The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-10-25
Mr.. BRYAN N DELAWARE
COVERED THE THREE COUNTIES
OF FHE LITTLE STATE
YESTERDAY
HE WON THEM OVER TO HIM
Republican Audiences That Greeted
the Candidate ColdIy Ended by
Cheering the Telling Points
of His Remarks.

WILMINGTON, Del, Oct. M.-Mr.
Bryan made two speeches of some
length in this city tonight, after having
made seventeen other addresses during
the day. Beginning al st. Michaels, on
the eastern shore of Maryland, he spoke
in succession at Easton, Preston, Hur-
lock, Vienna, Salisbury, Berlin, all OF
which places are in Maryland, and at
frankfort, Georgetown, Milford, Harring-
ton, Dover, Clayton, MiddletoWn, Kirk
wood and Newcastle, in Delaware The
audiences of the day were as rule fair
sized, and a majority of them were
thoroughly appreeiative. At few OF the
stopping places in Delaware there was
apparent lack of enthusiasm.
Between Berlin and frankfort Mr.. Bry-
an crossed the line from Maryland into
Delaware, and began a campaign of the
latter state which extended lAto all three
Of its counties. He was accompanied
by delegation of Democratic leaders,
including United States Senator Kenney,
Gov. Tunnel, Hon. P. J. Ford, Democrat
ic candidate for governor; Hon. A. NJ
Daily, Democratic candidate for congress,
and Willard Salisbury, chairman of the
Democratic state committee.
At Georgetown the meeting was held
In the public square across the street
from the court house, in the rear of
which stood conspicuously painted post
which, under the laws of Delaware, IS
used as a whipping post. At that point
Mr.. Bryan spoke for about twenty nliIi-
utes, giving his special attention to the
interest Of the farmers, of whom the au-
dience' was largely composed. In the
beginning the audience appeared quite
cold, but afterwards warmed up cons1d-
serably, and the applause was both fire.
quent and general towards the close Of
the speech.
Beginning his speech at Georgetown,
Mr.. Bryan said:
RESPONSIBILITY OF THE VOTER.
a responsibility that seldom comes to a
voter in any country, for this year we
have issues at stake more important than
any which the people have passed judg-
ment upon in a generation, and added to
that respons1b- lily, borne in common
with the people of this nation, in Della
ware, you have this other responsibility,
that here you elect two senators, and
those two senators may determine the
political complexion of the United States
senate And here the vote of one citizen,
Whlcn may BRING results in the election
of senator and the select on of two sem
atorS, and in the determine ton of the
policy of the nation, here The citizen ought
to weigh his vote before he casts it. I
am only here to tell you what your vote
means so that when you cast it you will
understand what the result will be. The
lines are drawn between the parties and
no Intelligent man can fail to understand
what his vote signifies in this election
Addressing himself to the agricultural
community Mr. Bryan said that if the
farmers could arrange some way so that
Republican farmer was not a victim of
a trust, then the Republican farmer might
be indifferent to the sufferings of his
Democratic neighborS. But" he con
tinued, 'if you think Republican farmer
can escape justice you try 1t. Let some
republican farmer go into the store to
BUY sugar, and, when they want to
charge him more, let him just tell the
merchant that he is a Republican, that he
is the best friend the trust has: that the
trust could not live but for him, and
therefore he does not have to pay an In
creased price. The merchant win tell
him that the trust is like the Lord in ono
respect, that it is no fespector Of persons
and republican has to pay just like
Mr.. Bryan also presented his views or
! the Philippine question and the subject
Of standing army. He commended that
for all the uses Of this country In
closing Mr.. Bryan urged his hearers t.
DO their duty at the polls on election day
Show the world that little Delaware
still believes that the people are the
source OF power and repudiate the
European Republican idea that govern
ment is thirteen inches in diameter, round
in shape, and fired out of cannon -
Mr.. Bryan at Milford was again intro
duced in very laudatory terms, AMI, re.
spending to this Introducing, ne sale
that while he appreciated the kind words
he did not mean them to cause him tC
! get the big head. He appreciated, he
said, that the people came to hear him
not because of any interest IN him, bu
because he. stood for certain ideas il
which they believed, because they enter.
tanned the opinion that the Democratic
party, whose representative he was, of.
fered them an opportunity to secure re-
dress for grievances of which they com
plain. He mentioned the trusts az one o.
1nose grievances, and said # lie -hau Il
in his power to do so he would make il
impossible for a private monopoly to ex.
list in the United States. Declaring tina
God had never made a man good enough
to exercise control of the necessities Of
life, he said that for ], 400 years monopo
lies had been outAwed. No one could be
| found to defend the trust, yet the Re
publican party allowed them to live an(
| prosper until they were bleeding the ma
ton of its substance.
THE INCOME TAX.
In his speech at Milford Mr. Bryan
come tax, declaring that such tax was
more just than levy upon land The
tax upon land alone must be paid
whether the land produced anything OF
not, but no tax on income could be col
lected unless there was an income upot
upon which to base it.
Referring to the Philippine question
Mr. Bryan said that the Republicans
want us to take the Filipinos and hol(
them as vassals. 1t was true that in the
party platform they had said they would
be good to the Filipinos, but what king
had ever said less to his subjects? The
trouble under monarchies was that the
rulers themselves decided what was good
while in a republic the people decide tina
question for themselves. He wanted the
Republicans to ask themselves what tight
they have to voice in their government
here, if they deny the same right to the
Filipinos in their country.
Mr.. Bryan made his speech at Harrring
ton from the rear platform of his private
car. A stand had been erected for him
few hundred feet away from the railroad
station, but he declined to go to the
stand, saying that his time was brief, anC
he, thought his energies could be better
expended in talking than in going to anG
from the platform.
81 am trying to do all the good I can,
he said, land l am doing as much as you
could expect one person to do He re-
ferred very briefly to the question OF
trusts, and also to the subject of expan-
sion. He declared his belief In expansion
under proper conditions but said that eX.
pansion, like marriage, should be agree
able to both parties. He did not believe
in that kind Of expansion which carries
the flag TO new countries without carry
ing the Constitution with 1t, nor did he
believe in that system which made q
president better than the Constitution.