gooding thought he was speaking to the
crowd, but no one paid any attention to
MN, and half of the time his voice was
drowned in the hum of voices engaged in
talk or good-natured railery.
1t was twenty minutes after 4 o'clock
when the special pulled into Anderson.
Mrs. Bryan accompanied her husband, rid
ing with him in the carriage to the plat
form. J. J. Netterville, whe denounced the
Chicago platform as revolutionary and the
action of the convention that nominated
Mr.. Bryan as undemocratic, presented the
Popocratic nominee to the audience. Mr..
Bryan spoke but ten minutes, and spent
almost half the time in quoting from Gar
field, Blaine and Harrison and reading Il
long iotter written by Ben Butterwortn.
A voice N the audience called out, Give
Us your opinions" and he then proceeded to
d~enounce the trusts, exhort the young men
to stand with him because the trusts Were
closing "all the doors of advancement to
young men in America save the favored
ones" Fully a third of the crowd We're
supporters of Mckinley. The speech cost
the Popocratic managers and supporters
just $50 a minute, when they had been
promised a half hour.
At Alexandria 300 window-glass blowers,
400 steel workers, 200 ak workers, $50 plate
glass Makers, all wearing gold hats, met
at the train and enlivened the occasion
by cheering for Mckinley. The stop at
Sunnmittville was very brief.
AT Marion, by actual count, there were
only 1,229 persons in the parade that well
coined Mr. RrV1n and c4 Of 1hpSn wprp
women, girls and boys. The Mckinley
badges far outnumbered the Bryan badges.
Bryan did not arrive until after 6 o'clock
and was greeted at the depot by more Re
publicans than Democrats. TIL crowd was
estimated at ten thousand, over half of
whom We're Republicans.
Short speeches were made by Mr.. Bryan
at Paramount and Bluffton and then the
train sped on to Fort Wayne.