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j I ML i GOJjDGGUlL 7 r Weather 7bf ".hi. i'1! i j. . Fair Friday and Sat urday, colder Satur day; . light . variable winds, becoming west. Weather Todav '-"' . j l : ... . . Fair Fjrlday and Sat urday,, toider Satur day; light 1 variable winds, becoming west V JOIiUME LXXXIV 31 RALEIGH, C, FRIDAY MOBNTNG OCTOBER 18, 1907. PltlCE 5 CE1STS ( 4 i ( 1 : : . : ; lall North Caroltaa IvaSlffe I vs. J and Circulation News mm u-fc J - - s In News N 1 i 1 r a BRYAN ON AVERAGE .-!! i I- HAS TYPICAL Thirty-five Thousand North Carolina Product on the Grounds at Stato Fair to Greet Him nebraskan at best sewmed at length the Issues of the Day and Political History of $toe Decade With Characteristic Clarity. i i -r ? : and Kloqxience The Great Com moner in Fine Humor and Spajrk- . . ';:. i . - lias With Jokes Magnitude ',pr Reception Fired Him to Give Hisj Personality to , Ills Friends Tjje Scene and the Speech to Which .4t Was Brilliant Setting. When William Jennings Bryan f spoke at the Fair Grounds yester- day an estimate of the number ofr people within the enclosure aV thirty-five thousand would per-? v haps have its error in convert; vatism. . V; - To a crowd that was unprece' dented end that dwarfed in come pari son the great gathering- that greeted Roosevelt in 1906. , Mr,', Bryan spoke;' for almost exactly two hours on the subject. "The." Average j Man" a discussion? which he illustrated by copious references toi political condition,; to the meaning and effects of. . present and past policies, and to! which he applied an expression qJC faith In, the 'Ultimate triumph C the principles embodied In tari: reform, prosecution of trusts and; the curtailment ef -the power of . injunction as flagrantly exercised", by the inferior Federal courts. i '; In treating the "average man,Hf ' Mr. Bryan eloquently made th'' term . descriptive of character rather than condltlon-nd put inj his keeping- the, responsibility of; preeervlng? and restoring the Jef f ersonian ideals of government and" destiny of the average ma himself. . - f In drawinr to a conclusion. Mrrj - , Brj'an also treated at some lengthi of the question of State's Mghts Which he, declared to be stilP , ' vital and to - which, he bore thf asjurancej the South had no monopoly! of devotion. He warmj ly commended j the - course of North Carolina and of Governor r.ifnn mnA tiw lc j occasion, also. ir drawing a contrast between the; natural man and the fictitious pe son of the corporation, to say thai' the State was fortunate In havin in the person ef its Chief Justlcjfc' ani able Judge whoi understod.an 1 acted upon the distinction. J possibly five thousand of' trre! great crowd j were j able to folloi the speech.r which was at timR colloquially couched" and abound . ed in Jokes,! but at least twice thaV number stood within the radius of the crowd hopeful expectants of; , a ;crumb pf Rearing. ; : ( delivered in an easy, at time eloquent And fervid and at otherg& a Jocular! style, i the address wp I peculiarly popular and was frl qucntly cheered to the echo. f Ail 1 nprtedented "Average" CYchjFdS. The sene when Bryan rose to fce. .he thouwtnds of average North, tj-" alinians who formed the mass 6f Hu manity that stretoHd away f rfr. Quarter of a mil feyond the 'stad ;s from which he sc ; that was piled behind him In th-grandstand in er upon t!r of faces: that hung- gToijfs quely for vantage of view upon'einry ' jail and pol and fence within a'a-5 dious of three hundred yards was tshe that war unparalleled, not only in. the history of the fair, but in the Hjs-'i tory as well, of popular gathergs T within the State. j . i No such out-pouring of the pefple has ever beore been experience!! ih j North Carolina. No such charaevJ has evei humanized a crowd. The peopje. thousand upon thousand, fv-i ered thu spacious lane of the "$J way." flJled the buildings, overfleed the rac track ; enclosure like a cafjetf In which the slow surge of moventsnti was likj a shadow crossing a flerjjJop: colour. s -'ti 'jj As Bran .looked . upon. , it alljiefl was impiapssd .to .hesitation. p?he task war beyond the power of a ;,Mu4 man voice. : A great popular pern-fr ality wa. overwhelmed with appre&faf tfon. , And as-the currents of pemrte locked t the stand whereon . was: 114 houetted the figure -and the head iljai; has hee-it photographed on the mfcfds and heart of the nwwg, as titey . brake Into the long, rattling cheejrtof a Rxeat crowd,, strangely enoughs hef thouRht tJxat was uppermost was he? futility