The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-15
HEARST WAS NOT THERE,
FAILED TO APPEAR WITH
BRYAN At EVANSVILLE
Would-Be President Did Not Even
Deign to Explain His Absence
from the Pocket"
MEETING WAS A FROST
Though Mr.. Bryan Did His Bes.
to Soothe the Disappointed
Democrats.
Staff correspondence Of the Journal.

staff Correspondence OF the Journal.
EVANSVILLE. Ind. Jan. IA. Lost.
strayed. or stolen. one Democratic presi-
Dental aspirant. sometime member of Con-
gress and proprietor of various and sundry
newspapers. When last heard of he had
proposed TO bring his boom to Evansville
to be formally launched under the direc-
ton of William ]. Bryan. of Nebraska.
who has had much experience in handling
booms.
William Randolph Hearst not only failed
to put in an appearance here for the demon
s~tration in which he was TO divide hon.
ors with Colonel Bryan. but he omitted
to send his regrets or a notice of his change
of plans. AS a result of his delinquency
there were several hundred sorely disap-
pointed Democrats in Evansville tonight.
and one in particular, William Reister,
chairman of the committee on arrange
ments. who aged several years within a
few hours. The crowd wanted Hearst. Mr..
Reister had promised that Hearst would
be on exhibition, consequently it was up
to Mr.. Reister to produce the star attrac-
ton or give a satisfactory explanation of
his failure to do so. He was unable TO do
either. Hearst did not show up, nor send
word of his whereabouts. nor could Mr..
Reister elicit a reply to the numerous tele-
grams he began firing into Washington
late this afternoon. 1t was as if the earth
had yawned and swallowed up the journal
Observation-Disclosures.
As a consequence the meeting which had
been so widely heralded was largely a frost.
Mr.. Bryan was on hand-he never fails to
keep an appOintment-and he did his ut
most to. fill the programme. but the crowd
had gathered primarily under the promise
of a new attraction, a novelty In the line
of national candidates, and it could not
be appeased altogether by the oratory
of the Nebraskar and his stories of "coun-
tries and peoples recently discovered by
me-"
H THREE JACKS" ABSENT.
Evans Hall. where the meeting was held.
was crowded to overlooking and the audi
ence was typical to those Mr.. Bryan draws
wherever he goes and of those that might
be expected to turn cut for Hearst. There
was a notable absence of Gold Democrats.
and especially of those who have been in the
saddle here for years. such as the "'Three
Jacks" Jack Nolan, former district chair
man. Jack Spencer. former candidate for
Congress, and Jack Brill.
Mr.. Reister presided and in calling the
assemblage to order he read a telegram
from Edgar L. Names, of townsville, presi-
dent of the Indiana Jefferson League. and
then launched into a discourse to the effect
that there are some times i'm the course of
human events when it becomes necessary
for the people to declare anew their indie
pendence. Such a time was at hand. he
said. and the leader of the hour was Will
liam Jennings Bryan. Mr.. Reister made
no allusion to Hearst.
Mr.. Bryan's speech was along the same
line of the one he delivered at indianapolis
last night. In opening he paid a tribute
to the late Gilbert Shanklin, of this city.
Mr.. Bryan again took for his text, "Politi-
cal foresight is faith in the wisdom of doing
right" and announced that he purposed to
speak from that text wherever he goes until
he has given IL circulation throughout the
United States. He made the same attack
on the reorganizers that he made in In
dianapOlis and again ii was received with
enthusiasm by the majority of his hearers.
AT the conclusion of his address Mr..
Bryan held a reception on the stage, and Ii
seemed that every one in the hall wanted to
shake him by the hand. although each one
who had the temerity voiced the question in
the minds of all. asking him why Mr..
Hearst had not come with him. To these
questions Mr.. Bryan replied, in effect, that
he was not Mr.. Hearst's keeper and could
throw no light on his whereabouts.
BRIEF STOPS ON THE WAY.
Mr.. Bryan reached this city at IL O'Clock
this forenoon, coming in on the i%nterurban
line from Princeton. where he stopped off at
8 O'Clock and delivered a half-hour speech to
an audience of about five hundred. Briefer
stops were made at Fort Branch and Haub-
stadt, and at the latter place Mr.. Bryan
spoke in German, or, rather, recited a Ger
man poem, his audience consisting largely of
Teutons.
A reception headed by William
Reister. of this city, met Mr.. Bryan at
Princeton. and on the trip in delegations of
prominent Democrats were picked up at the
various stops, so that by the time Evans
vile was reached the Nebraskan had a for
midable escort. He attracted a great deal
of attention here on the street. and during
the afternoon held an informal levee at the
St. George Hotel, during which over two
hundred of the faithful called 10 renew their
vow OF fealty to the man and his cause.
Among the First district leaders here
were Judge Thomas H. Dillon, of Peters
burg, who will probably be the Democratic
candidate for Congress against Mr.. Hemen-
way; Z. z. Richardson. the new member of
the state committee; c. A. Buskirk. T. II.
Cunningham. c. A Yeager and George
Peter Hoffman and Walter Boyle, of Haub-
stadt.
State Senator r. NJ. Milburn, of Jasper,
put in an appearance late in the afternoon
and brought a boom for himself as a candi-
date for the Democratic nomination for
Lieutenant Governor. a position for which
no other Democrat In the State has up 10
this time indicated the slightest desire.
c. S. WATTS.