The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-12
BRYAN EN- TUUR.
Arrives at Kansas City Shortly
After Daylight.
Twelve Thousand People Pack
ed About His Vehicle
In the Early Morning Drizzle
to Hear Him.
TAKEN IN A TALLY HO
To the Corner of Eleventh and
Grand Avenue.
Received With the Customary
Shouts and Applause.

Lincoln. Neb., Sept 12.-The silver
clubs of this city headed by a brass
band escorted William Jennings Bryan
to the depot last evening where a large
crowd had gathered to say goodbye to
the nominee of three parties. Mr.. Bry-
an started on his campaigning trip
through the south and east at 9:15 last
night, taking the Missouri Pacific road
FOR Kansas City
Mrs Bryan will not accompany her
husband through the south but is ex-
pected to join the party later.
Nebraska City, Neb., Sept. 12.-There
were short stops at EImwood, Wabash,
Weeping Water, Nehawaka and Union
where crowds varying in size from 100
TO 800 shook hands with Mr. Bryan. In
Ih1s city Mr. Bryan was given an Ova-
SiOH by 1000 people and made a short
speech asking his hearers to study the
national question as they thought best.
lie said: This is in the heart of the
richest agricultural country in the
world The people of your city deal
with the farmers and the farmers suf-
fer under the gold standard because
under it prices fall. Anything that
hurts the farmers hurts the people of
AT KANSAS CITY.
Kansas City, No, Sept. 12.-ATr. Bry-
an began his work early this morning.
at the depot were gathered nearly q
thousand WOrkingmen who surrounded
the car and aWOke him Immediately A
reception committee had met the train
at LeavenwOrth but did not wake the
nominee.
The wOrkingmen were from the car
shops and the packing houses. and they
demanded a speech from Mr.. Bryan.
From the rear end of the platform he
addressed them as follows:
Fellow Citizens:-This is a little
nrsNn
mornings work. Laughter) am
very glad to be able to speak to YOU
even for a moment Some of our oDpo-
Hents tell US that the thing to do is to
open the mills instead of the mints
That reminds me OF the man who said
fhat his horse would go all right if he
could Just get the wagon started.
Laughter and applause)
1t is putting the cart before the
pofSe- What use is there for mills un-
less people can buy what mills produce
ana ana now can you start them as long as
thoSe VINO produce the wealth of this
country, particularly the farmer are
not able to get enough out of what thew
(Applause.)
There is no more effective wav of
destroying the markets for what the
1nliIS produce than to lower prices up
on the products the farmer has raised
so that they Will not bring him enO11Pb
TO pay him for raising them
mere was report once filed by Mr.
McklnIey in 1880 along with the Nc
hlhley Dill, and that report declared
ahat there was great industrial deDres-
SION and that while there was depres-
sion IN agriculture there could be no
prosperity anywhere. It was true then
and 1t is true today. that while there
IS depression in agricultural rrOd11cte
Shere can be no prosperity anvwbpre
4 Ou must commence at the bottom ar1
work up through the other GLASSES W
cannot commence your DrOsnarit17 At
siIp - anu expect It to work down
thf0ugh all the classes of society.
ou gentlemen who live in this cftv,
surrounded by an agricultural country
Know that there is no way of brfneirzy
prosperity to Kansas City unless voI5
@ @4lLst DIlhg prosperity to those toiIers
upon whose success Kansas City rests
NApplause) 1t does not REQUIRE finan-
clers, It does not require a railroad al
1orney TO tell you where your prosperitv
lies Great applause); nor can these
men prevent you from exercising the
right of sovereignty as you please
applause and a voice, They are tr-v-
ing to do IT'D
GREATER THAN SILVER.
My friends, I met a railroad man
yesterday who told me that while he
did agree with me on the silver uues-
uon' an issue had been raised greater
than the silver question, and that was
whether he lived in a republic where
a man had the right to vote as he
pleased. or whether his vote was the
property of somebody else TO he 71se5
as somebody else pleased CApplaIIse
A voice: Missouri gives Won 100 600
majority, you bet-O
(Another voice; Put Kansas down
for 6O.00O.)
CAnOther voice: And Arkansas did
pretty well herself.O
Mr- Bryan THAT sounds very much
like one of those meetings where thew
take up a collection. 6aughter) When
You talk about the results of an cleo
ton, the people from the various states
vie with each other to see who can
make It the nearest to unanimous
My friends, there is one Characters
tic about this campaign, and that is the
intense earnestness of the people. Some
times in a campaign you find men luke
warm, people who do not know whether
they are going to the polls or not and
sometimes you find 1t necessary to get
carriages to take people to the polls |
Unless all signs fail, the people are go
ing 10 be at the polling places before |
the booths open and stay there until
they close, and there won't be a man
VINO can get to the polls but who will
oe sure TO De there What does it mean? /
II means that the people are taking the /
interest IN the election that the people |
ought always to take. They are be
ginning to understand the value Of the
ballot as the means by which they can
redress their wrongs. Sometimes DeO- /
PIE have complained that the laws were
bad, and have allowed them to remain
bad They have complained that thew
ought TO be better. and have done
nothing to make them better. If the |
laws are bad they themselves are TO
blame, and If they wish good laws thew
must secure them themselves And
this interest means something. It means
that government is going to be made