The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-11-05
BEFORE SUNRISE
Bryan Begins the Closing Day
of His Campaign.
Starts Out to Put In Is Hours
of Speeehmaking.
WORKS AROUND HOME.
Takes Up Question of Farm
Mortgages at Hastings.
VIII Close With a Series of
Speeches In Omaha.

last day of his campaign and he had
/ commenced the first speech of the day
before sunrise. Previous to separating
last night from the newspaper CORE
spondents who have accompanied him
on his campaign tour of the country,
Mr.. Bryan told them he expected to put
in Is hours today and notified them that
he would start on his tour of that state
at 5:45 o'clock this morning. When he
reached the depot of the Burlington
railroad he found his special train
ready to receive him and fifty or more
persons prepared to accompany him.
The itinerary for the day embraced
the towns of Exeter, Fairmont. Harvard,
Minden, Holdrege, Wilcox, Blue Hill,
Hastings, Aurora, York and Seward
with a return to Lincoln and a speech
there at o'clock and then dash to
Omaha with seven or eight speeches in
that city tonight.
The first course of the special tram
was almost directly west on the Burhng-
ton road and Exeter the first stopping
place 60 miles distant from Lincoln was
reached at o'clock. As the train drew
into the station at that point, there was
quite a lot of people drawn up along
the railroad track, Notwithstanding the
early hour of the morning, ana MT
Bryan was hastily escorted to pubic
hall nearby where he made his first
speech. The hall was quite a commod-
ious one, but it was filed to overlooking.
The speech was very little Inherent
from Mr.. Bryan's speeches to agrlcul-
tural communities in other parts OF the
country. you are about to vote, he
said in beginning, land by your votes
determine what you want in govern
ment and in the way of laws. He took
I'D the subject of farm mortgages early
in his talk, but before doing so made
passing thrust at the trusts, saying on
this latter subject: The Republcan
loo
during that time we have seen the trusts
increase at a rapidity never known be-
fore and when Republicans tell you they
want you to be satisfied with the cOnul-
lions they have brought just remember
that the trust is one of the conditions
brought by the Republican party and 1t
has no plan, nor purpose to rld the
country of the trusts, OF to protect the
people against them
He then entered upon his discussion
of the farm mortgage question, saying,
They tell you you have been pros
porous in this state 1 quote from Mr.
Kent of the state labor bureau the sta
tistics that have been filed with MN
for the various counties ana want 70
show you something of the prosperity
that the Republicans are now boastlng
Of When Mr. Roosevelt was here ne
made a statement that 40 per cent OF
the real estate mortgages had been paid
off under this administration The fact
is that a little less than $24 0O0, 600 in real
estate mortgages have been released IN
excess of those filed, and you must take
out of the $24 000, 600 all of the property
where the property is turned over to the
MORTGAGE in satisfaction of the debt.
You know that is very often the way OF
paying a mortgage You Simply turn
the property over to the man who holds
the mortgage. OF the $24, 100000 marked
satisfied, less than $40, 900 comes from
farm mortgages. But While the NOR
tgages paid off and released on real
estate are very much less than Mr..
Roosevelt says the increase in the chat-
tel mortgages of this state In the last
four years is very much greater than the
decrease in the real estate mortgages
And if YOU will take the real estate NOR
tgages filed and released and the chattel
MORTGAGES filed and released, you VIII
find that adding them together, we nave
now s14e 900 600 more in mortgage in
debtedness in this state than we had
four years ago, that is, the chattel NOR
tgages have increased so much more |
RAPIDLY than the real estate mortgages |
have decreased that the increase is S149,- !
600 600 in four years. Bear in mind that |
these figures were taken from the sta
tistics in the labor bureau office ana |
those are made up from the sworn state /
ments of county officials OF this stale
Z want you all to vote early ana |
when you get up on election morning 1t /
will probably be dark. you will have to /
light a lamp and just remember that
you are using oil furnished by the
Standard Oil company and that tne
Standard Oil company is paying THIS
wear
boo 900 on $100, 0000 600 of capital and the
standard Oil company is prospecting I'M
der a Republican administration. But
look at the prosperity of the Standard
Oil company, while your lamp Is burn
ing, and compare it with the prosperity
IF the farmer. Then when you get your
coffee, remember that the price OF COT
fee is controlled by trust and when
YOU put in your sugar, remember it is
controlled by trust and of you have
crackers, remember that the National
Biscuit company controls the price OF
biscuits You will find that there is.
hardly thing you use that trust does
lot control / promise you that if l am
elected every power of the president will
BE used to make II. impossible for a pri-
7ate monopoly to exist in the United
States"
Fifteen stops were made at the towns
# Fairmont and Howard and in both
places Mr.. Bryan made speeches along
he line to good crowds.
Z want you,' he said at Fairmont, ITO
make the majority in this state as large
is possible, because the other states are
yoing to do 50 well, and don't want
Nebraska to be behind"
At Harvard there were a great many
,old badges in the crowd which greeted
dr. Bryan and there were fewer cheers
here than at most places.
Speaking of the government OF Porto
Rico, Mr.. Bryan said:
I'VE are today taxing the Porto Ri
ans without representation and govern
ng them without their consecutive have
ent a carpetbag governor down there
md we pay him 50. 900 a year, that is we
TX the salary and We make them pay it
Town there In this state we pay our
governor s., 500 q year Those people If
Porto Rico are today in exactly the con-
lition our colonists were 124 years ago,
lnS I do not see how a Republican can
-0te 70 approve that Porto Rican bin
nd at TIE same time praise our fore
athers for. VIVA. they did 124 years ago.
The Republican party is trying TO do in
Porto Rico the same thing that England