The record-union., 1899-10-20

GREENVILLE (Ohio), Oct. 19.-Will-
lam ]. 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
the three days tour of Ohio and ran to
Dayton during the night where the
private car of John r. Mclean was at
tached. To-day at Greenvile Mr.. Bryan
delivered his first address in Ohio.
There was an immense crowd.
The visiting crowd was escorted to
the Courthouse square. John r. Nc
Lean, the Democratic candidate for
Governor, introduced Mr. Bryan.
Mr.. Bryan put on a skull cap, which
provoked goOd-natured laughter, in re-
sponse to which he said:
MY hair is not as much protection as
tt used to be, and you ought not to
complain if l am getting a little bald.
In 1896 they said 1 was too young to be
President. Then I had to depend upon
the Constitution to protect me. Now I
can depend upon my badness. Uaugh-
ter and applause) I am glad to be in
county which, though Darke in name.
is bright in political principles a coun-
in 1896 of LOO. You want to increase
that majority this fall. (Cries of 1--WE
viii do that!') If there was one rea-
son for your voting the Democratic
ticket in 1896 there are sixteen reasons
to one why you should do so this fall.
There was nothing complained of in
1896 that cannot be complained of now.
The same vicious principles advocated
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to-day in this campaign.
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-
Gratis again indorses that platform.
believe the planks of that platform are
stronger than when they were writ
ten"
Mr.. Bryan then entered into an elab-
crate defense of the income tax and
predicted popular Endorsement of the
proposition. He cited the efforts OF the
Government to raise a revenue 70 con-
duct the Spanish war because of the
decision, Of the Supreme Court against
the income tax law. He continued:
Under the present system you make
the poor pay more and the rich people
L
man should share in the expenses of
the Government according to his abil-
ity and in proportion to the benefits de-
rived from the protection of the Gov
eminent I believe in protecting the
struggling poor"
Touching the money question. he
said
I wonder if any Republican here
14rffr Il.
1t ought TO be continued? If so I want
to remind him that among the first
things the Republican President did
after his Inauguration was TO send a
commission TO Europe to get rid of
this good thing. If any Republican is
in doubt it ought to be removed by this
action of a Republican President All
doubt should be removed when England
spanked our commission and sent it
home. My friends that question is still
unsettled and the fight will continue
until it is taken out of the hands of
foreign Power and placed in those of
seventy millions of free men"
He treated the question in practically
the same manner as characterized his
Kentucky utterances, averring that
while we had trusts in 1896 they We're
HOt 50 pieHllAul OF lnenaclng as To-Day,
that one leech may suck blood without
the great public realizing its presence,
but that an army of leeches took away
the substance of public life. He claimed
the Republican party said some trusts
We're bad and others good. do you
want to know what trusts are?" asked
the speaker. Trusts are actually so
bad that a Republican convention in
this State, a convention run by Mark
Hanna, denounced them. They told