Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-10-26
WELCOMED IN OHIO.
Bryan Speaks at Several Points in
the Buckeye State.
Presidential Nominee Strenuously
Urges Election of Entire Party
Ticket to Preserve the
Republic.

day OF his Ohio tour by an address be-
fore a large and enthusiastic audience
at Portsmouth Friday night, October
II. Mr.. Bryan started out from To-
ledo early in the morning, but before
he left that city great crowd gath
cred at the depot and demanded a
speech. Finally the national candi-
date was compelled to hurriedly dress
himself and make his appearance. 1t
had not been planned to make a speech
at that point Friday. Mr.. Bryan's
route during the day took him to
Bowling Green, Findlay. Kenton,
Springfield, Xenia, Washington Court
house, Greenfield, Waverly and Day
ton.
When Mr.. Bryan was introduced at
Springfield some enthusiastic admirer
in the crowd shouted:
"Hurrah for the farmer PRESIDENT"
The exclamation attracted Mr.. Bry-
ans attention and he said:
81 do not want to be elected under
false pretenses. 1 am not a farmer;
am an agriculturist. You know the
difference between them. A farmer
is a man who makes his money on the
farm and spends it in town, while an
agriculturist is a man who makes his
money in town and spends it on the
farm"
This definition of the farmer pleased
the audience and all listened atten-
lively to his speech throughout.
Speaks for the Entire Ticket.
Trusts and imperialism formed the
basis of Mr.. Bryan's speeches, and he
also touched upon the Importance of
electing the whole democratic ticket.
He said in part:
eff I am elected president I do not want
to be in the white house merely to dis
tribute patronage. If am there 1 want to
have a chance to sign my name to bills,
and 1 cannot sign a bill president until
it comes to me, and a bill cannot reach the
president until it passes the house and the
senate.
ssYou have a chance to help secure a
majority in the house and it may be that
the house will be so close that one vote
in the house of representatives will de-
termine the majority, and one vote in this
district may determine the election of a
congressman, and if you believe in the
doctrines for which stand 1 want you
to work from now until election day to
send a congressman down to Washington
who will carry out these ideas. If we are
right in the position taken you ought to
be interested in turning over the control
of the government to those who believe as
we do.
Tells of Trust Dangers.
Possibly it is not necessary to speak
long on the trust question, for people learn
more by appearance than they do by
speeches and speech can only point out
the lessons of experience. 1t used to be
that If mill closed down under demo-
cratic administration every republican pa
per and editor pointed to the mill and to
its smokeless chimpeys as an evidence that
democratic policies were destroying the
industries of the country. But now when
trust buys plant and closes it down
no republican says a word about it.
Bowling Green. in this state, has four
trusts. I went to West Superior, Wis,
six there. The flour mill trust had closed
down six -four mills. You will find that
the trust will close more mills than any
policy that any other party ever stood for.
When a republican tells you that those
who fight the trusts are fighting industries
you tell him that when an industry is in
dependent it cannot close down without
loss. Its laboring men scatter, its trade
Is lost and not only the industry itself but
the community Suffer-an these are inter-
ested in keeping it going. But when you
put all the industries of one line under one
management the management can close
a factory here there and carry on the
work somewhere else
Says Public Omcer Ia q Servant.
According to my idea public officer
Is public servant. He is chosen by the
people TO 90 tnem What they want
done, not what may be best for himself
as an individual necessary, but what is
best for the people, and they are entitled
to know, first, that he stands for things
that they believe in; and, second. that he
will carry out the things which he prom
Uses to carry out. You know my platform
and you know whether you like it not.
II you like the platform you need not have
any fear but that 1t will be carried out
If am elected. I believe that even the
republicans now will give me credit for
meaning what say. In fact. believe the
greatest argument that is now used against
my election is that am an honest man
and therefore dangerous. This argument
cannot be brought against many republic
ans whom I might mention.
Is You will find that the republican party
to-day Is insisting that a standard of
money is more important than a question
of government: that it Is more important
that a man shall have a gold dollar in his
pocket than that he shall have a republic
In which to live. You will hear them say
that every laboring man ought to be sat-
isfied as long as he is not hungry and you
will hear them say that the farmers are
prosperous. You will hear them claim
credit for the farmers prosperity with
out showing any connection between any
prosperity farmer may enjoy this year
or any other year and the republican party.
We insist that money question is more
important than a question of taxation.
and because we believed that In 1886 we
declared the money question to be the para
mount issue. Questions of taxation come
up every year, questions OF money come
up every few years, but a question Of
government Is a question Of a century,
Denounces Imperial Policy.
In speaking of the increase In the stand
ing army and also the wisdom Of a colonial
policy Mr.. Bryan declared that the people
had never voted for large army and did
not want one, and that the only reason for
the demand for an increase which had been
made by the administration in addition to
fAY1 in q n a
was found in the desire to maintain .
colonial policy and establish an empire.
Discussing his plan to give protection to
the Philippines as an Independent republic