The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-29
A SERIES OF OVATIONS
THE T.. ID. & w. SPECIAL TRAIN
GREETED BY GREAT CROWDS.
A Monster Meeting Held at Dana Last
Night-Farmers Turned Ont i'm
Large Numbers.

The trip yesterday over the l., D. & w.
road by party of Indianapolis speakers
was a great success. Throughout the trip
the train was met by very large crowds
and even at the small town of Raccoon
more than 1000 people turned out to greet
the speakers. The trip and the enthusiasm
shown seems to give the lie TO the claims
of the Popocrats that all the farmers of
are for free silver and rep Idiation, for the
trip was over a railroad that passes
through a fine farming country, and on
which there are no towns large enough
to exert an influence among the farmers.
the influence being all the other way. The
special train left Indianapolis yesterday
morning at S:45 o'clock. The route was over
the l., D. & W. railway from this city to
Dana. The train was made up of r. Il. +.
Peirce's special car, with one day coach
and a fat car which was mounted
cannon in charge of Captain Oliver. The
train had been gaily decorated by the rail-
road men, and the beautiful day made
everything perfect. The speakers on the
train were William l.. Taylor, John b.
Cockrum, Lewis c. Walker and I. S. Cor
don, of indianapolis, and e. P. Wolfe, OF
Rushville. They were accompanied by
John S. Lazarus, j. ]. Higgins, Floyd A
Woods, l.. A. Whitcomb and Mr.. Hollen-
beck AS the train left the Union Station
the first salute was fired by the squad in
charge of the cannon All along the road
the train was met by large and enthusiastic
crowds, which were mostly composed of
farmers. The depots were gaily decorated
with flags and pictures OF Mckinney ana
Hobart At all the stations were decor
ated wagons, which had brought CROWDS
from neighborirg towns
1a6a W.
indianapolis at the shops of the l., d. d
W. railway l. S. Gordon introduced John
B. Cockrum who spoke for a short time.
At Maplewood cheering crowd of 700 peo-
pie greeted the train. w. l.. Taylor made
the speech. He was listened to attentively
and cheered enthusiastically throughout his
address. The train backed onto the switch
to let the morning passenger train by me
crowd followed the train and called out Mr.
Cockrum and Judge Walker.
At Montclair Colonel Wolfe spoke to
crowd of about 900. The crowd was en-
thusiastic and accepted every opportunity
to show it's i'll viii to Bryan and free COIN
age Of silver At North Salem about LOO
people were assembled. AS the train ap-
preached the city cheer after cheer was
given by the crowd. Mr.. Gordon, Judge
Walker and w. L. Taylor addressed the
was a. crowd of 1900 people. The whole
town was decorated and was wild for Nc
kinley. M Cockrum MADE made b Tou ting
and again They said that it was false that
Roachdale was free-silver stronghold;
Colonel Wolfe spoke to the old soldiers and
Mr. Gordon made the closing address.
At Russellville there was large crowd.
The battery from Rockville had come 70
indianapolis artillery boys with zest.
At Raccoon was crowd OF goo people;
They were addressed by w. L; Taylor and
L. c. Walker. They cheered Mckinley to
the echo Speeches were also @, made at
At Marshall the Rockville battery was
present and fired a salute
From Montezuma the party passed into
at Hillsdale, where crowd of fifteen hum
dred awaited the train, the tops Of box
cars standing on the sldstra trace , nedng Gov f
REM Ks and Introduced the speakers Mr.
Higgins formerly lived in Vermillion coun-
Gus friends A delegation was present from
Clinton. Following Mr.. Higgins, speeches
w9Te nnS Py ee09S Mg he
showed deep interest in the addresses of
the speakers and accepted every opportun-
and sound money. u IA s.5gyts,sr3l
The train arrived at Dana, the ternina-
crowd was at the station waiting for the
train. AS the train reached the depot cheer
after. cheer was given. for Mckinley and
sound money. The firing of the cannon
added to the general enthusiasm The
speaking was billed for the evening. By
o'clock crowd of five thousand people,
most of whom were farmers, had assem-
bled. Delegations were present from Gin
ton, Newport and other neighboring towns
The meeting was called to order by A. j.
Ralph, of Dana. Robert Sears was called
upon to act as chairman of the meeting
Mr.. Sears made a few remarks which We're
well received. The first speaker was Will
liam l.. Taylor. Mr.. Taylor is well known
in Vermillion county and his remarks We're
received with marked approval. He was
followed by Col. Wolf, Judge walker John
Is. Cockrum and /. N Gordon, all of whom
stirred the patriotism and enthusiasm of
the large audience. Cheer after cheer was
given, showing that the farmers were
heartily in sympathy with Mckinley and
the principles of the Republican party. Nu-
merouS remarks were heard in the audi
ence denouncing Bryan and his policy of
falsehood. For two and one-half hours the
people listened to the speakers with I'M
their homes until the train pulled out of
the city at 10 O'Clock on it's return to In