The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-09-19
.IO THE N|)RE|NGhEN
0fKansas City Bryan breaches
Discomfort.
DINNER PAIL is DERIDED
Shouts "SuIu" as a Refutation
of North Carolina"

the GoodIander hotel at o'clock thi
morning. An hour later, at Convention
hall, be began the first Of two speeche
made in this city. The first speech wa
comparatively brief, the meeting at TIN
hall being adjourned to the pubui'
square in order to afford opportunity tt
the larger crowd assembled to hear th'
! candidate Mr. Bryan did not arrive I'M
! til half past this morning and he slep
! Later than usual
The first meeting was to have begun a
10 O'Clock, and the hall, which holds 800
persons, was filed before o'clock. Il
had been expected that the only speech
would be made in the hall, but there was
such throng of people on the outside
that it was found necessary to hold the
meeting on the outside in order to accom-
modate them. Mr.. Bryan's speech at the
hall was a brief review of the issues, and
he contented himself with suggesting
points for argument to his followers. In
the park he spoke from the band stand
His audience there included a number OF
people from the Indian Territory and
Missouri as well as many of the neighbor-
ing towns of this state. All stood while
Mr. Bryan talked, and gave him respect
fut attention and at times the enthusi-
asm was intense.
Mr.. Bryan was espied by the crowd al
the park when a square distant and a
shout was sent up which did not subside
until he reached the vicinity of the stand
where he was to speak. The crowd was
so dense that he found it impossible to
mount the stand and he therefore had
his carriage stopped in the midst of the
crowd. ana, ascending the carriage box
spoke from it.
The full dinner pair' argument of the
Republican orators received his first at
tentio1 and he commended, as usual, that
the working man is not content with a
well supplied table. when the hog is
hungry he squeals." said Mr.. Bryan.
when he is full he goes to sleep" That
seems to be the Republican idea of the
working man"
No party, he argued, had any claim up
on a citizen, except as a means of pro-
noting his welfare, an no man was bound
to support any partys which was not true
To the interests of the people. The Re
publican party had, he asserted, manifest
ed no concern for the welfare of the
masses since it had forfeited all claim
upon their support. In substantiation of
this statement he instanced what he des-
ignated as the Republican Partially for
the trusts which were. he said, as pri-
vate monopclies. entirely in the interest
of the few and opposed to the many.
Likewise. the increase in the army was
seized upon as one of the facts going
to show that the Republican party was
not the party of the people.
Accounting for the increase of the size
Of the army he said that perhaps it was
| intended TO meet such emergencies as
| that which had arisen in the anthracite
| coal regions The only domestic reason
| for increasing the army was to suppress,
by force. that discomfort among the peo-
/ pie which should be cured by legislation.
Mr.. Bryan again referred to the income
| tax Abestion, saying: Republicans,
| there was a time when your party favor
ed the income tax, and it was plain
! income tax. but a graded one. Now,
when we advocate income tax today, you
call US anarchists; how dare you accuse
Abraham Lincoln of being an anarchist;
he did just what we are doing today"
He also said Abraham Lincoln signed
the bin providing for the greenbacks. He
believed that this nation should issue its
own money and that no private corpora
ton should issue or control one dollar of
the money the people, used.
In discussing the trusts Mr.. Bryan said:
Read the letter of acceptance of the
president and see what he says about
| trusts. He spends more time warning
you not TO harm the good trusts than he
does telling you you had better get rid
| Of the bad ones. Read the letter Of the
vice presidential candidate and see how
anxious he is that nobody should say
anything about the trusts. The Repub-
lican party today stands sponsor at the
cradle Of more than ever sprang into ex-
istence before. The Republicans have
had the president and the senate and the
house, and the Republican president has
been in power for three years, and as yet
he has never made one specific sugges-
gestion looking toward the destruction of
the trusts. The only ray of hope the Re
publicans can possibly throw out that
they are able to extinguish the trusts
might be found in that argument that,
having brought the trusts into creation.
they know the nature Of them and can
correctly know what they created.
You viii read in a Republican paper
that the Republican national committee
IS il consultation with Mr.. ates Of the
barb wire trust. That does not alarm You
farmers at all The Republican farmer
seems to thonk that the trust magnate
does not support the Republican ticket
Don't you konw that these magnaates
not only support the Republican ticket
but they furnish the money with which
TO carry on the campaign and that they
expect 10 get it back between campaigns
The Republican party has taken the side
Of organized wealth against the rest Of
the peop,e The Republicans can no b
trust and are really IN earnest You must
seek relief somewhere else"
While he was discussing the colonia,
policy Of the government some one asked
Mr.. Bryan about North Carolina and the
race question IN that state
7 am glad you mentioned North Caro-
lima said Mr.. Bryan. Now ! want yoy
70 read the Sulu treaty. and. having done
that I think you VIII blush until election
day and no5 have time 10 think % NORTH
Carolina"
Kansas City. Sept. 1S-Armourdale. tn.
center Of the packlng house and stocl
! yards interests of Kansas City. tuvuet
Q out good crowd tonight 10 hea- William
! :. Bryan. who spoke in Shawnee Park
he arrived in Kansas City at SO an,
was driven across TIE river 10 the meet
= ing place. arriving at SIS The employee