The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-10-11
MAINTAINS THE RATIO.
Col. Bryan Again Makes Sixteen
Speeches IN One Day.

Grand Rapids, Mich, Oct. 1.-THE
weather for the first day of Mr.. Bryans
tour of the state of Michigan was all
that could be asked. He made 16 ad-
dresses from first to last, and all but
one of the meetings were held in the
open air The tour was under the man
agement of State Chairman Campau,
and was admirably conducted. The train
was at no time more than ten minutes
behind time, and all of the speaking
platforms were erected so near the rail-
road stations that in only one instance
was it necessary for Mr.. Bryan to en-
ter a carriage. The country traversed
was varied in character. including the
famous Michigan celery belt, the scarce
ly less famous peach country. as well as
several furniture manufacturing dis
tricts. The towns in which speeches
were made were: Michigan City, New
Buffalo, Benton Harbor, Niles, Dowa-
giac, Lawton, Kalamazoo, Plainfell,
Otsego, Allegian, Hamilton, Holland,
Grand Haven, Muskegon and Grand
Rapids, two meetings being held at the
last named place. The crowds were all
complimentary in size as well as IN the
attention given, but those of the day
were not so large nor so enthusiastic as
Mr.. Bryan'S meetings in Indiana and IL
linOis. The night meetings at Muskegon
ana 0TfanQ RAPIDS were DOlu however
numerOusly attended and at both there
were frequent bursts of applause is well
as words of approval These meetings
were equal to the best of the entire tour
At Kalamazoo where there are many
HOllanders, Mr.. Bryan expressed his
warm sympathy with the Beers, say
ing:
"Of all the pathetic pages of history
none is sadder than the page which is
being enacted today down in South At
RIGA. A people who came from a race
that has for centuries loved independ-
ence, a Hberty-loVing people, are strug-
Cling for the rights that our forefatherS
fought for and grandfathers. father and
son are dying together in the trenches,
and the women take up the guns and
fight when the men are dead, and yet
the Republican party is so busy trying
to figure the profits of syndicateS in the
Philippine islands that it has no time to
be sorry for the Beers My friends, when
did a party ever fall from such a high
estate in so short a timer"
Otsega, the next stop, was down for
only a three-minute speech, but Mr..
Bryan extended the time to about ten
minutes. The trust question had been
considerably agitated at this point and
Mr.. Bryan plunged into it at the very
beginning. At this point Mr.. Bryan was
presented with a fine silk hat to take
the place of the hat he was represented
to have lost in North Dakota.
Allegan extended very hOspitable
welcome to Mr.. Bryan. At that point
there was a beautifully decorated stage,
and q number of children dressed in
white threw flowers in his path as he
walked across it,
In his speech Mr. Bryan discussed the
general issues of the campaign. Con-
trasting Senator Hanna with President
Lincoln he said:
To-day the dollar comes first and the
man afterward, if at all and ] want you
who voted for Lincoln to put Lincoln at
one end of the Republican party and
Hanna at the other end, and then look
at the tobogEan slide. If Mr. LincOln's
ideas were right, Mr.. Hanna's ideas must
be wrong. If Mr.. Hanna's are right, Mr.
Lincoln's must have been wrong"
At Holland Mr.. Bryan also encounter
ed a Dutch community to whom he paid
tribute, saying most of them had been
drawn to this country by their love of
liberty and their admiration for Ameri-
can institutions. Mr.. Bryan repeated his
plea for the South African republics
and added a few words personally to
President Kruger.
Mr.. Bryan arrived at Muskegon a few
minutes before o'clock and had the
first of his night meetings. He remained
at that place for almost an hour and
addressed by far the largest audience of
the day up to that time. In his speech
at this place he referred at some length
to a report Of a recent visit to Porto
Rico made by Ex-Governor PattiSOn of
Pennsylvania
Mr. Bryan made two speeches in Grand
Rapids. The first of these was made
in Campau square and the crowd cover
ed almost the entire area There the
Democratic presidential candidate made
a comparatively brief speech. His au-
dience was vociferously demonstrative.
He then repaired to the Auditorium
where he made the principal speech of
the evening This hall seats 1000 people
and not only was every seat taken, but
every available bit of standing room was
occupied. Among those seated on the
stage as vice presidents We're a dozen or
more men who had supported Palmer
and Buckner in 1896. Among these
were Edwin F. Uhl, ex-minister to Ger
many; G. S. Hazletime, ex-consu1 to
Milan; Chief Justice CHamplin, ex-Post-
master Carroll and ex-Representative
White. In his speech Mr.. Bryan dis
cuSsed the principal issues of the cam
paign. IN regard to the trusts he said:
When election comes, the trusts con-
trolling thousands Of men, will offer
them the alternative of voting the Re
publican ticket or enforced idlenesS and
restitution. We have already had in
stances of that; We have had men pro-
pose to their employees that they should
lay off and wait until the election show
ed which party would win before they
could come back to work. A man in Des
Moines, Iowa, the other day, who had
charge of shoe factory notified his
men that he was afraid that he could
not continue in business if I was elected
and so the Democrats organized another
shoe factory and announced that they
would employ every discharged work
man at a 10 per cent advance if was
elected. In your own state a furniture
man notified his employees that he would
discharge them if they left work to at
tend our meetings today and another
man. a Democrat, told the men that he
would re-employ every man discharged
because he wanted good Democrats.
But, my friends, only give you this
as an illustration of what Republicans
will resort to if they can aid the man
ayers of great concerns to dictate the
politics of the country In 1896 men
ruptcy if 1 was elected. One firm in
Washington, D. c., said that if I was
elected it would not continue in bust
ness and within a week after the election
it went into bankruptcy. although its
own candidate was elected Whenever
a man tells you that he is afraid he will
% into arlIrrIlrlfc.v if [ am elected IT Is