The record-union., 1896-10-14
Some Delivered to Large and Others to
Small Audiences.
minnesota, and West Superior,
Wisconsin,, Turn Out i'm Large
Numbers to Hear the Nominee
Talk on the Subject of Free Coinage
Makes a Speech to an Audience
of Twenty-Five Hundred Ladies at
Duluth.

Duluth.
| DULUTH (Minn), Oct 13-Thirteen
speeches and 200 miles of roundabout
travel through Minnesota, with a little
| slice of Wisconsin included, was Will
lam j. Bryan's campaigning record to-
Gay. Eleven of the speeches were made
On the journey between Minneapolis
and Duluth. Anoka, Elk River, Big
Lake. st. Cloud, Rices, Little Falls,
Staples, Brainard, Aitken, Carleton and
West Superior We're the places where
| the special train stopped long enough
| to enable Mr.. Bryan to make addresses
West Superior, Wis, with 10000, and
st. Cloud, Mimi, with 1900 people,
gave the largest audiences of the day.
excepting, of course, the figures of the
Duluth reception.
At number of places along the line
of the Northern Pacific Mr.. Bryan
found the little familiar yellow strips of
ribbon or paper with the name of his
political opponent. Cheers for McKin-
ley were heard at all the stops: in fact,
the day began with them at Anoka.
| To-day's trip was taken by the DEM
ocratic candidate for the special pur-
pose OF aiding Representative Charles
A. Towne in his fight for reelection to
Congress. Mr.. Towne bolted the ST
Louis Convention and was renominated
by the silver Republicans, the Popu-
lists and Democrats. The route Law
through Mr.. Towne's district, and Mr..
Bryan put in a good word for Mr.
ToWne at every opportunity
Duluth is Mr.. Towne's home. and his
local supporters, with many more from
other parts of his district who came in
on excursion trains, turned out tonight
to do honor to the Nebraska man. A
big crowd was at the union depot when
| the candidates train arrived, at Z
o'clock, and hearty cheers followed
Bryan and <owne on their way through
the streets to the St. Louis Hotel.
Immediately after supper Mr.. BRYAN
started out to fulfill his Duluth con-
| tracts. Like the women of Minneapo-
| lis, the female supporters Of Mr.. BRYAN
| IL Duluth had arranged a meeting for
| their exclusive benefit. They said they
wanted to hear the nominee at some
place where men should not be admit
| ted, and the local Reception Committee
| secured the Lyceum Theater for the
purpose, SO the :, 800 or more ladies who
squeezed themselves into the Lyceum
tonight had Mr.. Bryan all to them
selves. A few newspaper workers Of
the male persuasion were admitted and
assigned to places in the rear of the
stage, while ladies stood on their writ
ing tables to more effectualIy screen
| them from the audience in front Incl
| dentally Congressman Towne was ad-
| mitted because he had to introduce Mr.
| Bryan. A great waving of handker-
| chiefs and clapping of hands and fem
mime attempts at a cheer took place
when Mr. Towne had made the presen-
| tation.
| Mr.. Bryan talked about the Demo-
critic side of the money question and re-
ceived much applause when he con-
cluded. Mrs. Bryan, who was there
with Mrs. Towne, divided interest with
| her husband
The second meeting was in the car
shed of the local street railway COM
pany, great structure capable of
holding between 10000 and $4,000 peo-
pie. 1t was packed and iammed with
male humanity when Mr.. Bryan ar
rived there at 9:25 o'clock. His recep-
| ton was of the heaTtiest and the cheer
ing on his appearance lasted several
! -
l.. c. Harris, Mr.. Towne's law partner
| and spoke in part as follows:
! 1T gives me great pleasure to defend
our cause anywhere, but it gives me
especial pleasure to defend that cause
among these people, who, like the peo>
pie Of Minneapolis, have laid aside diff
| ferences on minor questions and ioined
/ in supreme effort to wrest this Gov
| on, -
would make the people hewers Of
| wood and haulers of water" (Ap-
| plause.)
| Mr.. Bryan referred in complimentary
| terms to Charles A. Towne and John
Lind, and said that Mr.. Towne could
better afford to be defeated than the
people could afford to allow his cause to
suffer defeat
L beg you to remember the RESPONSE
bilities which rest upon YOU and let no
! effort be spared to elect a Congress as
/ well as President all in favor of free
coinage at 16 to l, without waiting for
the aid or consent of any other nation
on earth. "a voice, "And you won't veto
it, will you?') will not, but want you
to have two-thirds, if possible, in both
houses. so that if any change should
/ L,
you to have enough to pass it over my
veto. (Cheers)
But my friends, you need have no
| concern about my vetoing any measure
which is in harmony with the platform
on which I stand. I have been taught
/ to believe that platforms are guides to
| those elected. Not merely the means
| by which one may be elected. You may
rest assured that I believe in what is
| in that platform, and that no power on
! earth can prevent my carrying out that
platform so far as my ability may so.
/ (Cheers.)
II desire to thank the laboring men
| of this city for having completed the
equipment so that am now prepared to
sign that bill whenever it reaches me,
without depending on anyone else for
| pen or inkstand or ink. The golden pen
| with the silver holder, the silver ink
stand and the ink presented tonight