Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-09-22
BRYAN IN DELA WARE
HE Is MADE TO LOSE MUCH SLEEP
UNNECESSARILY.
PRINCE BISMARCK ON SILVER
Letter of the Great German in BE-
half of Bimetalifsm Used with
. E0ect-NcKinIey Quoted Against
uimself-The Class Issue.

d,sarranged by the action OF the Della
ware Escort Committee, William j. Bryan
started out from Baltimore this morn
inc AZ s:25 o'clock for Dover. Del. to fill
an engagement to speak this afternoon.
II was bad beginning Of the weeks
campaigning, from q physical stand
point.
Mr.. Bryan could have remained over
night I'm Washington, and have taken
q train from there at $50 A. NJ. that
would have brought him to Dover in
plenty of time, but the Delaware COM
mittee told him he would be obliged to
90 TO Baltimore last night and take the
e.25 PENNSYLVANIA railroad train to oblige
neople at Porter's Station, Del. place
that would have been omitted from the
itinerary II he had gone on the latter
train.
Mr. Bryan was up at o'clock after
few hours sleep. He left the Carroll
ton Hotel. in Baltimore, in company
with Josephus Daniels. national COM
mitteeman from North Carolina. who will
accompany him TO New England, and
John +. Salisbury and Richard r. Ken
ney. the Delaware Escort Committee,
proceeded i'm a carriage To the Union Sta
ton and boarded the Pennsylvania train,
leaving at 6:25.
HIS HANDS SORE.
The first incident of the day was at
Havre de Grace. where a score Of people
boarded the day-coach, in which Mr..
Bryan was sitting. and shook the candi-
dates sore and inilamed hands. At Per-
ryyille. Just across the Susquehanna
river. and at Northeast, more peop0
greeted him in the car The first cheer
Of the day was given at Elkton, reached
at Sll. About fifty were in the crowd.
At nearly every station somebody ex-
planned to Mr.. Bryan that his early
coming would disappoint many people,
who were relying on adherence to the
schedule which Delaware had caused to
be changed.
At Newark, Del. Candidate Bryan
changed to a little branch line that car
ried him TO Porters Station, six miles
away. Some Delaware College boys at
Newark gave him an original Bryan yell,
and Mr.. Bryan went out on the platform
and shook hands with them. When Mr..
Bryan reached Porter's he found, not
the hundreds Of excursionists on whose
account he had been persuaded to lose
his nights rest, but the members OF
the Dover Reception Committee. 1t was
for their sake that Mr.. Bryan had been
routed out OF bed, and rushed TO an
early train, before his eyes were fairly
open. in the belief that he would disap-
point a great crowd II he did not make
the connection for Porters
The journey from Porter's TO Dover was
made over the Delaware Division OF the
| Pennsylvania road. He was accompanied
by the Dover Reception Committee
| and delegation from the YSung Mems
Democratic Club of Wilmington. Among
those IN the Dover committee were l..
/ irving Gandy, Democrats candidate for
| Congress: Ex-Governor Robert j. Rey-
/ nolds. and ex-Secretary-of-Sta John D..
| Hawkins.
A BIT OF IRONY.
Middletown had out a brass band and
about three hundred people. Mr.. Bryan
made his first speech Of the day there.
| 1t had just a bit of irony I'm It. He said
that every community he entered was
very solicitous about his voice. and
| anxious for him to speak there. and not
| to speak anywhere else. He intended. he
\ said. to save his voice as much as pos
| sible. and keep II all through the cam
paign. and no wanted each Of his hearers
| to make a silver speech at the polls on
| election-day. The crowd cheered as the
| train drew out.
| Ex-Governor j. y. Cochran Joined Mr..
Bryan at Afddletown.
There were more cheers at Clayton, but
Mr.. Bryan did not make a speech.
Als Bryan ascertained definitely to-
day that he would make two addresses in
Brooklyn. instead OF one. and that the
/ speech scheduled for Wednesday next
had not been postponed until September
| 9th The confusion about the matter
was caused by the arrangement for the
second speech on the latter date after
Mr. Bryan's return from Maine.
A REFRESHING NAP.
DOVER, DEL, September A.-Mr.
| Bryan reached Dover at 1892 A. NJ. A
! big crowd at the railway station gave
| him a cheer and then followed his car
riage through the streets TO the Capitol
| Hotel where a short informal reception
was held. When II was over Mr.. Bryan
was spirited out of a side door and down
to the residence of General r.. r. Ken
ney. where he Immediately went to bed
TO make up some of the sleep he had lost.
Governor Watson and a reception COM
mittee met Mr.. Bryan at Dover and ac-
companied him 10 the Capitol Hotel
went from General Kenney's TO the Capt.
tol Hotel. where he had dinner. and then
proceeded to the State Fair-Groun1s
] where 5000 people, seated on the grand
| stand and gathered on the track and In
the enclosure. received him with cheers
| Among those on the overcrowded speak
ers' stand a temporary structure, were
| Governor Watson, Ex-Governor Reynolds
Abe w Tunnel, OF Lewes. Democratic
candidate for Governor; John Hoffecker
the Addicks candidate for Governor; L.
|. Handy, Democratic candidate for Con-
| gress; ex-Congressmen Causey and Pen
| nington. Congressman Willis, and Judge
d. II. Marvel. of the Superior Court
The State Fair begins tomorrow, and
many of the side-show people had put ur
their tents and were giving performances
| Pickpockets were also on hand, and one
of them was captured
Mr. Rryan was introduced by ex-Con-
gresham John A. Nicholson at o'clock
| lust after he began to speak many OF
| those in the rear of the platform began
| shouting for the candidate TO turn in their
| direction. The noise became so annoying
that Mr.. BRYAN was obliged 10 stop and
appeal for quiet This did not have tbs
desired effect and others OF prominence
added their appeals 10 his. Some sem
| blance of quiet was nnally secured, anc
] Mr.. Bryan proceeded without further an
| noyance.
SPEECH AT DOVER.
Mr.. Bryan said:
Ladies' and Gentlemen,-Talking out
doors is so difficult that must beg you &c
help me just as much as you can by
keeping as quiet az possible. and let ms
| saw that II those people who believe IL
| free silver were as easily seen through a.
the average gold-standard argument
there would be no objection 20 theil
standing up. Great laughter and con
tinued applause)
"The chairman said that no preslden