or words to sound, a mess, or to found a folio wing, . K t. . ! Here were thirty i! thousand pleL and mwc controlled with the sidles thought of one- man. JThere sf iodl the man. powerless to pnake hintjself; beard to ontenthr of the numeJ v And yet. in the strain of the eyelnt the fragments of words that fell friml the man irto the moving bosom of,4he Crowd man there stranke comfort 4nd satisfaction. And." frorrj th jrreat hcoH lectlve intellect of the crowd, from.he fashes of personality within ylt con verging al1 to one central point, thre , came U the speaker the (command to speak: and there came to him,ltsOi !the promise to understand - 1 Great Crow d In ;WtreieM lephofjy. f So that, when Bryan- faced! the grandstand to commence his addlssi he spoke the crowd as well as fenf self, i And. as he spoke himself he words that were swallowed in jihef f rumble of the people's silent bre&th-i V lng. seemed In some mysterious .waV to have caught the ears that straijrfed In vain to hear them and to create .1 between the thousands and the 0 a telepathic current investing each With strength and giving to each the power to comprehend the other. m Else rhy, packed Into t great aeieaung mass, aeaiened by'iti MAN AUDIENCE immensity of murmur, ehould the crowd have stood sun uirougn minutes and hours that the man spoke whom, with their ears, they could not hear? And why, in the moments of clinching with some homely illustra tion, the point of popular faith, should Bryan have looked out upon the sea of people before him and caught the wave of their applause breaking back to echo and repeat the progress of his thought? It is hot to suggest telepathy in this respect between the speaker and the audience other than exists between a perfect sympathy in attitude and ad miration, j How the miracle was per formed, U is bootless to inquire. That it existed 'is proof of the great fact, that it was the man that the people had; f com: i to see; and that. In thous ands of instances denied even sight of him. they yet in some strange fashion adopted and reflected his thought, Xime and ; again did a ripple of inde pendent laughter and applause run through the great throng, moved by something, that the grand stand had missed. Again and again, after the grandstand had quieted, might one watch the progress of the I "hit" agitating the people as the splash; of a pebble circles into an ever gentler and an evermore uni versal Influence. Whether by a sort of contact of narration the crowd tele graphed the message from one fringe of It to the other, the message was delivered. And, as with infinite pa tience, with pathetic attention, the thousands stood and waited and final ly received Into their hearts what was said, the theme of the speech itself gained "a significance in the event and preached the parable of the history that lies back of it. 'Bryan'' M ellower and Surer. For Bryan has mellowed and soften ed.The time was when hs face, in its graven aecerity. hinted. the fanati cism which his Ideas were damned as indicating. Bryan was a commotion in politics. ; He stirred th$ watters into violence.! Passions sprang in the wake of his footsteps, even as they flamed in front to bar his progress. In a time t clash.: and fever and sudden anger. the mind or the people anectea uryan with' its own impetuousity. Since then, there has been-the chastening of de feat, the slow architecture of philoso phy.! the shining calm of faith. The waters have become deeper and stronger. and In keeping with them 4 has the man they embrace become surer-m toucrx, more, piacia in soui. more invincible in the simple logic of his creed. , j Bryan, who was once the center of . a . revolution forced like a sudden apparition into the public eye by the pressure of greed struggling with disaster, has become the genius of a progression and is the chrysalis of a growth. The man who was bom into publie life in the waging of a fight, is still fighting: but the fight is c-oine his way. Out of the gladiator fighting against odds has 1een born the but Ider, whose foundations have oren xaia; -wno ntus jurguum in ex perience the sting of disappointment; and who. In a sure patience, is going gladly and, with a smile about his work. All this shows in the person of the man. He is larger, his face more boy ish in its good humor than it was a decade ago. His smile the famous smile that even the bitterest moments could never efface? is still more con tagious in its (pristine spontaneity. His voice that can still on occasion ring with that clarion note that