The age-herald., 1899-09-24
He Tells the People He is in the
 Race to Win.
PROMINENT IN PUBLIC AFFAIRS
First Gubernatorial Candidate to Pulp licly Declare for the Renomina- tion of Bryan and Against
 Imperialism and Trusts

Centrevlle, September 2S.-(Special)-At the conclusion of his speech here today under the auspices of the Bryan club, Hon. John w. Tomlinson formally announced that he was in the race for governor.
 He said he stood on inc Chicago platform, which, as a delegate to the last national con vention, he helped to make; that he favored avigorous war against the trusts by both fed erAl and state action, and that he stood with MT. Bryan in opposing the imperialistic ten dencies of the republican party, as evinced in their foreign policy regarding the so-called "new possessions"
 MT. Tomlinson arrived at 12:3O over the Mobile and Ohio. The speaking com menced shortly after 1 o'clock. The audi ence was a representative one, among the prominent democrats being present were J. T. Ellison, s. T. Logan, J. F. Thomp- son, J. M. Brown, Dr. M c. Scholar, pr. J. S. Moore, J. T. Roney. L. L. Wyatt, J. w. Thompson.
 MT. Tominson was introduced to the au- dience by Hon. s. T. Logan, for many years a member of the state democratic executive committee.
 Audience Was With Him
 MT. Tomlinson spoke for an hour and a half. The audience listened to his argu- ments on the issues of the day with close attention It was evident that the audi ence was with him throughout. In dis cussng the currency question, the ques- tion Of the trusts. and the expansion ques- ton, he said that he desired that the discus- sion should be regarded as impersonal. He appealed to his listeners to decide the questions upon their merits, free from prejudice and without regard to whose po- liical fortunes might be affected by the result. He said that he expected to argue these great questions without regard to how they might affect his own political fortunes or the political fortunes of others, taking the side that he believed to be right
 From a Scientific Standpoint
 In discussing the currency question, he presented it from scientific standpoint. He said the fundamental questions gov erning the correct solution of the ques- tions were principles of political economy; that there were three forces operating upon values; the supply and the demand of the thing itself, the volume of money in the country and agreements of the trusts.
 He showed that after the supply and the demand fixed the price or an article the volume of money then put the price higher or lower, as the volume of money was in creased or decreased; that the trusts and combines then came along, and being few In number, but powerful in influence, could arbitrarily put up the price of certain things. while the farmers, being many in number and scattered, could not put up the price of what they had to sell.
 He showed that the trust could put up the price of the things within the trust, and force the people to buy at the increased price, because the tariff forbade them to come into the markets of the world and buy where they could buy cheapest.
 School Book Trust
 MT Tomlinson pointed out to the audi ence how the book trust was robbing the children of Alabama He said it stood at rhe doors of the schoolhouses and demand ed tribute from every school-going child in Alabama He showed where the trust was charging for school books they sold in Ala bama nearly twice what they were selling them for in other states where the matter Is regulated by law. He had with him In pamphlet form the laws of Indiana and West Virginia the subject. He showed where, for instance, McGuffey's speler and McGuffey's first reader sold in those states at ten cents a copy, while in Alabama the lowest price was II cents, and in some places 9 cents for each copy. He went over the list of such school books generally and showed where Alabama paid more than the trust sold the books for in Indiana and West Virginia, where laws had been passed on the subject. MT. Tominson said he proposed to make this question spe- rial issue in Alabama politics. He said the trusts and combines that were so anxious to educate the Filipinos, two-thrds of whom could read and write, could be of more service if they would quit selling school books at exorbitant prices.
 Mr. Tominson argued the question of imperialism at length. He contended that as this country had no power to