Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-29
1T WAS CUT AND DRIED,
Yale Men Boosting That Bryan Will Wish He
Had Never Come 10 Yale's
i.1st~ Town.

The opposition press is diligently en-
deavoring to discount the disgraceful in
cident at New Haven. The fact is the
Associated Press account of the affair,
published in the State Herald, lacked
several details which add to the atrocity
of the conduct of the Yale men. The
following is taken from the New York
Press, one of the most rabid of the Nc
Kinley organs.
New Haven, Conn.,, Sept. 24.-Five
hundred Yale students, assisted by a
band of the First regiment of the Ma
tional Guard of Connecticut, broke up
the Bryan demonstration here this af
ternoon.
"A platform had been erected on the
historical New Haven Green For more
than an hour before the nominee arrived
$1,000 persons surged to and fro. To the
right of the stand the students had con-
gregated, awaiting Bryans arrival.
AT 2:15 p. m. Mr.. Bryan was driven
through the crowd to the platform. I'M
mediately all was confusion in front The
students broke forth in their college cheer
of the Frog Chorus from Aristophanes,
following with three long 'Yalesr' nine
"Rahsn a 'Yale!' and Mckinley
The crowd surged back and forth and
in front of the stand, while a dozen po-
licemen struggled to keep order.
There was some cheering for Bryan,
but from the right of the stand the stu
dents repeatedly broke forth with their
yell, and for twenty-five minutes it was
impossible for Mr.. Bryan to make him.
self heard.
Joseph B. Sargent, nominee for COVER
nor, who was to introduce the popocrat
leader, tried to quiet the yelling mob in
front, but his Introduction could not be
heard ten feet away.
I'm vain did the boy from Nebraska
attempt to restore order, but it was
many minutes before anything like quiet
was restored. Then the crowd began to
surge again and the police to fight those
in front
Women tainted and several persons
We're taken from the crowd overcome by
the crush. The police used their clubs
and one of them, mounted on a spirited
horse, forced the animal in front of the
stand, nearly creating a panic.
Again Mr.. Bryan tried to speak, but
was interrupted by the yells of the stu
dents This lasted altogether for twenty
five minutes
when at last the noise had subsidized
sufficiently for him to make himself
heard by those Immediately in front he
started to speak. AS he proceeded, the
noise decreased but every few minutes
he would be interrupted by the Frog
Chorus
Never before has such a systematic
Yale cheering been heard in New Haven
According to one of the students, the
dents said before the meeting: Bryan
will wish he had never come to Yales
town.
Whenever Mr.. Bryan made a point
his sympathiers began to shout their an
prevail, but the students with their syste-
matized yell drowned their cheers. The
'brek-a-kek-keX," with the regular Yale
cheer appended and Mckinley as
trailer, was practically incessant and
anything like a speech was impossible
Time and again Mr.. Bryan beseech-
lngiy held up his arms imploring quiet.
Al length in a final effort, the nominee
shouted that order must be main
tanned
AT this juncture Colts band of Hart
ford, accompanying Company K of the
First regiment, Connecticut National
Guards, which was being entertained by
the local company of the Naval Reserves
marched toward the stand, playing
loudly. e
This capped the climax, and when the
students gave vent to another long cheer
Mr.. Bryan waved his hands and took
his seat, and the meeting was at an end"