The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-11
THE PEOPLE CLAIM HIM.
Mr.. bryan Is PAYING THE PEN
Atty OF POPULARITY.


younr Candidate of the Demo-
o-.ts-A Sensational Incident That
II. Turns TO AccOunt-The Trip TO
Pfttsburg.
vanwert. O., Aug. 10.-William Jennings
nm was at 1t early this morning. In
80 he had hardly left on handshaking
.f-sr leaving Chicago, before he began
a. again. He did not get much sleep last
night. people were waiting for him be
.raen daylight and dawn, and, although
ts went to his berth shortly after mid
ri-br he was routed out between 1 and
o o'clock to see the crowd at Valparaiso
Ind.
7-brougb the foresight Of the Pennsyl-
vsnia railroad the drawing room car
had been attached to Bryan's train, and
,ba candidate and his wife were enabled
70 have greater privacy and comfort than
is afforded by an ordinary sleeper. The
train reached South Chicago at 1910 this
morning. and Bryan found a big crowd
suaiting him. The cheering was very en-
tbusiastic. and the candidate was hauled
down to the station platform by lusty
railing mill men and made to shake hands
with the people The lateness Of the hour
did not keep a big crowd from gathering
At one Hundredth street. They had
brass hand. and were prepared to give
the heartiest sort Of reception to the
nominee, but the train moved off Just as
he appeared on the platform.
VALPARAISO. Ind, was reached at 1:S5 a.
m. BRYAN had gone to bed, but he heard
a great shout that went up from several
hundred throats. He was lying in his
berth just half asleep, when Hon. J. c.
Keenan,. member of the Indiana legis-
iature. routed him out. Bryan made
hasty toilet and went to the platform,
where he was again cheered. Ihe croWu
wanted a speech, but Bryan tod them
that he could not talk at that hour OF
the morning. There were more cheers as
the train moved Oft.
Columbia was reached at 4:40 o'clock,
and another crowd was present with the
regulation brass band. There was no lack
OF enthusiasm because of the early hour.
Lima, o., Aug. 1O-More than a thousand
people were waiting for Bryan when the
train rolled into the station at Fort
Wayne at 5.35 O'Clock. The gathering was
bent on a speech, but did not get any
words from the young orator, except re-
marks that he had promised not to speak
that early in the morning. The people
rushed forward to shake hands, and dur
ing the seventeen minutes stop both arms
of the nominee worked necessarily.
Bryan intends to keep pretty quiet to-
day. He has decided to make no more
speeches until he reaches Pittsburg. His
voice Is husky from the two hard days
in Iowa and Illinois, and he wants to keep
in good condition for his New York speech.
Munroeville. Ind, turned out a good
sized crowd who cheered vigorously. and
then the train crossed over into Ohio. The
first stop made by Bryan in McKinley's
state was al Dixon, which was reached at
$40 o'clock. A few people gathered there
and cheered when the nominee showed
himself
People were lined by the hundreds along
the streets of Vanwert when the Bryan
A train reached that big town
at 646 o'clock An audience of
fully a thousand was there to
a see Bryan and cries of speech went IN
after the cheers which marked the appear
ance OF the candidate had died away, but
Bryan shook his head and said he really
couldn't Some girls in silvered capes,
with Bryan and Sewall ribbons attached,
pressed well to the front during the hand
sAaking and th~t agonizing proceeding be-
gan with an energy that threatened the
nominees right arm.
"A, At Middlepoint knot of people cheered
bryan but the most of them appeared too
oashful to shake hands.
A serious panic was narrowly averted
at Delphas when the train reached there
at 10 The crowd was large, and BRYAN
naq stepped to the platform of his car
anu JUST explained that he could not make
d speech, when an unfinished porch of a
SUE dlIeculy in front of the train, and
staIl{y sGgll9y leet distant from where he was
ssedHuiug, gave way with a crash carry
"is with 1t over hundred people.
4 otlSS OF norror from the crowd and
fi1a'ehs fbe ms, oI those who were tumbled made
g. 81 acciueht appear worse than it was
aouIe OF the women started to push their
way out, and their frantic efforts to get
aMdy added to other causes of excite
me9t s9tt started a mad panicky rush.
a and ,,Iu o.Iu sum! don't move,' cried Bryan
f SL.1 others on the train, and their words
brought the frightened people to them
WI. y was found that no body had been hurt
i ed m ms was told Mr.. Bryan he remark
81 -. ~ 70 the crowd, ''if you would eret on o1lr
piatorm it would not fall down
a N - laugh followed, of course and 4be
q n ~ .l,ec covered enough from their fright
s off 0i'eer the nominee as the train moved
rag-.51 81 dullton to score of newspapers cor
q I}-,.3,,.. tents who are on Bryan's train.
& bv ~ Tb Is Delng accompanied to New York
81 from, Iiiiaa iaa 'Tdnan national committeeman
81 C,bi'H+ Illnois. Judge William Prentiss. Of
reaa,roso ). O. Johnson, national commit
81 ton - @ rom Kansas, and John A. Creigh-
ka ""u'ohaI committeeman from Nebras-
so5,-t5e men Lima was reached, at 7:45. BRYAN
hi M ~ d Ulg crowd waiting him. The peo-
&buildi'9 packed in and around the station
vas '--,ss rss OF the narrow space. and there
.ends.-iI -Iuch pushing and croWding in the
H. tbof of OF the majority of them to get
T9 @I me nominee 90
h. ~ .uIemonstration was enthusiastic in
H. rene. Fifteen hundred people were
fev 11a9;fII.aa.o3lage and they spent the first
for77' az uLes after Bryan came to the plat
& 4ha95 vi VI. .cheering him, and then shook his
ttbe d. bIyan made her first apbearance of
Pr ~, ana stood by her husbands side
4th3t iFFopIe We're so busy shaking hands
kpeeol1' l1'ey forgot to ask for the usual
BIZ LHuli Just as the train was moving
sav seh w l1eh IN response to loud demands ia
Hb5iigs5 elhlng, Mr.. Bryan said: 'T am
hf1gsi 40 10 you for coming and I am glad
year ago "iis'' 'hey were
b. ~ usual stop at Lima is five minutes
nteer9 .l,ne utne the train was held was sew
pav minutes, to enable the crowd TO
e' respects to Bryan.
n.gli sppsr sandusky, O., Aug. 1o.-After
ro,,n5,s Lafayette. where Mr.. Bryan was
r. eheered by a small crowd. the