Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-10-26
THE TOUR OF THE STATE DESCRIBE
ED AS A CONTINUOUS
MAD RUSH.
UNPRECEDENTED DISPLAY
OF KINDLIEST INTEREST.
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY TURNED
OUT AN IMMENSE
THRONG OF
QUIET. RESPECTFUL STUDENTS
TALK WELL SUITED TO THEIR PO-
SITION AND ASPIRATIONS
IN LIFE.

New Jersey, which closed here with six
meetings tonight, may be described
as mad rush. From the time he en-
tered Washington Park, opposite Phil
adelphia, until [he closed his last meet
ing here, he had made fifteen speeches.
The average of their duration was
greater than usual. He spoke in sue
cession at Washington Park, River
side, Burlington, Trenton, (twice);
Princeton junction; +. New Brunswick,
Elizabeth Marion and Jersey City, (six
times). His journey through the State
was a surprise to those accompanying
Mr.. Bryan, if not to him, for in few
States, if any, has he had larger or
more demonstrative audiences. His
meeting at Washington Park was al
most a record breaker in both respects
and his meetings in Trenton and his
reception in this city were only second
to the Washington Park meeting in
numbers and in feeling displayed.
Probably no candidate for the presi-
dency was ever SO much jostled about
as Mr.. Bryan was to-day. At most
stopping places the police found it i'm
possible to protect him from the hun
dreds, not to say thousands, of persons
who thronged his pathway and follow
ed him wherever he went
II have addressed a great many meet
ings of college boys, but l never had
a nicer meeting than this in my life"
This is what Mr.. Bryan said to a
number of
Princeton College Boys
who had followed him to his train
from his meeting place at Princeton
Junction this afternoon. He arrived
at the junction at half past five, and
spoke from slightly raised stand on
the green in he rear of the railroad
station. Included in the audience were
from a thousand to fifteen hundred of
the students of Princeton College which
institution is located three miles dis
tant from the junction. The meeting
was one Of the most orderly that Mr..
Bryan has had in his whole campaign
tour. There was not an interruption
from the beginning to end. When Mr..
Bryan arrived he was greeted with the
college yell and there was a similar
demonstration made on his departure.
His address there was entirely to the
students.
Mr.. Bryan was introduced as 1.-THE
next President of the United States"
Replying to it he said:
You are not compelled to believe
all that a presiding officer says. You
are not compelled to accept me as the
next president. or as ever a president,
but want you to believe me to be in
terested in all those things that make
for the good of our country, and If
am mistaken in my judgment, l con-
tinue, you will give me credit that I
shall give you, though l know many
OF you differ from me-the credit of
trying to find what is right and of
doing what l believe to be right, re-
CARELESS of the temporary consequences
chat may follow.
Senator Once Said,
who saves his country saves himself,
eHG all things saved do bless him;
who lets his country die lets all things
Gle, dies himself ignobly, and all things
dying curse him.
This is our country and we are in
tsrested in it because it is our country
and while we may differe in opinion
rs to the best course to pursue on par
hcular questions, we ought to agree
On one principle, and that is that we
should be more interested in what is
good than in what we may think to
be good; if we are in error we ought
to prefer the triumph of that which
is right rather than the triumph of
that which we may think to be right
if we are in error. 1t is because we
believe in the ultimate triumph of that
which We believe to be true that we
labor and wait
Il am not going to quote from what
have said am not going to present
to these Republican students my ideas
In my own words. | want rather to
leave with them ideas presented by
others in whom they do have conf
dence, and whom they have learned in
the past to respect I want to quote
what Daniel Webster has said in re-
gard to the effect of the unequal dis
tribution of wealth, such as we find
In this country to-day, such as we find
Increasing year by year, and as you
boys go out to make your impression
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