The San Francisco call., 1897-06-06
HOW BRYAN WILL
nDO" THE STATE
He Will Be Heard in
Southern California
First.
A Grand Procession, Reception
and Serenade to Mark HIS
Advent Here.
Committees Now BusiIy Engaged in
PERI, citing All N cessary
Arrangements.

Two committees met yesterday to con-
fer and take appropriate steps for the re-
ception in this City and vicinity of the
Hon. William J. Bryan, the silver
tongued orator, who is to be received in
San Francisco on July Z.
The reception committee, of which W.
W. Foote was chairman and Sam Rucker
secretary, met in the Marble-room of the
Palace Hotel at IL O'Clock. There was
quite an attendance of prominent Demo
Gratis and others interested in the cause of
silver. Among those present were Will
liam Craig, General Tom Clunie, E. E. P.
Troy, Michael Kane, Robert Thompson,
]. ]. Dwyer, Warren B. English. Thomas
V. Gator, Congressman Mcguire, Eugene
f. Deuprey, James H. Barry, Barry BALI
win, ex-Judge Robert Ferral, a. D. Lee
man, Registrar Hinton, Louis Me zger,
ex- Collector Welborn, Harry E. Wise, P.
NJ. Wellin, Robert NJ. Fitzgerald, A. S.
Wardell, E. d. McCabe, Samuel Braun
hart, Chairman William Alvord. Frank
II. Gould, Hon. W. w. Foote, Sam
Rucker, Walter B. Slradley, Rudolph
Herold and John McMullin.
Chairman Foote read several communi-
cations. He said that while Mr.. Bryan
would reach Sacramento on July 3, be
was first to 60 to Los Angeles as the guest
of tbs Silver Republican CLUB. This
club, he said, had induced Mr.. Bryan to
come to the State.
John McMullin of Fresno who was pres
ent, stated that Mr.. BRYAN would be met
in Sacramento by the Fresno and Stock
ton mittee with the special car that
had been provided for him by the Demo-
cratic State Central Committee. COM
mittee of seven consisting of I. Ii. Gould
. ri chi
Max Pepper, Eugene Deuprey, John Mark
! lev, Gavin McNab and NJ. Biggs Jr, was
appointed to make definite arrangements
| for Mr.. BRYAN. Another committee con-
sisting of Charles d. Lane Louis Metz
| ger, ]. J. DwyeT Congressman Mcguire.
Judge Craig, General Thomas Clunie and
w. w. Foote, was selected from the gen.
eral committee to arrange for the finances.
The com plete itinerary oil Mr.. Bryan while
in this State has been fully arranged and
Is as follows:
He will arrive at Sacramento on the
Central Pacific overland on the morning
of July 3, where he will be met by the
Fresno and Stockton central committee
men and escorted to the private car
where he will be provided with brea Kfast
At IL o'clock he will speak at Sacramento,
after which he will proceed 10 Fresno, de-
livering short addresses at Modesto and
Mere ed from the car plo tform.
At Fresno he will leave his special car,
remaining at that point to speak in the
evening. From there he will go direct to
San Diego, where he will be heard al Z 80
o'clock on the morning of July 5.
The same day he will proceed to Los An
Reles, where he is billed for an afternoon
and evening discussion on the silver ques-
ton under the auspices of the Bryan Sill
yer Club. Bakersfield will hear him on
the morning OF July 6, Tulare in the after
noon, the next stop being at Alameda.
n Il Il
address at Aiameda, at Oakland at II
O. clock noon, and he will be heard in this
City at Woodward's Pavilion at s O'Clock
the same night.
1t has been decided that after Mr..
Bry ans address in Oakland, in order 20
prevent the crush on the ferry boat that
would bring him across the bay, TO en-
gage tug for that service, the passengers
of which will be confined exclusively 10
Mr.. Bryan and party, the reception COM
mittee and newspaper representatives.
When the distinguished party arrives
on this side OF the bay, public reception
will be given at Mr.. Bryan's quarters at
the Palace Hotel until 5 o'clock. Att
an escort will form at the hotel, consist
ing of the lroquois Club, the Flambeau
Silver Club, political organizations and
public officials, who Will conduct the
speaker, preceded by brass band and
made visible by a continuous stream of
fireworks, to the pavilion.
When his address is over a serenade will
be rendered him by the largest band ever
brought together in the City, the selec-
tions to be of National character.
MIR. Bryan will be at San Jose on the
morning of July s, at Sacramento in the
evening and at midnight will take the
Oregon express, showing hlmsel at Red
Bluff on the following mornIn- and speak
ing at Redding while the train stops
Thereafter he Will be in the hands of the
Oregon silverites, who have arranged to
meet him at the State line.
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