sounded like the trumpet to a charge falls now. more like a belt, with more of reason in It than command, with more of persuasion than of challenge. And,; for all the fire of his words, that can yet blaze for a thrilling ten sec ons as of yore, is their import less, crushing than soothing and less des perate because mde confident. From where Bryan stands on the platform preaching his gospel of the victory and the worth of the "common people," there gleams the prophetic light of a soul that has learned seren ity and of a faith that has already seen the fruits of Its vision. The Intimacy of Confidence. Because Bryan holds in his person and In his ' work the imprlmature of the people's will, has he become per manent in the heart of the people. The fight, he seems to say. Is still on, but the fight is ours. And. so, while the burden of his talk is now encourage ment and reminder, is now the injunc tion ;to vigilance and faith, where oncelitwa a sweeping cry to go to battle, there Is In the mien of th man a something of generousness that is warmer than before. His humor is more; easily, provoked, more free in ex pression, more sufficient for itself. Yesterday's speech was in the nature of a talk with friends, interspersed with good featured chaff of opponents rollicking in Jokes told In the manner of the street corner, with the unpre meditated manner of one swapping1 stories. Old battles that still mean so much In the light of future conflicts found In their recollection the setting of the narration of boyish pranks. Identified for eleven years with na tional politics and on the eve of. many other years of the name activity, Mr. Bryan speaks, as it were, ex cathedra and. ,ln detail, without reverence. Me is Just a common man and he seems to know it and to rate the rest In the same class. And so, accord in Jo tils own philosophy the creature of circumstance In leadership, he speaks with i a fellowship that strangely . con duces to intimacy without detracting from prestige. ' j -"The Average' Man." The speech that Mr. Bryan deliv ered was. 3 presumably, a lecture, its subject the "Average Man." In con struction and treatment, the average man is not the limited man, and not the abnormal man. He Is not housed in palaces,-, nor living in 'hovel. Yet. filling the . space between extremes, he It not the mediocre man. The aver age man is the one who would seem to try to be In character and to want in government that "square deal which Mr. Roosevelt rather Illogically . erected as a standard for artists of the "short-card." Bryan's average man, as he expounded him, misses poverty because he is representative) of the genius of the country, and is! to put back the country to the prin capable of wealth and learning land ! ciple upon which it was founded and ability because he is made of stuff worth cultivating. The average man works for himself, and does not work others. Nor does he rest on others. It is among the mass of the people', says Mr. Bryan in effect, that the "square deal" finds instinctive exer cise. And, in America, it la because he is square that the man is average. In other words the term "average" as used implies a theory and a principle, rather than a state; shadows a unan imity of purpose and motive rather than implies a level either of accom plishment or possession. And, to use another Rooseveltism to characterize a Bryan idea, the average man is the decent man. In treatment, the nearer the average man gets to the top. there is the more nearly approximated the national Ideal; and. the nearer he is to the top. the more completely he lnmresses v, 1 . . . . . . . i """"" uiersnip, ana oy ruiersnip . he rises. Jefferson. n faith in the j right of the people to rule and in the good that can permanently follow only upon the exercise of popular die-I ''r't '"'"' 'js HON. tation, is the burden of the ri. is the burden of the "average f " It is old doctrine, sanely put, bly illustrated, characteristically man. forcibly expounded. Holding not a hint of communism, its theories are the very pressed essence of Democracy. Orator ami People. But. whatever his subject, Mr. Bry an was not delivering a lecture. Not even was he making a speech. The spirit of en rapport was too evldent.The exhiliration of the moment, the genial Intoxication of the presence of the crowd, the holiday motif emphasizing both scene and occasion, made for talk, instead of oratory. Mr. Bryan talked! For two hours he continued, spontaneously, flawing from argument to tho impulsive' wit of the moment, remembering