The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-10-20
MIR. BRYAN In OHIO
is EVERYWHERE GREETED BY
GREAT CROWDS OF DEMO-
CRATIC VOTERS
LEADING ISSUES ARR DISCUSSED
MIR. BRYAN URGES A UNITED Eff
FORT TO CARRY OHIO FOR THE
DEMOCRATIC TICKET
NATIONAL RESULTS INVOLVED

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Will Mean Triumph for the Ma
tionaI Ticket as Weli-Ohfo IA
State Depended Upon to Do Much
for Democracy-Mr. Bryan Speaks
Upon Imperialism and Trusts.
| DEFIANCE, O., Oct. 19.-The Bryan
! party closed the first day of the Ohio
| tour in this city tonight before a large
| and interested crowd in the opera house.
! A street parade and reception preceded
the meeting. Hon. John Lentz, who was
| speaking when the Bryan party entered,
| gave way to John r. Mclean, the candi-
date for governor, who briefly addressed
| the meeting in introducing Mr.. Bryan
| Mr.. Bryan said, in reference to his in
PRODUCTION as the next president:
81 have only one ambition, shared by
| every citizen-that Is, to leave this gov
ernment to my children better than
found it. 1 want you to believe me when
1 tell you that if the victory won by Re-
publicans in 1886 inures to the good of
the people l shall rejoice. 1 shall be here
for many years. 1 say this for the benefit
of Republicans who heap criticism upon
me-
Continuing, Mr.. Bryan said:
This is one of the states in which an
| important campaign is being carried on
| this fail, and this election is not only i'm
portant because you chose your state
officers this year. but that the verdict of
the polls Will be accepted as your opinion
| upon the issues which are now before
| the public Some one has lkened the gov
ernment to corporation, in which every
nit nn1y hn11 lob f~01r tir,okA
| to time elects its directors Taking the
| idea Of government the directors can Sc
lect new board of directors when they
choose, and the directors ought to pro-
| tect the interests Of the stockholders.
| That is matter of business, whether ap
piled to the stockholder or the citizen,
the one. representing the other in the
| corporation
"The voter has a right to expect the Of
| ficers to observe the conditions and prom
| ises Of the platform. The farmer is care
| and ought to be in the selection of the
public officer, but it is said he allows him
til the affairs of the nation have run
UP against stone wall. They never re-
alize a public condition until they run up
| against a stone wall.
! farmer can afford to be Republican;
I believe the farmer who supports that
party stands in his own light, and Is
| doing himself an injustice.
II believe the members of the Republi-
can party of an earlier date have a great
reverence for Dr., Abraham ora LINCOLN coin Great a,
| place since then. Abraham Lincoln, in
1859. wrote a letter in which he demon
strated 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 Lincoln's
| name want to change conditions and bring
| the, marty back to Lincoln,s standard. YOU
| must employ an artist to draw the differ
| ence between Mark Hanna and Abraham
Lincoln employing the toboggan slide as
| a background. (Applausel With Abra-
ham Lincoln the man came first; with
Mark Hanna nothing is genuine unless
| the dollar mark is blown in the bottle.
when the Republican party was or
ganized it was with the idea that political
| convictions were stronger than party ties.
| The vicious dollar was not considera-
ton then
GENERAL ISSUES.
| Mr.. Bryan then discussed the income
| tax and the greenback, with the accom-,
| panying right to issue money, claiming
| the Republican party planned to retire
the greenbacks in favor of the national
| banks, who had more influence than the
common people, recalling the fact a
! matter of inconsistency that the Repub-
! lican national convention of 1883 de-
! nounced Cleveland for demonetizing sill
| yer.
! Regarding the trusts Mr.. Bryan fol-
J lowed his previous line of argument say
! ing that when the Republicans tell you
some of the trusts are bad and some good
tell them they all look alike to you until
| the Lord sends angels to take care of
! them, and he has not sent them yet.
| Gaughter)
He paid a passing reference to Gov.
Roosevelt's appearance in this state In
/ support of a larger standing army, asked
! If it was for the purpose of securing the
blessings of assimilation, and likened our
Philippine policy to the colonial policy of
England in India, suggesting that the
! president of the United States have the
title of president of the United States and
emperor of the Philippines, Queen Vic
toria being recognized as the queen OF
England and the empress of India. The
| increased empire meant an increased
army and increased taxation to support
the theory of Imperialism
He challenged the Republicans to de-
fend the policy of measuring human life
by the value of acquired territory He
did not believe the American people
would be willing that one human being
should be sent to death in this way, and
he did not believe if every Filipino were
killed tomorrow that Americans could
go there and attempt to exist under a
tropical sun. He denounced the preach
ing that God had been the Instrumental
ity of our presence in the Philippines, and
said:
when God gets ready to speak to the
American people he will find somebody
else than Mark Hanna as mouthpiece''
Mr.. Bryan did not believe we could
| shoot or dynamite our civilization into
| the Ftlipinos, nor cid he believe that in
the matter of territorial acquisition we
! should sink to the low level of European
! nations, affirming that we should not trade
the glory of a hundred years as repub-
lie for the doubtful glory of an EN-.
| pire.
eve have placed upon the platform in
this state a ticket representing the plat
| FORM, continued Mr.. Bryan, "and when
| you vote for that ticket you vote for the
! platform Mr.. Mclean has been fight.
ing in his paper for the things you be-
| heve. He heads the fight in indorsing
these principles. l hope the people will
give him larger vote than they gave
me. am more interested in the princi-
pies for which l stand than any mere
| compliment you can pay me- | would
rather have big majority for the can
| dldate this fall, because 1 want these
candidates to win, and I shall be happv
If you telegraph me Mclean has larger
vote than l received in 1896" (Applarsel
Mr.. Bryan delivered six addresses to-
day and everywhere was heartily re-
ceived. At Celina the reception was ex-
tremely cordial. A gathering of good
proportions greeted the arrival of the
train. j. W. Loree presided and intro
duced Mr.. Mclean, who in turn intro
duced Mr.. Bryan.
AT Van Vert at o'clock the visiting