The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-11-02

success to depend upon his merit.
want to make property the reward OF
honest toll and not the measure OF the
special privilege that a man can secure
by favorable legislation"
At Lincoln Turner hall, Mr. Bryan
You are about to decide by your bal
lots what you want this government TO
be. This is the first time in the history
of the nation when the people nave peen
compelled to decide upon the principles
of government in national campaign
Some time in 1886 we spoke Of the results
of Republican policy; but, my frlends,
even the most imaginative could not
have imagined what has been done since
1886 by the Republican party IL mas
done worse than even the most raplo
person in our party could predict Ihe
Republican party never, until this cam
paign, attacked the Declaration OF In
dependence.
II believe the Democratic party was
right when it declared Imperialism TO
be the paramount issue of this cam
paign. I need not tell you my conVlc-
tons on other questions, nor need L tell
you that I have not surrendered my
convictions on any. But, my friends,
believe that the question of imperialism
reaches down deeper and goes further
and is more important than any ques-
tlOn that has come before the American
people since the war of the revolution.
If our civil war was to decide whether
we should have two republics or one,
have a republic or an empire. The Re
publicans say now that our title to the
Philippine islands is good in Europe. If
the title is good in Europe it is good in
the United States. The Declaration of
Independence was never good in Europe
"A man went into graveyard and
read on a tombstone this legend:
AS am now so you shall be
Prepare my friend to follow me-
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% TO follow you I am not content,
Until know which way you went
will promise you that. as far as a presi-
dent can do it, the world shall know
that the Declaration of Independence
is still law in the United States"
Mr. Bryan repeated his Lincoln Tur-
ner hall speech at Garfield Turner hall.
A large crowd was assembled at
Kuhn's park. Mr.. Bryan said:
when I see how Republicans are now
shouting for things that they used to
shout against and yet try to make it ap-
pear that they like the change, l am re-
minded of some men who went hunting
and agreed that they would take turn
about cooking and then agreed that il
any one found fault with the cooking,
he should take his turn next One morn
ing the cooking was so bad that one
member started to criticise and then
happened to think of the rule. He said:
This is the toughest steak that ever
saw in my life, but like it,
Isn't it strange that the Republican
can become so welded to his party that
he can change his opinion at the partys
Republicans says we are prosperous
but who is 'we2' That is the question. /
Who is We? (Cries of HANNAH Some are !
prosperous The army contractor is pros |
porous. The trust magnate is prosperous. |
The ship owner is prosperous if he can
rent his property to the government to |
send live soldiers to the Philippines and |
bring soldiers /
not broad enough to take in all the peo- |
At St Stanislaus hall Mr.. Bryan de-
voted the greater part OF his speech to |
iously said on that question In discuss |
ing large standing army, he said:
I'VE spend less than $3.50. 100000 a year |
for the education of all our children, yet |
the Republicans want 70 spend 800, 600 600 |
on a standing army My friends l would |
exPend it military establishment"
Turner hall and at Scandia hall his I
at both places being a repeti-
tion Of his previous speeches.
Four eggs were thrown at William J. /
Bryan just he left the Central Turner
hall, at Milwaukee avenue. where he had
thrown by three or four young men. one
of whom, John r. Myers, a sign painter
escaped. Mr.. Bryan had just passed
through the door of the building and was
eggs whizzed at almost the same moment
over his head and struck in the crowd
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Bryan as he left the hall. One egg, which
lacked a good deal of being fresh, struck
Policeman Culkins squarely on the fore
head and streamed down his face. Gull
1ins saw the men who threw the eggs, |
and made rush for them. Myers was
the only man whom he could catch, the |
others slipping away in the crowd.
The hall was surrounded by large
crowd, and as soon as it became known |
that eggs had been thrown at Mr.. Bryan
the excitement was intense. A hundred
men made a rush for the prisoner, and it
was only by desperate efforts that Culkins
to hold onto him. Several DO
licemen came to his assistance and all
he policemen were compelled to use their
clubs before the crowd would give ground
and allow Myers to be placed in the pa
troll wagon When locked up at West
North avenue police station Myers de-
elared positively that he had thrown no
Eggs at Mr. Bryan personally. and had
declared that in his anxiety to obtain a
coed view of the candidate as he left the
nall, he had crowded close to the car
iage, and that the driver had struck him
with his whip in order to make him stand
back. he returned to where his friends
we're standing and they promptly hurled
he eggs at the driver, and that Just as
hey did so Mr.. Bryan came through
he doorway. Myers declared that he was
Democrat and would never have !
bought OF throwing eggs at the candidate
II his party He declined to give the
James of his companions and could give
10 explanation of why they had come
o the meeting carrying bad eggs in their
pockets.
ELECTION ATRFADV WON