The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-10-21
OFF FOR WEST VIRGINIA
he Will Make Speeches in That
State Monday.
SEVENTEEN ADDRESSES YESTERDAY
In His Elmira Speech Mr.. Bryan Pointed Out
How in Congress Last Session Republic
cans Sought to SteaIiPower
From the States.
(By the Associated Press.)

From the States.
(By the Associated Press)
Buffalo, N. Y, Oct. 2O.-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 ad-
dresses during the day beginning with
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, Brockport,
Holly, Albion, Medina, Middleport, Lock-
port and Niagara Falls.
The 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 70
O'Clock for Huntington, w. Va, where
he will begin 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:
-Four years ago there were three foun-
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 times 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 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 beom-
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 1 tell people what a trust
means In town like this? The rise in
the cost of 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 to
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 hundred other trusts that
plumber the people at every turn? How
can man vote the Republican ticket
when he knows that under this admins
than were ever organized in previous his
tory of the country. When he knows that
the Republican party neither denounces
the trust today nor dares to defend the
trust; and when you go to the head of
tie Republican National committee he in
sul,s 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 that Mr.
Bryan could have desired. dense
crowd of people filled the streets and
there was an elaborate display of fire
works from start to finish. In the open
air meeting at Broadway market thu
speakers stand was surrounded with
densely packed people extending probably
200 to 300 feet in every direction. Mr..
Bryan was in excellent voice, and The
people were attentive, so that almost all
of them heard all that he had 10 saw. In
this speech the national candidate gave
especial attention to the citizens OF for
eign birth saying that to change our !
form of government as we were manifest |
ing a tendency to do IN our dealings 18th |
the Filipinos, would be a gross fraud upon |
these who had come to the United States. |
He referred especially to the fact that |
there are a number of Poles in Buffalo |
and said that the sad history of Poland |
should be sufficient example of the effect |
of the subJugation of an alien race.
The speech was warmly applauded and |