The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-10-26
IN LITTLE DELAWARE
Mr.. BRYAN WINDS UP A HARD DAYS
WORK AT WILMINGTON
HE MAKES NINTEEN SPEECHES
of Maryland and I'm Delaware-A Trip
Down tho Bay From Baltimore to
Easton, Where He Begins His Eastern
shore Tour-The Audiences Fairly
Large and Very Attentive

Wilmington, Del. October 24.-Mr.
Bryan made two speeches of some
length in this city tonight. after hav-
ing made seventeen other addresses
during the day. Beginning at st.
Michaels, on the eastern shore of
Maryland. he spoke in succession at
Easton, Preston, Hurlock, Vienna, Sal
gSbury, Berlin, all OF which places are
in Maryland, and at Frankford, George
town, Milford, Harrington, Dover.
Clayton, Middletown. Kirkwood and
New Castle, in Delaware. The audi
ences of the day We're, as a rule, fair
sized, and a majority of them were
thoroughly appreciative. AT few of
the stopping places in Delaware there
was apparent lack Of enthusiasm.
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 on the Hamlet to Claibourne,
on the Easton Shore of Maryland, and
he devoted tha afternoon of the day to
canvassing that section of the state.
He left the boat at Claibourne and
from that point travelled by special
train AT St. Michaels, the following
stopping place of the day, Mr.. Bryan
spoke 10 small number of people who
had congregated there Among those
in the crowd were some colored peo-
pie, and to them Mr.. Bryan spoke to
some extent. On the race question Mr..
Bryan said:
TT is one of the strange things we
see in this campaign that the repub-
Hcan party goes to a black man and
urges that man to say by his vote that
the brown man in the Philippine islands
has not right to a voice in this gov
ernment. And it seems to me that be-
fore a black man votes to diSfranchise
a brown man he had better find out
upon what basis his own right stands,
or if we deny to the Filipino the right
to govern himself, what right have we
to govern ourselves. 1t cost hundreds
OF thousands of lives and millions of
money to give the black man the
declaration of independence and now
We are spending hundreds and thou
sands, yes millions of dollars and vast
= ing lives to take the declaration of in
Eyitspe ndence away from the brown man."
EaStOn was the scene of q large
gathering. This is the county seat of
Talbot county, an important agricul-
tural center and here Mr.. Bryan ad-
dressed himself especially to the farm
ers. Referring to the trusts, Mr.. Bry-
an told his hearers that they were es-
Specially dangerous to the farming COM
munity.
Salisbury, Md, October 24.-In his
speech at Preston, Md, Mr.. Bryan
made reference to the financial question
in response to an inquiry. The question
was How about is to 1?' Mr.. Bryan
said:
IF you want to know about 16 to 1,
1 will tell you, Is to 1 was the para
mount issue in 1896. but the republi-
cans have done so many mean things
since then that we are kept busy on
the new things. But If a republican
disputes the 16 ito 1 doctrine, you tell
him that we have a republican
president. a republican senate and
republican house, and they have never
attempted to change the Is to 1 ratio,
and Mr.. Mckinley is now coming sill
yer dollars at the ratio of Is to I with
out waiting for the aid or consent Of
any other nation on earth Until the
republican party proposes to change the
ratio, / object to their discussing the
ratio. When they propose to change it
We will discuss it with them
Dover Del, October 24-Mr. Bryan
had an excellent audience here, where
he spoke for about three-Quarters Of an
hour. The crowd was large and its
appreciation was manifested by fire.
quent outbursts of applause. He again
addressed himself to the farmers of
his audience and among other things
said to them:
why should a farmer in Delaware
vote to allow corporations to water
their stock when no farmer can in
fate the value of his farm? You can
not initiate the value of your farm, and
!. yet you allow a corporation to issue
watered stock, sometimes as much as
ten times as much water as there Is
money invested, and then you allow it
to combine and monopolize a market
and plunder people to pay dividends
on money never invested in the cor
poration.''
Discussing the Philippine question.
he said:
1.-The republican party came into ex-
istence in an attempt to apply the
declaration Of independence to a black
man It will go out of existence be-
cause it refuses to apply that same
declaration to a brown man who is only
half black
In the same connection Mr.. Bryan re-.
ferred to the flag of the United States
saying:
You republicans want people to bow
before the flag; I want people to turn
their faces toward 1t and thank God
that there is one flag on which there is
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