The herald., 1896-11-03
S|LV[R'S CHAMPION
ENDS HIS CAMPAIGN
At Midnight Preceding
Election
1HE TREMENDOUS Days LABOR
Removes Nebraska From the
Doubtful Column
APPEALS MADE TO VOTERS
For Loyal Support Of the Silver Con.
gressionaI Candidates
III. p..nest Ftonuence Even More Effective
APPEALS MADE TO VOTERS
For Loyal Support Of the Silver Con.
gressionaI Candidates
His Earnest Eloquencs Even More Effective
Than heretofore
The Peoples Candidate Calm in Serene
Confidence of Success Through the
Votes of a Patriotic and
Intelligent People.
Associaiefi Press Snsciai yi,irc

OMAHA, Neb., Nov. 2.-It was al
most midnight tonight when Mr.. Bryan
smoke the last public word incident to
his campaign He had then made seven
speeches in Omaha, beginning at
O'Clock in the evening, and had preceded
the nights work with fifteen speeches
made during the day at the following
places, all in the state of Nebraska:
Seward, York, Aurora, Grand Island.
Hastings, Harvard. Sarenville. Sutton.
Grafton, Fairmount, Exeter, Friend.
Dorchester, Crete and Lincoln. He had
Travelled during the day 290 miles.
1t had been Mr.. Bryan's original in
tention to speak in every congressional
district In the state during the day, but
this was found to be impracticable, and
he entered only four of the six. Not
withstanding all the speeches of today
were made in his own state, Mr.. Bryan
made no special appeal to state pride,
nor did he dwell upon state issues be-
yond an appeal here and there to his
friends to give loyal support to the sill
yer state and congressional tickets,
while they were casting their ballots for
Bryan electors. He praised Governor
Holcomb's administration of state af-
fairs and repeatedly called attention to
the futility Of all efforts to secure re-
forms even with favorably disposed
chief executive without congress Will
ing to cooperate with him. He dwelt,
in the main, however, upon national
aspects of the campaign and appealed
to his hearers to support the cause upon
the same general principles which he
had advanced as essential in his speech
es made in other similarly situated COM
munities. His two most telling speech
es of, tine day were at Hastings and Lin
coin, though he made some short ad-
dresses which were pronounced by his
friends as worthy to be classed as phil
ippics in character. His strongest ef-
forts were generally directed at crowds
containing more than the usual number
of persons decorated with gold badges.
The demonstrations in the way of greet
ing and applause were exceedingly cor
dial. Those who wore the yellow insig-
MIA treated him with entire respect, and
in some instances applauded his utter
ances.
At no time in the campaign has Mr.
Bryan been in better physical or mental
condition than he was for his closing
day He appeared to realize that he was
nearing the end of all arduous siege and
he did not make the usual effort to con-
serve his physical energies. He allowed
his voice, which is still unimpaired full
range. He spent greater time than or
dinarily between speeches chatting with
friends. In these conversations he did
not display the least nervousness over
the near approach of the end of the
campaign, and to all outward appear
ances he was quite as unconcerned as
were any of his company.
The principal speech of the evening
was at the Boyd Opera house, where Mr..
Bryan addressed crowd of several
thousand enthusiastic, bowling, shouting
people. Mr.. Bryan was introduced by
Gov. Holcomb, and spoke, in part. as
follows:
Now, my friends, understand that a
. person who takes our position does not
expect, or need not expect, to get the
support Of those polite members of So
ciety, who think that they are divinely
appointed to live on what other people
earn, and not only that, but disfranchise
them IL they do not become willing SER
wants but want to say to you that If you
will examine the charters given to banks
and the charters given to corpora tions.
you will find that not a charter granted
conveys the right to run the politics of
the country, and when our government
is administered as 1t should be, they will
quit running politics and attend to the
business for which they are organized.
At Washington hall the nominee ad-
dressed a crowd of several hundrad
Danes, who were demonstrative to a
great degree.
Then he was driven to Germania hall
where the German-Americans of Oma.
la listened to and applauded the nom
inee. His speech was along the Same
lines as others delivered during the dsv
The next speech was delivered to the
Swedish Bimetallic league, and a large
crowd of Scandinavians heard the nom.
inee. Mr.. Bryan told of his trip through
Minnesota and predicted success in that
state
The Eohemians heard the nominee at
Metz hall. and applauded him wildly
while he told them OF the efforts in their
country and abroad to secure bimetal-
lism.
Creighton hall was packed when Mr..