The Topeka state journal., 1900-10-19

have promised that my attorney general
will not come from New Jersey, and
have promised that he will enforce the
laws"
closing his Rome address, Mr.. Bryan
said:
Il believe It was here the first Amer1-
can flag was raised. I want you to look
at that flag want you to see if you
can find in that flag anything that rep
resents a. subject. The white stands for
the purity of the nations motives; the
red stands for the blood shed in the pur-
chase of liberty, and the stars represent
the states, and every territory sees in
the future a star of hope that is some
day to find its place in the constellation.
But where in that flag is anything a.
subject or a vassa1 can look to and love?
I do not wish to change that flag. I
would rather haul it down and let the
Filipinos have their own nag than
change our flag to the flag of an en-
pire and smear it with the blood of con-
quest
Mr.. Bryan made ten-minute speeches at
the four towns of Oneida, Canastoga,
Chittenago and Dewitt. At Oneida he
said:
II do not harbor an ambition that
rests for its qualification on what other
people do. I want that my honest am
bitiOn shall rest for its qualification on
what I can do myself, and my highest
ambition is the same as yours should be,
namely, to do what I can to make this
country SO good that to be a private
CfIlZE0 mere Will De d greater 4DuOI lud~1
to be king in any other nation on
earth.''
The Canastoga speech was made from
a carriage near the railroad station and
was addressed to farmers. Mr. Bryan
spoke to the railway men of the full
dinner pail" He said that even if there
was a full dinner pail for the laboring
man it would be impossible to trace its
existence to the Republican party.
1.-The labor organizations of the coun-
try have done more for labor" he said,
lin the last few years than the Repub-
hcan party could do in a century"
The Oswego meeting proved one of the
greatest triumphs of Mr.. Bryan,s tour.
1t was reminder Of his best Ohio meet
ings. The meeting there was held in
Washington square and the band stand
was utilized as a speakers platform and
was surrounded by humanity packed
close against it. There were probably
five times as many people present as
could hear what was said.
Mr.. Bryan spoke for only about half
an hour. He mounted a table SO that all
could see.
Referring to the size of the crowd. Mr..
Bryan said he had wasted a. good deal
of time in visiting other places, mot
knowing that the whole state would be
in Oswego."
As he had done In previous speeches,
Mr.. Bryan again gave the principal
place in his talk to the trust question.
He charged that the Republicans hoped
by jugglery, and only by that means to
Q6CGlNE the people into voting their TlCk-
et- In response to a voice from the
crowd concerning the starch combina-
ton, Mr.. Bryan said he knew nothing
personally in regard to the Oswego
works, but that he had been told that
the works were employing fewer men
now than formerly. He related the cir
cumstances connected with the legal
proceedings against the Nebraska
branch of the starch combination and
he warned his hearers generally against
trusts of all kinds as calculated at any
time to close any industrial enterprise
which might be controlled by them.
The return trip to Syracuse was made
in an hour and this city was reached at
o'clock.
a cold, drizzling rain, which set in
early IN the evening did not dampen in
the least the ardor and enthusiasm of
the immense crowd which greeted Mr..
Bryan when he arrived here at sos
o'clock from Oswego. The crowd was
probably the largest which has greeted
a political speaker here for many years.
The crowd janmed and squeezed it.
self IN the large square fronting on the
Erie canal dock. Mr.. Bryan spoke from
a stand erected in front of the Weiting
opera House. Inside the theater there
was mass meeting which was address,
edl by Mayor Jones, of Toledo, until Mr.
Bryan finished his open air speech. He
spoke for half an hour from the stand
and then went into the theater and
spoke Tor an hour and half In the lat
ter speech he presented in detail all the
issues beginning with trusts