The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-09-17
Over 10000 People Greeted Him at
AsheviIle and Great Crowds Were
at Other Points Where
He Spoke.

AsheviIIe, n. c., Sept. 10 Especial -
From roof to wheel in rosettes and
streamers of red, white and blue, the
drain bearing William j. Bryan crossed
the North Carolina line to-day about
moon. just the instant it crossed, there
entered Mr.. Bryan's private car, Col.
Julian S. Carr, chairman of the Reeep-
fion Committee of the State, Josephus
Daniels. National Committeeman, and
Mai. f. J. Hale, representing Chairman
Manly, who had remained in Ashe-
Vile.
Speeches had been made in Knoxville,
Hot Springs, Morristown, and other
smaller points in Tennessee, to enthu-
siastic crcn-ds-that at Morristown
was estimated to be about 5000.
Mr.. Bryan had passed anightof great
physical strain. At one point last night
he was walked at 2 a. IN. and shown
out to the platform, where the news
paper men abroad say he made
one of the wittiest speeches of his trip.
When they came to wake him up, the
gentleman said, .Mr. Bryan, you ought
to sleep, you need It.
s'Yes,n replied Mr.. Bryan good hui
moredly, Everybody who wakes me
up tells me that ought to sleep" and
so he was tired man. His step was one,
as he entered the station at Knoxville,
that showed great fatigue. He seemed
to be holding up under it by sheer
will force from the clinched appear
a.. aRraH0s- -axx he.
tered the train and as the people closed
in behind him like rushing waters in
the wake of a ship and grasped his
hand, with spasms of deep feeling he
replied hoarsely, "Please be easy,
please be easy" for he was suffering
greatly from the pain of the constant
pressure upon his hands until they
were swollen, and yet he has continued
to bear the pain uncomplainingly all
day.
Even at Asheville, after he had
taken the car, he had to hold his hand
Imply out of the window, barely touch
ing each one that would be held up
and snatching it back quickly
to avoid the exquisite torture. He
had seemed before he reached
Asheyille nearly ready to drop from
exhaustion, until finally the crowd was
pushed back from his apartment, and
he fell down like a child thirsty for
rest, doubling himself up on two seats
and LAYING his head on pillows, and so
rested for a little while. When he
heard that the committee of the Bryan
and Sewall club of Asheville, some
TWENTY-FIVE strong, had come aboard,
rousing himself he said, against the adj
vice of those around him, Let them
come in. / want to see these North
Carolinians." And as they filed IN and
out he Law on his back and stretched
out his left hand to greet each one.
In the midst of this, Mr.. Bryan's face
broke out in delight when DIR. Mebane,
of Asheville, presented him, tipped with
silver, the left hind foot of grave
yard rabbit. A moment later, a gentle
man from Louisiana, Mr.. William j.
Curtis, who had gotten on at Hot
Springs, asked Mr.. Bryan to rise to a
half-sitting posture, which he did with
much kindliness, while little Earl Cur
dis and he were taken with a snap
shot by the father
At SENATOR yANCE's HOME.
When DR. Mott came and sat down
by Mr.. Bryan and bent over him in
confidential talk, gradually he fell
back, bis eyes closing almost inyolun-
farily. But presently there was a
shout as the train flashed by, and Nj.
Bryan leaped up as if shot from
catapult, and hurrying to the rear
platform alone, be waved his hand TO
the crowd that soon faded away.
fslhat is Senator Pritchard's town"
said the News and Observer reporter to
Mr. Bryan. While the cheers could
yet be heard, Charles Vance bad come
IN too, and Mr.. Bryan said 10 him, 'I
want 10 stop IN respect TO your great