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Show TWENTY-SIX SPEECHES EPvYAN'S NEW HECORD ST. JOSEPH. Oct. 10, With a record rec-ord of twenty-six speeches delivered during du-ring the day, William J. Bryan brought to a closo in this city tonight his latest tour. The reception" recorded him was i a fitting finalo to unprecedented demonstrations dem-onstrations which mnrked his progress through this state. Ho was up and doing do-ing as early as 7 o'clock in the inorn-iug, inorn-iug, and found little opportunity for rest. Today's journey, which was through eight counties' of tho state, might well ne termed a ''harmony mect- : ing," for aboard the special train were representatives of the several factious of Missouri Democracy, who were outspoken out-spoken in their determination to actively active-ly support the national and state tickets. tick-ets. . These included William S. Cow- I herd, nominee for governor; Former I Governor Lou Stephens, David A. Ball, Judge William H. Wallace and H. R Stapel, the defeated candidates for the , nomination foj; governor: W. R. Painter, nominee for lieutenant-governor; Statd Chairman Eubcy and former Governor David Ii. Francis, at one time a, member mem-ber of President Cleveland's cabinet. Several of them in turn introduced their standard bearer and vied with each other in the use of complimentaiy references ref-erences to him. The trip from Independence Inde-pendence to Kansas City was made iu motor cars, the speed laws being suspended sus-pended in order to enable the party to catch its train. Is Sure of Missouri. From the moment of his first utterance utter-ance until he liad concluded his remarks re-marks here, Mr. Bryan declared that the electoral vote of the state of Missouri Mis-souri was safely Democratic, and he devoted de-voted considerable time to urging the people to elect the entire stato ticket, as well as a legislature which would send to Washington a Democratic Senator. Sen-ator. As on yesterday, he s,ought to in-sjtill in-sjtill in the minds of his hearers the fact ; that a Democratic victory this year ! meant a return to prosperity-. He did i not overlook President Koosevclt in discussing dis-cussing the trust question, and read a communication from the acting attorney-general of the United States which he interpreted as a direct refusal upon the part of the law department of tllo government to prosecute a corporation for conducting its business in restraint of trade. He produced the letter, he I said, to show the iniquity of the trusts, and attacked the President for, as he charged, shirking his duty, Mr. Taft, as usual, got his share of criticism, the Democratic candidate pointing out that his Republican opponent was going uround tho country making promises which he knew he could not fulfill, for j ho said the Republican party was unable un-able to offer any real reforms. While speaking at Glasgow to a big crowd an incipient panic occurred, caused by some one making ah ouicry that a train was coming. Men, women aud children, in their desire to get off the tracks, wore knocked down, several women fainted and two old men and an old woman appeared to be badly hurt, i Mr. Bryan urged tho people to be ' calm. The train which the people 1 thought was coming upon them was flagged and tho fright was over. The crowd again surged around the candidate's candi-date's car, and hu spoke for a lew minute's min-ute's longer. Mr, Bryan left at midnight for Lincoln, Lin-coln, Neb., where he will remain until Tuesday morning, wheu he again starts westward, spending three da-s in Xe- i braska and making flying trips to I Colorado and Wyoming. " ' I i |
