The San Francisco call., 1896-10-22
Confronted at Every Point by
Hosts Wearing Mckinley
Badges.
ANDERsoN's GREAT TURNOUT.
Party Feeling So High at Muncie That
a Conf ct Is Narrowly
Averted.

FORT WAYNE, IND. Oct. 21.-The
orange insignia of the Republican cause
was met by William J. Bryan all through
Indiana from Richmond to Fort Wayne
to-day, but he had large audiences at
every place where a stop was made. and
created a great amount of enthusiasm.
That stronghold of RepubIicanism, Rich
mond, gave him his welcome to the
Hoosier State, and prepared him in a
measure for the yellow fever" as he
calls it, which paturally might be expected
to exist il the section through which he
passed, which has long been noted for its
allegiance to the principles of the Repub-
lican party. However, Mr.. Bryan had
every reason to be gratiied with the de-
monstration in his honor, for the outpour-
ings of people were remarkable in point
of numbers and the enthusiasm shown.
Between midnight and the time he con-
cluded his second speech at Fort Wayne
this evening, Mr.. Bryan spoke to eighteen
audiences. Two speeches were made at
Richmond, three more at Fort Wayne and
one each at Clyde. Tifin and Bradford
Junction, ali IN Ohio and the Indiana
towns of Cambridge City, Rushyille, New
castle, Muncie, Anderson, Alexandria, Sum
mitville, Paramount, Marion and Bluffton.
One remarkable feature of the day was
the unprecedented gathering, for that
place, at the meeting he addressed at
Anderson, which was composed of about
%, 900 people. The Indiana State COM
mittee does not intend to make MIR. Bryan
work so hard as he did in Ohio, and be-
tween Fort Wayne and Terre Haute, the
scope OF his labors tomorrow, he is
scheduled to speak at sixteen points only.
Mr. Bryan spent the night at Fort
Wayne and will start out on the second
and last day of his Indiana campaign at
4:30 tomorrow morning.
magnificent demonstration was given
MI BRYAN at RushyiI!e. It was hard to
estimate the crowd gathered in a big open
field there, because of the presence of
dozens of carriages and wagons forming a
deep fringe about the immense throng
solidly massed around the speakers
stand, but between 1900 and $4,000 is a
reasonable calculation. Mr.. Bryan's re-
marks were vigorously eheered. He
brought out no new features IN his
speech.
Newcastle was reached more than an
hour behind schedule time, and furnished
an audience of between four and five
thousand, TO winch Mr.. Bryan IEade fe "
remarks AS at Richmond and several
places in OHIO, during yesterdays trip, he
was con 'ronted by many Mckinley badges,
but those who wore pictures of Bryan OIL
their hats and Rryan ribbons on their
coats seemingly outnum bered their oppos-
ing fellow-toWnsmeD.
Mr.. Bryan referred to the trip General
Harrison is making through Indiana, and
added these words:
ExPresident, Harrison was elected to the
Presidency on a p! atform that denounced Mr.
Cleveland's administration, on the ground
that he had tried 10 demone tize silver, but the
ex-PresiGent to-day is stumping this State try
ing 10 get the Republicans to indorse Mr..
Cleveland's financial policy. His policy dur
ing the last administration was worse on the
money question than during the first admin
istratiou, but such q change has come over the
Republican leaders that they want US to-day
10 submit TO policy which they denounced
eight years ago
But say to you, my friends, that the only
reason for this change is that the money in
huences wrote the Republican platform and
those influences are trying 10 make the Amer
lean people bend 10 a foreign yoke and pay
tribute 10 foreign despotism.
Party feeling was running high in Mum
Gle when Mr.. Bryan arrived there Will
liam d. Bynum had an engagement to
speak late in the day and the friends of
the well-known gold leader had dis
tributed with a lavish hand thousands of
orange-colored badges inscribed with the
names of Mckinley and Hobart and
sound money, protection and prosper
ity." Most of the Bryan adherents, to the
number of 5000, were gathered at the ball
park awaiting his coming, but the streets
we're crowded with Mckinley people,
male and female. There had been rumors
that questions would be asked Mr.. Bryan
at the park, and that trouble was feared
between opposing factions was evident
from the fact that hundreds OF men,
whether wearing gold or silver badges
were around with big clubs.
"A bowling crowd of Bryan enthusiasts !
followed close behind the candidates four
finland as it was driven through the
streets, followed by another contingent
cheering tor Mckinley. There was much
disorder and the several contingents of
seventeen little girls, symbolical in their
dress of the money ratio Mr.. Bryan wants
to establish, were lost in the confusion.
But though the yellow was predominant
in the streets the 600O people al the ba
park left no doubt as to their sympathies
by the inscriptions they bore and by their
hearty cheers. A solid mass, every man
having the name OF Bryan tlnned TO his
hat faced The nominee as he began his
address, in the course of which he said
When find man who denounces agitation
and tries 10 stop public discussion / find a man
who Would 1eel more at home under q
monarchy than he does in q republic where
laws are made by the people. [Cheers ]. / t is
because they know that the gold standard will
not stand the test OF discussion and because
they know that the errors when lie behind it
and the fa1lacies which are in the arguments
that support ii VIII be discovered by public
discussion they condemn pubic discussion
and attempt to quiet the people and compel
them to accept without protest a financial
policy which Wall street demands that the
American people shall submit to- [Cheers]
WOULD Be A. PGPULIST VICTORY