Evening star., 1896-10-22
nRrAs,s INDIANA Fovn.
Yesterdays Experience Ended With
Three Meetings at Fort Wayne.

Yesterdays Experience Ended With
Three Meetfngs mt Fort Wayne.
Mr. Bryan. the ,aemocratic candidate,
spoke to a crowd Of several thousand peo-
pie at Rushville, Ind dIryesterday for fifteen
minutes from a platform erected in
vacant lot near the center of the city.
For the first time during his campaign
in Indiana, Mr.. Bryan at New Castle re-
ferred to ex-PresideHt Harrison stnmp:ag
the state in the interest of the republi-
can nominee. He said that ex-Presidant
Harrison was elected ito the presidency on
platform that denounced Mr. Cleveland's 8
administration on the ground that he had
tried to demonet:ze' silver and that now
state trying to get the republicans 10 in
dorse Mr.. Cleveland's financial policy.
There was large and enthusiastic crowd
and they applauded vigorously when Mr.
Bryan declared ne could prove his pGsi-
ton by evidence deducted from republican
sources.
Muncie was a hot bed of politics when
Mr. Bryan arrived there shortly before )
o'clock in the afternoon. Every man. wo-
man and child wore a badge and every
man, woman and child shouted for his or
her candidates. There were counter
demonstrations. An hour after Mr. Bryan
reached the town William D. Bynum was
to speak to the gold democrats, and in
the evening the republicans were to listen
to W. j. Campbell ex-president OF the
Glass Blowers Association. All three
meetings were widely advertised. On each
side Of the street those who wore the yell
low Mckinley badges were lined and they
shouted for their favorite as the carriage
bearing Mr.. Bryan passed by. 1t was dis
tinctively a Mckinley crowd IN the city
and Just as diStinctively a Bryan crowd
that listened to the nominee at the ball
park. There he faced an assemblage of
several thousand and nearly every per-
son he could see had the name of the can
didate printed on a slip of white paper and
fastened over the hat band, and there was
nothing to disturb the harmony of the
meeting. On the way back to the train
the demonstration for Mckinley was re-
newed. but was checked to a great extent
by the shouting Of the crowd Of silverites,
who marched about the vehicle.
A cheering jam Of humanity to the extent
Of several thousand people welcomed the
CO ndidate to Anderson. when at 430 he ar
rived there. Out on the open prairie a
stand had been erected.
There were short stops at Alexandria,
Summitville. Marion. Bluffton and Fair
mount. and at each place Mr.. Bryan re-
ceived hattering receptions. The crowds
were large and enthusiastic. The train was
nearly an hour and a half behind schedule
At one of the Indiana towns Mr.. Bryan was
presented with glass stylus by the Glass
Workers Association, made Of national
colors and Of beautiful designs.
Mr.. Bryan addressed three large meetings
last night at Fort Wayne The first was at
the Wayne Hotel. and when Mr.. Bryan
spoke from the balcony Of that hos telry the
big double block in front was packed to
such an extent that the windows were
broken in by the crowd. 1t was several
minutes before Mr.. Bryan could make him
SELF heard. and when he did get to talking
he was often stopped by the applause.
The next meeting was at Princess Rink.
and that large edifice was packed to its
doors. Here, too, the crowd was demon
-tr 81 nr otospO
greeted him on his entrance. His vigorous
attack on the gold democrats met with a
ready response in the sympathies Of the
audience.
The last speech was made at Saengerbund
Hall. and here again he was met with an
enthusiastic reception.