The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-10-23

slowed presidencies upon the Republi-
can party and received Partnerships in
return I want the colored men before
they vote the Republican ticket to know
that the policy of the Republican party
is to send a few white men to the Phil
ippine islands and hold those white men
in authority over 80 per cent of the pop
ulation, which will be brown and this is
to be done by a standing army. Instead
Of using the race question as a reason
why we should annex the Philippine ISL
ands, let the race question be warning
to US not to bring into this country
class of people who are not to share in
the full destiny Of our nation. want
the Filipino to have his own flag and his
own government and to work out his
own destiny and / want this nation to
stand by him and say to the world,
Hands off; let this republic live
Mr. Bryan reverted to the race QueS-
ton in his speech at Charleston. There
he said:
Forty years ago the Republicans said
that a black man should not sell for
thousand dollars, but now they will buy
brown men by the job lot for two dollars
and a half a piece. They said a genera
ton ago that the declaration OF indie
pendence applies to a black man. Now
they say it does not apply to a brown
man. 1t costs US hundreds Of thousands
of lives and hundreds of millions of
money to take out of the declaration Of
independence the exception clause that
excluded the black man. Now shall we
wage a war of conquest to write in the
declaration of independence another ex-
ceptiOn clause, excluding the brown
man? Our progress has been upwards
up to this time, let it not be backward
from now on. Don't dare to deny to any
people in foreign lands, the right that
you claim for yourselves, for you have a
right to your government the Filipino
has a right to his and if you deny him
the right to his own government you
will not long have right to yours"
Mr. Bryan also referred to the race
question in other speeches during the
day.
At East Bank Mr.. Bryan said:
'I am glad that behind me I have
those who will be satisfied with equal
rights and who will not ask special priv
ileges if I am elected. I am glad that
have not behind me the trust magnates,
for if I am elected / do not want them
to hang about the White House and tell
me how they elected me and therefore
claim that they own me. have no de-
sire to help you to get your hands into
other peoples pockets. If can keep
other peoples hands out Of your pockets
L will do what you will want me to do
for the laboring man."
Mr.. Bryan spoke to a congregation
composed largely of coal miners at the
little mountain town Of Sewall. He told
the people there that the Democratic
party stood for the arbitration of labor
disputes and for a representative of the
labor in the cabinet of the president.
When some one in the crowd asked
what he would do for the old soldier II
elected he replied that he would appoint
a commissioner Of pensions who would
be more satisfac Glory to the soldiers than
the present one. After the train started
to move in leaving Sewau a man in the
outskirts of the crowd, apparently very
much in earnest, demanded to know
about Mr.. BT'yan'S attitude toward the
ratification of the Paris peace treaty.
Mr. Bryan had the train stepped, and
made a full explanation of his action and
position in that matter. When this eX-
PLANTATION had been concluded the same
man asked about the expenditure Of
twenty million dollars in procuring those
islands. To this inquiry Mr. Bryan re-
piled:
IF you had read an article that I
wrote about a month before the treaty
was signed, you would have seen that
we could have got it back from the FIJI
ipinos in return for independence but IL
you did not would rather consider it a
contribution to liberty than as part
payment on men and their lands"
When Mr.. Bryan concluded his reply,
his interrogation pushed his way through
the crowd and, coming up to the car
platform, offered his hand to the presi-
Dental candidate, saying; Il thought
had a right as an American citizen to
ask that question"
certainly did have and am glad you
asked me-"
The questioner. Joined in the cheers
which sent Mr.. Bryan on his way Tne
meeting at Thurmond was held in
gorge in the mountains and the stand
from which Mr.. Bryan spoke was perch
ed upon a steep cliff on one side of the
canyon.
His audience at Thurmond was COM
posed largely Of coal miners and in clos
ing Mr. Bryan asked them to remember
their votes were their own He warned
them against allowing themselves to be
inundated or their votes purchased
The meeting at Hinton was the last Of
the day and when it concluded Mr..
Bryan left for Washington en- route for
Maryland, to which state he viii devote
today. Mr.. Bryan made a general speech
at Hinton. When some one asked him
about the necessity for large army in
this country, he said that If the Demo-
cratic plans for the settlement of dis
putes by arbitration, for doing away
with the black list and for adjustment
Of government by injunction could be
put into execution there would be no
necessity for a large army.
The crowd at Hinton was not only large
but was noisily demonstrative. There
was a number of shouts for Mckinley
at the beginning of the meeting
No one would ever be bothered with
constipation If everyone knew how nat
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