Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1896-10-11
BRYAN'S CAR LEFT BEHIND
Railroad Bungling at Aberdeen Causes the
Candidate Annoyance.
SPEClAl TRAIN FINALLY ARRANGED
silver Nominee Makes Speeches All
thc WAY from Fargo to So paul,
hat Says Nothing He Has
Not said Before.

To-Day encountered rev OF lHe NlNlSSi'uN'S
and inconvenience incident to the making
of a campaign in the northwest, where rail
road facilities are not what they are IN the
"down-east." he arrived in Aberdeen early
in the morning. Leaving the commodious
and comfortable Wagner for the every day
{ or every night sleeper which went over the
road was not conducive to restore comfort
even to a candidate Of Mr.. Bryans sleeping
qualities. There was a bad miXup at Aber-
deem, owing to somebody's mismanagement.
The train was over two hours late when II
reached there and then 1t was found that
there were no switch tracks allowing trans
fer Of the special car from the tracks of the
Chicago q Northwestern, over which the
party arrived to these of the Great Northern,
which road had to be taken in order to al
low the party to get to Fargo. There were
telegraphing and hurried consultations and
the result of it all was that at 3 o'clock a
special train was taken from Aberdeen to
! Fargo On the train we're Senator Roach
and members of the local reception commit
tee to escort Mr. Bryan here. The candidate
| at > o'clock took the car Of the Fargo com
mittee. while his own private coach went
on to st. Paul under the charge OF John w
Tomlinson Of Alabama Mr.. Bryan's protector
| from crowds and overZealous supporters.
1t was only , o'clock when Mr.. Bryan
! was up TO address a number of early rising
enthusiasts in bearskin coats Then he went
| back 10 bed and slept until o'clock. when
| Fargo was reached. Mr.. Bryan had break
fast here with Senator Roach and the re-
coption committee at the Hotel MetrGroOle.
Fat 1915 he went to the base ball park and
delivered speech half an hour long. At
the base ball grounds a large crowd had
obtained admission to the enclosure On
| the platform. placed in conspicuous place.
was the somewhat historic eagle belonging
! to Bud Reeves, who, 1t will he remembered.
| made a canvass for congress mounted on a
white horse wrapped in an American flag
with a stuffed eagle percheG on his Shout
der Mr.. Bryan was received with as much
enthusiasm as could be expected on such
an inclement day. He was introduced by E.
c. Miller, president of the City bank. The
nominee attacked the republican platform,
| saying:
SOME GOLD ARGUMENTS.
IF the republican platform had declared
| that the gold standard was a desirable
| thing, the republicans might go forth and
present the merits of the gold standard.
| They might say, as the advocates of the
| gold standard said before the st. Louis
| convention, that gold is the money OF civili-
| cation; that we had outgrown silver;
| that you could not have two yard
| sticks; that free coinage was in the in
| terest Of the mine owner and that the
| demagogue was appealing to the selfish in
| terests OF the people who wanted to pay
| their debts I'M cheap dollars | say IL the
republicans had declared for gold they
might have used the arguments which the
| advocates Of the gold standard usually use
| But the republican platform does not de-
clare that gold is a standard. The repuh-
| lican platform pledges the republican party
| to get rid of the gold standard and 20 sub
stitute the double standard Just as soon a.
other nations VIII Iet us" tApplause)
THE gold standard carried out to it's
logical conclusion means that all legal ten
| der money except gold Is to be abandoned
and that whenever you have a debt to pay
you must go around and find gold. no mat
ter how hard it is for you to find Gap
plause) More than that, the financial pol
icy OF the republican party not only con
templates gold as the only legal tender but
cOntemplates bank notes as the only paper
money. You put the control of your lega
tender In the hands of few financers and
your paper money in the hands of an or
ganizatlon of bankers and then. my friends
all the people will have to do Is to bend
their backs a little lower to bear the ad-
ditional burdens which will be placed upon
| them" Great applause)
| a three-minute stop was made at Her
| mann, and Mr.. Bryan discussed the 50-cenl
| dollar proposition. At Morris, Mimi, the
largest and most enthusiastic crowd was
| found since Fargo was left behind. Mr.
| Bryan spoke to the people a few moments
| from the rear platform OF the car. A short
| stop was made at Benson. and Mr.. Bryan
| spoke few minutes. 1t was a crowd a
| farmers that received Mr. Bryan from one
| end OF the trip TO the other. and at no
| place were they more enthusiastic than at
| Wilmar. Mr.. Bryan told them the American
| people had always been equal to any emcr-
| gency, and that crisis had been reached IN
| the financial history of the country. He
said that for years the republicans had
| been working to maintain a gold standard
under cover openly advocating bimetallism.
| The nominee told the people of Litchhel1,
| where crowd of several hundred people
had gathered, that the money question was
not too deep for the American people
| ALMOST A JOKE.
At Breckenridge Mr.. Bryan spoke from the
rear platform of his car to a good sized
| crowd He was Introduced by +. c. Gibbs
as the next president of the United States
and said; Whether my friend here will
| prove his right to be known as n propheL
| will depend somewhat upon the election.
in such times, when such great interests are
at stake and when the result may turn upon
one vote it is important that every citizen
| shall carefully weigh the matter before
| casting the vote" Ga voice: Cant you give
us a word about the plank in your platform
| that condemns the president for enforcing
the aw?'D
| MI Bryan: our platform does not COM
plain OF any enforcement of the law, and
no man is afraid Of my election because he
is afraid | will not enforce the law. What
they are afraid of is that | will enforce the
law against the big violators of the law"
| Great applause and cheerlng)
AT Wayerly, which was reached late this
afternoon, prominently disp' aged was a crude
banner marked ''Dur Sons viii Answer Yale
November g." Mr., Bryan spoke briefly, con-
hning himself malDly to an explanation OF
the real meaning Of free coinage and the dis
torted meanings put upon the term by the
gold people. mn nj.
The last stop, Of the day before Mime
apolis was reached was DelanO, where Mr.
| Bryan spoke to a crowd of several hundred
from the rear platform. The Bryan party
reached ST. Raub a few minutes before
O'Clock this evening and were taken at once
! to the Ryan hotel for dinner. The main
meeting Of the evening was that in the big
auditorium. Beinre the speech by Mr.
| Bryan, Louis ikiash, for the local labor or
| ganizat ions, presented him with silver pen
and an address on silk, expressing the hope
that this pen might be used in signing the
free coinage hill 4hat they hoped to pass.
Besides theH meeting at the auditorium
| other meeting were held at the Market hall
and at Paul Martins opera house where Mr.
! Bryan spoke more briefly. At the auditorium
| the candidate was introduced by S. l.
| Pierce or this city and was greeted with a
| great roar OF applause. His speech was well