The Portland daily press., 1900-10-20
QUIZING BRYAN.
Cornell Students Have
Good Time With Him
Many Queries Thrown at Bryan Not
Answered.
Said Croker Had No
Stock in Ice Trust.
Stands on Silver Question Where
Mckinley Once Stood.

Syracusa, n. Y, October 19.-Hon. W
j. Bryan, the Demomoratic standard
bearer, today, encountered at Ithaca the
ftndents from Cornell univerity and an
additional feature of interest was the par
tioipatiOn Of young women in the affair.
A hudred or more were stationed at win
dows in the High school just back Of the
stage, from which Mr.. Bryan spoke, and
they disturbed the proceedings by lower
ing posters bearing pict IRE of President
Mckinley so as to attract the attention
Of the crowd, The young men who were
below responded to these signals with
cries and yells and they also asked num-
erous questions while the speech was in
progress. Evidently, too, large per
centage Of th9 students were in sympa-
thy with Mr. Bryan and some of them
shouted Justify for him. Mr. Bryan met
the occasion successfully and the inter-
ruptions grew fewer and farther apart as
the speech proceeded. A spirited meeting
was held at Auburn, the home during
his life time of Secretary Seward.
Speeches were also made during the day
at Cortland and Binghamton and at ssv-
eral other smaller pionts The days work
closed with a meeting at Rochester to-
night. The meetings of the day were
generally we'll attended and those at
Ithaca and Binghamton were especially
large, probably the B1nghamton meeting
was the most enthusiastic meeting Of the
day. In all instances except at the begin
ming of the Ithaca meeting close atten-
lon was given to the speeches.
It was evident from the beginning Of
the Ithaca meeting that the college stu
dents meant to at least relieve that meet.
ing from all charges Of monotony. Mr.
Bryan was scarcely given an opportunity
to express his qualification in being able
to speak TO the students when one of
them broke in with the query: 'sHow
about North CarollnaS''
Mr.. Bryan responded to this question
by saying: 'If you will examine the
conditions prescribed by your admins.
tration for voter in Porto Rico, you
will find that 88 per cent of the oolored
men Of voting age cannot vote in Porto
Rico under this admin 1stration quail
tications.
He proceeded for some time without
any further interruption but at last a
young man in the audience asked him
for an explanation of his attitude In the
matter OF the ratification sof the Paris
treaty. Mr. Bryan replied: "You have
asked me question. want to ask you
one. am going to answer yours viii
you answer mine? What is your pIan?'
The young man: ''I have not got any.
L am down here open to your conviction.
You are talking to all of US. You came
here especially to convince u.s.
Mr.. Bryan: ayes, and am mighty
glad [ have found man open to oonvic-
tion and L hope you are not like the
Scotch woman who said she was open to
conviction but added I would like 80 see
the man who can convince me- -
He had scarcely begun his discussion
of the trust question when some one
made an inquiry about the cotton bale
trust. Mr.. Bryan replied to the effect
that the Cotton Bale company owned a
patent for baling cotton and that 1t did
not bale one-twentieth of ths cotton pro-
duced In this country. And YETI he
said, 'men who howl about patent that
does not bale one twentieth OF the cotton
Will vote fer party that allows a salt