The Portland daily press., 1896-08-12
HAVING A HARD TIME,
Bryan Made Miserable On His
"Trip To New York.
BY CROWDS OF CURIOUS HE WAS
COMPELLED TO GREET.

Has Lost His Voice, His Sands Are swol-
len Up and He Is Completely Exhausted
| Reached the Metropolis Finally.
Johnstowu, Pa, August 11.-If Candi-
date Bryan had not moved lively this
morning, his arrival in New York would
have been delayed beyond the fixed time.
He reached the Union station at Pitts
burg this morning at T.. 80 just on time to
catch the Pennsylvania train which left
for New York at that hour. The work
of yesterday and last night had fatigued
him SO muchithat he oversight.
| A knot Of Pittsburg Democrats were
at the Union stations to see Mr.. Bryan
off.
| sThe first stop of the train was at.Green.
burg, which was] reached at $50. A
cheer from the station platform an
nounced to Mr.. Bryan that he did not
lack supporters there.
At Latlohe, reached at S.45, crowd
of about 250 was assembled and the
cheering and handshaking were, repeated.
| Altoona, Pa, August 11.-Nearly a
thousand people were awaiting Mr Bryan
at Johnstown. Ex-Congressman Kerr
presented Mr.. Bryan and Mr.. Bland, both
OF whom were roundly cheered. Neither
spoke, but Mr.. Bryan shook hands with
a large number of persons. At CIesser
300 residents greeted the train and
cheered the nominee with whom many
shook hands.
| Huntington, Pa, August 11-Altoona
gave Mr. Bryan rousing reception.
| When the train came to. sthndstill there,
thousands of people wera lined up along
the tracks.
The appearance of Mr.. Bryan on the
| train platform brought out q mighty
| cheer. There was struggle to get near
him and much confusion resulted. There
were yells of Bryan" and 'sspeech.n
Standing beside Mr. Bryan was Mr..
Bland, and tho ..latter started to address
the audience The crowd cheered Bland,
but 1T did not want to hear.him speak,
and cries of Bryan dowued his words.
MIR. Bryan shook his head, and, placing
his hands to his throat called out in a
husky voice, II can't, boys; l can It, y
when q rush toward the car was made
and Mr.. and Mrs. Bryan went through
the handshaking ordeal until the train
| moved out At II. 10.
Trenton, N. j., August 11.-When
Huntington, Pa, was reached by the
Bryan party at noon, Mr.. Bland talked
TO a crowd numbering q couple of hum
dred. Mr.. and Mrs. Bryan shook hands
with those composing it. Both Bland
and Bryan were oheered.
/ Lewistown junction turned out a small
crowd and tho story was repeated.
| ma for oh
Kinley. Mrs. Bryan was in great de-
mand at Lowistown and attracted near
ly as much attention as her husband.
Ono hundred and fifty people at New
port oheered Bland and forgot to cheer
Bryan. SO intent were they in shaking
hands with him. An over heated, en-
| thusiastlo crowd sWarmed beneath the
broad roof of the big Pennsylvania sta
tion building at Harrisburg.
| Chairman Hubbell of the Harrisburg
Blmeialltc league, presented Mr.. Bryan
to the crowd. Cheers followed the an
ncuneement and great cry for a speech
went up. Mr.. Bryan pointed to his throat
of the fast and furious Handwriting
just as Mr.. Bland had started speech,
the car was shifted. Fighting, shout
ing and pushing with might and main,
the people in the throng around the day
car sought to regain their advantageous
position. Hundreds of them were
struggling on the track between the car
in which Mr.. Bryan was and the rest Of
she train as they saw the coach bearing
down upon them, almost panic ensued
| In the endeaVor to get out of harm s
way. Men seemed to leap over the heads
OF others and some went down. Nobody
| was injured. 1he big assem- mblage, or
rather the male part of it, made another
dash toward the tall, smooth faced man
who looked ten years older than he did
when he left Chicago Sunday night.
| Mr. Bryan stood on the steps of the
| car. and reached out both hands to be
grasped by hundreds of extended hands.
His white hat had been displaced, by
black skull cap, that gave him pries-
| tly appearance.
/ While Mr.. Bryan shook hands at the
rate of 60 minute for each hand, Mr..
| Bland tried to talk, but his voice was
| lost in the shouts of those around the
car. At last the train moved away and
MIR. Bryan, with a relieved look, went
back to the drawing room.
| At Lancaster the station was crowded
with 1900 people. Mr.. Bryan stood on
the rear patform of the car. The crowd
shouted and all the time there was a
constant struggle to get near the nomi-
nee. Mr.. Bland's speech was again lost.
| I No further stop was made until Phila-
5000 pushing, surging, people had gath
cred behind the iron gates barring the
| entrance to the trains in the Pennsyl-
yania railroad station. 1t was essential
| ly crowd Of plain people, workingmen,
mechanics and laborers. The pressure
| became so strong that this men and
women caught in the crush were in dan
| ger of being crushed ana trampled un-
der foot, and the railroad officials to re-
| lieve the pressure, threw open the gates
and let the people through upon the
| platform.
With wild rush the crowd poured
through and recklessly of the constant
lv shifting trains, riaked life and limb
upon the tracks. The Democratic city
ommituee, headed by Chairman Curley,
was in waiting to welcome MIR. Bryan.
Cheer after cheer went up ns Bryan ap-
peared on the back Of the platform and
the rush to got near him was terrific.
Bryan shook all the outstrstohed hands,
but to cries for speech, the tired nomi-
nee could only shake the head. The
committee succeeded in forcing its way
into the car and none too soon, as after