Iron County register., 1896-09-24
BRYAN ON THE ROAD.
Greeted by Enthusiastic Audiences
Everywhere
Daring n Fourteen HourE. journey BE.
tween st. Louis and Louisville, Marked
By q Score of Inpromtu Speeches
ETearfed Almost to Exhaustion.

carriage and taken to an open lot 1Ot
yards from where the train stopped
The lot was crowded to its outskirt,
with people. Two Bryan and Sewal
clubs arrived after Mr.. Bryan reached
the stand from which he made hii
speech and increased the gathering.
It is estimated that the crowd which
heard Mr.. Bryan at Evansville mum
6ered 5000 people, perhaps thousand
more. Cheer after cheer went up a:
Mr.. Bryan appeared on the stand, and
when he was presented by Col. Gil
zShanklin, national committeeman from
Indiana, the cheering was renewed.
On the way to the station the spirited
horses attached to Mr.. Bryan's car
riage became frightened and jumped
into the crowd. There was mo-
mentary panic among those who were
near the carriage and great scamper
for safety. One of the horses plunged
back and forward furionsly, getting
beyond the control of the driver. AT
this juncture Mr.. Bryan and those
with him jumped to the ground, just
as the horses were subdued by some
policemen.
Mr.. Bryan went over many of the
points discussed by him before.
An Escort of Five Hundred Mounted AIen.
HENDERSON, KY, Sept. 14.-Hender-
son presented a gala appearance in
honor of the democratic candidate.
Senator Blackburn and John w.
Gaines. democratic candidate for coz.
gress from the Nashville (Tenn.) dis
trict, spoke in Central park, where the
courthouse is situated, during the af-
ternoon, and the latter had just con.
cIuded when Mr.. Bryan arrived from
the station, escorted by 500 mounted
men who had ridden in from Union
county, 30 miles distant
Central park was crowded to it's
limits and estimates of the number
there ran as high as 10000. This did
not include several Thousand more who
were massed on the outside.
Ex-Congressman James T. Clay in
troduced Mr.. Bryan, who was received
with wild enthusiasm. He made Il
speech half an hour long and then
went over to another stand on the
edge of the park and addressed Sec
ond great assent mblage for 20 minutes,
concluding as follows:
a. believe that my chances of sue
cess are good, providing that I live
to election day. Laughter and ap-
plause.I The greatest danger that
have now. 1 think, IS that of being
killed by kindness"
at the conclusion of his remarks
the escort was reform and Mr..
d, Bryan returned to his train, cheered
along the way.
Tue train left Henderson at BIS.
An extra car furnished to the Ken.
lucky people accompanying Mr. Bryal
by the Louisville, Henderson & st.
Louis road, over whose tracks the trip
to Louisville was made, was attached
TO the special train at Henders on. 1t
was occupied by number of promi-
nent Kentucky democrats, including
Senator Blackburn, Ollie James, chair
man of the Kentucky delegation at the
Chicago convention, and Congressman
w. It. Ellis.
At the Home of Urey woodson.
OwENsBoRo, KY, Sept. IA stop
of ten minutes was made at Owens
boro. the home of Urey Woodson, ma
fional committeeman from Kentucky,
whose guest Mr.. Bryan W i'll be while
travelling through the state. A couple
of thousand people shouted with ali
their lung power when the candidate
appeared Ex-Congressman Ellis in
troduced Mr.. Bryan, who spoke
briefly.
Many people in the good-sized crowd
8t Hawesville, a little town on the
Ohio river, had miniature American
flags aud these they waved frantically
as Mr.. Bryan appeared on the rear
platform of his train. The candidate
responded with speech.
Enthusiasm was rampant at Clover
port, where the train halted a minute
or two. Nearly a thousand people
composed the gathering there. They
got few words.
At Irvington, ~ miles fnom Louis
vile. Mr.. Bryan said a few words to
several hundred peoZie...$Hee also ad-
dressed quite a gstherhg. at West
Point, where flaming jets of natural
gas formed the prinEipal illumination
in his honor. iSs.
GVaywOrn and Weary, the Tired Statesman
Reaches Louisville.
LOUISVILLE, KY, Sept 15.-Tired al
most to the point of prostration, after
a fatiguing journey of Il hours from
st Louis, his voice nearly gone from
the effort expended in q score of
speeches, Hon. w. J. Bryan reached
Louisville at $50 o'clock last night.
The day had been extremely hot, and
the wear and tear on the democratic
candidates system began to show
shortly after he crossed the Ohio into
Kentucky. He had not intended to
make many speeches, but the enthu-
siasm of the crowds at every station
where q stop was made carried him
away, and his resolution went for
naught. As consequence he had
hardly voice and strength enough left
on reaching Louisville to comply with
the requirements of his programme.
An enormous crowd cheered him on
his arrival at the Union depot In com
pany with Urey Woodson, democratic
central committeeman from this state;
Senator J. 5. C. Black burn, Congress
man John Allen, of Mississippi, and
Others of prominence.
Il was with difficulty that the cam
didate and the members of his party
were pushed through the bowling en-
thusiasts at the depot aud enabled to
enter the carriages in waiting. Chair
man JOHN ii. Headley and the local
reception committee met Mr. Bryan
there, and under their escort he was
taken through streets crowded with
cheering people to the Willard hotel.
There was mo;neutary wait aud
then the line of The procession, con-