Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-10-24
BRYAN In MARYLAND
He is Making Speeches Today on
the Eastern Shore.
SEVERAL SMALL TOWNS. VISITED
He Discusses the Trusts and the
Philippine Question.
SPEECH TO COLORED MEN

| EAsToN, Md, October 24.-The demo-
| cratic presidential candidate last night
| abandoned railway coaches and other land
carriages for a trip on the water. He came
| down Chesapeake bay from Baltimore to
! the hamlet Of Claibourne, on the eastern
shore of Maryland, and he has devoted the
| forenoon Of today to canvassing that sec
| tion of the state, speaking at the toTns of
| St. Michaels, Easton, Preston, Hurlock. Vi
emma, Salisbury and Berlin. He left the
| boat at Claibourne and from that point
| Travelled by special train.
AT ST. Michaels, the first stopping place
of the day. Mr.. Bryan spoke to a small
number of people who had congregated
| there. Among those in the crowd were
some colored people, and to them Mr..
Bryan addressed himself to some extent.
Before speaking to the colored people he
referred to the question of trusts. He
again charged that the republican party
was suggesting no remedy for the trusts,
and that the reason why this was SO was
| that the republican campaign contributions
came from the trusts
Takes Up Race Question.
On the race question Mr. Bryan said:
| 1T is one of the strange things We see in
| this campaign that the republican party
goes to black man and urges that man to
say DS HIS Nolc tLdt tllt bIo"H man III
! the Philippine Islands has not right to
voice in this government. And it seems
to me that before black man votes to
disfranchise a brown man he had better
find out upon what basis his own right
stands, for if we deny to the FIlpino the
right to govern himself, what right have
we to govern ourselves? 1t cost hundreds
of thousands of nveS and millions of money
to give the black man the Declaration of
Independence. and now spending
hundreds and thousands, yes millions, of
dollars and wasting lives to take the Dec
laration Of independence away from the
brown man. Before the black men of this
country vote the republican ticket they
had better loon into the matter and find
out what the chance of the black man is
to be when We draw race line and say
that because man in the Philippine
Islands is brown and not of our race we
will send carpet-bag government over
there and hold me government Of force
| over them by a standing army. We be-
lieve in the Declaration of independence,
and If we have race problems to solve here
we think it is better to solve them than
to go 1000 miles away from home to get
another race problem and enter upon it's
solution, not here at home but far away
| from home as the Philippine Islands are
Large Gathering at Easton.
Easton was the scene of large gather
ing. This is the county seat of Talbot
county, an important agricultural center,
and here Mr.. Bryan addressed himself
especially to the farmers. Referring to the
trusts. Mr.. Bryan told his hearers that
they We're especially dangerous to the
farming community. You will find he
said that 1t will take a great dead of
faith for a republican to find any reason
for voting the republican ticket this year.
1t Is said that faith is the substance of
things hoped for and the evidence of things
| not seen, and the republican faith this year
is much like that. 1t is the substance of
things hoped for and the evidence of things
not seem
Continuing his discussion of the trusts
Mr. Bryan asked: why it is that the
farmer who votes the republican ticket gets
so little consideration from the republican
party?' Replying to his own inquiry he
said: 1T is because they vote the ticket
regardless of what the party does while
the trust magnates do not vote the ticket
unless it suits them and unless the party
does what they want. Therefore the party
does all they want and neglects the
farmer"
Charges Against Republicans.
Mr.. Bryan charged the republican party
with many Inconsistencies, saying: You
will find that the republicans today are
hurrahng for things that they denounced
| few years ago. The republican party
used to stand for bmetallsm and all the
| republicans hurrahed for bimetallism. Now
1t stands for the gold standard, and they
hurrah for the gold standard. They used
| hurrah for the national bank notes. They
used to hurrah for the reduction of the
tional debt, now they stand for the bank
currency that can only be permanent when
based on bonds. 1t is a long distance from
paying off the debt to making it permanent,
but they hurrah just the same. They used
to hurrah in denunciation of the trusts,
now they say there are good trusts and
bad trusts, and that they cannot tell the
difference between them.
In closing his speech at Easton, Mr. Bry
au made appeal for the support Of the
entire democratic ticket including both the
state and congressional branches of it. On
this point he said:
The President can do nothing without
| the help of Congress. and l do not know
of greater purgatory than to put a man
in the White House and surround him
with men who do not believe in the Decla-
ration Of Independence, and therefore, if
you are with us on these questions l want
you to come out and help from now until
election day. We have no money to buy
you, We have no power to coerce you, but
we appeal to your judgment and con-
science, and We want you to roll up such
a majority that money cannot buy away
our victory, and no coercion can intimidate
those who want to go with US. And then,
| my friends, on the night Of election We can
all rejoice; you can rejoice out here as
you think that the principles Of civil gov
ernment are safe and in Nebraska we
can say Maryland. My Maryland -
Speech at Preston, Md.
SALISBURY, Md, October 24.-In his
speech at Preston, Md, Mr.. Bryan made
| reference to the financial question in re-
sponsc to an inquiry. The question was:
How about 16 to 1?' Mr.. Bryan said:
If you want to know about 16 to 1 will
tell you. Sixteen to 1 was the paramount
issue in 1896, but the republicans have done
SO many mean things since then that we
are kept busy on the new things. But If
republican disputes the IL to doctrine you
tell him that we have a republican Presi
dent, republican Senate and republican
House. and they have never attempted to
| change the 16 to 1 ratio. and Mr.. Mckinley
| is now coming silver dollars at the ratio
| of 16 to / without waiting for the aid or
consent of any other nation on earth. Until
| the republican party proposes to change
the ratio I object to their discussing the
| ratio. When they propose to change it we
| will discuss 1t with them"
In his Preston speech Mr.. Bryan charged
| that all persons contributed to the trusts.
II want to tell you." he said. that the.
| trouble with the republican party is that
| 1t makes all the republicans contribute to
| its campaign fund and makes all the demo-