The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1896-09-23
D.SARRANGEMENT
VI his Programme Causes NJ
Bryan to Lose Needed sleep
AND DISAPPOINTED MANY PEOPLE.
ihe Csndidats's Hands Are Sore am
innamsd BY Too Much Shaking
with His Vigorous Admirers
Along His Route.

NEWARK, Del, Sept. 2l.-With nj.
plans Tor a good rest ia Washingtor
oisarranged by the action Of the Dsla
ware escort committee, William ]
bryan started out from Baltimore al
o.sS a. H. for Dover, Del, to ill an en-.
gagement to speak in the afternoon
1t was bad beginning of the week,
campaigning from a physical stand
point. MIR. Bryan could have
remained over night in Wash.
lngton and have taken a tr,ir
from there at 7:5n a. m., that vould
have brought him to Dover in plenty
oil time. But the Delaware committee
toid him he would be obliged to 90 tc
baltimore last night and take the 60,
pennsylvania railroad train to oblige
people at Porter's station, Del, a place
that would have been omitted from
the itinerary il he had gone on the lat.
ter train.
MIR. bryan was up at five o'clock.
after few hours of sleep, lie left
the Carrollton hotel in Baltimore IN
company with Josephus Daniels, ma.
tlonal committeeman from North Car.
DINA, who will accompany him TO New
England, and John +. Salisbury and
Richard X. Kenney, the Delaware
escort committee, proceeded in car.
riage to the Union station and
boarded the Pennsylvania train leav.
ing at $50. The first incident OF
the day was at Havre de Grace, where
a score of people boarded the day
coach in which Mr.. Bryan was sitting,
aud shook the candidates sore and in.
famed hands.
AT Perryville, just across the Susque-
hanna river, and at Northeast, more
people greeted him in the car. The
first cheer of the day was given at Elk.
ton, reached at SILL, where about fifty
were in the crowd. At nearly every
station somebody explained to Mr..
Bryan that his early coming would
disappoint many people who were rely.
ing on adherence to the schedule which
the Delaware committee had caused to
be changed
AT Newark, Del, the candidate
changed TO a little branch line that
carried him to Porters station, six
miles away. Some Delaware college
boys at Newark gave him an original
Bryan yell, and Mr.. Bryan went out on
the platform and shook hands with
them. When Mr.. Bryan reached
Porter's he found not the hundreds
of excursionists on whose account
he had been persuaded to lose
his nights rest, but the members of
the Dover reception committee. 1t
was for their sake that Mr.. Bryan had
been routed out Of bed and rushed to
an early train before his eyes were
fairly open in the belief that he
would dsappoint great crowd IL
he did not make the connection
Tor Porter's. The journey from Por-
ler's to Dover was made over the
Delaware division of the Pennsylvania
lie was accompanied by the
Dover reception committee and dele
rate from the Young Mems Democratic
Hub OF Wilmington. Among those in
he Dover committee were l.. Irving
Handy, democratic candidate for con-
yress; ex-Gov. Robert J. Reynolds and
,x-Secretary of State John d. Haw-
sins. Middletown had out brass
oand and about 900 people.
Mr.. Bryan made his first little speech
II the day there. 1t had just bit Of
rony in It. lie said that every Gem
nunity entered was very solicitous
Ibout his voice and anxious for him to
peak there and not to speak any
where else. lie intended, he said, to
ave his voice as much as possible and
Ieep 1t all through the campaign, and
he wanted each OF his hearers to make
silver speech at the polls on election
lay. The crowd cheered as the train
rev out.
Ex-Gov. j. P. Cochran joined Mr..
bryan at Middletown. There were
lore cheers at Clay ton, but Mr.. Bryan
i'd not make speech
Mr.. Bryan has ascertained definitely
hat he would have to make two ad.
resses in Brooklyn, instead of one,
nd that the speech scheduled for
Wednesday next had not been post
oned until September 20. The con-
usion about the matter was caused by
he arrangements for the second
peech on the latter date, after Mr..
,ryan's return from Maine.
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