Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-10-04
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WAS NOT GIVEN A FAIR DEAL
BRYAN'S FRIENDS INSIST HE WAS M
POSED UPON AT WICHITA.
Stand Receipts, and settlement Made
on the Basis of Attendance of
24.OOO-NO Complaint Made by the
Silver ChampiOn-Whnt the Direct
Ors Say About 1t.
Special to the Kansas City Times.

Special to the Kansas City Times.
Wichita, Kan, Oct. 3-Alleged breach of
faith on the part of the State Fair asso-
ciaton toward William ]. Bryan. who lee
tured here last week has aroused no small
measure of comment No complaint has
been made by MIR. Bryan, but his friends
insist that he received only a portion of
what he was entitled to under his con-
tract.
Mr.. Bryan was allowed S2,400 for his two
speeches. He was given a check for $1,000
for his afternoon speech and his part of
the door receipts at the night meeting in
the Auditorium was SiO0. If Mr.. Bryan
got one-third of all the receipts. as was ap-
parently the contract, he would nave re-
ceived not less than 5000 for his days
work; but it appears he got no share OF
the grand stand receipts.
A member of the Board of Police Com
missioners told u representative of The
Times that fully 5000 persons were on the
grand stand who paid % cents each for
the privilege, and that the association did
not divide this sum with Mr.. Bryan. 1t
appears that the invariable rule Of Mr..
Bryan is not TO speak anywhere, under
any circumstances, where it will cost the
public more than % cents to hear him.
At several fairs he forced the management
to reduce the price of admission from so
to 25 cents before he would consent to
speak at ALL
Deceived as TO the Grand Stand.
When he viewed the grand stand at Wich
ita Friday he asked somebody If the peo-
pie in it had to pay. The person addressed
sought the information from a member of
the association, and this member in ques
ton is quoted as saying:
Yes, we have charged admission to the
grand stand. but for Coos sake don't let
Bryan know it,
This information was given to repre-
sentative of The Times. who was on the
grounds, by Police Commissioner Joseph
furnish of Wichita.
A. C. Jobes, treasurer of the association,
when asked about it, said that an admis-
sion fee was charged to the grand stand,
but he thought Mr.. Bryan didn't know
anything about it. as he had objections,
long before expressed. to such thing.
Mr.. Jobes did not seem to want to say
much about the financial dealings between
| the association and Mr.. Bryan. Neither
| did anybody else connected with the fair.
Baker B. Herndon. president of the asso-
| citation, was asked by Times correspond
ent regarding the matter. and he simply
what was done" Mr.. Herndon certainly
must have been very busy or he would
have known, twenty-four hours after the
! thing as the payment of % cents each by
| 6Oc0 persons had occurred or whether Mr.
| Bryan had received his share of it.
Secretary Toler NOn-CommittnI.
When Secretary Toler was asked how
much the fair association had paid Mr..
Bryan. he simply said: Well we gave
| him as high as $3.50 anyway, besides our
Charles Joseph. who sold tickets to the
fair grounds, told Times o eorrespondenIt !,
] that he knew there were 24eeO tickets sold
| at the main entrance. and he thought that
| at least 5000 persons jumped over the
| fences and that several thousand passed
| in on passes and in other ways without
| paying.
| Postmaste Fred Cooper of Lyons said
when he went into the fair grounds he had
| a ticket the number of which was $1,000.
| 1t is quite likely that settlement was
made with Mr.. Bryan on the basis of the
| tickets taken up at the gates and not on the
| basis of the tickets sold, for, 1t appears.
| those who sold tickets in the city could not
| tlement was made with Mr. Bryan. If this
is the case. then Mr.. BRYAN could not have
received within Sl,cgJ OF What he was actu-
| ally entitled to, as thousands went through
| the gates who had tickets that. owing to the
great rush, were lot taken up.
Mr.. Bryan was satisfied with what he re-
than Mark Hanna. Mckinley and those
| others who talk so much about it. He car
ries no business manager with him, but
trusts altogether to the honesty of those
receipts, and it is not recorded anywhere
that he has ever expressed dissatisfaction.
He seems to have as much confidence in the
people the people have in him.
| The State fair was Bryan and Bryan
alone. 1t would have been a great failure,
financially and otherwise. without him.
| That is admitted on all sides. For years the
fairs of Wichita have been unprofitable en-
terprises and several of them could not
pay the purses for the races or the premi-
ums to exhibitors. This year everything
will be paid in full, and Bryan can be
thanked for it. All the privileges made
money and lots of it. AS an evidence of the
the refreshment privilege" sold on thai
day $500 bottles of beer.