The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-10-20
BRYAN BEGINS
THREE DAYS. TOUR
Stumping Ohio for the Dem
ocratic Nominee.
DEFENDS THE INCOME TAX
o
THRONGS GREET HIM ON FIRE
WITH ENTHUSIASM.
BRYAN JOKES ABOUT GROWING BALD
Then Getting Down 10 Business he Declares
the Republican Party the Creator Of
Trusts and Denounces Inn
periaIism.
perialism.

perialism.
Greenyille, Ohio, Oct. William
Jennings Bryan, Mrs. Bryan and the
newspaper men who accompanied the
party throughout Kentucky, crossed the
river from Covington last night and
boarded the special train provided for
the three days tour of Ohio. The train
was run to Dayton during the night
where the private car of John r. Me-
Lean was attached, and at Greenville
Darke county, today, Mr.. Bryan deliv-
cred his first address in Ohio. There
was an immense crowd present. The
decorations were numerous and tasteful
and the enthusiasm pronounced.
The visiting party was escorted to the
court house square by a mounted body
largely composed Of the farmers of che
country. DIR. l.. G. Anderson presided
and introduced Mr.. and Mrs. Bryan
and introduced Mr. John IL. Mclean,
the Democratic candidate for Governor.
Mr.. Mclean introduced Mr.. Bryan as
the unchallenged leader of the Demo-
cratic masses. Mr.. Bryan to avoid the
crisp morning air, put on a skull cap,
which provoked good natured laughter,
in response to which he said:
"My hair is not as much protection as
it used to be, and y0u ought not to COM
plain il am getting little bald. In
1896, they said | was too young to be
President Then | had to depend upon
the constitution to protect me. Now
can depend upon my badness.
THE Chicago platform to which you
gave such loyal support in 1896, is still
the platform of the Democratic party
and the platform of the Ohio Demo
cracy again endorses that platform. |
believe the planks of that platform are
stronger today than when they were
written"
Mr.. Bryan then entered into an ella
borate defense of the income tax and
predicted a popular endorsement of the
proposition. He cited the efforts of the
decision of the Supreme court against
the income tax.
He said the money question was still
unsettled and the fight would be con-
tinued
He treated the matter of trusts in
practically the same manner as charac-
terized his Kentucky utterances.
He claimed the Republican party said
some trusts were bad and others good.
TRUSTS are actually so bad" said the
speaker, that a Republican Convention
in this State, a convention run by Mark
Hanna, denounced them.
do you know the difference between
a good and bad trust? A good trust
gives literally to a Republican campaign
and a bad one does not. The Republican
party cannot destroy the trusts. When
the Attorney General of the United
States is asked to intervene there comes
the Biblical injunction Remember thy
creator The Republican party was
the creator of the trusts.
Mr.. Bryan denounced the increase of
the regular army as being called for by
the President two months before there
was any war or act of hostility, which
he construed as the basis for change in
our national policy, a change from the
simplicity of Republic to that of inn
perialism.
II dare the Republicans to defend the
title by purchase of 10,0OO,00O OF men,
continued Mr.. Bryan.
..They assert the right to be III the
Philippines by purchase and that too,
after having paid a less price for hui
man beings than we pay for hogs.
.sIet God choose between this definI-
ton of the declaration of independence
and that which says all governments
derive their just powers from the conz-
sent of the governed.
Mr.. Bryan said that when he first went
to Cincinnati, in March, 1893, to adyo-
cate the cause of free silver, the first
and foremost man to lend him assistance
and sympathy was John Il. Mclean.
Under his guidance" continued Mr..
Bryan, 'our party in this State poiied
more votes prior to 1896 than We wouid
have done otherwise, and the only req
son we did not carry the State In loPo
was that there were more votes couhtep
than we or the law machinery supposeq
existed in the State"
BRYAN'S SPEECH AT CELINA.
Celina, o., Oct 19--At Celina the
reception was extremely cordial. Mr..
Bryan said in part:
This is one of the States i'm which an
important campaign is being carried on
this fall and this election is mot only
important because you choose your State
officers this year, but because the yer-
diet at the polls will be accepted as your
onitriom upon the issues which are now
before the public. Some one has likened
Government to a corporation in which
every citizen is a stockholder, which
from time to time elects its. directors.
Taking that idea of Government the
Stockholders can select a new board Of
directors when they choose and the direc-