The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-10-22
Gives Extracts From a Review
Of Reviews Article
Alleged to Have Been Written
by the New Yorker.
OPENS AT HUNTINGTON
His Second Tour of the State of
West Virginia.
Crowd Stood In the Rain to
Hear Him.

Huntington, W. Va, Oct. Wv. J.
Bryan. the Democratic presidential can
didate, Joined his private car early to-
day at Kenova- Approaching that Mr..
Bryan would find it impossible to cover
the short distance between Huntington
and Kenova without engaging a special
conveyance, Colonel McGraw sent Mr..
Bryan's own car to meet him at the
point with a special engine. He was
welcomed by the newspaper correspond
ents aboard his car.
Mr.. Bryan made the first speech of his
second West Virginia. tour in this city
at 10 O'Clock today. Mr.. Bryan talked
from stand erected on a vacant block.
Rain had begun to fall before he APP
peared, but the crowd stood in the rain
to hear him. Mr.. Bryan was received
with loud applause.
Before beginning his speech proper,
Mr.. Bryan referred to the presence on
the platform of a brother of the late
New York banker, st. John, who, not
withstanding his calling. had supported
the Democratic ticket in 1896. Taking
up the full dinner pail Mr. Bryan at
tackled the theory that a well supplied
table could meet all the demands of the
working people. Referring to Governor
Roosevelt's recent visit to this city he
said;
Il understand that you had a parade
here, and that man was carrying a
bucket in the parade, and some one
asked him if his dinner pail was full.
He said: No, it is empty, and paid
twice as much it was worth then
You will find lots of men who have the
same complaint
In connection with his discussion of
government by injunction, Mr.. Bryan
quoted from an extract from an article
alleged to have been written for the Re-
view Of Reviews by Governor Roose-
Welt in September, 1896. He said: Y on
laboring men who are opposed to gov
err foxri n
what opinion the Republican party has
Of you. as stated by the man who now
represents the Republican party as its
candidate" He then quoted as follows:
THE men who object to what they
style government by injunction are, as
regards the essential principles, in hearty
sympathy with their remote skin-clad
ancestors who lived in caves, fought
one another with stone axes and ate the
mammoth and woolly rhinoceros.'
Commenting on this, Mr.. Bryan said:
Il want to ask you whether you ex-
pect any relief from government by in
junction from people who say that any
man who opposes government by in
junction ought to be classed with the
woolly rhinocerOS. The Democratic
party believes that right of trial by
jury is g. sacred thing. and that If you
can give it to the meanest thief and the
blacklist murderer, you ought to give
it to a laboring man as we'll
Mr.. Bryan discussed the trusts at
length, referring as usual to the ice
trust
Referring to the question of Imperial
ISM" Mr.. Bryan declared that the Re
publican party could not defend it, and
was therefore saying there was no such
thing.
Discussing our title to the Philippines
Mr.. Bryan said we had none that was
legitimate Forty years ago." he said,
the Republican party was contending
that you cannot buy a black man for
81 900; now they are wiling to buy brown
men in job lots at $3.50 apiece He
closed with an appeal to the people Of
this country not to further complicate
the race question of this country by add
ing any more alien people to our popu-
lation.