Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-10-02


pie, as were several railroad locomo-
tives, freight cars and car sheds In lae
vicinity. Mr. Bryan spoke mere ior
about an hour, discussing al some
length most Of the issues of the cam
paign. He referred to the campaign OF
1896, saying that the members OF the
Democratic party had been abused
To an Unlimited Extent
in that campaign, but that notWitn-
standing this abuse, when two years
afterward there was call to arms u
was found that those who two years
before had been denounced as an
archists were brave men and good SOL
diers. If, he said, he had been Presl-
dent and had done what Mr.. Mckinley
had done, not one Republican out OF
hundred would have commended
him. He could only account for THIS
upon the ground of partisanship, and
he appealed to his hearers to be no
longer controlled by blind adherence
to party.
He said the Republicans knew moth
ing about anything but the ice trust.
On this point his words were as fol-
lows:
mot one of you is hurt by the ice
trust. Every one of you is hurt by the
sugar trust, lumber trust, the salt trust,
you are hurt when clothing goes up,
when sugar goes up, when stoves go up;
and in all these things you are hurt and
yet none of you know anything about
the ice trust, because the Republican
papers do not keep you informed as to
what is going on in the trust section.
Mr.. Bryan said he felt about trusts as
a man had said he felt about bedbugs-
that he had no objection to them, but
he did not like the way they made a
living.
AT West Duluth, Mr.. Bryan said the
Republican party had not only reached
the point "at which they wanted not
only to revise the constitution, but also
the ten commandments so as to make
one of them read Thou shalt not steal
on small scale Intead of having this
Lincoln wanted a government of the
people, for the people and by the people.
The Republicans would have 1t to be a
government of the syndicates,
For the Syndicates,
by the syndicates."
fifteen minutes. He had a good audience
and went over the general ground, of the
campaign. He was not asking support
he said, of those who expected to get
something for nothing. He did not want
the support of those who were looking for
army contracts or who expected to get
pensions for their sons. Not one man in
ten was really benefited by the Republi-
can policy, but that one was expecting
to make the campaign contributions and
then get his money out of the other ten.
People who wanted colonies could he de-
clared, get them by voting the Republican
ticket, but they would soon find that they
had gotten all the evils that go with the
colonial system.
At Hinckley Mr.. Bryan made the third
stop of the day. This is the point which a
few years ago was destroyed by forest
fires with thee hundred of its population,
but it has been so built up that there is
no longer evidence of the fearful vista
ton Here Mr. Bryan referred to the Presi-
dents letter of acceptance, saying that
the President has said it was a danger
Gus thing to attempt to protect the Phil
ippines from outside interference. Mr..
Bryan ulu HOT accept iHiS Vo", anu hc
said the administration had not seemed
to take this view of Sulu archipelago. I'm
der the treaty with the Sultan of those
islands he said the President had agreed
to protect them. How could 1t be more
dangerous to extend protection to the
Christian Filipinos than it was to afford
it to the Mohammedan Sulus?
In introducing MIR. Bryan at Pine City,
Governor Lind said that he and Mr..
Bryan had not been political associates
when in Congress, but that they had been
brought together "by the evolution of the
American conscience