The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-10-18
The Greatest Meetings Yesterday at
Troy and Albany.
GREAT OVERFLOW CROWDS ADDRESSED
M. Bryan is Accompanied by Several New
York Speakers and Mayor Jones, Of
Toledo, Who Assist Him at the
Overflow Meetings.
Overflow Meetings.
(By the Associated Press.)

and probably spoke to as cosmopolitan
lot of people as he has addressed during
the campaign At Hudson he spoke to
gathering of business people of all
classes, at Troy to the capacity of an
opera house and with an overflow meeting
CT collar factory and laundry employees;
at Mechanicsville to railroad people; at
Cohoes to the mass Of the employees of the
cotton and wooden mills, and at Albany
to two immense meetings, one in the
opera house and one outside composed of
(. the best element in the city. During this
speech making. Mr. Bryan was accom-
panied by Chairman of the State Commit
tee Frank Campbell; Judge c. N. Bulger,
OF Oswego; ex-senator Edward Murphy
ex-Mayor Francis Malloy, of Troy; Mayor
Samuel M. Jones, of Toledo, ard j. j..
Delaney of New York.
Messrs. Bulger, Delaney and Jones al
ternated in the speaking with Mr.. Bryan
assisting particularly at places where
there were overflow meetings. The great
meetings Of this trip were held at Troy,
the home of ex-senator Murphy and AL
bany, the home of ex-senator HILL Mr..
Hill is absent in the West. At both Troy
and Albany the meetings were phenome-
nally large and enthusiastic immense
overfiows having to be held to accomo-
date those who desired either to hear or
see Mr.. Bryan.
During this traversing of the two sides
of a triangle Mr.. Bryan alluded to many
things which he has not mentioned at
many other places during the campaign.
FRUITS OF SELF GOVERNMENT.
AT Hudson he said:
Il believe that Mexico is far better
off because we took our flag down from
the capitol when the Mexican War was
over and brought it back to the Rio
Grande
81 think Mexico is better today and we
are better than if we had held carpet
bag government in place there by means
OF bayonet, and l think that self-gov
eminent in Mexico, half Spanish and half
Indian, has developed the people more
and has brought them further than would
heve,s been the case had we held them
der our dominion, and if you doubt it, look
at Mexico and compare Mexico with In
dia. Under thirty years of self-govern-
ment Mexico has made more progress
than India has made in one hundred and
fifty years oppressed by Anglo-Saxon SOL
his service to the American colonies in
India, out of 300 000,C0 and it takes an
army of seventy thousand British soldiers
to take care of the British population
and it takes q native army of 100000 to
help the British army of 10000 in its
work of protection
At Troy he said:
THE Republican party has changed its
ideas and it's ideals in the last quarter
of century. / remember reading a let
ter from Abraham Lincoln, to the Re-
publicans Of Boston who were celebrating
Jefferson's birthday. Do you remember
whether the Republicans of this communi-
ty have celebrated Jefferson's birthday
lately? Have they had any banquet in
his honor under Republican auspices in
recent years? l think not. Not in any
part of the country and yet, my friends,
in 1856 when the Republican party was
organized it's platform appealed to all who
wanted to carry the Government back to
the principles CT Washington and Jeffer-
son. Today the Republican party meets
to celebrate the birthdsv, not of Jeffer-
son but of Hamilton. D,ffersons great
political opponent"
EVILS OF A GREAT ARMY.
At Cohoes Mr.. Bryan said
1--WE will soon find the army here de-
manding the punishment of an innocent
man as the army in France demanded the
punishment of Dreyfus, man so inno-
cent that the President felt that he must
pardon him as soon as he was convicted,
because of the outraged sense of justice
expressed throughout the world
He paid high tribute to Lafayette and
his service to the merican colonies in
their war for freedom and spoke of the
gift of the Statue of Liberty in New York
harbor from the people of the French Re-
public and asked:
"Shall we take that statue down and
send 1T back to France and tell the peo-
pie of France that we are not in the lib
erty business any more? Shall we send
over to England and get a statue of Will
liam the Conqueror and place it in New
York harbor to indicate the change that
has taken place in our nations ideals"
RIGHTS OF WoRKINGMEN.
The Albany meetings were net begun
as promptly as some that had taken place
elsewhere A parade kept the assem-
blages in the street and theatre waiting
The theatre was filled to repletion and
large overflow on the outside command
ed Mr. organs attention. Mr. Bryan's
voice showed palpable signs of wear He
said in part:
"The Republican party goes on the
theory that society is built from the top.
They say, take care of the WE'LL do and
they will take care of those who are not
well-to-do, and when you tell them of
the story of Lazarus end Dives they say:
What lucky man Lazarus was to have
Dives near, so he could get the crumbs
that fell from Dives table man in
your State in 1896 said that the pros
peritv Of the laboring man and the farmer
deponded upon The prosperity of the bank
ers and the business man. He got it just
reversed The prosperity of the business
man depends upon the prosperity of the