Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1900 — CANDIDATES ARE NOTIFIED. [ARTICLE]

CANDIDATES ARE NOTIFIED.

Bryan and Stevenson Officially Informed of Their Nominations. At Military Park in Indianapolis Wednesday afternoon William J. Bryan was notified that for the second time he had been chosen Democracy's candidate for President. And, for the second tints in his life, Adlai E. Stevenson learned officially that his party had chosen him as its candidate for the second highest office within the gift of the people. The crowd at the park was so dense that it was tedious progress for the procession that escorted the nominees. Along the line of march the throng surged forward and backward as they cheered for Bryan nnd Stevenson. Various estimates make the number of visitors in the city 20,000 to 30,000. In addition to these strangers all Indianapolis seemed to be on foot. It was a sweltering but good-natured Crovrti. Clouds that obscured the sun early in the day were scattered by noon nnd the sun beat pitilessly upon the hosts. The thermometer registered over 90 degrees in the shade nnd in the sun, where the majority of sight-seers stood for hours, the temperature was over 100. Military park was gay - with flags and streamers; the walls of the Grand hotel, from where the parade stnrtch, were almost hidden by bunting and nearly every building along the line of march was decorated. With the day’s exercises the campaign of 1900 may be said to have opened. The addresses of Col. Bryan and Mr. Stevenson, iu reply to the chairmen of the notification committees, sounded the keynote for the party that is seeking to secure the reins of government. It is antiimperialism. A thousand words are devoted to this subject where ten are used for any other.