homely stories and tell ing them with a zet. enjoying him self wholesomely and frankly in the presence of the lavish friendship that surrounded him, pausing to go to a climax and continuing for the very joy of yielding to crowding ideas and unexploited themes. And the crowd reveled In the man and what he said. Applause that came at frequent intervals was not yet so frequent as to suggest being "set" in character. The thousands listened and waited. From time to time they murmured approval lest they lose the current sentence in proclaiming It, Again and on the instant, caught in the fascination of following a thread to its conclusion and prepared for the surprise of its expression, the cheers came in salvos. Again the laughter roseto a roar," with the speaker and his famous grin smiling in the midst of a tumult like one who has done a trick for children. And then, back again to sober, direct diction, to again fire to eloquence, to once more lose the sense of place ani time in the quick flower of sudden oratory. When, at the end. in a flame of ex coriation of the "swollen fortunes' of the day that demoralized men, - that debauched homes, that corrupted pol itics, the speaker . declared that the remedy was not to get back something A , ' ' ' ' " " & ''' , I , jt , ' ' ; ' , , ' ' 4 ""'V;,",' '' '""t"- " ''v - L IT ; i: " .' -, - V - ; w ' -- .."' ' . , ' v.. Kr i " : V ? . " ! ' $1 r; -i. y -;"r. ix-.:-:' sl p , r y. v '.' ','.'t t "' . millions for which the people oeen victimized, but to prevent th. theft in the first instance; when, further, his words ringing, the ' hand vibrant in the tingle of his thought, he pointed to the average "manj the duty which Jefferson voiced over protest, to the establishment of a government of. by and for the people, j and with equal rights to all and special privi leges to none, the scene crept up to and engulfed the people wth its in terest and its feeling. Frrm some where in the grounds the sounds of merry-making, the voices of the mid way spielers, the multitude! of sounds that distinguish a multitude, came to the ear as the distant echoes of a dream. Over all the voice fhung, and dipped and rose, clear, dominating intense. Under it, as though its every word was a command to silence lay the quietude of the rapt.! And, as it ceased, the massed emotion that had been waiting for in outlet, paused surprised In the eloquent mo ment before it found its vjoice. The Enlr Resumes. The next instant, the average man . ---r - " nad become the crowd at the fair, Tae voices Of the fakirs heard as In a dream, rose shrill and Insistent. The wjilstle of a merrv-go-i-ound cut through the hubbub' j insistently, While the cheers still ran.! the people -' ' ' -4 p- v'-vt: i' ---Vvfr -" ' , ' ' - - ' t , f- y WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN. swayed this wayand that in sudden i surprise that they had been so long mil. The spell that had been ove? spell that had been over the grounds Was broken; the almost hypnotic Ftatei into which the. speaker had step by step advanced in the grip of his own enthusiasm was snapped. Out of it emerged Bryan, the "smile that won't come off" still upon his face, suggestive in the crush of the ease and happiness that distinguished him and In the power after effort of the prototype of that strength, be lief and uplift which is the human quality that he had been projecting into the minds of the people the body and heart and brain of the com mon man! The Arrival at the Ground. The parade , of marshals and the distinguished escort to Mr. Bryan ar rived on the. grounds' some twenty minutes late. Headed by Chief Mar shal Cox. the horses and carriages made a slow progress down the dense ly jammed midway, from the north east entrance. 'As the carriage con taining the Commoner passed through the press, the cheers announced its coming, in a slow wave of enthusiasm. When, finally, Mr. Bryan, Governor Glenn and others were recognized upon the stand, the crowds pressed closer and the cheering became gen eral and prodigious. 