Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-09-02
BIC DAY FOR BRYAN.
Great Demonstration In His
 Behalf at Cleveland.
MADE THREE SPEECHES THERE.

His Address In Central Armory Was
 Listened to by Sixteen Thousand Peo-
 ple-The Crowd to See and Hear Mr. Bryan Came From Many Cities
 In Ohio.
 CLEVELAND, Sept. 2.-Candidate Bry- an has been the object of no other dem- onstration so vociferous and so spectacu- lar as that which the city of Cleveland gave him Monday night, and nowhere else, with the possible exception of New York, have so many people attempted to hear him talk Two great audiences listened to Mir. Bryan, the first Ill Cen tral armory, where 16,000 people were packed the second i'll Music hall, which held 5000, and afterwards he spoke to several thoueands from the balcony of the Hollenden hotel. Bands and march ing campaign clubs were numerous about the streets. and with thousands of strangers ill it's gates the city wore holiday aspect.
 Special trains brought out-of-town clubs in during the afternoon. Five hundred came i'll on one train from Can ton, the members of the Bryan club of that city with their friends two trains came from Akron and others from LOT raine, Cuyahoga and other Ohio and Pennsylvania points
 For two or three squares the streets about the depot were thronged when the cannon announced the arrival of the train on which tho candidate came, at 6 30 o'clock. There was 8 parade to escort him to the hotel and another after dinner from the hotel to che arm- ory, the latter headed by Democratic clubs of Cuyahoga. followed by .ssYersl ward organization atggld town clubs The armory dto9Gyrs were thrown open at 3stlock and in b minutes every foot of space was filled to the doors.
 Not only were the aisles jammed, but men were clinging on the window sills high up and hanging in all sorts of un- comfortable places. In both of the Cleveland halls, as iii most of the other cities where Mir Bryan has spoken, the police arrangements were inadequate The crowding was almost as great as Jamestown Saturday, and any sort of stampede would have produced disas- ter
 
 Workingmen were i'll a large majority at both meetings, they took things easy. pulling off their coats, singing and dis posing themselves generally in 3 good natured turbulent way. An arm hold ing hammer surmounted with the words "The Friend of Labor, was em- blazoned across q big transparency in the armory,
 Two of the first corners were Gen eral'' Coxey, late of the Gommonweal Army, and his lieutenant and son-in- law, Carl Browne, whose appearance upon the platform, where they preempt- ed front seats, brought down a treme- dous howl, in response to which, the general" arose and bowed. The shirt sleeved crowd attempted to persuade MT. Coxey to speak, but failing, listened to the music of a gleeclub and sang the Star Spangled Banner and Marching Through Geoegia" in a many thousand voiced chorus, with thunderous effect.
 When MT. Bryan came down on the stage at o'clock escorted by L. F. Holden of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, he inspired fierce cheer which contin- ned for three minutes, with waving hats and handkerchiefs, and WAS con- tinued all the time the temporary chair man was trying to work ill his speech
 The armory audience was the largest Mr. Bryan nas addressed indoors, except the one at Madison Square garden The Music hall crowd was half as large
 Besides the candidate's speech, speech es were made at the armory by Judge McMath and L. $. Holden, but to desi- mated crowd, and the Music hall crowd was entertained by local orators during it's two and half hours of waiting. In his speeches at both places MT. Bryan devoted himself mainly to the financial question.
 BRYAN LEAVES CLEVELAND. |