Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-10-21
NEW YORK TOUR
FINISHED LAST NIGHT.
THE d e NJ oCRATIC PREsIDEN-
TIAL CANDIDATE SPEEDING
TOWARD THIS STATE.
LEAVES HUNTINGTON MONDAY
FOR A ONE-DAY's TRIP ALONG THE
CHESAPEAKE & OHIO RAIL-
ROAD.


Bryan concluded his four day campaign
tour Of the State of New York with
two large meetings in this city tonight.
One of these meetings was held at the
Broadway Market and was an open air
gathering and the other at Convention
Hall.
teen minute addresses during the morn
ing. The other places at which he
spoke were Corning, Bath, Cochocton,
Wayland, Livonia, Avaon, S%pencerport,
Brockport, Holly, Albion, Medina, Mid
dleport, Lockport and Niagara Falls.
The attendance at most Of the day meet
ings was good and at some of them
quite large. The audiences could not
be said to be enthusiastic as a rule, but
everywhere the Democratic presidential
candidate was accorded most careful
attention and respectful treatment.
During his State tour Mr.. Bryan has
made about sixty-fve different speeches
and he has quite thoroughly traversed
the central belt of the State from east
to west. He left this city tonight at
IL O'Clock for Huntington, w. Va,
where he will begin a one day trip
across West Virginia next Monday
morning.
Mr.. Bryan devoted almost his entire
speech at Medina to the trust question
and his remarks were based largely on
the following statements prepared by
a local authority:
-Four years ago there were three
foundries at Medina under separate
management, each employing from one
hundred to n hundred and fifty men.
These foundries were operated all
through the hard times previous 20
1896; one of the foundry owners called
his men together and told them en-
phatically that if Mar. Bryan was elect
cd n need not come back after cleo
ton day, as the foundry would be
clossd. In July, 1893, these three foun-
dries entered the trust, the Central
Foundry Company, which has a mon
opoly In the manufacture OF soil pipe
in the United States. Soil pipe was
Immediately advanced TO consumers
substantially one hundred Der cent.
very soon one foundry was closed, was
left without a Waterman and has been
burned; then a second one was closed
and has remained SO about a year. and
is not expected to be run again: five
months ago the third one was closed
by the trust, although it is now claimed
II VIII De reopened. The village was
booming and very prosperous when the
trust entered it. To-day the foundry
workers OF these three foundries have
either gone to other towns or are
among the farmers helping gather their
apple crop"
Commenting upon this statement. Mr..
Bryan said:
what need tell people what a trust
means IN a town like this? The rise in
the cost of a product Is one of the nat
ural things that you would expect: but
why did you have to wait for this trust
10 close down three factories in vour
town and raise the price of pine in or
der to learn what the trust meant?
Doesn the Standard Oil trust teach
you the same lesson? Doesn't the Sugar
trust teach you the same lesson? Don't
you learn it from a hundred other
trusts that plumber the people at every
turn? How can a man vote the Repub-
lcan ticket when he knows that under
this administration more trusts have
been organized than were ever ganiz
ed IN the previous history of the coun-
try! When he knows that the Republi-
can party neither denounces the trust
to-day nor dares to defend the trust:
and when you go to the. head of the
Republican National Committee he in
cults the intelligence of the American
people by telling them there is no trust
in the United States"
Announcing himself as opposed to all
private monopoly in a short speech at
Middleport, Mr.. Bryan said he never
faltered in his belief that the people
were the source of all power, and when
l change my opinion" he said, instead
CT attempting TO rob the people of this
country OF their form of government,
| will go to a monarchial
and make my home there"
Mr.. Bryan made the first of four even
ing speeches at Lockport, talking there
for about thirty minutes to an auaience
which was attentive, If not bo%isterously
demonstrative.
Before entering upon his speech proper.
Mr.. Bryan suggested that if any person
in the crowd had failed to register he
should Immediately after the close of the
meeting attend TO this duty. He con-
tinued:
w want every voter TO vote this year.
for every voter may determine not only
the policy of this government, but 1t may
by its influence determine the policy OF
other governments, for to-day we are
fighting out battle upon the hill tops and
the world looks on"
Mr.. Bryan declared his belief that the
Republican party would do nothing for
the relief of the people and he here revert
ed 10 the trust amendment to the consti-
tuition proposed in the last session Of Con-
gress repeating that the principal effect
Of that amendment would be to rob the
States Of their present powers over the
trusts.
Mr. Bryan announced himself as favor
able TO both an income tax and the slec-
uon of Senators by a direct vote Of the
people He promised that IL he should b
elected the voters OF the country would
have an opportunity TO register the names
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