The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1900-10-26

asm--C Candidates
| Speech.
twenty-five minutes after ten O'Clock,
where he found a large audience awaiting
him. Mayor Edward Hoos was chairman
and on the platform were:-Mayor Egbert
Seymour of Bayonne, Commissioner An
thony Hauck, John Edelstein, A. w.
Pintard, Senator William J. Keys of
Somerset, James P. Hall. George G. Ten
nant, T.. w. ;Fagen, e. Dewitt. John
Griffin, Henry Puster and others. The
galleries were crowded with ladies and
there wasn't seat vacant downstairs.
ITO say that am pleased to meet such
an audience began Mayor Hoos, ito well
come the next President of the United
States is scarcely necessary. This State
will give it's electoral vote to Mr. Bryan
in spite of all statements to the con-
trary. (Cheers.) The people have come
to the conclusion that trusts must cease
when merchants are driven out of their
business. Who is the friend of labor?
Mr.. Bryan sympathizes with the humblest
|
President of the United States. Gap
plause) In 1896 I stood for Bryan and
| from that time I have remained with him
and hpe all Democrats will do the same
The factories won't be closed, and after
election you will see men doing business
| just the same as before. Bankers say
| they can't trust Mr.. Bryan. I only want
to say that if he is elected President they
will have something else to do but catch
men who run off with 100000" CMuch
| laughter.)
Mr. James r. Minturn, of Hoboken,
spoke on National issues. Mr.. Geo. G.
Tenant devoted himself to Equal Taxa
tion, and Mr.. Alexander C. Young to
delnunciation of Mark Hanna and his
ways. The latter speaker was in the
midst of his speech when the firing OF
bombs and the blasts from a bugle an
nounced the approach of the candidate.
The noise increased, the widows became
red with the glare of red light outside,
the organ began to play The Star
Spangled Banner" the audience rose to
! it's fet and then from the door at the
| side of the platform there was a small
| crowd seen forcing it's way to the front.
| Cheer anfter cheer rent the air when Mr..
Robert Davis stepped on the platform
escorting Mr. Bryan. Mayor Hoos shook
hands with him and those on the platform
were introduced the audience meanwhile
working itself in to a frenzy of enthus
iasm. Mr.. Davis held up his hand and
after demanding silence, briefly intro
duced him. Mr.. Bryan looked tired, but
his voice was firm and every word would
I Il, ~ zsr1,n
packed with people
Ladies and Gentlemen he began,
"You have manifested so much interest in
me that I have been wondering what it
| could all mean. am not vain enough to
believe that it is intended as a personal
tribute, but rather to the cause which
represent. (Applause.) This is the third
meeting have attended tonight. ! don't
think / have ever seen so many people
1 made up my mind that Mr. Davis here
| is a great drawing card. I think I'll take
him with me. daughter and a. voice,
1--WE want him here.') The campaign is
about closed and you will soon sit in judg-
ment on the policy of the party in power;
you will soon decide by your vote which
government you prefer. The Republicans
say that everything is all right. We say
it is not. (ApEdause.)
/ Everyone who thinks the Republican
policy is good and canot be improved. may
| if he pIeases vote for it with all satisfac-
| ton possible. But we deny that their poll
| icy is good for the country. We deny that
the boasted prosperity reaches today the
masses. There are some who are prosper
Gus under the Republican regime. Who
are they?
''The army contractor can be prosperous
under the Republican Administration. The
trust magnate can be prosperous under
the Republican Administration. Tne man
who gets special privileges at the hands
of the Government can prosper under a
Republican Administration. The man who
can use the instrumentality of the Gov
ernment for private gains and the COY
ernment itself for public plunder can
profit under Republican Administr tratlon.
(Applause.) But deny that the wealth.
producers of this country are ENJOYING
their share of the Governments produc-
tions. Take the farmer and take the
4 prices that prevail, and see how long II
would take a farmer to accumulate por-
ton that would be large enough to class
him among the rich men of the nation.
Take the laboring man and see how long
it would take him, working at the wages
he gets to earn enough to make him IN
dependent. Tell me that the farmer pros
pers when every decade shows that ne
possesses a less and less percentage OF the
wealth of the country. Tell me the labor
i ing man is prosperous. when the laboring
man must send his son and his daughter
out to work to help support the family,
when they ought to be in school. (Great
tapplause.) Is this prosperity? (Cries OF
4 mo, no'') My friends when conditions
are satisfactory, the head Of the family
4 will be able to earn enough for the whole
family, and not before. (Applause.) But
while these conditions prevail among the
great mass of the people, there are some
accumulating fortunes with rapidity
never known before in the history Of this
country or in the history of the world
for the world has no example of the same
being furnished by the unjust legislation
in his country although he can pay his
honest debts, and when we challenge pub
lie attention to what is going on the Re
|publicans refuse to meet the issue.
Talk of full dinner pail Mr.. Bryan
resumed after a pause, why a laboring
man needs more than that. The Republic