The age-herald., 1900-11-06
BUOYANT WITH HOPE.
MT. Bryan Brings His Wonderful
 Campaign to Close.

Lincoln, Neb., November 5.-With seven speeches at Omaha tonight, W. J. Bryan completed his Presidential campaign in this State. He returned here at o'clock from a twelve-hour tour of the interior of the state, and proceeding immediately to the Peoples Square delivered speech of about thirty minutes duration to his townspeople. MT. Bryan seemed entirely satisfied with the audience which greeted him at the va- rious points in his own state during the day.
 It was half an, hour to daylight when the Democratic Presidential candidate be- gan the last day of his campaign, and he commenced the first speech of the day be- fore sunrise.
 Previous to separating last night from the newspaper correspondents who have accompanied on his campain tour of the country, Mr. Bryan told them he expected to put in eighteen hours today, and notified them that he would start his tour of the state at 5:45 o'clock this morning
 The itinerary of the day embraced the towns of Exeter, Fairmont, Harvard, Min den, Holeridge, Wilcox, Blue Hill, Hast ings Aurora, York and Seward, with turn to Lincoln and a speech there at o'clock, and then a dash to Omaha with seven or eight speeches in that city to- night
 Exeter, the first stopping place, sixty five miles distant from Lincoln, was reach ed at a. m. MT. Bryan was hastily corted to a hall nearby, where he made his first speech. The hall was filled to over flowing. The speech was very little diff ferent from MT. Bryan's speeches to agri- cultural communities in other parts of the country.
 You are about to vote," he said in be- ginning, land by your votes determine what you want in government and in the way of laws" He took up the subject of farm mortgages early in his talk, but be- fore doing so made passing thrust at the trusts, saying on this latter subject:
 "The Republican party has been in power for four years and during that time we have seen trusts increase at rapidity never known before, and when Republicans tell you they want you to be satisfied with the conditions they have brought just re- member that the trust is one of the con- ditions brought by the Republican party, and it has no plans or purposes to rid the country of trusts or to protect the peo- pie against them.''
 The Trusts.
 He then entered upon his discussion of the farm mortgage question:
 Reverting to the trusts MT Bryan said:
 'I want you all to vote early and when you get up on election morning, 1t will probably be dark, you will have to light a lamp, and just remember that you are ing oil furnished by the Standard Oil Con- pany, and that the Standard oil Company is paying this year a dividend of 50 per cent $50,000,000, on $100000,000 of capital, and the Standard oil Company Is pros- porous under the Republican administra- tion. But look at the prosperity of the Standard Oil Company, while your lamp Is burning, and compare 1t with the prosper ity of the farmer. Then when you get your coffee, remember that the price of coffee is controlled by trust and when you put your sugar in, remember that it is controll- ed by trust and if you have crackers re- member that the National Biscuit Company controls the price of biscuits. You will find that there Is hardly a thing that you use that the trust does not control promise you that if I am elected every power of the President will be used to make it impossible for private monopoly to exist in the United States"
 Brief stops were made at the towns of Farmont and Harvard and in both places MT. Bryan's speeches were along the gen. eral lines and to good crowds.
 Mir Bryan again urged his audience at Fairmont to vote early.
 At Harvard there were great many gold badges in the crowd which greeted MT. Bryan and there were fewer cheers there than at most places.
 Outside of Lincoln and Omaha, Hastings supplied the largest audience. MT. Bryan spoke for half an hour and in connection with his discussion of the Boer question ~~-~~-->----------->-
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