E[Spesking of the strain under which both Bryan and Roosevelt have been labouring in the campaign, Professor Oscar King, the University of Illinois, says: Noth prize-fighting, running, vich or pays cal record-break it any kind appeal to me so much in its physical nspvets as the indefatigable cam-pain work of W iam Jennings Bry He has somethin more than an iron con stitution, His performance in the ight of physical effort, has been wonderful."
following is the Intest table tics in relation to the performances of the two men Roosevelt. Bry Specehes. sa B00 a States covered... 19 Cities and towns ¥ 350 Namber auditors 500,000) Hand-shak 40,000 Average 2,004 600,030 lates are nominated fur ofice er made a speech in their lives, and yet who are expected to appear nightly upon the platform in order to let the voters get acquainted with them and hear their views on the leading questions at or example, Inst Saturday evening 0. H. P. Belmont, the young million ai who married the divorced wife of W. Kk. Vanderbilt, and who is running for Congress on the Tammany ticket, appeared on the end of a ruck inva drizzling rainstorm, and liatangued the voters who were hardy enough to brave the storm. Mr. Belmont was later hurried to his luxurious home, where a bath and evening clothes freshened him up for w cosy little dinner at Delmonieu's.
METAPHORS A BIT MIXED, Not being accomplished orators, many of the speakers sy things in the' next of enthnsiism which appear most fan-taste when in cold type. The other day an enthusiastic friend of President MeKintey in Canton declared before the public that MeKinley would pin the "Cross of Gold" to the Staff vf Life," aid now he wonders why his friends are laughing at him. But this little stib Coes not compare with t statement made by an earnest De the course of a speech at Chicago he declared that Bryan had taken Democracy by the neck with a glib tongue and throttled hee."
Another speaker thrilled his audience by saying that " the ballot falls as peacefully: asthe snowflake, but it executes the will of man more swiftly than lightning." The ixion which this eausad in the minds his listeners has not disap veteran of the Civil Wi to a Targs gather tuid them with great deliberateness "during President Eh next to no toothpicks were used in the United States, but under MeKinley so areas was the supply of food that the jaws of the country were as full of toothpicks as the ide of a porcupine was full of quills,"
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