Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-10-02
Splendid SPEECHES
BY CANDIDATE bryan.
A QUOTATION FROM ONE OF PRES
IDENT McKINLEY'S
SPEECHES
SERVED HIM AS A TRUST TEXT.
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MckIN-
LEY'S PROMISES AND
PERFORMANCES.
An Attorney General Selected from
the State that Mothers All the
Trusts, Draws His Salary for NOT
Interfering With Him-Ehecf OF
the Trusts on the Milling Industry.

DULUTH, Mimi, October 1.-When
William ]. Bryan returned to this city
to-day from West Superior, Wis, where
he had spent the night, he found his
train deliberately decorated. A picture
of Mr.. Bryan filled the place OF
headlight on the locomotive, While
motto in large letters was strung along
Mr.. Bryans car, which declared "Ihe
Republic forever; an empire never.
Mr.. Bryans first speech of the day
was delivered from the veranda OF the
West Superior Hotel in West Superior.
He began there at few minutes be-
fore 8 O'Clock, and talked half an hour
to large audience, dwelling especial
Iy on the trust question and making
especial reference to a combination Oh
the flour milling industries.
In this speech Mr. Bryan also re-
ferred to a speech made by President
Mckinley in 1894, in which the Presl-
dent attacked the Democratic party,
He quoted the following from that
speech:
'eThey were the enemies of the trust
when they wanted the votes of the
people in 1892, and when they got the
power to deal blow at trusts, accord
ing to the testimony of their own mem
bers, they became the willing too's
of the most gigantic trust of the coun-
try
RemarISing Upon This Quotation
Mr.. Bryan said:
"Mr. Mckinley complains that the
democrats did not destroy the trusts
when they had an opportunity, and
when he complained you must believe
he was honest in his complaint You
cannot accuse him of being hypocrite,
and yet Mr.. Mckinley has been Presl-
dent for three and a half years, and
during that time more trusts have
been organized than in all the previous
history of the country, and he has a.
lowed three sessions of Congress TO
convene and adjourn, and did not rec
ommend a specific measure for the de-
struction of the trusts. And Mr.. Hanna,
who stands at the head of the Repub-
lican National Committee during this
campaign, and who stood at the head
of the Republican National Committee
in 1896, declared the other day that
there were no trusts.
Now, if you believe Mr.. Mckinley
was honest when he condemned the
Democrats for not destroying the trusts
how can you explain his policy in do
ing the same thing. He selected an
attorney general from New Jersey,
where most of the trusts have their
homes, and that Attorney General
draws his salary
For Not Interfering With the Trusts.
The Attorney General of the State OF
Nebraska, Democrat, elected on the
Fusion ticket, has brought more suits
in the State of Nebraska against the
trusts than the Republican Attorney
General of the United States has
brought against the trusts of the United
States"
At Duluth Mr.. Bryan spoke in the
Armory, from which all the seats had
been taken in order to accommodate as
many people as possible. Mr.. Bryan
said he could hope to add nothing to
the arguments which had been made by
Hon. Charles A. Towne, who resides
here.
IF he cannot warn you sufficiently
against the dangers that threaten you,
he said, ''you would not believe, though
one rose from the dead"
Mr.. Bryan first adverted to what he
characterized as the Republican fond
ness for the financial question as
paramount issue. "That party is bend
ing all it's energies" he said, towards
the ACKNOWLEDGMENT of wealth and the
Degradation of Mankind.
But partial as the Republican party is
towards the money question, the party
is being driven from it, and some are
taking refuge in the tariff question"
Mr.. Bryan believed that they would
also be driven from that position be-
fore the close of the present campaign.
Mr.. Bryan said that in 1859 Mr.. Lin
coin celebrated the birthday OF Jeffer-
son, and continued:
How long has 1t been since you Re-
publicans celebrated the birthday of
Thomas Jefferson? Whose birthday
do you celebrate? You celebrate the
birthday of Alexander Hamilton, who
wanted our government as nearly like
the English government as 1t could
be-
Referring to the trusts, Mr.. BRYAN
said that there could be no good mo-
nopoly In private hands. He referred
again to Senator Hanna's declaration
that II the trusts should prove is lger-
oals the Republican party woul1 take