The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-10-26
A VERY PLEASANT DAY
Big Crowds Present at Every
Stopping Place.
Nothing Can Stay the Enthusiasm of
the Thousands Who Flock to
Hear or See the Pet OF the People
at Every OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES VIII
Talk to the students of the State
College This Morning.

JACKSONVILLE. Ills, Oct. 2.-All
church-going Jacksonville turned out this
morning to see Mr.. and Mrs. William j.
BRYAN. and during most of the day the
residence OF DIR. Hiram K. Jones, where
they are stopping was surrounded by
curious people.
1t was in this old educational town that
Mr.. Bryan spent six years of his life as
student. two at whipple academy, and
the rest at the Illinois State college. Mrs
Bryan. too, was a pupil at the Jackson
vile female academy. and the aconasnt-
snce which eliminated in their marriage
began here. The candidate ana his vile
naturally anticipated a pleasant stay in
hi-..i lam Ar e-l ru 4itvi.ls anu .nvy nave
spent delightful Sunday, meeting old
friends and talking with them over their
college days.
MANY WE'RE CURIOUS.
Although Mr.. and Mrs. Bryan did not
reach Jacksonville until nearly O'Clock
this morning. after a run through the
night over the Burlington road from
Quincy, many people had waited up 10
see Item and to cheer the candidate.
Little rest had been allowed the nominee
in that fast ride. He was awakened
rwice. the first time TO make a m.unignt
speech 10 a big audience of torch
bearers, and shouters at Bluffs, and
again at Mount Sterling, where neither
the lateness of the hour nor the fact that
1t was Sunday could stay the enthusiasm
OF the Bryanltes there. the Jacksonville
people who awaited the arrival of their
former townsman were disappointed, for
- Mr. Bryan remained in his berth, and
I'D not leave the train until nearly y
O'clock this morning. With Mrs. Bryan
he went TO the house of DR.. Jones, and
later in the forenoon attended divine
service at the State Street Presbyterian
church. where the pastor, Rev. A B.
Morey, preached a sermon that had noth-
ing in it about silver or gold. The church
was crowded to the doors. A number of
small boys and some others who were not
SO small, all wearing strips of yellow rib
bcr- followed Mr.. and Mrs. Bryan from
their carriage into the building and gave
a suppressed hurrah for Mckinley.
TWO PERSONS OF INTEREST
-Four houses of worship including that
attended by Mr.. and Mrs. Bryan, oc-
cuoied the four corners of the streets
and the congregations of all these were
dismissed within a few minutes of each
other so that with the 500 or more peo-
ole who had been waiting outside for
the two most interesting persons in
Jacksonville to appear, State Street
Presbyterian church was surrounded by
quite a large assenblage as the candi-
date and his wife hurriedly made their
way TO an awaiting carriage. and were
driven back to the residence of their
host. Mr.. Bryan slept part of the day,
and the rest of his spare time received
old friends When he went out at dusk
accompanied by Mrs. Bryan to tea with
Mr. F. Dunlap, a Jacksonville banker
wifi: whom he had been associated in
local politics while a resident here, Dr.
Jones' house was the center of interest
for several hundred people, many of them
in carriages, who had waited patiently
for a long time to see the Democratic
nominee.
WILL TALK TO STUDENTS.
Tomorrow morning Mr.. Bryan will visit
the State college and probably talk to
q a he v-hp
he was an undergraduate. In the after
noon he will make a speech in the public
enclosure known as THE Square and at
5 will leave on his special train for
Alton. Many farmers drove into town
tonight, and the chances are that with
expected excursionists to augment the
Jacksonville people who want to near
Mr.. Bryan one of the biggest crowds that
ever gathered IN this town of colleges
will attend the political meeting in honor
OF the Democratic candidate