1 Governor's Bald Headed Introduction. President Daughtridge Introduced Governor Glenn, who was to present Mr. Bryan. The Governor's appear ance created another furor of enthus iasm. He spoke briefly but in char acter, while the great gathering cheered and laughed with him to the echo. In his usual happy style the Governor presented the speaker, say ing that on Tuesday he had had the pleasure of introducing Mr. Bryan to the great people of Mecklenburg:, in the city of Charlotte; on the day be fore he had again presented him to the people ot Guilford ; assembler at the city of Greensboro, i Today he was presenting him, not merely to a county or a city but to all the people of North Carolina. He hadj said he. taken a great deal of pleasurevin Mr. Bryan's speeches until the day be fore, when the latter had seep fit, to pass a great insult upon himj by re ferring to his lack of black hair and to call attention in a publics assem blage a defect in his make f up - for which he was 5iot responsible and which be had made every effort to overcome. He felt it, therefore, to be his sacred duty to remind Jfdr. Bryan that there was once a hum ble prophet, whom the boys followed, crying, "Go up old bald-he4d"; .and down old bald -head, until finally the bears came out and ate them Up. And he wanted to remind the gTeat and distinguished guest of; this incident and to tell him. that W he didn't mind out. the real bears or the Teddy Bears would gtt him yet: But, in!spitfr of the fact that he had called attention to a thing that he had struggled against rope td remedy, in spife of the fact that he had returned evil for good by mentioning something; that all the hair restorers In the world hajd failed to correct, he was bound to say of Mr, Bryan that he was one of thie great est, the grandest and noblest and truest men that Ood had evr-given to any country. , So prof oundf he was, so far in advance of his age, that he had been called a fanatic and ftls prin ciples and policle denounced as fanaticism, and yet so great was the Ji love and respect in which hi n hiil by the people that the reaf leader of the onSonh-VlfiI - ------ .m.u.b U4v4 ayui v fiiaieu nis roncies to nisi own mba He had been heard gladly by the croavned heads of the worlj. A' man without . guile, with the courage of conviction, Mr. Bryan, he declared, was something higher than i patriotic and morally sincere man. in that he was a true and humble Christian. gen tleman. He took pleasure in pre senting aa great, as true, ivis patriotic and nobie a man as God had -ever given a rr.oole. orator, statesman, -man and Christian, William 'iBryan, of Nebraska' Amid prolonged cheersi and ap plause. Mr. Bryan rose to Commence his sDeech, while the tumuli held until he silenced it with a gesture. Re ferring to Governor Glenn's pleasantry, he said that "a great deal ?es on be hind the scenes. Those who sit In the audience are often deceived un less they converse afterwareb with the players. You. have heard ionlv a lit tle part in a little game that he and I put up on the people. We arranged that I was to discuss his paid head; that he was to become .indignant and that I would then have ,the chance to explain that if you exafrflned the Bible you would find that 11 that the boys sai'l to the prophet Was some thing that the governor ::couId pot take offense at. because 1$ was "Go up" oH bald-head!" (Laughter and applause.) rd He was glad that he could Join the great throng present in giving testi mony to the high performance by the governor of the duties of hjs steward ship. . "I am glad to cornel to a state in which the Chief ESxoeutive has displayed such sympathy with the peo ple. " It took moral courage to. do duty, ana Glenn had displayed it. He appreciated the compliments that had been paid him. He had been forced to take them at par by the compli ment he had. paid to thes audience. i Having told what a fine . Audience - It was he had elevated him tb maintain -, (Continued on page 5.X ' THOUSANDS TO Estimates of Over Forty-f ivo Thousand Pcoplo Be it tj In tho City at tho Great Day of tho Fair OLD BA1 BROKE Serious Financial Crash in Germany Private Banking: Firm in Hamburg Fail With Liabilities Estimated ! at Seven and a Half 3i!llion Bollarg. (By the Associated Press.) Hamburg, Oct. 17 The old private banking: firm of Hailer, Soehle & Com pany failed today. The liabilities of the firm are variously stated, and it was estimated early in the day that they , were in the neighborhood of $5. 