The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-10-01
STARTS EARLY.
Col. Bryan Was Speaking Before
s o'clock This Morning.
Began the Day With an Address
at West Superior.
WENT OVER TO DULUTH
Compares Party Records on
Trust Question.
Throws in a Few Remarks
About Currency.

West Superior, Wis, Oct. 1-Mr Bry-
an began his speech here a few minutes
before 8 o'clock and he spoke for half an
hour to large audience. His speech
dealt especially with the trust question
and he made especial reference to a
combination of the flour interests. Mr..
Bryan also referred to a speech made by
President Mckinley in 1894 in which the
president attacked the Democratic par
ty. Mr. Bryan quoted the following from
that speech: ''They were the enemies of
the trust when they wanted the votes
of the people in 1892 and when they got
the power to deal a blow at trusts ac-
cording to the testimony of their own
members they became the willing tools
OF the most gigantic trust of the coun-
try
Remarking upon this quotation, Mr..
Bryan said:
Mr.. Mckinley complains that the
Democrats did not destroy the trusts
when they had an opportunity and when
he complained, you must believe he was
honest in his complaint. You cannot ac-
cuse him OF being a. hypOcrite, and yet
Mr.. Mckinley has been president three
and half years and during that time
more trusts have been organized than
IN all the previous history of the cOUn.
try and he has allowed three sessions of
congress to convene and adjourn AMI
did not recommend a specific measure
for the destruction of the trust. And Mr..
Hanna, who stands at the head of the
Republican national committee during
this campaign and who stood at the
head of the Republican national COM
mittee in 1896, declared the other day
that there were no trusts. Now If you
believe that Mr.. Mckinley was honest
when he condemned the Democrats for
not destroying the trusts, how can you
explain his policy in doing the same
thing. He selected an attorney general
from New Jersey where most of the
| "a heir hot oft
ney general draws his salary for not in
terfering with the trusts. The attorney
general of the state of Nebraska "a Dem
ocrat elected on the Fusion ticket has
brought more suits in the state of Ne
braska against the trusts than the Re
publican attorney general of the United
States has brought against the trusts of
the United States
At Duluth Mr.. Bryan spoke in the ar
mory. In beginning his speech Mr.. Bry-
an said he could hope to add nothing to
the arguments which had been made
here by Charles A. Towne who resides
here. IF he cannot warn you sufficient
ly against the dangers that threaten
you," he said, you would not believe
though one rose from the dead''
Mr.. Bryan first averted to what he
characterized as the Republican fond
ness for the financial question as a par
amount issue. 1t was natural for that
party, he said to put the dollar above
the man. THAT party is bending all its
energies he said, towards the ag-
grandizement of wealth and the degra-
dation of mankind. But partial as the
Republican party was towards the mon
ey question, the party was being driven
from it and some were taking refuge in
the tariff question. He believed that
they would also be driven from that po-
sition before the close of the present
campaign.
Mr.. Bryan said that in 1859 Mr. Lin
coin celebrated the birthday of Jeffer-
son and continued:
'How long has it been since you Re
pubHcans celebrated the birthday of
Thomas Jefferson? Whose birthday do
you celebrate? You celebrate the birth
day of Alexander Hamilton who wanted
our government as nearly like the Eng
lish government as it could be made In
Iincoln'S letter he paid to Jefferson as
high a tribute as any Democrat and
said that the Republican party believed
in the man above the dollar. Today the
Republicans believe in the dollar first
and in the man afterwards, if at ALL
Referring to the trusts Mr.. Bryan said
that there could be no good monopoly
in private hands. He referred again to
Senator Hanna's declaration that If the
trusts should prove dangerous the Re
publican party would take care of them
What a consolation" he exclaimed. ito
know that Mr.. Hanna has his arms
around you and will protect you from
the trusts
In this connection he referred to the
situation in the Touring mills in this vi
cinity, saying: GO over to West Su-
perior and examine the flour mills and
those in your own city. They have al
lowed the trusts to close mills. Whenever
a mill was closed under the Democratic
administration the Republicans said
low tariff did it and appealed to the peo-
pie to put up high tariff and yet when
a trust can close five or six mills in
one town, there is not Republican who
has the courage to denounce the trust
that does it,
Speaking of the agricultural interest
he said that the Republican party had
proposed no remedy for the evils en-
comprising that industry. 1t did not,
Tor instance, take a mathematician to
demonstrate that there could be more
money with two metals than with one.
The presidents letter of acceptance
would indicate that the Republican par
ty had accepted the ouantitatiVe theory
of money, but the Republican party dis
tinguished between real money and sub
stitute money. Tt was all right with
them when it came to expanding the
volume of bank circulation, but not so
when it came to coming silver.
Mr.. Bryan also discussed the questions
of militarism and expansion. With
reference to the army he said in part:
What domestic reason is there for a
large army? They want to build a fort
near every large city and have the army
there to suppress by force that discon-
tent that ought to be cured by legisla.-
tion. The labOring men of this country
ask for the destruction of government
by injunction. The Republicans say,
You cannot have government by in
junction, but we can give you a larger
Junction Under the pretext that we
want a large army for foreign use there
are Republicans who want it for do
mestic use"
Mr. Bryan also incidentally referred
to the Roer question and noticing the