The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-10-30
A BIG DAY FOR BRY AN
THE STATE OF new JERSEY TURNS
OUT To WELCOME HIM
TOUR THROUGH THAT STATE
One Grand Ovation From Beginning To
End-From Philadelphia, Where he
Makes a Short Speech, He Passes
h State to Jersey City,
Where He Closes With Six Speeches.
Wild Enthusiasm and Large Crcwds
Greet Him Everywhere

Philadelphia, October 25.-Wiuiam
Jennings Bryan arrived in this city at
9:25 o'clock this morning from Will
mington, Del, where he spent the
night, after his big trip through a por-
ton of Maryland and Delaware yes
terday. Mr.. Bryan was escorted by
the democratic city committee of Phil
adelphia.
When he arrived 1t the Broad Street
station of the Pennsylvania railroad,
he was greeted by a mass of people
that damned the big train floor so
completely that there was scarcely
room for his party to make it's way
to the street. The streets surrounding
the station were also crowded with
:. thousands of people curious to see the
candidate.
At IL O'Clock Mr.. Bryan was driven
to the office of The Philadelphia Times.
He was met by Colonel A. K. Mcclure,
the veteran editor of that paper and
escorted to a balcony on the second
floor OF the building. Thousands of
people W the streets and cheer
ed him. Mr.. Bryan was ~roduc by
Colonel Mcclure.
Trenton, N. j., October 25.-Mr. Bry-
an made two speeches in Trenton, the
first in the Taylor opera house and the
second at an open air meeting. He
was splendidly received at both places.
Jersey City, October 25.-The first
day of Mr.. Bryan's tour of Jersey
which closed here with six meetings
tonight, may be described as a mad
rush. From the time he entered Wash
ington Park, opposite Philadelphia,
until he closed his last meeting here
he had made fifteen speeches. The
average of their duration was greater
han usual. He spoke in succession
at Washington Park, Riverside, Bur-
lington, Trenton, 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 almost a record breaker in
both of these respects, and his meet
ings in Trenton and his reception in
this city were only second to the Wash
ingtOn Park meeting in lumber and
in feeling displayed.
Probably no candidate for the presi-
dency was eve SO much jostled about
and pushed around in n days time
as Mr.. Bryan was today. AT most
stopping places, the police found it
impossible to protect him from the
l. Gus. u ~ say IlooooiAuo VI
persons, who thronged his pathway
and followed him wherever he went.
Il have addressed great meetings of
college boys, but 1 never had a nicer
meeting than this in my life" This is
~N;hat Mr.. Bryan said to a number OF
the Princeton college boys who had
followed him to his train from his
meeting place at Princeton Junction
this afternoon. The meeting was one
of the most orderly that Mr.. Bryan has
had in his whole campaign tour. There
was not an interruption from begin
, ming to end. When Mr.. Bryan arrived
he was greeted with the college yell,
and there was a similar demonStra-
ton made upon his departure. His
address there was entirely to the stu
dents.
Mr.. Bryan's train arrived at Marion
a suburb of Jersey City, at S:15 O'Clock
and he was driven, after a brief meet
ing at thai place, to st. JOseph'S hall
his first stopping place in Jersey City
At Marion Mr.. Bryan was received by
committees from the various jersey
Gil ward clubs and by a throng OF
people who filled all the available space
in the vicinity of the depot.
Mr.. Brya made his tour of the Jer-
Sey metropolis in a barrouch drawn by
four spirited black horses and he was
escorted by a marching club of Severa
hundred young men. The tour cover
Ou " "AVS o1S
not come to an end until near midnight
When he concluded he went to Hobok'
en-, where he spent the night in order
that he might be there for the frs
meeting tomorrow morning, which i:
to take place there.
The line of the national candidate:
progress was marked everywhere by
loud acclaimS on the part of the PEG
pie and the liberal discharge of fire
works. Everywhere he was accompa
MED by a dozen stalwart policemen
who kept at a distance the crowd which
everywhere seemed disposed to pres!
in and embrace him. The street!
were crowded and man.
houses were brilliantly lighted unit
late at night in honor of the occasion
The halls at which speeches were mad,
a were all crowded to their utmost ca
pacity. Mr.. Bryan'S speeches wer'
- necessarily brief, but in each Of then
he found opportunity to express hi
views upon the subject agitating tn
voting public