The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-10-21
Agitators.


along the banks of the Ohio, was one
pupctuated here and there with cheers
for his opponents, and sandwched in the
crowd were many badges of that color
which indicated that the bearers were
not so friendly to the white metal as they
could have been. There were five stops
before this place was reached, and at
three of them the candidate addressed the
crowd from the rear of the car There
was good crowd at Bellaire, and it was
an enthusiastic one. Mr.. Bryan adj
dressed them for fifteen minutes
At Bridgeport the .wearers'of the yellow
badges were numerous, but the shout
ers for the triple nominee were strong
publican candidate. Mr.. Bryan spoke
to the crowd of some hundreds for three
minutes. He was cheercd and applauded,
and for. the most part the crowd appeared
to be III sympathy with his remarks
Martins Ferry turned out u crowd,
which was to n good extent hostile to the
views OF the candidate. There were gold
badges worn by II large portion of his au-
dience and cheers forMckinley alternatcd
with cheers for Bryan. Noticing the vel
low badges, Mr.. Bryan said that in this
country anybody could take the gold cure
who wanted to, and told the story about
the Nebraska woman who said her
brother was IL gold man without any gold.
This pleased the silveritcs, and they ap-
pauded vigorously, and as soon us their
applause would die away there would be
cheers for Mr.. Bryan's opponent. There
were stops at Yorkville and Brilliant, and
to these places MI; Bryan simply appeared
on the platform and ack nowledged the re-
captions given him.
Steubenville was visited yesterday by
the car of ''The Generals, and one of the
speaker attacked the pension record of
Mr. Bryan. When the nominee arrived
there he answered the statements made
by saying that he was Il better friend of
the soldier than those who wished to sub
nit the financial policy of this nation to
the dlctation of foreign powers, and re-
ferred his audience to his record in Con-
gress There was good sized crowd
gathered about the car, and in the rear
some boys wearing badges kept up n
cheer for Mckinley, which Mr.. Bryan
interpreted rs an attempt to break M
the meeting. He referred TO them as fol-
lows:
II hear one of our friends who believes
i'll free speech over there suggesting Mex.
leo. When people tell you that Mexico
has free silver, you will remember that
lurkcy has been one of the long stand.
ing gold standard countries, and if | had
To choose between the standard of Mexico
and the standard of Turkey, | would 20
and live in Mexico before | would risk
living in Turkey"
Here Mr. Bryan was interrupted by dis
turbances created by several young men
on the outskirts of the crowd He said:
My friends, am surprised mt these
interruptions. You show me II man that
believes in gold standard and will show
you man that is afraid of public discus
sion, because tt gold standard dares not
meet public discussion. We are leaving
those who accuse us of being anarchists
to interfere with public meetings and
prevent discussion of an issue that con-
Germs every man, woman and child in the
United States.''
Several hundred people listened to the
nominee at Toronto. There was more en-
thusiasm here than at any other place of
the morning. taking into. consideration
the size of the crowd. They cheered the
speaker and shouted theil approval when
he said the gold standard advocates re-
sort to ambiguous phrases and speak of
sound money" instead of telling what
they mean by sound money.
Rochester, Ohio, Oct. Wellsville,
Columbiana county, Ohio, is in Major
Mckinley's district and is Republican
stronghold. This was apparent when
Mr. Bryan arrived here this morning
While he and a large crowd it was made
up for the most part of shouting enthu-
siastic McKinleyites.
Akron, o., Oct 20.-Mr Bryan receiv.
Ell hattering reception at Youngstown
when he arrived there at l 20 this after.
noon. There he found the largest crowd
I'm 30. Il .
MS admirers in Youngstown having their
numbers increased from the outlying dis
trlcts of Ohio and Pennsylvania.
From the depot to the place of speak
ing and then back to the depot again the
nominee received continual ovation of
applause and cheers.
MI. bryan spoke three times in Youngs-
town. the first being from stand erected
III the public square, the next in the
opera mousse, where he addresseds the
women, and the last near the Fennsyl-
wanna depot, where he spoke from the car
rage. AT each of the meetings the crowds
were large and enthusiastic. At the first
speech Mr.. Bryan said in part:
II want briefly to call your attention to
some of the things that we have to meet
in this campaign. We stand for the
money of the constitution; we stand for
the Hnanclal policy which had the sup
port OF all great men of this nation, of
NIL the parties under the crime of 1873
and to-day | want to read the words of n
Republican, not Western
man. They tell you that we are raising
a sectional question: that we are trying
to array the West and South against the
North and East. My.friends, we are simply
trying to array those who love American
liberty xt-he
dominion. If should quote you what
the Wpetarn man had CO IL 49,, 80.