The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-04
A BRYAN BURLEsQUER.
Judge Vincent. of Illinois, Helps
Make Fun for the DeIeEates.

Make Fun for the Delegates.
The streets of the city were thronged
again last night with crowds of people,
and there were still many strange faces
among them, indicating that there were
still many of the visitors here. The great
est crowds were collected in the neighbor-
hood of the Bates and DenSon hotels, and
in the early part of the evening Washing
ton Pennsylvania and Illinois streets were
covered with a mass of moving humanity.
Several bands were also out, and wherever
they stopped and serenaded the people
rapidly collected until there were thou
sands surrounding them. Carriages crowded
the streets and the bicyclers were also out
in force and a hundred more of them
could be seen hanging the outskirts and
even stationed in the center of every crowd.
The Weber brass band, of Birmingham,
Ala, of twenty-five pieces, which came
with the Alabama delegation, stopped in
front of the Journal and serenaded, render
ing several excellent selections, and before
it had finished a crowd of several hundred
people had gathered to enjoy the music.
From the Journal building it moved over
into the Denison Hotel and furnished
music for the guests at that place. Be
fore the Weber band had finished the
When band of this city took up station
outside the hotel, and as soon as its con-
temporary had finished began selection,
and there was soon good crowd of pedes-
TRANS gathered to hear them and carriages
were strung along the entire block and
hundreds of bicycle riders intermingled
with the crowd. a passageway had to be
cleared through the mass OF people Tor
each street car that passed.
John NJ. Palmer appeared on the balcony
and made brief speech for the people, and
when he had finished the crowd gave three
rousinS cheers and the band Joined IN ana
played That's the, Sweetest Story Ever
Told after which loud applause and
cheers went up from the crowd.
After General Buckner's brief address.
which followed, the band rendered My
Old Kentucky Home" and three long and
loud cheers were given for General Buck
ner.
Crowds of delegates moved together down
the street cheering for their candidates
and az crowd of enthusiastic. Kentuckians
we? Buckner. Buckner Kentucky"
About $50 o'clock the When band sere-
Lawler, of Minnesota, briefly addressed the
crowd of several hundred people that had
gathered under the influence of the music
and after he had finished cries arose from
the crowd for Irish, of California, but he
was absent at the time and the crowd was
obliged to go away disappointed.
The members of the New Mexico delega-
tion wandered over TO the monument. and
at one time Chief Justice of New Mexico
and was with the crowd, mounted the steps
and gave Bryan burlesque speech which
crowd which had quickly gathered. The
New Mexico delegates were enjoying them
selves and furnishing enjoyment for others,
and, as one of them remarked they had
wandered over there and were laboring
der the inspiration of the cold water that
was SO plentiful at the monument They
moved from there to the front of the Grand
Opera House and several more burlesque
speeches We're made by members of the
party. Col A. w Harris. a Republican.
who accompanied the delegates from New
Mexico. told the crowd that had quickly
gathered that he n lO0kNF-On in Vienna.
and told them that he was a silver mipe
owner who was in favor of sound money,
and that he had DrosDec5ed in the noun
tains twenty years ago and eaten only
bareback and mahogany.
Another member then took the step and
said that he would introduce the BOY
Orator of the Platte who had gained this
appellation from the fact that he lived
within twenty-five miles of that river,
which was twenty-five thousand miles long
and three inches deep, and Judge Vincent.
of illinois, whom the speaker proved to be,
equal to the occasion and kept the
crowd convused with laughter. He said
that he did not address people in halls, but
did it from the rear platform. and his
burlesque of Bryan soon collected another
large crowd of people whose laughter
showed their appreciation. He told his
audience that he was opposed to the rail-
roads and electric street car lines because
they were inventions of the devil, and that
the man who put on his own hat should go
to Jail, as he belonged to the hat trust. He
was opposed to all that was beneficial and
enlightening. and held up bomb throwers
and the men of CoXeys army as examples
of his ideal. and the crowd entered into
the spirit of the speech and took it for
what it was worth, with the exception of
one or two thick-headed free-slver men
who were present and tried to interrupt
but they were in the minority and were
obliged to swallow their chagrin, as no at
tention was paid to them. Sergeant La
porte and two officers made two Intellectual
attempts to dispense the impromptu meet
ing and threatened the participants with
arrest. but the New Mexico delegates paid
attention to them and stood their
grounds until they had had fun enough out
of the meeting.
Denison about 1880 o'clock, and even at
that hour crowd of nearly a thousand
gathered to listen.