The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-11

People of Major McKinIey's State
Turn Out in Force and Cheer His
Rival to the Echo.
vANWERT, O.. Aug. 1O.-William
Jennings Bryan was at it early this
morning.
In fact, he had hardly left off hand
shaking after leaving Chicago before
he began it again.
He did not get much sleep last night.
People We're waiting for him between
daylight and dawn, and although he
went to his berth shortly after mid
night, he was routed out between 1 and
2 o'clock to see a. crowd at Valparaiso,
Ind. Valparaiso was reached at lbs.
Mr.. Bryan was lying in his berth, when
Hon. j. c. Kern, a member Of the In
diana legislature, routed him out. Mr..
Bryan made hasty toilet and went
out ON the platform, where he was
again cheered. The crowd wanted a
speech, but Mr.. Bryan told them that
he could not talk at that hour Of the
morninS.
Columbia City was reached at 4:40,
and another crowd was present. There
was
NO LACK OF ENTHUSIASM
because of the early hour At Fort
Wayne, this morning, more than a
thousand people were waiting for the
Bryan train when it arrived at 5:S5
o'clock. Mr.. Bryan had fully dressed
by this time. The gathering was bent
on speech, but it did not get any
words from the young orator, except
a remark about promising that he
would not speak that early in the
morning. The people rushed forward
to shake hands. and during the seven
teen minutes stop both arms of the
nominee were wrung necessarily
Monroeville, Ind, turned out a large
sized crowd, who c}leered vociferously,
and then the train crossed over into
Ohio. The first stop made by Mr.
Bryan
IN MAJOR M'KINLEY'S STATE
was at Dixon, reached at $40 People
were lined by the hundreds along the
streets of Vanwert when the train
reached there at 6:46 O'Clock An audi
ence of fully a thousand greeted Mr..
Bryan. Cries of speech" went up,
y
A serious panic was narrowly avoid
ed at Delphos, when the train reached
there at 7:13. The crowd was large.
Mr.. Bryan had stepped to the platform
of his car and just as the explanation
that he could not make a. speech was
finished, the porch Of store directly
in front of the train, and about twenty
feet distant from where he was stand
ing, gave way with crash. carrying
with it more than a, hundred people.
The shrieks of those who had been
tumbled into the cellar beneath the
porch and the frantic eagerness of
others to get away started panicky
rush.
STAND STILL; DON'T MOVE"
cried Mr.. Bryan and others on the
train, and those words brought the
frightened people to themselves. No
body had beer hurt in the cave-in.
When this was told Mr.. Bryan, he
remarked to the crowd: IF you would
get on our platform, it would not fall
down"
a laugh followed, and the people re-
covered enough from their fright to
cheer the nominee as the train moved
off. In addition to the score of news
paper correspondents who are on the
Bryan train, Mr.. Bryan is being &C
companied by Thomas Gallhn, national
committeeman from Illinois; Judge
William Prentiss of Chicago; J. G.
Johnson, national committeeman from
Kansas. and JOHN A. Creighton, ma
tiona1 committeeman from Nebraska
Lima was reached at 7:45. Mr.. Bryan
found 1,500 people waiting for him The
demons trations were enthusiastic in
the extreme. People spent the first few
minutes after Mr.. Bryan came to the
platform in cheering him, and then
SHOOK HIS HAND VIGOROUSLY.
Mrs. Bryan made her first appearance
of the day, and stood by her husbands
side. The people were so busy shak-
ing hands that they forgot to ask for
the usual speech until just as the train
was moving off, when in response to
loud demands to say something, Mr..
Bryan said:
Il am obliged to you for coming, and
am glad things are so different from
what they were a year ago"
State Central Committee Durbin,
of Kenton, Joined the party at Lima,
and asked Mr.. Bryan to make a speech
at Ada. which Mr.. Bryan promised
to do.
After passing Lafayette, where Mr..
Bryan was roundly cheered by a small
crowd, the train bearing the Demo-
cratic nominee came to Ada. Here he
made his first speech of the day. in re-
Spouse to the cordialify with which he
was greeted by the large gathering
there, nearly thousand people in all.
The cheering for Mr.. Bryan was very
hearty, and he and Mrs. Bryan were
subjected to a severe handshaking or
deal for several minutes
Mr. Bryan, after shaking his head
several times.
FINALLY BROKE HIS REsoLU-
TION
in these words, after an introduction
by Professor Lehr, of the Ada normal
school:
Ladies and Gentleenen-W While have
not been speaking much on this trip, 1
cannot withstand the temptation to
say a. word here, and the words so kind
y spoken by Professor Lehr, you will
are not thought of since
the nomination. He is one of the origin
ii Bryan men. When was here year