The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-10-20
BRYAN IN OHIO.
He Assails the Trusts and Gives
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GREBNvILLE. Ohio. Oct. 1o.-Will-
lam ]. Bryan. Mrs. Bryan and the
Newspaper men who accompanied the
party through Kentucky, crossed the
river from coyington last night and
boarded the special train provided for
the three days tour Of Ohio. The
train was run up to Dayton during the
night, where the private car Of John R.
Mclean was attached and At GFeenville.
Darke county. to-day Mr. Bryan de-
llvered his first address in Ohio. There
was an immense crowd present The
decorations were numerous ana taste
full and the enthusiasm pronounced.
The visiting party was escorted %
the court house square by q mounted
body, largely composed Of the farmers
Of the county. Dr.. L, c, Anderson pre-
sided and introduced Mr.. John Il. NC
Lean, the Democratic candidate 4or
governor.
Mr., Mclean introduced Mr.. Bryan as
"the unchallenged leader Of the DEM
ocratlc Inasses."
MI. Bryan, to avoid the crisp MORN
ing air, put on skull cap which pro-
voked good-natured laughter, In re-
Spouse 10 which he said:
MY hair Is not as much protection as
It used to be, and you ought not com-
plain II / am getting a little bald. IN
1895 they said l was too young TO be
President. lnen had to descend upon
the constitution to protect me. Nov
can depend upon my badness. The
Chicago platform, to which Ohio gave
such loyal support In 1895, Is still the
platform OF the Democratic party ana
the platform Of the Ohio, Democracy
again endorses that platform. believe
the planks Of that platform are stronger
to-day than when they were written.
Mr.. Bryan then entered into an elab.
crate defense OF the income tax ana
predicted q popular endoFSemnt OF the
proposition. He cited the EFFORTS OF the
government to raise a revenue % con-
duct the Spanish war because OF the
decision Of the supreme court against
the income tax law. He said the mo-
ney question WIS stu unsettled ana
the fight would be continued.
He treated the matter OF trusts IN
practically the same manner as charac-
terized mis- Kentucky utterances: he
claimed the Republican party said some
trusts were bad and others good.
Trusts are actually so bad, Sald the
speaker, "that Republican convention
In this state, convention run by Mark
Hanna, denounced them.
do you know the difference between
a good trust and a bad one? a good
trust gives literally to q Republican
campaign fund and bad one does not.
"The Republican party cannot destroy
the trusts. When the attorney general
Of the United States is asked to inter-
Vene there comes the biblical Injunc-
ton, Remember thy Creator The Re
publican party was the creator OF the
trusts
went to Cincinnati in March, 1895, to
advocate the cause of free silver, the
first and foremost man to lend him as
slstance and sympathy was John Il.
Mclean.
"Under his guidance" said Mr.: Bry-
nm, "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 1895 was that
there were more votes counted than we
or the law machinery showed existed In
the state"