Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1900 — REMARKABLE CAMPAIGNING OF BRYAN AND ROOSEVELT. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

REMARKABLE CAMPAIGNING OF BRYAN AND ROOSEVELT.

This presidential campaign has been remarkable in more ways than one. In the first place, there lias been the most systematic end thorough canvass ever made fn the whole history of American polities. Again, there has been employed by each party the largest number of orators ever put on the stump; ami there has consequently been made the largest number of speeches of all presidential campalgnK Most remarkable, however, have been the feats performed by Mr. Bryan and Mr. Roosevelt, who up to Oct. 20, the former beginning Aug. 31 and the latter Sept. 24, had made the following unexcelled records: Roosevelt. Bryan. States covered.. 19 14 Cities visited.,.- 350 280 Speeches 300 285 Total words 600,000 997,000 Number of auditors.7oo,ooo 550,000 'Thus Roosevelt averaged each day 12 speeches of 2,000 words each, and Bryan seven of 3,700 words each. Roosevelt addressed an average of 30,000 persons a day, and Bryan one of 13,W0. Bryan broke his own record of 1896, a comparison being made between equivalent periods. Surely, these men have performed wonderful feats of physical and mental endurance and have made the campaign of 1900 more memorable than that of 1896, which was then considered wonderful from what Mr. Bryan did in the way of making speeches from the tail end of the “campaign special” train.

“WELL, BOYS, YOU’VE CERTAINLY BROKEN THE RECORDS.”