Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-10-27
ROUNDING UP.
Mr.. Bryan Approaching the End
of His Campaign.
MAKES MANY SPEECHES IN ILLINOIS
Extracts from Some of Them-Deprecates
the Indignities offered Secretary Car
Msle-Hs View of the Present
Movement Of Gold

Peoria, Ill, Oct. 24.-Mr. Bryan's first
hay Of his week of rounding up in nii-
nois took him across the central part Of
The state, beginning at Danville In the
morning and ending at Peoria In the
evening. Rain fell at some of the
earlier places when he spoke, but be-
kond q rawness in the air the rest Of
the day was not bad for campaigning.
There were some novelties introduced
In the receptions given the candidate.
He rode through the streets Of Decatur
In horseless carriage and at Charles
ton was carried from the train to the
place where the speaking took place
pn a decorated platform on wheels.
The wildness Of the welcome given the
candidate at Decatur was almost UNI
brecedented in his campaign. 1t was
impossible to get through the throngs
Fiat pressed between his carriage and
both the platforms from which he was
Expected to speak, and he addressed his
audiences in each instance from the
Vehicle. Two speeches were made at
Springfield, the state capital and the
home Of Senator John M. Palmer, who
p In the race for the presidency on the
Eold democratic ticket. The meetings
pit Springfield and Peoria were attended
BY great crowds and the enthusiasm
blown was fairly rampant. Mr.. Bryan
bpoke twice in each of these cities and
blso talked at Danville, Paris, Charles
ION, Nation, Sullivan, Petersburg, Ha-
bhna and Pekin.
at Danville Mr.. Bryan quoted from
Congressman Cannon's speeches in con-
bress in 1878 to show that at that time
the congressman, whose home Is in that
bity, favored the free coinage of sil-
fer. At Charleston, in the course of his
remarks, he paid tribute to Gov. Alt
ke1d.
AT Decatur.
Fully 10000 people listened to Mr..
Bryan at Decatur. A gasoline motor
carriage was the unique vehicle in
which Mr.. and Mrs. Bryan were con-
Feyed to the. first meeting place, the
courthouse square. So dense was the
mass Of humanity there that a pas
eage-way could not be cleared from
carriage to platform, and Mr.. Bryan
WAS obliged to make his address from
the vehicle. Around him on all sides
was gathered an immense throng,
packed in streets and square. The en-
Ehusiasm was very great, but there was
much confusion, and comparatively few
bf the 10000 people in the audience
heard what he was saying. It was the
banae story over again at the second
meeting place. The speakers stand
pould not be reached, and Mr. Bryan
hgain spoke from his carriage.
At the Capital.
Fifteen thousand people heard Mr..
Bryan from the steps of the courthouse
IN Springfield and cheered vigorously
ht every opportunity. When he had
Finished there he was taken to the state
house and made another speech to an
audience equally as large and quite as
demonstrative. In both Springfield
speeches, Mr.. Bryan urged his hearers
10 keep Illinois in the democratic col
smn. His courthouse speech was adj
dressed mainly to the workingmen in
his audience, to whom he said:
To the Wage-Earners.
"Our opponents have been appealing to
various class interests, they have been try
Ing to array the laboring man against the
farmer. In this state you depend for your
prosperity on both the wage-earners and
farmers. The great capital city of this
etate would have little to continue ex-
lstence for If the prosperity Of the farmer
and the prosperity of the wage-earner were
destroyed. want to warn the wage-ea rn-
err against the policy of our enemy. Our
enemy desires to divide and conquer Our
mr. 70 hos limo oil hot thaNy =
In the east to destroy the labor organiza-
lions and make the laboringmen defense
less, and now they try to use the laboring
men to overcome the farmer and make
him helpless. / want the wage-earners to
remember that in all their contests, that
In all their efforts to better their conditions
they have had to rely, not upon Wall street
hnhnciers not upon the trusts and syn
1icates and corporations, the laboring man
has found his best friend upon the farms
and upon the farms only. The principles,
the policies that are good for the farmer
are good for the laboring man and they
ought to stand side by side, and shoulder to
shoulder in restoring this government to
Ats old foundations where 1t will guarantee
equal rights to all and give special priv
neges to no one"
MIR. Bryan concluded with little
tribute to Gov. Altgeld.
At Peoria.
The reception given by Peoria, the
second city in Illinois, to Mr.. Bryan
was ell that could be desired by the
democratic candidate. His progress
through the streets was marked by
continued cheering. Peoria dispensed
with the usual triumphal chariot
Hrawn by four horses, and substituted
In its place an open trolley car, bril-.
hantly illuminated and profusely dec.
prated, to convey Mr.. Bryan from the
Onion citation to the Tabernacle, where
he made his first speech. The spaciou.
building was filled to OVERLOOKING Will
In audience that showed trelnendou.
enthusiasm. Mr.. Bryan spoke for NOR,
than an hour, concluding at 0:35, ant
was then taken to Rouse'g hall, will
much smaller seating and standing
space. This, too, was packed. Conclud
ing brief speech there, the candidate
went to the courthouse, where he ad
dressed an open air meeting composed
of about 10000 people.
Refers to the Carlisle Affair.
In his Tabernacle speech Mr.. Bryan
referred TO the indignities shown Sec
rotary Carlisle at Covington, and strong
~ deprecated them. He spoke in par
rs follows:
~ desire to express my qualification tha
IN this campaign, where mems hearts ar
stirred as they have seldom been stirred be
fore, where convictions are deep and fee
ing runs high, that there has been SO littl
Of conflict and alteration between the pee
pie as they mingle together in the discu'
sion of the paramount issue Of this can
paign. It seems to me that the self-r
Dtraint that has been shown, the respect Il
law and order which has hean shnu