Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-10-20

William J. Bryan, Mrs. Bryan and the
newspaper men who accompanied the
party through Kentucky, crossed the
river from Covington last night and
boarded the special train provided for
4, the three days tour of Ohio. Tit train
was run up to Dayton during the night,
where the private car of John r. Nc
Lean was attached, and at Greenville,
Darke county, to-day, Mr.. Bryan de-
liyered his first address in Ohio. There
was an immense crowd present.
Mr.. Mclean introduced Mr.. Bryan as
sthe unchallenged leader of the Demo-
cratic masses"
Mr.. Bryan, to avoid the crisp morn
ing air, put on a skull cap which pro-
voked good natured laughter, in re-
Spouse to which he said:
MY hair is not as much protection
as it used to be, and you ought not
complain if / am getting a little bald.
In 1896 they said l was too young to be
President. Then l had to depend upon
the constitution to protect me. Now
I can depend upon my badness. The
Chicago platform, to which Ohio gave
such loyal support in 1896, is still the
platform of the Democratic party, and
the platform of the Ohio Democracy
again endorses that platform. l believe
the planks of that platform are stronger
to-day than when they were written"
Mr.. Bryan then entered into an elab-
crate defence of the income tax, and
predicted a popular endorsement of the
proposition. He cited the efforts Of
the government to raise a revenue to
conduct the Spanish war because of
the decision of the Supreme Court
against the income tax law.
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 u%tterances. He
ALL Ia ANNR0oAAN RoANJ O
trusts were bad and others good.
TRUSTS are actually so bad said
the speaker, that a Republican con-
vention in this State, a convention run
by Mark Hanna. denounced them.
edo you know the difference between
a good trust and a bad one? A good
trust gives literally to a Republican
campaign fund and a bad one does not.
'@The Republican party cannot de-
stroy the trusts. When the attorney
general of the United States is asked
junction, Remember thy Creator The
Republican party was the creator of
the trusts"
Mr.. Bryan said that when he first
went te Cincinnati in March, 1895. to
advocate the cause of free silver. the
first and foremost man to lend him as
sistance and sympathy was John R.
Mclean.
Under his guidance" said Mr.. Bry-
an, "our party in this State polled more
votes prior to 1896 than we would have
done otherwise and the only reason we
did not carry the State in 1896 was that
there were more votes counted than
we or the law machinery showed ex-
listed in the State"
CELINA, O., October 19.-At Celina
the reception was extremely cordial.
Mr.. Mclean introduced Mr.. Bryan in
these words:
only a moment, ladies and gentle
men. Here is the man whom the ma
tional Democracy naminated in 1896
and the man who will be nominated in
1900. Ohio has already received her
instructions (Applausel. Ohio was in
structed at GAINESVILLE. This is Mr..
Bryan, gentlemen"
Mr.. Bryan said in part:
This is one of the States in which
an important campaign is being car
ried on this fall, and this election is not
only important because you choose your
State officers this year, but because the
verdict at the polls will be accepted as
your opinion upon the issues which are
now before the public.
"The farmer is careful in the selec-
tion of the hired hand and ought to be
IN the selection Of the public officer,
but it is stated he allows himself to go
to sleep and never awakens until the
affairs of the nation have run up
against a stone wall. l think the time
has come when no farmer can afford to
be a Republican. | believe the farmer
who supports that party stands in his
own light and is doing himself an in
justice. l believe the members of the
Republican party of an earlier date mad
a great reverence for Abe Lincoln.
Great changes within the party have
taken place since then. Abe Lincoln
in 1859 wrote a letter in which he
demonstrated that he believed in the
man first and the dollar afterwards.
Since those days the party has placed
the dollar first and the man afterwards
and, if you Republicans who reverence
the name of Lincoln want to change