The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-10-23
OFF FOR WEST VIRGINIA
he Will Make Speeches in That
State Monday.
SEVENTEEN ADDRESSES YESTERDAY
In His EImira Speech Mr.. Bryan Pointed Out
How in Congress Last Session Republic
cans Sought to Steal. Power
From Tho States.
From the States.
(By the Associated Press.)

Buffalo, n. Y, Oct. 20.-Mr. Bryan con-
cluded his four-day campaign tour Of the
State of New York with Two large meet
ings in this city tonight. One of
these meetings was held at the Broadway
market and was an open air gathering,
and the other at Convention hall. Before
reaching Buffalo he had made fifteen adj
dresses during the day beginning with a
thirty-minute speech at Elmira at nine
o'clock in the morning. The other places
at which he spoke were as follows:
Corning, Bath, Cohocton, Wayland, Lii
vonia, Avon, Spencerport, B~rockport,
Holly, Albion, Medina, Middleport, Lock-
port and Niagara Falls.
Tie attendance at most of the day meet
ings was good and at some of them quite
large. The audiences could not be said
to be enthusiastic as a rule, but every
where the Democratic Presidential candi-
date was accorded most careful attention
and respectful treatment.
During his State tour Mr.. Bryan has
made about sixty-fve different speeches
and he has quite thoroughly traversed the
central belt of the State from east to
west. He left this city tonight at II
O'Clock for Huntington, W.. Va, where
he will begin a one-day trip across West
Virginia next Monday morning.
HOW A TRUST WORKED RUIN.
Mr.. Bryan devoted alost his entire
speech at Medina to the trust question
and his remarks were based largely on
the following statement prepared by a
local authority:
'EO1II, Uo re oOn th0ro ~ {hr0o fo,,
daries at Medina under separate manage
ment, each employing from one hundred
to one hundred and fifty men. These
foundries were operated all through the
hard lines previous to 1896. One of the
foundry owners called his men together
and told them emphatically that if Mr..
Bryan was elected they need not come
back after election day as the foundry
would be closed. In July, 1899, the three
foundries entered the trust. the Central
Foundry company, which has a monopoly
in the manufacture Of soil pipe in the
United States. Soil pipe was Immediately
| advanced to the consumers fully 100 per
cent. Very soon one foundry was closed,
was left without a Waterman and has
been burned. then a second one was
closed and has remained so about a year,
and is not expected to be run again: five
months ago the third one was closed by
the trust. although it is now claimed it
will be re-opened. The village was boom
ing and very prosperous when the trust
entered it. Today the foundry workers
OF these three fOundries have either gone
to other towns or are among the farm
ers helping gather their apple cron.'
Commenting upon this statement. Mr..
Bryan said:
why need l tell people what a trust
means in a town like this? The rise in
the cost of a product is on of the natural
things that you would expect, but why
did you have to wait for this trust to
close down three factories in your town
and raise the price of pipe in order 10
learn what the trust means? Doesn't
the Standard Oil Trust teach you the
same lesson? Doesn't the Sugar Trust
teach you the same lesson? Doesn't you
learn it from a hundred other trusts that
plumber the people at every turn? How
can a man vote the Republican ticket
when he knows that under this admins
tration more trusts have been organized
than were ever organized in previous his
tory OF the country. When he knows hat
the Republican party neither denounces
the trust today nor dares to defend the
trust; and when you go to the head OF
the Republican National committee he In
suits the intelligence OF the American peo-
pie by telling them there is no trust in
the United States"
A WARM WELCOME TO BRYAN
The reception here was all th3t Mr
Bryan could have desired. A dense
crowd of people filled the streets anf
there was an elaborate display of fire
works from start to finish. In the oper
air meeting at Broadway market tn.
speakers stand was surrounded wifi
i 6pnSn1V nanlo1
200 to 300 feet in every direction. Mr.
Bryan was in excellent voice. End ,hf
people were attentive, so that almost al
OF them heard all that he had to saw. Ir
TINS speech the national candidate raw
especial attention to the citizens of for.
elgn birth, saying that to Change on
3 loiih OF government as we were manifest.
/, ing a tendency to do IN our dealings y III
.he flllplnos, would be a gross fraud upo,
thcSe who had come to the Tnitel States
r He referred especially to the fact tba
, there are a number OF Poles in Ruffal
4 and said that the sad history of Polan.
= Should be sufficient example Of tho effoc
o OF the s~ubJugation of an alien raco
The speech was warmly annlardod a.,
n at It's conclusion Mr.. Bryan was drive,
v hurrledly to Convention hall.
r SUPERB DEMONSTRATIONS
hundreds had been turned away fror
: convention nall before Mr.. Bryan arrived
"hen he entered the great audienc
arose and, with waving flags and roa r
ihs cneers made a demonstration III.
only the most strenuous efforts of tho 49,
n oiudte could quiet. Standing dramatic
any win extended arm, he husbed III
tulhuit into cuiet. In a few words =
Poilted out that the carnpaign was ne,r,
oou dhu the time of decision was clos
at hand. vas w.
u nryan was in the midst of n
~ p0iiaiistlc argument at los