Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-10-30
SECRETARY OF STATE SPEAKS
FOR FEW MINUTES TO IMMENSE
CROWD AT oDEoN.
THOUSAND WAIT TWO HOURS
TO HEAR GREAT coMMoNER
Train Scheduled TO Arrive at $3.50
Does Not Get Hero Until $3.50 -
Bryan and Party Stop in City Just
Half an Hour-seeretary Pleads For
Vote For Party.

Secretary of State William j. Bryan
/ dashed across Iowa Thursday, stopping
/, here for half an hour, and speaking for
| in behalf of the democratic state
| ticket. One thousand or more good
people went without their suppers or
had q late meal and waited for two
| hours or more to see and hear the
| Great Commoner.'
Late in the afternoon the plan to
| have Bryan speak in the court house
square was abandoned because Of tho
chilly air. and the meeting was taken
to the Odeon.
Special Two Hours Late.
| The Chicago Great Western special
train that carried Bryan and his party
/ from New Hampton to Des Moines was
two hours late reaching here ~ de-
railment on the Chicago, Milwaukee
| & ST. Paul, that delivered Bryan's car
at New Hampton, made the train four
hours late in reaching there. AS re-
suit crowds waited all along the line
! where Bryan spoke, at New Hampton,
| Waterloo, Reinbeck, this city, and Des
! Moines.
From about o'clock until $50 the
crowd waited. first in the court house
yard, then in the Odeon. The band the
democratic local committee lad put on
the job. and Miss Lolita 3urk. Of Gin
! cinnati. q socialist speaker. who took
advantage of the democratic thunder
| that gathered the crowd RECALLED it al
ternately with music and socialistic
argument. The speaker spoke when
the band was not playing. The band
was not SO courteous.
Fill Odeon in Few Minutes.
! A small boy carrying a banner broke
up the band concert and the socialist
meeting. The banner said Bryan
speaks at the Odeon." Perhaps 1000
| people had gathered in the square.
i They broke like sheep for the thea ter.
and in fifteen minutes it was filled and
standing room was at premium.
Then there was another wait of fully
an hour. But the crowd or most of it
| remained. One woman near the front
occupied herself with embroidering.
| A man upstairs. who probably had
no better reason for his presence. began
singing: sIm here because I'm here
because I'm here" etc, and the crowd
laughed and applauded.
Somebody yelled Whats the matter
/ with Bryan"
| Hes late" somebody yelled, before
Hes all right" could respond. That
drew another laugh.
Reached odeon at $50.
| At 6:15 the band. which had been
at the station. showed up at the the
alter. Then there was another wait. 1t
was little after $50 when the secre-
. NV ,c ,fak 4 L.
the stage.
In the secretary's party We're John T.
Hamilton. of Cedar Rapids, candidate
for governor; oliver P. Meyers, New
ton, candidate for lieutenant governors:
Congressman Maurice Connolly and
sister, Miss Eleanor Connolly. of Du-
buque; Congressman Henry Vollmer.
of Davenport; Judge e. NJ. Carr. of
Manchester, candidate for attorney
general; Joseph Mekota. of Cedar Rap
1 ids, candidate for congress from the
Fifth district: the national committee
man from Iowa, Martin ]. Wade, OF
Iowa; DIR. j. w. Reynolds. Of Creston,
chairman, of the state committee: e.
r. Moore, of Anamosa, United States
marshal for the northern district of
Iowa; and A. p. Owens. Of Ottumwa,
chairman Of the Wapello county CEN
trail committee.
6ryan's Speech Short.
| The curtain rose to an accompani-
ment of a roar of applause. Very brief
ly Robert f. johnson, county chairman,
| introduced the Great Commoner." He
in turned called Congressman Con-
molly to the footlights and stood aside
for moment while the senatorial cam
didate figuratively waved the star
| spangled banner over free, united,
and peaceful people.
1. Then Hamilton, Meyers, ond Mekota
were called down front" for the crowd
! to look them over.
| The special train was scheduled to
leave here at Z O'clock OF a neces-
sity the secretary's speech was brief.
1t was devoted almost exclusively to
the argument that the election of the
democratic state ticket was an en-
dorsement of the democratic admins
tration and President wilson
Cumnins an Obstructionist.
I I'm going 10 assume" said Bryan.
that you want to help. endorse. en-
courage, and sustain the president In
his program. I'm going to assume that
you want that he should go on with
the work he has so splendidly done.
You can give first aid by the election
Of a democratic senator. If you desire
to help and not hinder the president
you will vote for Maurice Connolly. If