The age-herald., 1900-10-22
RAMBLER ARRIVED Y
 WITHOUT BRYAN
Presidential Candidate Missed
 Connection at Pittsburg
CROWDS AT THE STATIONS
People Were Disappointed, and Were Inclined to Doubt the Newspaper Nen Who Explain Situation.
 Incident at Oil City

Huntington, w. Va, October 21.-The
 private car Rambler, in which Hon. ". J.
 Bryan, the Democratic Presidential candi-
 date, is making his tour of the country, arrived here about s o'clock tonight but
 MT. Bryan himself was not a passenger on
 the car. It brought only the newspaper correspondents who usually accompany Mir. Bryan. In order to make connections it was necessary for the Rambler to leave Buffalo at Il o'clock last night. MT Bry- ans meetings in that city kept him so late
 that it impossible for him to leave at that hour and he directed that the car should proceed without him, intending to follow on later train in the belief that he could overtake the car at Pittsburg during the forenoon today. When the car w4.-- it's load of correspondents reached Pttsburg they discovered that Mir. Bryan had not arrived. They proceeded on their way to Huntington, and at Wheeling learned that MT. Bryan had concluded to attempt to come to Huntington by way of Columbus, O., with the expectation of reaching this city early tomorrow morning. At Wheeling the newspaper correspondents were met by a committee of distinguished West Virginia Democrats, headed by Col John T. McGraw, National Commit itteeman from that State, and Hon. John H. Holt, Democratic candidate for Governor. This comimttee occupied parlor car and they will accompany MT. Bryan throughout his West Virginia tour
 The fact that MT. Bryan was expected to cross the State today, though without any intention of making speeches, had ap- parentiy become generally known, for the railroad stopping places were filled with
 people in their Sunday clothes, who had
 come out to greet him. There was a large crowd at wheeling, SisterVile, St. Mary's,
 Parkersburg and, indeed, at all other points
 along the line of travel.
 At many places where the train did not
 stop the people were gathered in numbers
 and waved their greetings to the train as
 it passed by. At many of the stopping
 points the people were quite incredulous
 owing to the absence of MT. Bryan, and
 some of them insisted on going through
 his car and making search for him. There were a general expression of dis appointment over his non appearance. oil City, Pa, experienced the greatest disap- pointment at Mir Bryan's failure to come on the train announced The train reached l that city at O clock this morning, and de- 1 spite the early hour there were several hundred people gathered at the railroad station to welcome him there. The news paper correspondents were aroused from their slumbers by loud calls for Bryan and vigorous knocking on the car windows. Those of the correspondents who raised their sashes and spoke to the crowd were at first not very pleasantly received. The people had gathered there with the idea of getting Mir Bryan out in order that they might present him with immense bouquet which they had brought to the train. Evidently some of them believed | that the statement that he was not aboard was a mere subterfuge to relieve him from 1 going out to meet them. When one of the correspondents said We will see that he l gets the flowers" big man in the crowd responded in one of MT. Bryan's pet tn- terrogations, Who's we?'