The herald., 1896-10-17
MEN 0F MICHIGAN
GATHER IN CROWDS
AS Candidate Bryan Talks
for Silver
ENTHUSIASM GROWS MORE ARDENT
As the Great Orator Presents
His Case
THE THREAT OF A ShYLOCK
Most Effectively Used to Point Plain
Moral
Men Who Favor American seridom Should
Not Control
The Days Work Includes Addresses
Delivered to Twenty-Three Meet
ings-Bryan Certain to Carry
THE THREAT OF A SHYL0CK
Most Effectively Used to Point Plain
Moral
Men Who Favor American Seridom Should
Not Control
The Days Work Includes Addresses
Delivered to Twenty-Three Meet
ings-Bryan Certain to Carry
Michigan.
Associated Press Special Wire

Associated Press Special Wire
LANSING, Mich, Oct. 16.-Michigan
outdid itself today in welcoming Will
liam J. Bryan, and the nominee acknowl-
edged the compliment by breaking his
own as we'll as all other campaign records.
He spoke to twenty-three meetings. be-
ginning at Z o'clock in the morning at
Muskegon and ending at Lansing close
to midnight. The aggregate number of
his hearers probably surpassed all pre-
vious figures, considering the size of the
cities where he spoke. Except in one or
two minor instances, the enthusiasm was
marked. Most Of the candidates hear
ers today belonged to the farming class,
and at nearly every town the vehicles
which had carried them in lined the
side streets for blocks.
Mrs. Bryan accompanied her husband
to every platform from which he spoke,
and when his addresses were made from
the rear of the car she stood by his side.
The floral tributes were literally show
cred upon her. and one end of the pri-
vate car was nearly filled with the fra
grant offerings. At many stations she
gratihed the crowds by distributing
flowers from the rear Of the car.
Lansing was reached at 1880 o'clock.
and torchlight procession, three blocks
in length, was waiting. Excursion trains
from adjacent town had been carrying e.
visitors to the city nearly all the after
noon, and the principal streets were
crowded. Three meetings had been ar
ranged here one in large clothing es-
tablishment to an audience of women
the second in the Star theater, and the
third on the stand erected in front of the
capitol building.
Besides the three speeches. MIR. Bryan
showed himself to crowds from two
other platforms from which he thanked
the people in few words for their pres
ence.
At the women's meeting he elucidated
"the fundamental principles which he
declared to be the very foundation of the
financial question. He advanced no new
arguments but explained in simple lam
guage the proposition Of the ''rising dol
lar" as he has advanced it in so many
of his speeches.
At the meeting at Capitol square Mr.
the evening. He went into an elaborate
discussion of how the bond deals We're
manipulated, as he claims, and gave in
substance the same arguments as We're
given in his Milwaukee speeches.
In his address from the balcony of the
Downey house, Mr.. Bryan said he rec
ognized the right of each citizen to act
for himself politically, and he addressed d
the public that 1t might act with greater
intelligence by understanding the argu-
ments which he advanced. He said that
the silver people were willing to trust
the employees of the corporations to vote
as they pleased, while the great Repub-
lican leaders are seeking to have the
managers of corporations coerce and
bulldoze their employees into voting the
Republican ticket. This proved, he
claimed, that the Republican party had
hopeless cause and had lost faith in
appealing to reason. since an appeal to
force was the last resort of desperation
Mr.. Bryan was followed by Senator
Stewart of Nevada. He left Lansing at
1890 and the car in which he will rest
will be side-tracked at St Johns.
ALONG THE ROUTE.
LANSING, Mich, Oct. 16--Bryan be-
gan work comparatively late this MORN
ing. At Muskegon at o'clock a good
crowd had gathered, although the meet
ing had not been arranged for until late
yesterday. Citizens had erected a stand
near the depot, from which Bryan was
to speak. They cheered him heartily
when, with rms. Bryan, he emerged from
the car. During his discussion of the
manner in which bimetallism would reg
ulate values he was literally applauded.
If the enthusiasm which Bryan en-
countered early in the day is any indi-
cation Of what can be expected of the
towns yet to be reached by him, this will
be one of the star days of the campaign.
At Holland, where the nominee arrived
at 8 o'clock, a large crowd cheered him
and assured him he was all right in a
manner which must have convinced him
he was believed in by those gathered
about the stand.
At $3.50 Fennville was reached Not
since the nominee left the enthusiastic
south has so much noise been made by
a crowd Of similar proportions. When
at the beginning of his few remarks he
said that in a five minute stop he did not
know what he could say that would
change their minds on the money ques-
tion they assured him that they did not
want their minds changed, as they were