The age-herald., 1900-10-07
BRYAN CONCLUDED
 HIS INDIANA TOUR Made Fourteen Speeches Before
 Crossing Ohio. na nOrn RAN AT NIIiCNIlI
CLOSED DAY AT LOUISVILLE
Immense Crowds Greeted Him When He Spoke in the Kentucky Metropolis Refers Again to His.
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J. Bryan today concluded his tour of the 1 State of Indiana, arriving here about S:3O o'clock tonight, an hour and half late. He l made fourteen speeches during the day be- fore crossing the Ohio These speeches were | made at Plainfeld, a small station few miles out from Indianapolis; Green Castle, where the Depaw University is located; Brazil, an important mining center; Terre Haute, Lewis Linton,- Elnora, Washington, Shoals, Mitchell, Orleans, Salem, New AL bany and Jeffersonville. His audiences were all large except at the very small towns At such places as Terre Haute, Linton, Salem and Washington there were multitudes of people, At all the stopping points great en- thusiasm was displayed, and the people rushed after MT. Bryan whether he was in carriages or on the train with recklessness which often imperilled their own limbs, tv say nothing of his. A light rain fell during the greater part of the day, but this cir cumstance was not allowed to interfer with the meetings in any way. The people did not desist on account of it, and MT. Bryan pro- tected himself with an umbrella. MT. Bryan Is standing up wonderfully under the strain of the campaign, and he said when he ar- rived here tonight that he felt better than he did when he started out.
 MT Bryan closed the day and week by delivering a speech at the Auditorium here tonight. He was heard by a crowd that filled the hall, crowded aisles and the win dows and doors and extended for ten feet or more back into the street.
 Hundreds of people came to the hall and not gaining admittance, returned home.
 The rain, which began early in the day, came down much heavier during the meet ing, but the crowd in the street stood throughout the speech, many without um- brellas. This was MT. Bryan'S first speech of the campaign in Kentucky. He came over from his Indiana tour and concluded at Jacksonville. His special train was met at the Fourteenth Street Depot by commission of one hundred headed by GOV ernor Beckham, ex-Governor McCreary, Senator J. c. s. Blackburn and Democratic National Committeeman Urey Wooosoh. They drove immediately to the Auditorium
 MT Bryan was introduced by ex-GoV- ernor McCreary, and had great trouble in stiIling the applause. He took cnalr anu was seated several minutes before qu1et was restored. MT Bryan was not Tn as
 good voice as usual, but succeeded in mak- ing himself heard by the entire crowd. He
 explained that was his seventeenth speech
 of the day, and consequently spoke only
 an hour. The first forty minutes were de-
 voted to the trusts, the last twenty to lm-
 perialism.
 Interest in MT. Bryan speech CeIbtSicu
 i'll whether or not he would touch on Ken
 lucky His closing admomtion to Demo- crats was to make Beckham Governor or Kentucky. He did not go into details
 q believe with our party, that imperial ism is the paramount issue,' said MT Bry- an, in beginning his speech. "but if any Republican wants to believe that some oth- CT issue is the paramount one, I am per fectly willing he shall do so if he Is pre- pared to defend his opinion, but if a Re- publican tells you that the gold standard is more important than the standard of government, he does not prove that it Is, but simply proves that he has an idea on public questions"
 MT. Bryan then drew at some length on the trust question, saying that it has grown in importance during the last four years
 ''The Republicans opened the campaign In Ohio not long ago." he said {" and six
 prominent Republicans made speeches and
 not one of them discussed the trust ques-
 tion. What did they talk about? Prosperi-
 ty. (Applause.) At Youngstown they erect
 ed a prosperity arch and marched under
 it, and while they were marching under
 that arch and shouting prosperity more
 than half the mills in the town had been closed down by the trusts and the sheriff was conducting nine sales from the court house door. (Applause) Go down East and you find how the farmers are prospering out West. (Applause) I went down East myself the other day, and l was amazed to find that I was a victim of prosperity.
 Gaughter) I read a dispatch printed In
 the New York Tribune telling of my pros-
 perity as a farmer. U.aughter.) l have
 never boasted of being farmer; in fact,
 am an agriculturist rather than farmer.
 You know the difference between the two. A farmer makes his money on the farm,
 while the agricuturtsS makes his money in town and spends it on the farm; l am an
 agrculturist (Applause). l only have a
 1tttI for md
 over advertised Gaughter). If l could
 convert my farm into soap and use the ad-
 vertisement, I would have case of pros-
 perity that would make Republican en-
 vious. (Applause). I read that l had l2O
 acres of oats; that they had yielded forty
 bushels to the acre; that had sold them
 for 30 cents a bushel, and that having re- ceived $1400 had twice as much as paid for the land. And then the paper went on to say that I was only sample of what was going on out west Qaughter); that all the other farmers were prospering just as I was, and they were getting so rich that they were leaving the Democratic party and the Populist party and the Silver Re- publican party and going into the Republi- can party, the only rich mans party in | the United States. (Applause).
 instead of having 120 acres in oats I | had five. Gaughter.) Instead of getting forty bushels to the acre, haven't thrash ed two yet, and I don't know what they
 will yield. Instead of selling my oats for 30 cents a bushel, oats were worth less than 20 cents in Nebraska when the article appeared and instead of paying six dollars an acre for the land, it cost me little over a hundred" (Applause.)
 MT. Bryan described the effect Of the | turst on the laboring man, and other small 1 enterprises. He said the only trust the l Republicans talk about is the ice trust, l and answered the reported statement of | the Governor of New York that 1t was im- l possible for him to destroy the trust by ] saying that in Omaha there was on Ice | trust, but the Democratic Attorney Gener- l al of Nebraska had successfully attacked | and destroyed it. MT. Bryan's remedy for I trusts was a Federal license.
 | He then took up the subjects of imperial | ism and militarism, discussing them along the same general lines he has used In pre- l vious speeches. He paid tribute to Sem | ator Blackburn, and appealed to all not | only to vote for the electoral ticket, but to 1 support the State and Congressional can didates.
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