The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-10-27
AN OCEAN OF PEOPLE.
Col. Bryan's Voice Fell Short at
Paterson, n. J.

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was a successful one in that the crowds
/ which he addresses were both attentive
/ and Of fair size but the majority OF them
j were neither so large nor so demonstra-
| tive as those of New York. The day
| was given up to a section of Jersey
| which is populated largely by people
who do business in New York city
The tour was made over the Delaware
/ & Lackawanna railway, the most dis
/ tant point touched being Dover, 40 miles
south of New York. The other towns at
which speeches were made were Hobo
+ ken, Harrison, Orange, summit MOTIFS
+ town. BOOnetOWn, Paterson, BeileV1lle
and Newark, three speeches being made
at the latter place. In reality Mr.. Bry-
ans Thursday work extended into Fri
day for he did not retire until about 2
/ o'clock and one of the pleasantest oc
casiOn Of Thursday night was the last
of the series. When he reached his no.
tel in Hoboken, after his carriage tour
of the city, he found about 500 German
citizens awaiting his arrival They in
sisted upon rendering him a serenade
and sang several of the songs Of the
FatherIand. Mr. Bryan expressed him
self as highly gratified with the Jersey
campaign Mr.. Bryan will make a brief
run into Connecticut today, speaking at
New Haven and Bridgeport, and win re-
turn to participate in the meeting of the
Democratic clubs in New York city to-
night. Mr.. Bryan made the longest stop
of the day at Dover He spoke at that
place for about an hour and addressed
a. large crowd which listened to him at
tentively. He referred in this speech in
criticism of himself to the effect that he
made charges during his campaign
speeches On this subject he said:
According to the Republicans my
farm is not my only source of income
They say that am so avaric1ous that
when I am a candidate for president
will not make a speech unless am paid
several hundred dollars. They also say
that 7 am so ambitious that I would
spend all I have to be president It is
hard to reconcile the two stories. II you
are interested in knowing the facts can
tell you that have been able to make a
living under a Democratic and under
Republican administrations and think
I shall be able to make a better living
under Republican administration than
most of the Republicans who will be re-
sponsib1e for the administrations, but
want to tell you that every dollar that
have made in the last four years has
been made out of the voluntary payment
by people for what they bought and
wanted. published a book, and no
body bought it unless he wanted to buy
it. I have written articles for the news
papers, nobody read them unless he
wanted to- I have delivered lectures and
nobody came unless he wanted to come
Every dollar that made has been made
in that way. But if I were the attorney
for a trust and collected from a people
who paid involuntarily, I would be q
good man in the eyes of the Republi-
cans. I need not tell you that receive
no money for campaign speeches If the
people of a community pay any money
when I have a meeting, it is to meet ex-
penSes of the meeting. In some cases
people have paid the expenses of the
train on which travel as it goes from
town to town. If any Republican COM
plains Of that you tell him that a man
who rides on a train must either get
pass over the railway or pay his fare,
and I would rather the people would pay
for the train and leave me independent,
than to have the railway company fur
nish it and then own me after the cleo
ton"
Mr.. Bryan dweIt at some length in his
Dover speech on the trust question and
in referring to the Standard Oil COM
pany, said that company is, through its
power as a monopoly extorting enough
money from the people at large to pay
annual dividends amounting to $5o, 900
600 upon an original capital Of 100000
Mr.. Bryan referred to the fact that
Dover had supplied a company of vol
unteers for the Cuban war and said In this
connection:
IF have never learned to love the
volunteer before 1 learned to love him
when 1 came in contact with him in the
Spanish war. believe that this nation
can rest upon the volunteers found
down in Florida a regiment from this
state got acquainted with the New
Jersey boys at that time and believe
you had a. company from this town I
remember them because whenever I
went into their camp they Joined in
three cheers"
There were evidently a number of the
ex-soldiers in the crowd and they again
cheered as they had done in the old DAYS
in Florida
Continuing Mr.. Bryan said:
I knew from the circumstance Of the
cheering at the time that there were
some Democrats there. have confidence
IN those people who fight when the coun-
try needs fighters and who go back to
work and work when the country needs
workers believe that we can rely upon
the citizen soldier; that we do not want
or need great standing army, and if
the Republicans come to the soldier and
tell him that the Republican party is
the only protector of the soldier, want
the soldier to remember that they do
not pay big pensions whenever they get
into. country where they have a big
standing army. Whenever this nation
begins to rely upon a great standing
army, it will neglect the volunteers.
Whenever trust magnate has to choose
between supporting a big army and
paying liberal pensions, he will support
the big army and let the pensioner go
II a foreign nation should send it's fleet
to attack US every one of you would be
willing to take his gun and fight until
the invader was driven out; but for
will destroy the principles of govern
ment as we have understood those prir-
ciples; an idea that will convert a re-
public into an empire
Mr.. Bryan spoke on general lines at
hometown and his speech was well re-
ceived.
Mr.. Bryan's Paterson meeting was in
some respects the most notable Of the
day and the street exhibition was excep-
tional. He was conducted from the rail-
way station to the court house in an
open carriage, a distance of a mile or
more through the principal streets and
received an ovation from one end of
the route to the other. Most of the
houses were decorated with flags and
bunting, the windows almost without
exception were filed with women who
vigorously luttered handkerchiefs and
small flags at the candidate as he rode
by. The crowd IN the street was very
enthusiastic and when the speaking
took place Mr.. Bryan encountered a
very ocean of human beings. The crowd
was go dense that he found il extremely