The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-12
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great cry Of speech went UP. But Mr.
Bryan pointed TO his throat and shook has
head.
Just in the midst of the fast and furious
handshaking in progress and just as Mr.
Bland had started a speech, the car was
shifted again. Fighting, shouting pushing
with might and main, the people in the
throng around the day car sought to re-
gain their advantageous positions. Hun
dredS Of them were struggling on the track
between the car in which Mr.. Bryan was
and the rest of the train. AS they saw the
coach bearing down upon them almost a
panic ensued in the endeavOr to get out
or harm way. Men seemed to leap over
the heads Of others, and some went down
but nobody was injured and the big as
semblage, or rather the male part Of il
made another dash toward the tsl
smooth-faced man who looked ten years
older than when he left Chicago Sunday
night.
Mr. Bryan stood on the stems of car
ana reached out both hands to be grasped
by hundreds Of extended fists. His white
nat had been displaced by a black skull
cap that gave him a priestly appearance.
While he shook hands at the rate of sixty
a minute for each hand, MIR. Bland tried
to talk about the great issue Of the cam
palgn, but his voice was lost i'm the shouts
OF those around the car. At last the train
moved away, and Mr.. Bryan, with a re-
lieved look, went back TO his drawing
room.
Barring the shifting process, the Bryan
reception at Lancaster was quite as wild
ly interesting. The station was crowded
with people TO the number of 200 Mr.
Bryan stood on the rear platform Of his
car, which had been returned to its or
lginal position at the end of the train
The crowd shouted all the time, and there
was constant struggle to get near the
nominee. Mr.. BANDS speech was again
lost. The only people who did not an
pear anxious to join in the grand rush for
NahFa Is
the women standing at the other end of
the platform and the members of the
brass band who had been engaged to play
patriotic airs, and We're fulfilling their
contract without intermission. The yell
ing of the audience which while constant
had not been united concentrated itself
into one last hurrah as the train moved
away No further stop was made until
Philadelphia was reached.
At Philadelphia there was a crowd Of
5000 pushing, surging, perspiring gath
cred behind the iron gates barring the en-
trance to the trains in the Pennsylvania
railroad station. A noticeable feature of
the crowd was its make up. 1t was es-
senually crowd Of the plain people:
the wOrkingman, the mechanic and the
laborer. The pressure became so strong
that men and women caught in the crush
were in danger of being trampled under
foot, and the railroad officials, to relieve
the pressure, threw open the gates and
form. With wild rush the crowd pushed
through, and reckless OF constantly shift
ing trains, risked life and limb upon the
tracks.
The democratic city committee, headed
by Chairman John Curley, We're in wait
ing to welcome Mr.. Bryan on his arrival,
but as the train pulled into the station at
$50 O'Clock, the crowd, with a cheer, made
a wild rush, and the cOmmitte was
sWamped in the human tide and swept
away. Before the train stopped the crowd
was surging up the side of the last car,
and those in the front swung upon the
steps at the risk of their lives. Cheer
after cheer went up as Mr. Bryan ap-
peared on the back platform, and the
crush was Terrific to get near him.
Mrs. Bryan stood beside her husband
and bowed and smiled as some enthusiast
in the crowd held up to her a bouquet of
roses. Mr.. Bryan leaned over the rail Of
the platform and shook all the outstretch-
ed hands in reach. To cries for speech,
the tired nominee could only shake his
mead and raise a protesting hand.
In the meantime the city committee had
succeeded in forcing its way into the car
and none too soon, as after a stop of nine
minutes, the train pulled out for New York
amid the cheers of the surrounding mob.
Chairman Curiey then greeted Mr.. Bryan
and wished him success, and expressed re-
gret that his stay in Philadelphia was so
brief as otherwise the committee would
have arranged for fitting reception. Mr..
Bryan responded briefly, and then sank
weartly into seat.
Mrs. Bryan was presented a beautiful
bunch of roses, the gift of the superin-
tendents of the sub-postoffices of Phila-
delphia.
Mr.. Bryan had requested that the train
not stop at Trenton a he was complete
ly worn out, but as the train was a reg
ular, and was scheduled 10 stop, the
railroad company could not grant the re-
quest. 1t did the next best thing how
ever, and kept the platform clear of all
but couple of hundred people, who in
some way got through the gates.
The train stopped only two minutes at
Trenton, but in this time Mr.. Bryan shook
hands from the platform with all those
in waiting.
The trip from Trenton to New York
was made without special incident except
at Newark.
Elizabeth turned out several hundred
who cheered Justify during the half min
ute the train stopped there When Den
mark was reached a turbulent mob rush
ed toward the train, cheering like mad
thousand or more pressed into the en-
closure between the train, and the guard
rail Those behind pushed and showed
until those in front broke into a run out
of sheer self protection, and on a rapid
disOrderly trot, men and boys ten deep,
went past the platform where Mr.. Bryan
was standing, making vain endeavors in
the quick progress to grasp his hand. The
cheerings of those in this unchecked hu-
man stream, and of the great crowds in
quieter positions, was continuous. Mr.
Bryan kept both hands working con-
stantly.
Sky rockets and roman candles were
fired and red lights burned, and altogether
the scene was one Of the widest enthu-
siasm.
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