Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-09-02
REFUSED TO DISCUSS 1T.
Mr. Bryan Declined to Say Anythin,
About Vermont


COLUMBUS, Ohio, September o-Ou;ns,
10 the lateness of the hour of retiring tho
Bryan party rose too late to have taken
| the '1o train for Springfield had it been
on time. Fortunately, however. the train
was an hour late and the nominee was
able to catch it. There was a small crowd
at the station to see him off. Fur;he
tnah general fandshaking from the car
rlage there was no demonstration.
On me train were reception committees
from Springfield and Canton to escort Mr.
Bryan to these places ". s. Thomas
the secretary of the state central COM
mlttee: James Johnson, ir and A. T. Claw
pool composed the committee from Spring
field. and ". w. Durbin the chairman Of
the state central committee and f. Elan
agan were members of the committee from
henton- A short stop was made at Lon
uoh 1or the nominee to shake hands with
the crowd
Mr.. Bryan was again asked if he had
anything TO say about the Vermont cleo
ton, bit he declined to be interviewed.
Mr. Bryan gave out his itinerary this
morning as follows: The nominee will adj
Ore IS the citizens of Springfield and a +
II O'Clock will take the train for Urbana
Bellefontane and Kenton He will sDea
from the car at the two first places, and
at kenton will stay hour and a. half
AT O'Clock he leaves for Toledo by way
OF Findlay and Bowling Green, arriving i'm
Toledo ut 80. AT Toledo there will be a
HiSht sl'!hTeSS, ana Inc next morning he
Will start for Elkhart. Ind, through south
ern Michigan. He will address the ci,i-
zens OF Eikhart at noon and immeClia ;ely
after take train for South Bend Ind
where he will speak that night. Further
than that his route has not yet been de-
termined on. with the exception that he
VIII speak at Chicago on Labor day. Sep
TENDER I.
SPRINGFIELD, September 2.-Twentv
thousand people greeted the nominee at
Springfield and cheered him from the time
he left his train until the police finally
fought way for him to the train bearing
him to Toledo
Mr.. Bryan said:
Ladies and Geltlemen-For a few mo-
ments only l shall occupy your attention.
because large portion of my voice has
been left along the line of travel where il
| Is still calling sinners to repentance (Great
laughter) l am told that in this city YOU
manufacture more agricultural implements
than are manufactured in any other CITY of
the country. l am glad to talk to a peo-
| pie who recognize their dependence upon
| the farmers of this country. I have had
occasion to talk to some who seem to i'm
| agine the harder up they could get the
| farmers the better they would be off
| am glad to talk to you who recognize that
| the dollars which you receive are earned
by those who convert the natural resources
OF this country into money-those who till
| the soil, and from its fertility springs forth
this nations primary greatness. As mat
ter of fact, the farmers and tia laboring
men are the foundation of society. Great
| cheering) Upon this foundation is built
| the commercial classes, and the ffnancier
| acts as a sort of roof over the whole
| thing. You can take off the roof and put
on another. but you can't destroy the
foundation without running the whole build.
ing"