Evening star., 1900-10-12
Begins Speeohmaking at an Early
Hour in Toledo.
W0RKINGMEN FOR his AUDIENCE
He Also Speaks at FindIay and
Bowling Green.
TALK WITH MAYOR JONES

KENTON, Ohio October 12-It had not
been the intention of the Ohio state demo-
cratic committee that w. ]. Bryan, the
democratic presidential candidate should
begin the speechmaking feature of his
Ohio tour until the town Of Bowling Green
should be reached This plan was, how
ever. fnterfered with to a Slight extent by
the demands of number Of people who
gathered about Mr.. Bryans car in the To-
ledo depot before the train pulled out from
that point. The train had been brought to
Toledo from Saginaw via Detroit during the
night, and had arrived at Toledo In the
early hours Of the morning. 1t was about
$50 when people began to congregate in the
vicinity of Mr.. Bryan's private car, and it
was not long until the clamor became so
great that the national candidate was COM
PEELED to hurriedly dress himself and make
his appearance.
The next speech was made at Bowling
Green, twenty miles out, and the third at
Findlay, the center of the Ohio gas belt.
The Bowling Green speech was made before
breakfast, and the Findlay speech imme-
diately after the close of that meal.
Mrs. Bryan to Join Him.
Mr.. Bryan announced during the break
fast hour that Mrs. Bryan would join him
October p, in New York, and remain with
paign. He said that after leaving New
York and making the tour of West Vir-
gina. Maryland. Delaware and New Jersey
he would again return to the empire state
and probably make several speeches the
occasion of this second visit MIR. Bryan's
audience at the depot in Toledo was COM
prised of four or five hundred people who
had assembled there of their own accord,
many Of them being laborers on their way
to work, with their dinner pals in their
10 tal lkad in,
tional tone of voice. the manner of the
speech creating the impression of familiar
chat. He told them that the republican
party seemed of the opinion that the full
dinner pail was a sufficient reply to all
argument, as we'll as to all demands. He
secuted the idea that it could be sufficient
to meet the requirements of the laboring
man because, he said the laborer was not
all appetite. The republicans seemed to
forget, he said, all about anthracite coal
He also warned them against what he con-
sidered the baneful influences of trusts and
talked at some length on the tendency to-
ward change in our form of government
as manifested In our treatment to the Fill
pinos and to the Porto Ricans.
The speech was received with cheers.
Speech at Bowling Green.
AT Bowling Green Mr.. Bryan especially
urged the Importance Of electing the whole
democratic ticket saying: "If I am elected
President l do not want to be in the White
House merely TO distribute patronage If
I am there want to have chance to sign
my name to bills and I cannot sign a bill
as President until it comes to me, and a
bill cannot reach the President until 1t
passes the House and the Senate. You
have a chance to help secure majority in
the House. and it may be that the House
will be so close that one vote in the House
of Representatives will determine the ma
jorfty, and one vote in this district may
determine the election of congressman,
and if you believe in the doctrines for
which We stand 1 want you to work from
now until election day to send a congress-
man down to Washington who will carry
out these ideas. If we are right in the
position that we have taken you ought
to be interested in turning over the control
of the government to those who believe as
do"
fine audience greeted Mr. Bryan upon
his arrival at Findlay at $50. and he made
a speech of five minutes at that place. He
said in part:
Possibly it is not necessary to speak
long on the trust Question, for people learn
more by experience than they do by speech
es, and a speech can only point out the
lessons of experience. 1t used to be that
If mill closed down under the democratic
administration every republican paper and
editor pointed to the mill and to its smoke
less chimneys as an evidence that demo-
cratic policies We're destroying the indus
tries OF the country. But now when a trust
buys plant and closes it down no repub-
lican says word about it,"
Four Trusts in the Town.
AT this point some one in the crowd sug-
gested that there were four trusts In that
town, and Mr.. Bryan said in reply:
The gentleman says you have four trusts
IN this town. 1 went to a town, West Su-
perior, Wis, the other day, and found thew
had six there. The flour mill trust had
closed down six flour mills. You will find
that the trust will close more mills than
any polcy that any party ever stood for.
When republican tells you that those who
night the trusts are fighting industries. YOU
tell him that when an industry is inde-
pendent 1t cannot close down without loss.
lts labor1ng men scatter, its trade is lost,
ana not only the industry itself but the
communicate these are interested In
Keeping 1t going. But when you put all the
industries Of one line under one manage
menC the management can close factory
mere or there. and carry on the work some
Where else. The trust can close down in
order to keep the price up, and throw upon
the laborlng man and upon the community
the burden Of maintaining extortionate
prices"
The Bryan train will be in charge of an
Ohio committee, who came aboard at To-
ledo, for the next four days. George 8
Long, chairman Of the democratic state ex-
ecutive committee, Is in chief command.
with N. B. Cochran, candidate for Con-
gress from the Toledo district; ex-senator
w. q. Leet and ex-Representatives T.. G.
Cole and II. c. CARRIER and Coin Harvey
as principal assistants.
While the car was standing In the Toledo
station Mayor Jones Of Toledo called ,non
Mr.. Bryan, and they were in conference To-
gether Tor a few minutes. 1t had been
company Mr.. Bryan on his Ohio tour. hut
his other campaign engagements prevented
him doing so.