000,000. but the Hamburger Nachry chten says this afternoon that it is informed by a v banker ; who la In - : a position to know the facts that the liabilities will reach $7,500,000. Thia will make the crash of thia firm, the biggest bank failure in Germany since the famous breakdown of the Lelpsei rge Bank In June, 1901. The assets of the flrmt have not yet been ascer tained, but In banking circle the capi tal of t the partners is declared to be $2,250,000. Nearly all the joint stock' and irl vate banks irr Hamburg- aro affected in varying degrees by this failure, but a number of them . say: that their claims awe adequately secured. Among1 the firm's liabilities are acceptances for $3,750,000. The largest amount held by any . individual house- seems to be $175,000 in the -hands of the Vereln Bank. - The difficulties of the - firm are chiefly from , lta connection with a mining- company at TepUta, - Bohemia in wnicn mucn capital was locked p; In addition the firm had4nte rests in several coaj mlnea in Austria and was concerned ln; several real estate -ven tures, jvear Vienna- they . had estab lished a so-called "caumacite" works designed to .exploit a ;new method of developing; unusUaUy hlh: tempera ture in furnaces. In connection with this enterprise 'was a glass' factorv. It is also declared that Hailer, Soehle & Company had put considerable sum in real estate mortgages. All these assets are, hard to- convert into cash without heavy loss, but, the. banker holding the paper of the. firm believe the. liabilities probably can. be met if liquidation is not too much hurried. Sliipip iy WHEAT. ' Increased Receipts at Winnipeg Xed to a Severe Drop at Chicago. ' 'Rv the Associated Press.) ' Chicago, Oct. 17 Wheat experi enceu a severe drop on-'. the . board bf trade today, the December option de clining nearly three cents, while the May option was down 2 5-8. The low price for December today was ;102 against the closing- price yesterday of 1 - The lw' pricO" for-May to day was 107 5-8 against yesterday ciose 110 1-4. The severe decline was attributed to the weak condition of the. stock market and a decline of five cents at Winnipeg, where, it Is said,-the receipts are steadily increas ing". The bears had - thing: ; pretty much their, own way throughout the day and the occasional rallies were feeble in character BIG BANK CLOSED. Failure of Savings Institution Forced by Tle Embarrassment of Otto Heinz & Co. . (By the Associated Press. ' , -; Butte. Mont. Oct. 17. The State Savings Bank closed " Its . doors this morning, soon after opening;. A run had been precipitated because of tnrlM rcfivAi1 nvr nrivnl ulr.t that the firm of Otto Helm & Co., of ! New York, and a large German bank t in Berlin, had failed. . These Interest are closely Identified with A. Helna in hi copper mining operations. Heins is the largest stockholder and a di rector in the State Savings Bank which has deposits of $4,250,000. A large crowd gathered in front -of the bank, but, considering - the circum stances and conditions, was quiet and undemonstrative although .there were occasional cries demanding revenge on Heinz and his institutions. . KARTII HOCKS AGAIN. Seat of -Disturbance Estimated ' at live Tliousand Miles from Wash ington. . . (By the Associated Press.) Washington. D. C, Oct. 17. An other earthquake shock, of much less violence than that of yesterday, was recorded at the , weather, bureau to day. It ' occurred shortly after six a. m. The bureau official place the disturbance at approximately 6,000 miles from Washing-ton. but are una ble to estimate the direction. The Shock Recorded In Goettingem Berlin. Oct 17. The seismograph at Goettlngen today ' registered " an other ordinary aeries of earthquake shock -lasting eight minutes. The region of the disturbance could not be .located. '--:, V THE WEATHER. - Forecast for North Carolina: Fair Friday and Saturday, colder Saturday; light variable winds, becoming west. The Weather Yesterday, r - Miximum temperature, 11; ir.'.r.U mum temperature, 4 6 ; total 1 prec!; 1- tauon, o. CROWD HEM "BR' fLVTCcnEorj . to dhyan Distinguished Visitor Hold Iteoepdona and Is ' Entertained at Several , -. . i ' ' - JSrents, Amone '-' These a Ijnnclieon' Given by the' State XVdr Ondal and as a Guest at Operatic Recital Lost Night, Xeaving; the City, This fonw The welcome guest of North ' Car Una.- in : Raleigh yesterday was r Hon. William Jennings Bryan, the - Nebras kan " and great '' American J and It laf written that he was i the guest of North Carolina and not - particularly of : Raleigh, for every section of the . State was represented in the thou and on thousands who thronged the street of the city, occupied window and piazzas, ; packed a themselves into hack, buggies, carriages and street car, jammed the exhibition building at the State Fair Grounds, and made a moving phalanx of humanity on the midway, that had to wedge itself over Into the race track and beyond, while up in the grandstand more thousand squeezed - together In the . desire to . hear the - patriotic address -of Mr. . Bryan. It was "Bryan Day in