Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-25
GREAT LEADERS
MEET TODAY TO
OPEN CAMP AIGN
DEMOCRATS GATHER TO At
TEND NOTIFICATION
BRYAN PARTY oREETs KERN IN
INDIANAPOLIS
Arrival of Nebraskan and Other Big
Men Brings Hundreds of Visit
ors-HoteIs Crowded to
Capacity
By Associated Press:

By Associated Press.
INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 24-William
]. Bryan and party arrived here
= from Chicago this evening to par
ticipate tomorrow in the gathering al
which John w. Kern will be officially
notified of his nomination for the vice
presidency by the Democratic party.
With Mr.. Bryan came Norman Il.
Mack, national chairman; DR.. p. L.
Hall, vice chairman; Urey Woodson of
Kentucky, national secretary; Nation
al Committeeman Roger G. Sullivan Of
Illinois and Dolbert E. Wing of Louisi-
ana; Congressman J. T. Lloyd of Mis-
souri,, chairman of the congressional
committee; Mr.. Bryan's secretary;
John l. Martin, sergeant-at-arms, and
a number OF others.
The party was met at the station by
the local reception committee, headed
by National Committeeman Thomas
Taggart and State Chairman Stokes
Jackson of Indiana, and was taken to
the Denison hotel. Mr.. Kern called
shortly afterward and was given
hearty greeting. All day the hotels OF
the city have been filling with Indiana
visitors.
Meeting in Coliseum
The notification meeting tomorrow
will be held in the coliseum at the state
fair grounds, near the northern limits
OF the city.
The building will accommodate $4,000
people, and overflow meetings will be
held If necessary. The doors will be
opened at noon Speeches will be
made by Theodare n. Bell of California.
chairman of the notification committee;
John w. Kern, Thomas Marshall, DEM
ocratic candidate for governor of In
diana, and Mr.. Bryan, who will dis
cuss trusts at length.
An immense crowd greeted Mr.. Bryan
and his party at the station when they
left the special car for the drive to the
hotel. The streets were lined with
people who cheered Mr.. Bryan as he
passed to his hotel where crowd was
waiting to greet him. The vice presi-
Dental candidate went direct to his
home.
Later Mr.. Kern, National Chairman
Mack and other leaders called on him
and the evening was spent in an IN
formal conference.
Mr.. Bryans journey through Indi-
ana from Chicago to this city was
marked by enthusiastic receptions at
every station where the train stopped.
He delivered five speeches and shook
hands with a large number of people.
He was the recipient of many presents
of flowers and fruit.
Hammond, Clear Lake, Rensselaer,,
Monon, Monticello, Delphi, Roseville,
Frankfort, Kirklin, Sheridan. Westfield
and Carmel turned out large crowds
to greet the Democratic candidate$
In all his remarks Mr.. Bryan ex-
pressed confidence in the righteousness
of Democracy's cause and never failed
to impress on his audiences his salts
faction with the Denver platform and
to urge them to read it with care.
Expresses Confidence
At Monon he said: 81 have conf
dence that our party's position is goins
to appeal to the judgment and con-
science of the public and in this cam
paign we are confident that events
have robbed the Republican party of
some of it's most potent arguments in
the past. For instance, you will re-
member in 1897 there was great deal
said about the panic and the Republic
can speakers accused us of having a
monopoly on panics. I need not tell
you that within the last year the Re-
publican party has become an active
competitor with the Democratic party
on the subject of panics and they are
no longer able to say they can guaran-
tee immunity from panics, and yet
with the record of the last forty years,
which shows that of the three panics
which came, two of them came when
the Republican party was in complete
power and after Republican victories
and the third after a Republican adj
ministration, they still have the pre-
sumption to talk panics."