The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-10-26
The Wonderful New York
World Correspondent
Describes In His Peculiar Elec-
trifying Language
LAST DAY
In Indiana When He Spoke to
10000 People.
Immense Crowds Almost Held
Him In Alteration.

The following from the pen Of James
Creelman. now the greatest living news
paper correspondent in the world, is a
wonderful description of Bryan's last
day in Indiana. 1t appeared in Fri
days New York World. which reached
this city Sunday:
Terre Haute Ind Oct 22-Hr B1-y-
ans second and last day on the great
central Indiana battlefield was a day of
desperate fighting from county to cOun-
ty, and tomorrow he will enter Illinois
to face the enemy in the last grand
assault
The young leader realizes tonight
that eleven short days lie between him
and the end of the most extraor-
binary economic struggle in American
history.
News reached him on the train to-
day that Mr.. Hanna's money is already
moving like a tide through Indiana and
that the Republican leaders are trying
to get Democrats to move out of their
districts so that they may lose their
votes.
Mr.. Bryan's soul seems filled with
the passion of the conflict. He is revO-
luton incarnate. Today he spoke to
more than $50 $50 persons, and tonight
Terre Haute is mOb-gloriOus- What
ever may be the result Of this terrific
campaign, NIr- Bryan has proved here,
in the very heart Of Indiana, that the
free silver idea has taken hold of the
common people.
AN INTENDING WAR THREAT
ENED.
All day he has declared that the war
Of money standards which has rent the
Democratic party will not end on cleo
ton day. Again and again he said
that Democrats who desert now can
never come back except after long pen
itence and modification. From sunset
until early morn bOnfires danced on
the night landscape.
He attacked Benjamin Harrison in
his own state. accusing him OF trying
to advocate q gold standard under the
cover of bimetallism- He dashed his
audience into madness by appealing to
them not to consent to foreign domino
ton in American finance
Tonight he told an audience of 70, OOO
people at Brazil that in a struggle of
sheer endurance the farmer could
stand the gold standard longer than
the wage Garner. This sudden Whisk
around was due to the presence OF hun
dreds of coal miners Mr.. Bryan be-
lieves that he will carry Indiana by a
large majority
BRYAN'S MARVELLOUS ENDUR-
ANCE.
The ferceness of the conflict in this
state was apparent everywhere as the
special train fed from district to dis
trict. Great meetings, professions and
barbecues were in progress and hun
dredS of orators were at work, ana IN
the midst Of all this thunderous confu-
sion Mr.. Bryan towers up born leader
of men. He may be defeated. but II ne
lives he will play great part IN the
immediate future. have WatcneQ MN
day after day, and he seems to grow
stronger and more self-reliant every
hour. Nothing depresses or daunts
him His marvellous voice seems in
destructible and his brain is tireless-
With demoralized and disorganized
party, embarrassed by thousand com
plications of Populism, MT Bryan
seems to understand that the result Of
this best trial of strength in Indiana
and Illinois depends upon himself and
he has concentrated all his powers IN
this one supreme effort to overcome the
almost irresistible forces in the field
This has been a day of color and
strife From the train windows the
pictures of Bryan and Mckinley could
be seen in alternate farm house win
dOWs. Great crowds Of men ana WoIn-
en- swept into the towns ana cues
where the multtudes roared about Mr..
Bryan's carriage and the rough fOadS
spraWling through the farms were
crowded with wagon loads Of Demo-
Gratis Hundreds of young girls with
silver spangled blue skirts SAT aslIlue
Of white horses at every stopping place.
Every white horse in Indiana seemed
to be in view today
CROWDS WE'RE DEMOCRATIC.
AS the train neared the western sec
ton of the state the crowds grew
larger and more purely Democratic. Mr..
Bryan and his wife threw bushels OF
/ flowers from the end of the train. At
times the demonstrations Of the crowd
reached the point of alteration. Men
who could not reach his hand touched
his coat. legs and feet Some of them
yelled till tears ran down their cheeks
Many were hysterical Mark the po-
litfcaI crus3 der as he moves along IN
the wild p-ocession-a tall man in a
well worn coat. with a dusty soft felt
hat pulled down over his travel stained
face his eyes burning like Goals of fire
and his head and his powerful, priest
like face radiant with hope and cour-
( age Around him swells the defiant
shrek of his followers that Wall street
shall not prevail against the people
/ ter. Huntington, Peru, Delphia, Frank
/ fort. Lafayette, Charlottesville, Green
/ Castle Brazil and Terre Haute. And SC
/ it will be in Illinois tomorrow It is an
/ irrecOncilab1e conflict