The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1896-10-31
ILLINOIS HEARS Mr.. BRYAN
The Silverite Candidate Addresses
Immense Crowds.
He Starts Early At Danville aud
Closes the Day at Peoria Where
He Addresses Three
Large Audiences.

Springfield. Ill. Oct. 24.-The capital
city of the state Of Illinois welcomed
the democratic nominee with a magni1-
cent reception. Crow.is that numbered
up into the tens of thousands listened
to him and noisily demonstrated their
AFFECTION for him n their belief in the
principles hat he advocated. The city,
was gayly decorated in honor of his
coming, and excursions from outlying,
towns helped to swell the crowds to such
an extent that their proportions We're
Immense.
Mr.. Bryan delivered two speeches in
Springfield, one at h court house and
h e other in front of the state capitol. x
From the platform erected near the
court house Mr.. Bryan spoke as follows:
Ladies n Gentlemen: My friends,
we are reaching the close of a remark
able campaign the most remarkable
which has been waged in this country
within the last generation. Greater is-
sues are at stake today than have been
presented in recent contests. This cleo
ton will determine whether the infiu-
ence of this, h greatest nation on
earth, shall be cast Upon the side of gold
as the only standard money or upon
the side of bimetallism. On your votes
may depend that contest. Free silver
may triumph without the vote of Illi-
nois, but with the vote of Illinois free
silver is certain to succeed. We may
have enough electoral votes outside Of
Illinois, but we shall certainly have
enough II we secure the vote of this
great empire state of the west, and the
electoral vote of the state of Illinois may
turn upon the vote of a single citizen. I
want you. therefore, hen you come to
cast your votes, to remember what re-
sponsibilities rest upon the citizens this
year
My friends, bimetallism is necessary
for h prosperity of this country. Our
opponents have been appealing to va
rious class interests; they have been
trying to array the laboring mar
against the farmer. In III state you
depend for your prosperity on both the
wage and the farmers. The
great capital city of this state would
have little to continue existence for
If the prosperity of the farmers and the
prosperity of the wage n We're de-
stroyed. i want to warn the wage ear
ner against the policy of your enemy.
Our enemy desires to divide and con-
quer. Our opponents have m all that
they could do in the east to destroy the
labor organizations and to make the Ia
boring man defenseless, and now they
try to use the laboring man to over
come the farmer and make him help
less. l want the wage II to re-
member that in all their contests. hat
in all their efforts to better their condi-
tons, they have had to rely not upon
the Wall street financiers, not upon the
trusts and syndicates and corporations,
but the laboring man has found his best
friend upon the farms and upon the
farms only. If you come to a contest
of endurance, l want to warn you la
boring man that the farmer can stand
the gold standard longer thar h la
Decatur, ILL.,, Oct. PA bowling.
shouting, cheering crowd welcomed the
triple nominee to Decatur, where he
was down for two speeches. When the
train pulled Into the depot a great
crowd surrounded the car and it was
with difficulty that Mr.. Bryan reached
the conveyance which was to take him
to the places of speaking. Here the en-
terprising committee went the Charles
u SOIilliiillGS olG USllSl dlio, liGoGSdu
of having the ordinary vehicle, a moto-
cycle was brought into use and the can
didate was conveyed in his horseless
carriage.
The crowd was the feature. 1T was
a crush from the start to the finish and
when the platform at the court house
square was reached it was impossible
for the nominee to gain it. While the
crowd was not SO large as at many
places, the crush was Il worst expert
enced for many a day. The other car
riages could not get within 100 feet of
that occupied by Mr.. Bryan and the
crowd of shorthand men with the party
and for the local papers could not get
near enough to report the speech. At
the second speech it was but a repeti-
ton. The candidate did not dare to
leave the vehicle and the few police
were powerless. The press correspond
ents could not hear one word in fifty,
perhaps. and they Were lucky il they
did hat. The return to the depot was
a continuous ovation and it was hard
to keep the excited admirers Of the
nominee from breaking over the police
and doing bodily harm in their desire
to show their affection.
Rousing Reception at Peoria,
Peoria, H.. Oct. 24.-The greatest re-
ton of the day was accorded Mr.. Bryan
when he arrived in Peoria last evening.
The streets were crowded. AT the depot q
trolley car was in waiting to which was at
tached a fat car covered with canopy and
HblaZe with arc and i~ncandescent lights.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bryan took their positions on
the rear of his car and We're taken for
over a mile through a solid mass of people
Three large meetings were held, one IN the
tabernacle, another in historic Rouse's
hall, and the third in the open air on the
court house square.
At the tabernacle Mr.. Bryan expressed
great pleasure at his reception. He also
felt grat.ied, he sad, because in this cam
pa!gn, while mems hearts were stirred as
they had seldom been stirred before, there
had been so Nttle conflict and alteration
between the people.
Peoria at II 80 and this morning at 4 o'clock
It arrived IN Ottawa. The party will leave
that place at 8: 80 and visit during the day
LaSalle, Spring Valley, Kewanee, Rock
Island, Moline, Monmouth, Bushnell, Ma
comb and Quincy, and late tomorrow night
will pull out of the latter place for Jack
%sonville, where Mr.. Bryan Will spend Sun.
day.
The V%aGabond.
(To an air of Schubert.)
Give me the life I love,
Let the lave go by me,
Give the jolly heaven above
And the byway nigh me.
Bed in the bush with stars to sea,
Bread ! dip in the river