The age-herald., 1900-10-20
STUDENTS AGAIN
 INTERRUPT BRYAN
Democratic Nominee Experiences His Second En-
 counter of Campaign at Ithaca N. Y.


 with questions on subject that I am not discussing when I am going to give you a chance when l come to 1t. Haven l been fair with you? Haven't I sought to answer all questions. Don't you think you can wait until | reach a subject and then ask me questions concerning it?'
 Continuing his speech, Mir. Bryan said 'I want to say to you that the Republican party has no plank in this campaign on any subject that it Is prepared to defend before the American people,"
 A voice from the crowd Wait till Mo- Yember."
 MT. Bryan: That is no argument at all. To say we are going. to vote wrong, no matter if we know it Is wrong, 1t is no argument. That is no argument at all to say wait until November. The question is, are you willing to think now? Why walt till November to do something that you ought to do now? Why don't you think now and not wait until after the election to think?'
 It was here that the Mckinley poster, bearing the inscription Mckinley Was Right" was lowered from the window above MT. Bryan's head and then let fall to the ground. Seeing the picture floating out into the air an old gentleman in the crowd exclaimed: That Is the way he will fall in November" Mr. Bryan took notice of the incident, saying;
 "I don't object to that poster being put out. It says that Mckinley was right, but the question is, when was he right? He has been on both sides of every question. Now which side was he on when he was right?"
 Appeal to Students
 Proceeding with his speech, MT. Bryan made an appeal especially directed to the college students, urging them to stand out against what he denominated the indus trial despotism of the trusts He also pre- sented his well-known views concerning the increase of the army and the acquisl- ton of territory in the Pacific ocean. He proceeded for some time without any in- terruption, but at last a young man stand ing in the audience but separated from the mass of students standing in front of MT. Bryan, asked him for an explanation of his attitude in the matter of the ratification or the Paris treaty. MT. Bryan replied: You have asked a question. What Is your plan?"
 The young man answered: "I haven't got any. I am down here open to conviction. You are talking to all of us You came here especially to convince us"
 MT Bryan: "Yes and I am mighty glad I have found a man open to conviction. and I hope you are not like the Scotch wo- man who said she was open to conviction, but added, I would like to see the man who can convince me-
 MT. Bryan then gave his customary req son for supporting that treaty and contin- ued his speech without further lnterrupton, saying in closing that he did not want this nation to be a bully and braggart, but an arbitrator and peacemaker among the na- tions of the world.
 MT. Bryan's speech at Cortland was ad- dressed almost wholly to farmers.
 At Binghamton, at which place Mir Bryan had the largest and most enthusiastic crowd of the day he took especial notice of the fact that some of the manufacturing plants Of that town were closed, saying:
 "It is strange to me that 1t Is necessary for you people to have an empty and silent tannery and match factory in A town In or der to know what trust means and will do. It seems to me that every man with the power to think. that every man capable of reason, ought to know that industrial mo- nopoly means the closing of factories, the throwing of men out of employment and the making of slaves out of those who are em- ployed."
 In response to question: Mir Bryan an- nounced himself as favorable to the election of United States Senators by direct vote of the people, and In this connection made the following reference to Senator Depew:
 ''I think if there Is any State in the Union that needs that sort of a privilege 1t is New York When John Quincy Adams became member of Congress he sold all the stock he had in the National Bank of that day because he said he did not believe that man in Congress ought to be interested in legislation. I wish you would read that to Chauncey M. Depew, and let him resign his position as president of railroad or Sen- ator of the United States How do you eX- pect that a man will decide on the peoples side In a case where he Is interested on the other side?'