Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-10-22
INDIANA is ABLAZE
AND BRYAN ENTHUSIASM RUNNING HIGH
Efforts of the yellow Fellows to Counterfeit
1t Are of Little Ayail-There Are Great
.,s... Gatherings Everywhere.

Muncie, Ind, Oct. PA magnificent
demonstration was given Mr.. Bryan at
Nashville. 1t was hard to estimate the
crowd gathered, but between $4,000 and
$4,000 Is a reasonable calculation Mr..
Bryan's remarks were vigorously cheer
ed. He brought out no new features in
his speech.
New Castle furnished an audience of
between 1000 and 5000, to which Mr.. Bry-
an made few remarks.
AS at Richmond and several places in
Ohio during yesterdays trip, he was con-
fronted by many Mckinley badges. but
those who wore pictures of Bryan on
their hats and Bryan ribbons on their
coats seemingly outnumbered their OPP
posing fellow townsmen. Mr.. Bryan re-
ferred to the trip General Harrison is
making through Indiana, and added
these words: "Ex-President Harrison
was elected to the presidency on plat
form that denounced Mr.. Cleveland's adj
ministratfon on the ground that he had
tried to demonetize silver but the ex-
president today is stumping this state
trying to get the republicans to indorse
Mr.. Cleveland's financial policy. His poll
cy during the last administration was
worse on the money question than during
the last administration, but such a
change has come over the republican
leaders that they want us today to sub
NIT to a policy which they denounced
eight years ago. But say to you, my
friends, that the only reason for this
change. is that the money influences
wrote the republican platform and those
influences are trying to make the Ameri-
can people bend to foreign yoke and pay
tribute to foreign despotism."
At Muncie.
Marion, Ind, Oct. 21-Party feeling
Bryan arrived there this afternoon. Will
liam d. Bynum had an engagement to
speak late in the day, and the friends of
the gold leader had distributed thousands
of orange colored badges inscribed with
the names of Mckinley and Hobart. Most
of the Bryan adherents, to the number of
5000, were gathered at the ball park await
ing his coming, but the streets were
crowded with Mckinley people, male and
female.
But though the yellow was predomi-
nant on the streets, the 5000 people at the
ball park left no doubt as TO their sympa-
thies by the inscriptions they bore and
by their hearty shouts. 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 l find a man who denounces
agitation and tries to stop public discus
sion, find a man who would feel more
at home under monarchy than he does
in republic where the laws are made by
the people. 1t 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 fall
lacies which are in the arguments that
support it will be discovered by public
discussion, that they condemn public dis
cussion and attempt to quiet the people
and compel them to accept without pro-
test financial policy which Wall street
demands that the American people shall
submit to-" (Cheers)
An enormous assemblage was at Ander-
son, gathered in a natural amphitheatre
near where the train halted. 1t number
ed about $500 people and showed great
enthusiasm.
Good-sized crowds at Alexandria, Sum-
mitville and Paramount heard short
speeches from Mr.. Bryan, and at $40 the
candidates train reached Marion, where
5000 people heard him briefly from the
rear of the train. Numerous delays along
the route made the train nearly two
hours late, and the forty minutes sched-
uled for Marion were cut to fifteen.