Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-10-31
Burden of Mr.. Bryan's Talk at Toledo
Ohio.
BE ALSO ASSAILS THE TRUSTS
introduced by Mayor Jones, Who
Also Makes Speech.
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TOLEDO. Ohio, October 31.-Col. and
Mrs Bryan arrived in this city at o'clock
this morning, coming direct from Dun
kirk, N. Y. They were met at the railroad
station by Mayor and Mrs. Jones' Mr..
BRYAN was escorted to the Boody House by
the mayor while Mrs. Bryan was convey
ed to the mayors residence for brief re-
ception.
Beginning at 10 o'clock, Mr.. Bryan made
a speech of an hours duration in Armory
Park here, leaving Immediately afterward
on his days tour of the state. He was
received by cheers from a big crowd gath
cred about the depot when he left his car
and also found large number Of people
grouped about the hotel when he reached
It, They cheered heartily.
Before proceeding to the park Mr. Bryan
made a brief speech to the crowd assem-
bled In front of the Body House, telling
them simply that he pleased to see
so many people out so early in the morning.
AT the park he was greeted by several
thousand persons, who cheered him when
he entered. in company with Mayor Jones.
The mayor was introduced to make the
frs speech, He urged upon his hearers
the Importance of allowing their votes TO
represent their conscientious opinions.
Whoever was elected he felt sure that the
country would go as 1t had been going.
As for himself he was following his high
est and hoiest conceptions of duty. There
was considerable applause and also some
Kisses during the mayors address.
Boys Make n Disturbance.
While Mr.. Jones was talking fifty or sixty
school boys congregated together in part
of the park separate from the main crowd
and kept up such a clamor that it became
necessary for the police to disperse them.
Mr. Bryan was introduced by Mayor
Jones and he said that he was proud to be
presented by a man to whom duty was
higher consideration than was any party
Taking up the question of non-partisanshlp.
Mr.. Bryan said that not only were FORMER
republicans coming over, but that gold
democrats were coming back. That, he
said was the natural result of political
conditions and of the republican party
persistent disregard Of the rights OF the
people at large.
In this speech Mr. Bryan gave consider
able time to the plea OF prosperity. oh
thai subject he said:
THE republican party has failed In this
campaign, and 1 am going to show you
how one proposition after another put 1orth
by the republicans has failed to meet with
response from the people. When this
campaign opened up the one cry was that
the country was prosperous, that the re-
publican party had made it SO, and that to
keep 1t so the republican party must pc
kept in power. That was the one plea, and
to represent that they had full dinner
pail painted on their banners. The full din
dinner pail now as II looks they would
paint on their banners the worst battered,
the most beaten and the most shot-full-of-
holes dinner pail ever seen.
Why the Issue Failed.
Let me tell you why the dinner-pail ar
gument failed. First, because not every
laboring man has a full dinner pail They
went on the theory that every laboring man
had a full dinner pail. but the anthracite
+riL- cd he Of a ny
people to the failure of that republican ar
gument, for down there in the anthracite
coal regions the strike showed that the
men did not get half as much as they ought
to, and paid twice much for powder as
they should.
II would be willing 20 let this campaign
be decided the full dinner pail argu-
ment, and | would ask the laboring men
who vote yes or no on this proposition
are you satisfied with present conditions
and want them continued just as they are?
1 would be perfectly willing to let the Ia
boring men vote on that proposition, but
before they vote | want them to go to the
sweat shops and ask themselves whether
that is prosperity. and they want 1t con-
tinued jus-sss it is. Ii is not true that the
laooring men of this country are receiving
their fair share OF the wealth that they
produce. That is one reason why the full
dinner pail argument falls
Took Up Trust Question.
Mr.. Bryan then took up the question OF
trusts, declaring that the utteranceS OF
both President Mckinley and Gov. Roose-
welt showed them to be more interested in
protecting what they call the good trusts
than in suppressing the bad trusts. He
sad that if times got hard the corporations
would cut down wages rather than reduce
their dividends.
He would make it impossible for a pri-
vate monopoly to live under the American
flag and if elected President all the power
vested in the executive should be used tC
that end This sentiment was vigorously
cheered and there were cries of Bravo.
Speaking Of the standing army, Mr.
Bryan declared that If the republican ticket
is elected there never will be smaller ma
tonal force than at present. He said the
republicans were not prepared to defent
their foreign policy. and he gave the fol
lowing as a resume of all the republican
speeches on the Philippine question:
We are sorry we have the Philippine
Islands They came to us by accident
We are sorry we have them, but we canno
let go of them. 1t looks as If God had sen
us there: it looks if We were following
the leadings of Divine hand, and besides
there's money in it,
That he said, was the gist Of all the re
publican speeches on the subject.
He declared that 1t was neither righteou!
nor wise to coerce the Filipinos, and ht
thanked God that He so firmly had linked
together that which is wise and that which
is right that they cannot be torn asunder
Asserting that the President was exceedin,
the powers conferred by the Constitution
Mr. Bryan said: "Our Constitution create
the President and he shall not outgrow hi
creator