The record-union., 1896-10-22
Addresses Large Crowds, But Finds the
Country Full Of Sound Money Men.
Yellow Badges Very Prominent at All
the Stations.
The Largest Demonstrations at Ander-
son, RuShVille and Fort Wayne,
Where His Audiences Numbered
Many Thousands of People.

FORT WAYNE Qnd.), Oct 21.-The
orange insignia of the Republican colors
was met by William j. Bryan all
through Indiana from Richmond to Fort
Wayne to-day but he had large audi
enceS at every place where a stop was
made, and created a great amount of
enthusiasm. That stronghold of Repub-
licanism, Richmond, gave him his well
come to the Hoosier State, and prepared
him in a measure for the yellow fever,
as he called it, which naturally might
be expected to exist in the section
through which he passed, that has long
been noted for it's allegiance to the prin-
cipleS of the Republican party. How
ever, Mr.. Bryan had every reason to be
gratified with the demonstrations in his
honor, for the outpourings of people
were remarkable in point of numbers
and the enthusiasm shown.
Between midnight and the time he
concluded his second speech at Fort
Wayne this evening Mr.. Bryan spoke to
eighteen audiences. Two speeches We're
made at Richmond, three more at Fort
Wayne and one each at Clyde, Tiffin and
Bradford Junction, all in Ohio, and the
Indiana towne Of Cambridge City, Rush
vile, Newcastle, Munice, Anderson,
Alexandria, Summitville, Fairmount,
Marion and Bluffton.
One remarkable feature of the day
was the unprecedented gathering for
that place at the meeting he addressed
at Anderson, which was composed of
about % 600
The Indiana State Committee does not
intend to make Mr.. Bryan work SO hard
as he did in Ohio, and between Fort
Wayne and Terre Haute, the scope of
his labors tomorrow, he is scheduled
to speak at sixteen points only.
Mr.. Bryan spent the night at Fort
Wayne and will start out on his sec
ond and last day of his Indiana cam
paign at 4:30 o'clock tomorrow morn
ing.
A magnificent demonstra ton was
given Mr.. Bryan at Rushville. 1t was
hard to estimate the crowd gathered in
a big open field there, because of the
presence of dozens of carriages and
wagons forming deep fringe about the
immense throng solidly amassed around
the speakers stand, but between $4,000
and $1,000 is a reasonable calculation.
Mr.. Bryan's remarks We're vigorously
-
in his speech.
Newcastle was reached more than an
hour behind schedule time, and fur
nished an audience of between four and
five thousand, to which Mr. Bryan made
a few remarks.
AS at Richmond and several places in
Ohio during yesterdays trip he was con-
fronted by many Mckinley badges, but
hn rlint of Prya
their hats and Bryan ribbons on their
coats seemingly outnumbered their op-
posing fellow -townsmen.
Mr. Bryan referred to the trip General
Harrison is making through Indiana,
and added these words: 'EX President
Harrison was elected to the Presidency
on a platform that denounced Mr.. Cleve-
lands administration on the ground
that he had tried to demonetiZe silver,
but the ex-Presfdent to-day is stumping
this State trying to get the Republicans
to indorse Mr.. Cleveland's financial pol
icy His policy during the last admins
tration was worse on the money ques-
ton than during the first administra-
ton, but such a change has come over
the Republican leaders that they want
us to-day to submit to a policy which
say to you, my friends, that the only
reason for this change is that the money
influences wrote the Republican plat
form, and those influences are trying to
make the American people bend to a
foreign yoke and pay tribute to a foreign
deSpOtiSm."
Party feeling was running high In
Muncie when Mr.. Bryan arrived there.
William D. Bynum had an engagement
to speak late in the day, and the friends
of the well-known gold leader had dis
tributed with a lavish hand thousands
of orange -colored badges inscribed with
the names of Mckinley and Hobart and
Sound money, protection and prosper
itv." Most of the Bryan adherents, to
the number of 5000, were gathered at
the ball park awaiting his coming, but
the streets were crowded with Me-
Kinley people, male and female. There
had been rumors that questions would
be asked Mr.. Bryan at the park, and
tEat trouble was feared between the
opposing factions was evident from the
fact that hundreds of men, whether
wearing gold or silver badges, were
around with big clubs. A bowling
crowd of Bryan enthusiasts followed
hand as it was driven through the
streets followed by another contingent
cheering for Mckinley. There was
much disorder, and the several contin-
gents of seventeen little girls symbol
ical in their dress of the money ratio
as Bryan wants to establish it were
lost in the confusion
But although the yellow was pre-
dominant in the streets, the 5000 peo-
pie at the ball park left no doubt as to
their sympathies by the inscriptions
they bore and by their hearty cheers
A solid mass. every man having the
name Of Bryan pinned to his hat, faced
the nominee as he began his address, in
the course of which he said:
when / find a man who denounces
agitation and tries to stop public dis
cussion, 1 find a man who would feel
more at home under a monarchy than
he does in a republic where the laws
are made by the people. (Cheers) II
is because they know that the gold
standard will not stand the test of
discussion, and because they know that
the errors which lie behind it and the
failacies which are in the arguments
that support it will be discovered by
y, rei~ hot