The record-union., 1896-09-15
Receives an Ovation on His Arrival at
the Southern City.
His Voice So Weak From Continued
Speaking on the Route From st.
Louis That But Few OF His
Remarks, Which Were Wholly
Confined to the Financial Question.

LOUISVILLE (Ky.), Sept. 14.-Tired
almost to the point of prostration after
a fatiguing journey of fourteen hours
from ST. Louis, his voice nearly gone
from the effort expended in score OF
speeches, Hon. William ]. Bryan
reached Louisville at 100 o'clock to-
night in a special train over the Louis
vile, Henderson and ST. Louis road.
The day has been extremely hot, and
the wear and tear on the Democratic
candidates system began to show
shortly after he crossed the Ohio into
Kentucky. He had not intended TO
make many speeches, but the enthusl-
asm of the crowds at every station
where a stop was made carried him
away, and his resolution went tor
naught. AS a consequence, he had
hardly voice and strength enough left
on reaching Louisville to comply with
the requirements Of his programme for
the evening.
An enormous crowd cheered him on
his arrival at the Union depot, in COM
pany with Urey Woodson, Democratic
Central Committeeman from this State;
Senator Blackburn, Congressman John
Allen, the Mississippi humorist and
forty-five guns fired by Battery A Of
the Louisville Legion told the people of
Louisville that the young Nebraskan
had entered their city.
1t was with difficulty that the candi-
date and the members Of his party
were pushed through the bowling en-
thusiasts at the depot and enabled to
enter the carriages in waiting. Chair
-.
ton committee met Mr.. Bryan there,
and under their escort he was taken
through streets crowded with cheering
people to the Willard Hotel. Here there
was a momentary halt, and then the
line of the procession, consisting of a
score of carriages, was tken to Phoenix
Hill Park, where the first speech was
made.
Phoenix Hill Park is a big summer
garden. Tonight it was jammed and
packed with many thousand people,
how many cannot be reasonably esti-
mated Every seat in the inclosure had
been taken out to provide for the crowd.
The policeman formed about his person.
and the wearied candidate was taken to
the stand from which he spoke. 1t was
ten minutes before the tumult was
quieted The Democratic candidate be-
gan to speak at 8 o'clock, and his voice
was so hoarse that not a tenth of those
present heard his words.
Another great demonstration took
place at the Haymarket, spacious
open square, where the second meeting
was held The crowd there numbered at
least ID 1000, made up largely of excur-
sionists who had been brought to Louis
vile from neighboring cities on the ten
railroads centering there. Major Ster-
ling B. Toney presented Mr.. Bryan.
Outside the Willard, the third place
where Mr.. Bryan spoke, a great con-
course of humanity was assembled.
Jefferson and Center streets were
thronged so that passage was impossi-
ble On the Courthouse steps opposite
the hotel 1,0O0 people were massed.
The two last speeches were very brief,
and contained nothing new. Mr.. Bryan
was too tired to say much, and ac-
knoWledged it to the crowds. The
Phoenix Hill Park speech was in part
as follows:
1--WE are entering upon a great cam
paign, and have nothing to conceal. I
tell you l came to Kentucky because /
want the electoral votes of Kentucky in
November. ca voice: You will get
them'D AS the regular nominee of the
Democratic party, might appeal to you
on the ground of the regularity of my
nomination. In no convention within
this generation have the voters them
selves taken SO active and so complete
a part as did the voters of the Demo-
cratic party take in the Chicago con-
vention. If you have regard for the
will Of majority of your party, regu-
larly expressed, then 1 can appeal to
you that / am the nominee of the
Democratic party in the regular way.
But shall appeal for your support
on higher grounds than party regular
ity. l expressly release. so far as am
concerned, from the support of the Chi
cago ticket every Democrat who be-
heves that the success of that ticket
would imperil our country Cheers and
cries of Good, good!) l shall not ask
any man to violate his conscience, or be
deaf to the voices Of his judgment. /
shall ask no false fealty to party above