The herald., 1896-10-22
BRYAN TOURING
''''" 'ii'Rl N H0oS|ERDOM
Speaks in the Interest of
Common People
IND GREAT MUL1|IUDES GATHER
To Express Their Devotion to
the Cause
ATTEMPTED INTERRUPTIONS
Drowned by the Shouts Of Earnest
Silver Advocates
Gold Bug Speakers valnly Attempt to Attract
the Crowds
With a Dozen Republican Orators In the
State the Champion of Silver
Finds the People Inclining
to Him
ATTEMPTED INTERRUPTIONS
Drowned by the Shouts Of Earnest
Silver Advocates
Gold Bug Speakers valnIy Attempt to Attract
the Crowds
Associated Press Special Wire

RICHMOND, Ind. Oct. 21.-After q
sound sleep from 1870 this morning when
he completed his last speech at Tifin,
until $780, when he spoke at Greenville,
Mr. Bryan was refreshed and in good
condition to talk to Hoosierdom. 'Hie
car in which he slept lay over during the
night at Urbana. Eariy this morning
at Bradford Junction several hundred
gathered about the car and yelled for
the nominee. At $40 when Greenville
was reached Bryan spoke to large
crowd twenty minutes. Great enthu-
siasm was shown. The speech defend
ed the silver dollar and answered thy53
cent dollar proposition.
The train bearing the Bryan party ar
rived at Cambridge nearly an hour late.
A minute stop was to have been
made, but Bryan was taken to the sair
grounds, where he spoke at some length.
The crowd numbered thousands. Bryan
was unable to get from his carriage to
the speakers stand and spoke from the
drivers box.
In his first Richmond speech delivered
at Glen Miller park, Mr.. Bryan said in
part: The Republican party proposes
to continue the present fiat system, which
means continual issue # bonds, con-
tinual decrease in the volume Of the cur
rency; and that you may understand
what others have said on this subject
want to quote to you what your towns
man, who became one of the great states
men of this country, said in regard to the
effect Of contracting the currency. The
speech can be found in volume 2, part 1,
Of be o. Of
the. fifty-third congress. He said:
"Mr. President: An abundance of
money, plenty of money does produce
enterprise, prosperity and progress.
There is no sort of doubt about that now.
Now, I put aside all old theories, my
friends, which Senator Schruz can bring
from the books. If he has brought au-
thority in favor of the contraction of the
currency to one-half Of it's present VOL
ume, know he can do that. But after
he has stated all these commonplaces
Of these books, these platitudes of
finance, there is no vitality in them.
prefer to take the actual results and the
actual condition of the country and let
theories go to the dogs, There is no
more vitality in their theroies as applied
to the conditions of our country now than
there is in petrif1ed snakes"
Muncie was a hotbed of politics when
William Jennings Bryan arrived here
shortly before o'clock this morning.
Every man, woman and child wore
badge, and every man, woman and
child shouted for his or her candidate.
There were counter demonstrations.
An hour after Mr.. Bryan reached the
town William ID. Bynum was to speak
to the gold Democrats, and in the even
Ing the Republicans were to listen to
w. j. Campbell, ex-president of the
Glass Blowers association. All three
meetings were widely advertised. On
either side Of the streets those who wore
the yellow Mckinley badges were lined
up, and they shouted for their favori.e
as the carriage containing Mr.. Bryan
passed by. It was a distinctiveiy Nc
Kinley crowd in the city, and just as
distinctively Bryan crowd that listen
ed to the nominee at the ball park.
There he faced an assemblage of sew
eral thousand, and nearly every person
he could see had the name Of the can
didate printed on slip of white paper
and fastened over the hat band, and
there was nothing to disturb the har-
mony of the meeting. On the way back
to the train the demonstration for Nc
Kinley was renewed, but was checked
to great extent by the shouting of the
crowd of silverites who marched with
the vehicle.
A cheering crowd of humanity to the
extent Of several thousand people well
coined the candidate to Anderson when
at 4:30 he arrived there. Out on the omen
prairie stand had been erected, In
his speech Mr.. Bryan said in part:
I want you to remember that our on
ponents are many Of them opposing on
the grounds which they dare not state
to the public. You have not heard a
single man in this campaign object to
the Chicago platform because It favors
arbitration of differences between rail-
roads and their employees, and yet you
know that the opposition Of the rail-
roads in this campaign is largely due to
the fact that we are in favor Of arbitra-
ton between the railroads and their
employees.
Mr.. Bryan spoke to crowd of sew
eral thousand people at Rushville for
fifteen minutes. For the first time during
his campaigning in Indiana Mr.. Bryan
at Newcastle referred to President Har-
rison stumping the state In behalf of the
7elAnnaap nominee. He ~ >"-.- ~