The herald., 1896-09-01
AT CLEVELAND
No Such Crowds Nor Enthusiasm sIncs the
az Campaign Opened


Bryan has been the object of no other
demonstration so vociferous and so spec
tacular as that which the city of Cleve-
! land gave him tonight; and nowhere
else, with the possible exception of New
York, have so many people attempted
! to hear him talk. Two great meetings
listened to Mr.. Gryan, the first in the
J Central armory, where 10000 people were
( packed; and the second in Music hall,
which held 5000, and afterward he spoke
to several thousand from the balcony
Z of the Hollenden hotel.
Bands and marching campaign clubs
were numerous about the streets, and
. with thousands of strangers in the city,
5 1t bore holiday aspect.
Special trains brought out of town
clubs in during the afternoon; 500 came
in on one train from Canton, the mem
bers of the Bryan club of that city and
F.. their friends; two trains came from
Akron and others from Lorain, Cuya-
hoga and other Ohio and Pennsylvania
points. For two or three squares the
streets about the depot We're thronged
when the cannon announced the ar
rival of the train on which the candi-
date came, at half past six. There was
q parade to escort him to the hotel, to
: the armory, the latter headed by Dem
ocratic clubs of Cuyahoga county, fol-
lowed by several ward organizations
+: and out of7town clubs.
The armory doors were thrown open
at Z o'clock and fifteen minutes later eve
ry foot of space was filled to the doors.
Not only We're. the aisles jammed, but
men were clinging on window sills high
up, and hanging in all sorts of impossi-
bic places. In both of the Cleveland
halls, as In most Of the other cities where
D Mr.. Bryan has spoken, the police ar
rangements were utterly inadequate.
The crowding tonight was almost as
great as at the jamestown meeting on
Saturday, and any sort of a stampede
would have rprecipitated a disaster
Workingmen wero IN large majority
at both meetings. They were free and
easy. peeling off their coats, singing,
and disporting themselves generally in
q goodnaturedly turbulent way An
arm holding a hammer, surmounted with
the words, 1.-THE friend of labor" was en-
hlazoned across the big transparency
.ewere ben" Coxey, late of the Common
veal army, and his lieutenant and SON.
ain-law, Carl Brown, whose appearance
on the platform, where they pre-empted
front seats, Drought down. a tremen-
dous howl, in response to which the
"a general" rose and bowed. The shirt
sleeved crowd attempted to induce Mr..
Coxey to speak, but failing in this lis
tened to the music of glee club and
sang The Star Spapgled Banner and
Marching Through Georgia in q many
thousand voiced chorus with thunderous
effect.
7t When Mr.! Bry an came down the stage
at s O'Clock, escorted by Mr.. l.. E. Holden
of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, he in
spired fierce cheer which continued for
three minutes, with the-waving of hats
and handkerchiefs, and which was con-
tinued all the time the temporary chair
man was trying to work in his speech.
The armory audience was the largest
Mr.. Bryan had addressed indoors, ex-
cept the one at Madison Square garden.
The Music hall crowd was half as
large, and none left the hall. The Music
hall crowd was entertained by local ora
tors during it's two and half hours of
waiting. In his speeches at both places
Mr.. Bryan devoted himself mainly to
financial questions.
Before his arrival at Cleveland, Mr..
Bryan made speeches at Chautauqua,
Mayville and Ripley, at the last place
talking to 1000 formArs gathered for the
picnic of the X. o. Il. M. Much of the
country Though which he passed today
seemed to be Republican in it's COM
plexion. At Madison the Republicans
turned out with badges. banners and
bass drum, cheering Mckinley and howl
ing at Bryan. But Ashtabula furnished
an enthusiastic crowd of 1000, partly
free silver Republicans
Mr.. Bryan opened mis- speech in the
armory with the following words:
What is the meaning of this enor-
NOUS outpouring of the people? No or
dinary occasion would produce this
scene; no ordinary campaign would
stir mems hearts as they are being
stirred today. Your presence, your en-
thusiasm, testify 20 the fact that this
year the people are thinking as they
have not thought before in recent years,
and well they may. In this campaign
two mighty forces are arrayed, and they
are engaged in struggle which means
much to both. When Mr. Carlisle in
1875 was discussing the money question,
he said: The struggle now going on
cannot cease and ought not to cease un-
til all the Industrial interests Of the
country are fully and finally emanci-
pated from the heartless domination of
eyndicates, stock exchanges and other
great combinations of money grabbers
in this country and Europe.
Have the people been emancipated
from the heartless domination of those
heartless syndicates and money grab
bers of. this country and Europe? (Cries
of mo! NOD No. For the last twenty
years that heartless domination has in
creased in it's severity, and within the
last three years that heartless domina-
I, tion has grown more and more intense,
until today the American people are con-
fronted with this proposition: Are the
American people able to govern them
I selves, or must this government be
Y thrown over to the syndicates to carry
on a scheme they think best for their
private profit?" (Cheers.)
The speaker at once took up the plat
forms Of the Chicago and st. Louis con-
'ventions, and asserted the custom Of
political parties in past years, in adopt
~ ambiguous anA meaningless plat