Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-08-15
state from the list of doubtful states and
plants it squarely in the Bryan column.
NATIONAL POLITICS.
BRYAN's CHICAGO RECEPTION.

Chicago Inter Ocean: William j. Bry
an, the Democratic Populist free-silvel
candidate for president of the United
States, received royal welcome in Chi
cago last night.
He stopped here for day on his jour
ney to New York, where he will receive
the formal notification of The honors con
ferred on him, and 10000 of his admirers
gave to him a reception that might have
befitted the triumph of some Roman con
sui on his way to the imperial city aftel
! a victorious campaign.
Seldom indeed, if ever, has there beer
seen in this city 30 tremendous an out
pouring of the populace in honor of one
| man.
| just one month ago William j. Bryan
came to Chicago. His coming was an
nounced in brief paragraphs in the daily
press. No crowds of thousands met him
at the railway station. No enthusiastic
multitudes gathered in front of his hote
and fought for places where glimpse Of
bands, no waving banners hefalded his
approach. No calcium lights illuminated
his progress through the streets. In the
brief intervening time has this wonder
been wrought.
Strange phase of American politics
Dramatic episode in the hitherto unevent-
full career of man of 36.
Bryan's triumph came last night, and il
was evident that the devotion the multi
tude offered HIM touched him, as what
man, that was man, would it not!
Looking down from the balcony of the
Clifton house into Monroe street in front
of him, the young Nebraskan saw 10000
or more fellow citizens whose shouts and
cries indicated an intensity of emotion
bordering on frenzy.
In all that vast assemblage there was
but one thought-Bryan. Among all those
myriads of faces that great crowd saw
only one-that of its ideal-Bryan. To
the voice of one man only would those
thousands give heed, that of Bryan. For
those men who stood in the hot discomfort
of the clustering night there was for the
time being but one idea-Bryan.
When the crowd saw HIM it yelled Ikea
multitude possessed by demons of noise.
When he raised his hand silence came
upon the assemblage at his will. When
he spoke those men IN front of him lis
tened with their souls. 1t was fascinat-
ing spectacle, that complete power over
the hearts and minds of men possessed by
one man. The crowd had followed bis
carriage from the Rock Island station,
where he arrived about 7:45 in the even
ing. 1t poured after him like tumultu
Gus. food whose barriers have been brok-
en- away. 1t surged around the vehicle
conveying him, and it beat in dark waves
where the faces seemed like phosporescent
flashes against the escorting orgsniza-
tions. 1t encom passed him about, and it
was with difficulty that he succeeded in
making his way into his hotel.
The crowd seemed wild. Had it had its
way Bryan would have been carried on
mems shoulders from place to place. Had
it had its will he would have stood on the
hotel balcony and talked for hours, and
still the crowd would have listened. Nay,
it would have been content to have him
stand there silent, that it might gaze on
him merely. "All want to do is to look
at him." exclaimed gray-haired man
who had waited for more than an hour
for the red fre-lit procession to approach.
The multitude came mostly from the
masses of the people who toll with their
hands for their living. 1t was an i'm
patient crowd. 1t would not be restrained,
yet il could not be said to be unruy.
Many of the men in the crowd did not
like the police regulations and restric-
tions. They did not want to be held back
or ordered about. There were some signs
of turbulent spirit. 1t was said that
the officers had to uss their clubs in one
instance to curb the more impetuous ele-
ment.
There were many women in the crowd,
and they outdid their brothers in ex-
urberent enthusiasm m for Bryan.