very truth and it. was a. Bryan day that broke all record of great crowds at State Fairs of " previous years, 'even that great crowd, which was here when President Roosevelt spoke. , In numbers no man can tell how -many people were. In at tendance on the events of the day and the estimates vary-from thirty thous ard - to fifty thousand. Getting in between the .figures; there are many estimates that the. crowd ranged from forty- thousand to forty-five thousand people. The greater .part jof Raleigh made part of the crowd, and thls was Increased by thousands of pedple who pouredInto the city on the regular and special trains from the four rail roads leading- into; Raleigh. while on every road from the country earner people oft foot," on horseback and In . all kinds of vehicles. , : A newspaper man from Greensboro, who saw the big crowd at' the Fair there on Wed nesday, said ' that .the crowd, here far -exceeded that; great ? gathering. - and .that th : one - here was the greatest crowd that he had ever seen in - the . State, fbla fgurestwbejng that then were fully forty-five thousand people her.,i j ii;$-':.:''?s:-'v'si';; '.-str--'' .:T:,:,v;- . Mr. Brj-an and his add res were the central features of the day. and every where -there was desire to see the dis tinguished guest; of the North Caro lina Agricultural Society. He arrived " in the cityf about- five o'clock yester day morning .from Greensboro and at nine o'clock was. the guest of honor at; a -breakfast party; given at the home Of Mv- Josephus Daniels.' at . whose home he. was entertained while here.'. IIe was escorted? to the city from Greensboro vbyr.iHon.--.;Sl:'':'jI. Daughtridge, president of the Stat Fair. Hon. J. R: i Toung,: Col.F. B. ' Arendellri?Mr. Hayden Clement and Mr.: Josephus DanieLs,; this party be ing joined by . many' prominent citl ens of Greensboro and of other. place along the route. .::, - At half past ten o'clock Mr.'Brvan was. escorted to .: the. Tarborough House and in the parlor there he held, a-brief -reception, in' company with Governor -Glenn, while with these there were many . State officials and prominent citizens. There -was a con- stant stream of callers who came to pay I their - respect and : among these were; hundreds who are acquaintances and" personal friends of Mr. Bryan, having met him on hi former trip to North Carolina. -After the recep tion Mr.? Bryan retired to a -room in the hotel and took a short rest before-leaving for the Fair Ground where he delivered a great address and , where he .was . given a tremen -dous ovation.' ' 'The Start to the Fa; . 1 une profession started to the Fair pwunds about 12 o'clock, and In th If a of t.hlte tn A. and M. Collee band, which rendered-snleitdM music. Chief Marshal Albert ;U: Cox and his assistant marshals in full regalia and on horseback, came next. - and then carriages containing the guests,, officers of State,- officials . of the State Fair and prominent citizens, in the front carriage rode Hon. William Jennings Bryan, Governor R. B Glenn. Hon. Hannis Taylor, of Washington, D. C. ana Mr. josepnus Daniels. In the other carriages there were: Chief Justice Walter Clark. Hon. E. Li. Daughtridge. president of the Fair; Solicitor A. L. Brooks, of Greensboro, and Dr. George A. Mebane; Dr. B. F. -Dixon. State Auditor: Col. J. Bryn Grimes, Secretary of State: Hon. J. T.; Joyner. State Superintendent ef Pnbll.-s Instruction, and Mr. Hayden Clement, Assistant Attorney General; Hon. Ash ley Horne. of Clayton: General W. R. Cox. of Edgecombe: Mr. .T- B. Parker, of Raleigh. and Hon. J. A. Lon?, of Roxboro: Mr. I A. Carr, of Durham General w; p. Robert, or Gates; Hon. James A. Bnan. of New Bern, and Dr.'H. B. Marri6tt. of Battleboro; Hon. J. A. .'Brown, of Chadbourn; Major IT. A; London, of - Pittsboro; Mr. J. I.. Currie.? of Fayetteviile. and Judge A. W. Graham, of Oxford: Mr: N, B. Broughton. of Raleigh : Col. A. H. Ar lington, of Raleiarh: Mr. Locke Trrwrtn. of Oxford, and Sheriff James W. Bid die, of New Bern : Prof. J. B, Carlyle. ' of. Wake Forest: Congressman Charles R. ThOmas, of New Bern: Major J. W. Crenshaw, of WakeForest. and Hon. W. P. Wood. r-of Randolph: Hon, Fred. A. Woodard. Of ilson; Col, Joseph F. Tayloe, of ashington; Hon. Ed. Cham l ers smith, of Raleigh, and Hon. John n. Wbdard, of -Wilson r Dr. Galloway -and-family and CoL JosetJh E. rgue, tcr-retary of the State Fair. , procession was received wHh c!:;ers as it marched thro-h the sev " .. (Continued on P-e 11.) - - - ' k
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