The representative., 1900-10-18
THE NEWS FROM INDIANA.


We have had a great many reports
from Indiana that 1t is certain to be
carried by Bryan in the approaching
election. No matter how black it may
look elsewhere, it is all right in Indiana.
Consequently when James B. Weaver
announced his intention to make a
series of speeches for Bryan in that
state, the timid gave the case up.'
The Populist Journal tells the result:
He sold himself to Bryan but, more shame
to him, he still called himself Populist
The Democrats saw opportunity to
capture the already bleeding and wounded
Peoples party by sending it's old leader
as decoy duck to his old followers.
They sent him and he came to Indiana
to make several speeches to Populists.
lism f1ourished in Indiana and that Bryan
ism was hated by the Populists.
He didn't know that stalwart POpulists
stood ready to combat every sentence of his
traitorOus utterances.
He knew nothing of this and fell. He
spoke once with confidence, the second time
with hesitation and third time detected and
beaten.
Then he quit
He was failure.
He falleQ In MS mission Tor Bryan.
He failed as Populist.
He left Indiana disgraced and humiliated
before the people he had come to deceive.
He is now in other fields.
When confronted by living answer to the
treason he sought to teach, he had no mes
sage to give to POpulists for he knew he
could be proved a traitor.
He has been driven from Indiana and by
Hon. Samuel w. Williams, true Populist,
who has remained faithful from the birth
of the party.
Then we have had glowing accounts
of the Bryan meetings in Indiana. The
following gives report of the Indian
apolis meeting, taken from the same
paper:
Although the Democrats confidently ex-
pected that the national gathering OF
Democratic clubs would prove to be great
event in the history of the party in In
diana the reverse was true and a frost of
the most blighting sort followed the at
tempt to arouse the enthusiasm OF the
! faithful. There were bands enough to fur
nish all the stirring music required-in fact,
the demonstration seemed top-heavy with
pected were lacking. .n Where thousands
were looked for only scattering delegations
of tens and twenties We're seen.
General Apathy, who has been a leading
paign, was in command Of the Democratic
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7 What-the affair lacked in the way of num-
bers the managers sought to supply with
noise and enthusiasm, but the slim crowd
wouldn't warm up. "a u
! A conservative estimate made by prom
inent hotel keeper who always gets his
share of Democratic trade, was that there
were not over 1000 visitors in the city at
tending the Democratic rally on Wednes-
day, and few If any more were to be ex-
pected to come later. ~ ,.f
To one not acquainted with the situa-
t1On 1t would have seemed that there was
host of visitors in the city, but according
to the actual count four -f1fths of the
strangers were in town to att /4d meetings
of the knights Of Pythias, Knights and La
dies of Honor the Factory Inspectors as
sociation of America and other smaller
gatherings besides the usual number of ex-
cursionists who take advantage of every
low railroad rate to Indianapolis. The in
dications are that the people are tiring of
the everlasting Bryan and his everlasting
follies.
There is no more show of Bryan car
rying Indiana than he has of carrying
Minnesota. Id.