Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-09-19
A GREAT DAYS WORK
BY WILLIAM J. BRYAN.
Continued From First Page.

gathered in Shawnee Park in great
numbers when Mr.. Bryan arrived. The
SKY was overcast and threatening, but
Notwithstanding these untoward cir
cumstances, the crowd held on manful-
ly. giving close attention to the end.
At night Mr.. Bryan spoke in a huge
tent in this city.
Mr. Bryan made several brief
speeches from the rear platform OF his
car on his way from Fort Scott to
this city, the most noteworthy of these
being made at Pleasanton, Laeygne,
Paola, and Olathe. He was Joined be-
fore reaching Kansas City by Con-
gresham w. S. Cowherd and John
L. Peak, who was United States min
lister to Switzerland under President
Cleveland. When Kansas City was
reached, other members from the COM
mittee joined Mr.. Bryan, and he was
conducted to the packing house CEN
, ter
Mr.. Bryan's speech was addressed
entirely to the labor element, of which
his audience was composed. lie
plunged Immediately into
The Gull Dinner Pail" Subject
and in that connection referred to the
anthracite coal strike as proof. He said
that the dinner pail is not always so
full as the Republican orators would
have their audiences uelieve. Mr.
BRYAN also repeated his argument
against the trusts, contending tina
they were calculated to cut off all the
old-time opportunities for young men.
The portion of the address which
was directed especially to the labor
problem as affected by politics was as
follows:
Il am glad to have this opportunity
of speaking in this great laboring CEN
ter. | am proud to have the Demo
cratic party receive the support Of the
laboring man. | believe it Is entitled
to his support, and If the laboring man
will take the two platforms and COM
pare the policies presented, believe
that we shall receive the vote of every
one OF them who does not prefer sue
cess of party to the triumph Of prin-
ciple. I know that party prejudice Is
strong. l know that men are prone &c
endure from their party almost any
thing before they leave it, but | want
to speak to you, and / want to assume
that that you love your country better
than you love any party, and that when
you are informed upon the issues Oh
the campaign you will support thai
party which
Offers You the Best Principles
| and the best policies. IL We talk &c
the Republicans about the important
issues Of this campaign they meet oul
argument with one answer and that Il
| the full dinner pail If we ask the Re.
publican why for three and half years
| they have failed to give the laborine
man protection from government By
| injunction, the only answer is that the
! laboring man has full dinner pail
and he ought not 10 object TO govern
ment by injunction If the dinner pail is
| full
The dinner pail argument is an in
suit to the workingman and the dinner
| pail argument will not last through
| this campaign, for when the Republican
| party assumes that all that a laborins
man needs is the full dinner pail ht
| assumes that the laboring man Is al
| stomach.
| "The full dinner pail Is satisfactory
| to the stomach, but my friends, 1t i:
| the animal anu not the man that com
plains only when 1t is hungry and goes
| to sleep when 1t Is fun. I want 10 ap
peal to something In the laboring mar
( besides his appetite. I want to ash
| the laboring man il he Is content 4