The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-10-20
SAT UP FOR BRYAN.
Ohio Rustic Crowds See fhe Freak
in the Wee small HourE.

MARTINS FERRY, Ohio Oct. 90. 1885,
The last day Of William j. Bryan's cam
paign was begun by the candidate with
very little physical preparation for the
spechmaking ordeal. He did not go to
bed on board the Idler his special car.
until after one O'Clock this morning.
That was at GAINESVILLE, where the people
waited more than three hours beyond the
time set for Mr.. Bryans appearance. and
heard three speeches by him after mid
night
The Idler was pulled out Of GAINESVILLE
al l:S0 A. NJ, and waited on a siding
near Beilaire until six o. o'clock Then It
vas taken to the railroad station of that
ONO river town, where about twenty FIVE
hundred people were gathered i'hey
SIs nnoutso l9r Bryan and a band
was trying to GET an ay4rs
forty winks. but he did not appear ,s eHata nntiI
elght O'Clock. He made a short speech
snmed anu arteen Zee minutes later the train re-
ahe GAINESVILLE demonstration was the
most remarkable in some particulars of
any any which Mr.. Bryan has been the cen
9 eral llgure. The exception was Aberdeen,
.. Y, Where the candidate arrived at
nearly TWO o'clock in the morning TO find
mat three large gatherings that had heer1
expecting him during the many Hours his
ueiayeu .,sa 1se tram was endeavoring to make
STUCK sleepily but persistenfly to their
PAGES ana woke up full Of good hunaor
Last night the conditions differed
~ Vim lhaI Mr.. Bryan reached zanes-
rived at Aberdeen. but when II is
considered that one of his audiences In
tne ONO town stood in a pouring rain
TO hear him speak and did not perrnit fha
wetting it received to darnpen its part;sap
afdor, the GAINESVILLE affair may be con-
sldered the more remarkable after ali.
Many OF the excursionists who went to
lanesvllIe Yesterday to hear the Demo-
cratic candidate had decided to leave by
late trains and We're obliged to return to
their homes before Mr.. Bryan's much
pelated special came to standstilI at
the the GAINESVILLE station. Many others wait
ing Tor their trains to go Surrounded the
candidates car when it arrived, and fear
ful of being left in GAINESVILLE over night.
got rid of their bottled up enthusiasm in
the neighborhood of the station. Mrs
went with her husband to all three meet
ings. The rain was coming down hard.
as they were conveyed in closed ear
rlage past cheering crowds in the streets
to hotel, from the balcony of which he
spoke for fifteen minutes to 5000 people
who were seemingly unmindful of the
downpour. Then he was taken to a place
with the suggestive name of 'sGold Hail."
said to hold $500. 1t was crowded to the
doors and the audience made up for its
long wait in ringing cheers. The third
and last address was delivered to a crowd
of 4,500 in Memorial Hall, equally demon
strative.
Then Mr.. and Mrs. Bryan went back
to the Idler to the accompaniment of more
cheers at the station. The Idler was at
tached to a regular Baltimore and Ohio
train that had been held two hours for
Mr.. Bryan's accommodation and switched
off at the siding mentLned.
At Bridgeport the second stop of the
morning was made. Fifteen hundred peo-.
49, -.
daybreak, heard him. Yellow Mckinley
badges were the most conspicuous objects
in the crowds at Bridgeport and Martins
Ferry. At the latter place a terrace be-
Some people had half dozen of the in
signals pinned on their coats; others had
their hats decorated with. the symbols of
the gold standard