The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-11-01


out circulars appealing to religious pre-
JUDGES / thank God that the Demo-
cratic party is a party to which people
can belong no matter of what church
occupation may be. We believe in re-
ligious and civil liberty, and men come
into the Democratic party not in order
to advance their claims against other
people, but in order to protect the rights
of all people under the American flag.
Our fight has been a fight for American
principles. applied to all these ques-
tons.
"Our fight has been a fight for those
principles upon which the governm mt
has been founded. We believe in indus
trial independence in this country and in
political independence everywhere under
our flag
Mr.. Bryan's train made quite a long
stop at Lima where he addressed the
crowd from the carriage in which he
was driven to the speaking place. He
charged the Republicans not only with
evading the campaign, but specifically
asserted that they had run away from
every issue He said:
I'VE have reached a point where we
now know that the Republican plan Of
campaign has failed, and it is too late
for the Republicans to adopt a new plan
Of campaign The Republicans started
out by refusing to discuss the trust
question. They have kept up to their
refusal. They started out by refusing
to discuss the army question They
have adhered to their refusal They
started out by trying to avoid the ques-
ton of Imperialism and they have kept
running from it. They also started out
to appeal to the laboring man with
full dinner pail, and they have dropped
the dinner pail
Five minute stops were made at the
towns of Sidney, Piqua and Troy. At
Sidney Mr.. Bryan charged that in order
to be a Republican these days a man
had to change his politics at a moments
notlce and to change often. He said
this was necessary because of the fire.
quent turns OF the Republican party on
public questions.
Piqua furnished the best crowd of the
day up to the time OF the arrival at that
place and after leaving Toledo. Mr.
Bryan dWelt there on the question of
| the trusts and among other things said:
Il want you to remember that when a
mill closed down under a Democratic
administration all the Republicans
pointed it as an evidence that a low
tariff was bad, but when a trust closes
down a mill. not a Republican dares to
say a word about the closing down of
/ the mill. You will find that all over.
this country today the trusts are closing
down mills and they are throwing upon
the laboring men the burden of main
tanning the high prices and
as the trust system develops Won viii
ind that more and more of the laboring
men viii be made dependent upon the
Word OF a few great trust magnates.'
Inc Scnedule did not include a SDeech
| at Dayton, but a very pleasant Incident
occurred there. When Mr.. Bryan's spe-
! cial train rolled into the station about
sunset there was a crowd of several
thousand people assembled at that point
Mr.. Bryan had been notified that there
| was a desire to present him with a
/ silver horseshoe from the Harugari
Llederkranz society. When the train
came to a full stop and Mr.. Bryan aT,-
| peared upon the rear platform he was
! greeted by prolonged and tumultuous
| applause. A committee of three ladies,
/ -raFal-e ffrrr-
/ their way to the front of the crowd
and handed to him box containing not
only the horseshoe but a colored por-
! trait OF Mr.. Bryan, a gold mounted
! badge, and a letter explaining that in a
/ contest in the society for the horseshoe
| Mr.. Bryan had received 1880 votes
! against go cast for President Mckinley.
Mr. Bryan responded briefly, saying
1 Il desire the ladies who presented this
horseshoe to bear my greeting to the
! members of the Harugari society and to
! say to them that while can not make
them a speech in German can say 'Ich
/ danke linen. Tell them I am glad to
know that the Republican appeal to
| the Germans has been in vain, as the
| Republican appeal has been in vain to
| other portions Of our population, for
while the Germans want good money
/ they want good government also, and the
| Republicans have mistaken the Ger
/ mans when they think they are more
anxious about the kind of money they
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/ government under which they live
am obliged to the Germans for this
| horseshoe and am grateful for the large
/ majority by which it was voted to me-
l believe that if we succeed in driving
every trust out of the United States, re-
| ducing the standing army to its former
4 size, and in saving this country from the
menace of imperialism, the blessings of
! Democratic policies will be so univer-
sally recognized that the people will
| never take the horseshoe from the
| White House door,
Ohio and Indiana both contributed to
| the dense audience which greeted Mr..
/ Bryan at College Corners, which is on
the interstate line He was enthusiast
of twenty minutes duration discussed
| the various issues of the campaign, say
/ ing among other things:
Il have been a candidate before, and
| during the last four years you have been
able to read all the Republican papers
have had to say about me. 1 read the
| other day of a new objection to me
| that I was dangerous because I was
1 honest. You have had some of the dan
/ gers that come from dishonesty, and
| don't you think for a change you had
| better try dangers that come from hon
esty? There is one consolation about
| this charge. / believe 1 have convinced
| the Republicans that when I say a thing
mean 1t, and I want you to believe me
when say that if am elected president
every power of the president will be en-
ployed to make it impossible for a pri-
vate monopoly to exist under the Amer
lean flag
Mr. Bryan spoke for five minutes at
| Hamilton, touching very briefly upon
the questions before the public. He was
| literally applauded.