The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1896-08-11
A CONTINUOUS OVATION
To the Democratic Candidate for
President.
HIS RECEPTION IN PITTsDURG.

It Amanes the inhabitants of the "smoky
CITY," aud Causes the Candidate to Re.
mark That the "wild East" Has Sue
ccedcd the ovid west"
PGTrSEURG, Aug. 1.-THE trip of Will
liam J. Bryan from Chicago to P%ittsburg
was a continuous ovation. At every sta
ton where the train stopped crowds Of
people We're in waiting TO greet the candi-
date. Wherever the train stopped long
enough TO permit it the Nebraska orator
was obliged to yield to demands for a
speech and to submit to a hand shaking
ordeal. The reception accorded Mr.. Bryan
In this city provesa fitting capshcaf of the
days triumph. 1t has excited the amaze
ment of the people of P%ittsburg, and the
joy that it has afforded Mr.. Bryan and the
redoubtable "Silver Dick" Bland has
manifested itself in their beaming features
since they struck the city limits.
The exceptionally large train on the
Pennsylvania Central, which it was al
most impossible to traverse during the
last 100 miles because of the numerous
committees and enthusiasts who had
boarded n spread themselves out over
the carriages, ran into the Pittsburg de-
pot at $3.50 p. m. When Mr.. Bryan emerged
from the train, in spite of the efforts Of
the large local committee TO carry out its
program, the crowd closed around hin
and it wa Il free for all fight from that
time on for every person in the Bryan
party except llr. and Mrs. Bryan and Mr..
and Mrs. Bland. When they entered their
carriages the relentless throng closed
around them and seemed to bear them
along at its will.
Through the various streets traverscd
no available space could be discerned.
Every foot Of ground along the way was
occupied by enthusiasts. When the Cen
trail hotel was reached Il Gordon Of police
was stationed at the main entrance and
formed a narrow passageway leading to
the staircase. No one was allowedto tread
it unless he could show unmistakable Gre
dentials. There were police on the stairs,
police in the halls, police at the dining
room door and everywhere else where men
and women might seek to go, and even at
the door,of Mr.. Bryan's room. While Mr..
and Mrs. Bryan were supping with "a COM
mittee of ladies and gentlemeuH the streets
resounded with the continuous clamor
from thousands of throats. Many march
ing clubs pierced the stubborn crowds,
amid showers Of pyrotechnics and a roar
that would have rivaled Niagara's thun-
ders.
The evening meeting had been an
nounced to occur at s o'clock in the Grand
Opera House and the Avenue theater,
kindred halls, side by side, and owned by
the same parties. Each hall will seat be-
tween :, 800 and 5000, and meetings were
to be held in each. Long before the hour
for opening the doors the entire street
front of these structures was packed full
along the entire block, and after the doors
had been opened and the structures We're
filed the crowd outside had suffered little
perceptible diminution.
A corps of about II hundred policemen
was on duty at the various entrances, and
in the course of the early evening there
was an incipient riot, in which one man
was severely beaten and some of the Of
ficers had their brass buttons torn off.
When Mr., and Mrs. Bryan and mem
bers of their party rode around from the
hotel and entered the first hall both Of
them were packed to their full standing
room capacity, and half who applied had
not been admitted. The crowd fingered
outside in noisy but peaceful ~disappoint-
ment, singing, cheering and burning red
fire, and a tolerable rain that came soon
after the speaking began diminishedit but
little, the street remaining full until the
meetings closed.
AT the first meeting Mr.. Bryan was in
troduced by Mr.. James Mills, editor of the
Pittsburg Post. In the course of his
speech, which was frequently interrupted
by applause, he said:
II thought it might be necessary in
coming so far towards the east to bring n
few Of our people to keep up the entkusi-
asm while l presented the truths set forth
in the Democratic platform. But after
/ nave seen a few audiences like this l
wondered if l might not take back a few
Of you to set an example of enthusiasm to
the people of the west. There is no more
wild west it is the wild east.
''When l left home l told them that l
was coming upon a campaign in what was
now considered the enemy's country, but
which we hoped would be our country be-
fore the campaign closed. Therefore l
have been more than gratiled to find that
it was not necessary to open the campaign
in the east it has already been opened
there. But l shall promise you this, that
in the progress of this campaign not a
single private in the ranks will stand
closer to the enemies guns than he in
whose hands is the standard.
1--WE are prepared to defend our plat
form. 1t presents, as We believe, those
policies which are for the best interests of
all the people, and we are not terrified be-
cause our enemies have sought to apply to
us epithets and hard names when they
find it impossible to oppose the positions
which we have taken, They shall not be
permitted to put us in the attitude of OPP
ponents to government, but we shall show
them that there is a difference between
defending a government and defending
the vicious legislation inaugurated by the
government for private ends.
Il have said that in this contest we have
a repetition of the contestof l776, and that
in this campaign, rs in that, II line win
be drawn between the patriot and the
tory, and when l say it l do not say it, my
friends, to criticize the man who believes
that this nation is not great enough to
legislate for its own people. He believes
1t honestly, and | recall your attention to
the fact that in the struggle of our fore
fathers for liberty there were those who
honestly bpliaVal that wa oupbt In ppptfpuu