The evening times., 1896-09-30
NO SPEECH FROM BRYAN |
He Was Here Twelve Minutes
~and Was, Asleep.
: GONE TO WEST VIRGINIA
,Bourke. Cochran Was on the Same
Train With the Boy Orator From
New YOrk-Candidate"s Sleeping
Car Was Attached to Special Train
In Waiting Here.

| Candidate William Jennings Bryan was
| iD Washington for twelve minutesthis morn-
| .ng, but lie was fslcep-
THE caDdida3e was expected to arrive at
| 730 o'clocG bu the BALTIMORE and Ohio
express from New York, but for leasons
unexplained tue train was forty minutes
| late, aud it was 8 20 wien it arrived
l. Au,icipatingktlfS arrival was q special
train OF TWO cars, n charge OF thccommttee
or West VirgiOia tftizeDs " 10 were @aitins
here TO take the Boy Orator iu charge also
| group Of perhaps 100 men, women and
| children whoGcrowded around The gates
at tie station and possessed their souls
in ,lcra pasIe0ce IN tue hope that they
Inign. eaten !: glimpse OF MIR. Bryan Il 5 he
lei Il {. rcAulaf Tram to tcard the special
I'ic mrinrers of the West Virginia recep
| lion commlttc We're nervous. they had
arranged an itinerary for the candidate
wGUn required pune tuality in the running
uf rams III order to fill.
ALL WERE DISAPPOINTED
Among the crowd were several we'll
known Local Democrats, but the humber
was notlarge. Anongthem were Secretary
Lawrence Gardner, Assistant Treasurer
james l.. Norris. of the national Committee;
Capt. John Milierand Mr.. c. T. Bride. the
relative of Mr.. Bryan.
But all OF them were disappointed for
Mr. Bryan was sound asleeppin the Pullman
car Cato and had left strict order RS that
he should not be awakened until the train
reached Harper's Ferry.
This made 1t necessary to attach the
sleeping car to the short special train
which consisted OF "A regular coach and the
combined dnng aud drawing room car
Annapolis" Mr.. Bryan was not disturbed
aud, as there was positively nothing 10 en-
'huse the waiting audiehce, the small
crowd was very quiet.
Mr.. Lawrence Gardner boarded the plat
form OF Mr.. Bryan's car. but being in
formed that the candidate was sleeping
turned away.
On the Train with the nominee were Con
gresham l.. s. Livingston. OF Georgia, ex-
Congressman Anderson, National Commit
teeman Josephus Daniels OF North Caro-
lima, who has been with Mr Bryan for sev--
eral weeks, but who will now return to
thecampaiGn inhis . wn State: Congressman
Mchiii:n pr Tennessee, Congressman viii.
Jams OF Mississippi, and National Commit
tecnan ]. 4. McGraw and Attorney Gen
eral T. S, Riley of West Virginia.
BoURKE COCHRAN WITH HIM.
Strangely enough, Hon. Bourke Cochran
OF New York was on the same train with
the hoy Orator, with whom ne so recently
engaged in political fornsics at Madison
square pdfucn. ana whose cause he SO bit
terly arraiened.
Soon after the train left New York at
midnight Mr.. Bryan retired, but at Eliza
beth, y. J., Mr.. Cochran entered Mr..
Bryan ; car and spoke briefly with the can
didhte. IL was merely to pay his respects
1t was said. and he did not know that Mr..
Bryan had retired
MI Cochran also was not visible to the
public at the b. X o. station this morning
III was said that he was on his way 10 the
south. and that he. too, would invade West
virginia on the way.
The sleeping car bearing Mr Bryan was
attached 20 the West Virginia train without
delay. and precisely ut sac O'Clock the
train drew out OF the station. IL was ex-
pectcd that Harper Ferry would bercachcd
not later than a halfhour behind the sche,,.
uled time for arrival. and that Martins \
burg would see the expected party prompt
ly at the advertised time
The whole party OF Vest Virginia in
vaders. includiss ne wSpapcr men, numbers
about thirty persons