The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-08
Instead of Winning Votes for the Sill
vcy Cause, He Has Driven wav-
erers to the other Side.
HIS SPEECHES TOO RADICAL
WHAT HE SAID AT WORTHWHILE
AND HAMMOND YESTERDAY.
Coercion FaIsehOOds Repeafed and
ToiIers Reminded They May Vote
in Secret as They Please.
;pecial to the Indianapolis journal.

Special TO the indianapolis journal.
CHICAGO, Oct. w. J. Bryan, the
Popocratic candidate, completed his speech
making in Indiana this evening, when he
spoke at Hammond The boy orator" en-
tered the State at Jeffersonville Tuesday
morning, and passed out of it tonight
when he crossed the Illinois line in the
suburbs of this city. He made numerous
speeches in the two days and addressed big
audiences, but it is doubtful If he any
votes for his cause. On the contrary, Re-
publicans say his radical talk in Indiana
as in other States, has driven many waver-
ing Democrats into declaring for Palmer or
Mckinley.
1t is a fact that Mr.. Bryan has little of
the peace-naking qualities in his character.
His speeches are combative and assertive,
not argumentative, and his conclusions are
never logical He has all the tricks of the
shyster lawyer at his command, and these
he uses to delude unthinking people When
his utterances are analysed and shorn of
their clap-trap expressions and bald, I'M
supported assertions, there is nothing left
but pet stock phrases that have become
stale by daily reitcration. One of his char
acteristics is his ability to appear earnest
in whatever he says, but to the close OBJ
server the guse of earnestness is easily
penetrated 1t is this power to appear sin
cere and earnest that makes Bryan a dan
gerous man: that permits him to sway peo-
pie who do not stop to consider the mean
ing of the speakers words.
A sound-money Democrat said to your
correspondent while Mr.. Bryan was speak
ing at Kokomo to-day: There IS an in
sincere ring to Mr.. Bryans voice that can
only be detected by close listening. He is
good actor and would be a dangerous
man If at the head Of a mob. His jealous
ness is so well played that he often has the
look of enthusiast. especially when he
is denouncing the gold bugs and employ
ers of labor. / do not believe the insinua-
items that his mind is unbalanced, although
/ admit that in his speeches he displays
some of the cunning of a mailman. He IS
simply shrewd demagogue."
Several incidents of Mr.. Bryan's trip to-
day are worth noting. At Noblesville many
of the women and children and few men
wore lunches of golden rod and Mr.. Bry-
an made use of the incident. At Upton q
few women whose husbands are dyed in the
wool Popocrats provided the orator with a.
bunch of roses. When Kokomo was
reached there we're more Republicans in
sight than Popocrats, despite the fact that
the Bryan party managers had moved al
most heaven and earth to drum up mon
ster crowd. Workingmen at Decatur and
other towns had been offered free trans
portation to Kokomo. and when it was
found few cared to make the trip, the
promise of free meals was held out 1t is
true there was big crowd at Kokomo-
estimated at eight thousand--but over half
the people were Republicans. wearing yell
low badges and shouting for Mckinley.
At Hammond, where the crowd was
swelled by people from Chicago, there
a crush about the stand and five or six
people were injured. At the conclusion of
his speech there Mr.. Bryan came to this
city and soon left for Burlington TO fill an
engagement.