The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-09-05
IS GREATER THAN PARTY
CLAIMS OF OUR COUNTRY UPON US
ARE THE PARAMOUNT
ISSUE
MIR. BRYAN AND WELLINGTON
MaryIand's Ex-RepubIican Senator
Spoke From the Same Platform
With the residential
Candidate.

CUMBERLAND, Nd, Sept. 4.-The
opening of the Democratic campaign for
the states of Maryland and West Virginia
at this place today was rendered memoir
able by the appearance on the same
platform Of the Democratic national
standard bearer, Hon. William ]. Bryan,
and United States Senator George L.
Wellington, who was elected as q Repub-
lican. Both these distinguished gentle
men were in good voice and both spoke
with their accustomed force. Senator
Wellington's speech marked his formal
remuneration of party ties on account of
the issues growing out Of the war with
Spain. He had prepared his speech with
care and he read 1t from typewritten
manuscript. Mr. Bryan spoke WITHOUT
notes and he appeared at the meeting al
most Immediately after the arrival of
the special train which had bought him
across the state OF, West Virginia and
thus far into the state of Maryland.
The journey had been an arduous one,
covering, including the trip from Chi
cage, about twenty-four hours of rail-
road riding. Still Mr.. Bryan appeared In
excellently good order and he spoke with
his customary vim and vigor.
The journey of the presidential candi-
date across the state was not devoid of
labor for him, for while he left the train
but once on the Journey he made num-
Der of brief speeches from the rear plat
form of the hindmost car. This car was
especially adapted to Mr.. Bryan's pur-
poses, being composite coach, including
sitting room, sleeping berths and kitchen
1t was one Of two coaches comprising the
train supplied for the tour by J. T. Nc
Graw, Democratic national committee
man for West Virginia. The train was
boarded at Benwood Immediately after
crossing the Ohio river at noon and on
it, to receive him, Mr. Bryan found Mr.
McGraw and Cot L. Victor Baughman,
the personal representative Of Senator
German, national committeeman from
this state. Good time was made across
the Alleghennies and notwithstanding
the numerous stops, Cumberland was
reached at 7:45 o'clock
MADE MANY SPEECHES.
Beginning at Benwood, Mr. Bryan
spoke in succession at Cameron, Nam
nlngton, Fairmont, Grafton. Deer Park
and Piedmont. He also made very brief
remarks at a few other places. At each
place there were good sized crowds and
the candidate was cordially greeted. The
speeches of the day manifested somewhat
greater tendency to discuss economic
questions than had been shown on for
mer occasions. At Cameron he referred
especially to the Republican idea of pro
lection, saying that the workman wanted
not only "a full dinner pail but much
more besides.
He charged significantly that the cost
OF articles necessary to the existence and
comfort of the workman had been put out
Of proportion to the increased price of
labor.
During the day Mr.. Bryan's attention
was called to an extract from a New
York. Republican newspaper that Mr..
Bryan had made more money out of the
cat crop raised on his Lincoln farm the
present season than the entire farm had
cost, putting the result at s., 406 on 12O
acres Of land.
Commenting on this statement Mr..
Bryan said:
1.-The entire farm contains only thirty
acres, and cost me nearly 81, 600, although
the land is not worth that much today.
Instead of having 120 acres in oats, 1 had
only five acres In oats, and the oats have
not yet been threshed. They will hardly
yield forty bushels to the acre. Instead
Of oats being thirty cents a bushel in
Nebraska, they are worth Nc in Chicago
My oat crop will not bring me over $40
The five acres upon which the oats were
raised cost me little more than 800 an
acre, so the gross income this year will
be less than eight per cent on the orig
inal investment. After taking out the
cost of seed, cultivation, harvesting and
threshing, the income will be reduced to
less than five per cent. The Republican
papers use my farm to illustrate the
prosperous condition of the farmer. II
my experience is a fair illustration OF
what is going on in the country, 1t is
not strange that the Republican party Is
losing voters among the agricultural
class. The Republicans point to the
farmer when his crop Is good, but make
no mention of the fact that when his
crop fails he not only loses his labor, but
loses the money put into the crop"
At Fairmont Mr.. Bryan closed as fol.
lows:
REPUBLTCANISM IS DESPOTISM.
1.-The Republican policy means that we
shall have a form of republic here and
practice of despotism in the Orient The
Republicans said in 1896 that we could
not have a double standard of money,
now they have a double standard of gov
eminent They said in 1896 we advocated
a fifty cent dollar; yet they have a
eighty-fiVe per cent citizen in Porto Rico
and we don't know what per cent of cit
izenship the Filipino is to have In 1885,
the Republicans said every dollar must
be as good as every other dollar, and we
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