The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-26
CROWDS WERE LARGE.
Republicans Attempt to Destroy
Effect of Davis Speech.
Make Use of Quotations From
One of His Old Efforts.
Mr.. Breidenthal Talks About
Banks and Trusts.
Especial to the state Journal.

the Rock Island Tuesday afternoon with
John Breidenthal, who spoke in the pub
lie park in the evening, was to capture
the decorated carriage waiting at the
depot for John Dawson, who spoke at
the court house in the evening in the
interests of the Republican party.
Breidenthal and Dawson arrived from
Topeka on the same train. Dawson
alone and Breidenthal accompanied by
Riddle. A band was at the station and
a large crowd waited for the speakers.
The Republicans had a gayly decorated
carriage for Dawson. As the speakers
left the train, Riddle noticed the car
riage and supposed it was for Breiden-
thai, and assisted the Populist candi-
date for governor to seat and sat him
self down beside him. When the Repub-
lican reception committee arrived at
their carriage with Dawson they found
it occupied. THAT carriage Is for Daw-
son. said local committeeman. Breid-
enthal apolOgized. Riddle did the same,
but Dawson said it made no difference,
Just so he had a chance to ride The
reception committee of two and the Re
publican orator piled in and the car
riage started with the mixture of Pop
uliSts and Republicans. Dawson sat on
Riddles lap and remarked after that it
was sort of happy family The lion
and the lamb
1t was a lively day for Marion. Web
ster Davis spoke in the afternoon at the
park. John Breidenthal spoke in the
evening at the park at the same time
John Dawson was speaking in the court
house. Early in the afternoon the
streets were lined with carriages and
wagons. After the Davis meeting the
streets were filled until the evening
meeting with people talking politics and
buying and selling corn. Most of the
country folk made day and a night
of it. 1t was an old-time political rally,
but not up to Marion's record made in
1890. when the Alliance rally brought
together over 10000 people. The crowd
of today numbered probably $500.
The PopulistS accused the Republi-
cans of trying to spoil their Davis meet
ing. Vice versa with the Republican
accusations regarding the Dawson
meeting. The Republicans claim that
they arranged for Dawson to speak in
swer his arguments and that in order
to spoil their meeting, the Populists
arranged for BTeidenthal to speak in
opposition. The Populists claim they
were the first to arrange for an evening
meeting. Coming down on the train,
Mr.. Breidenthal talked it over with
Dawson and both favored a joint meet
ing, but the local politicians refused to
fuse the meetings and they were held
separately.
In his speech in the afternoon, Web
ster Davis commenced by denouncing
the story that he had been bribed by
Kruger or the Democratic party to
make this campaign. He said the Beers
have not the money with which to buy
anyone, and neither had the Demo-
cratic party in this contest as it has no
trusts to draw from. He denounced the
charge as lie and the accuser as a
liar He said he had been approached
by an agent of the British government,
who offered him his own price to make
speeches on the other side. He said he
spent four weeks last year trying to
elect Mark Hanna senator from Ohio,
but he hoped the Lord would forgive
him for it, but doubted if he would.
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his speech, when he was asked what the
Republican party had ever done for the
old soldiers, and a man in the audience
said, redeemed all it's pledges" Mr..
Davis said Russia stood ready to help
the Beers, when assured that the United
States government would keep its hands
off. He said since American had
whipped Spain, every nation was afraid
of the United States, and Russia did
not want to interfere unless the United
States promised not to take a hand.
Mr.. Davis said that the United States
had agreed to help England, if Russia
interfered in the Transvaal. He urged
the old soldiers to go up to the polls and
vote for Bryan, but to make no noise
about it,. He said he had nothing to
say against Mckinley and that he is a
good man. but that the contest is not
between Mckinley and Roosevelt and
Bryan and Stevenson, but between
Bryan and Stevenson and Mark Hanna
and Roosevelt He said he would not
pinos on earth and all the Philippine
Islands thrown in He described the
visit of the Boer ambassadors to Presi-
dent Mckinley and the cold reception
they received. He said the president
dismissed them without a hearing to
confer with some representatives of the
trusts He denounced the war in the
Philippines and pointed to the dark side
of Imperialism.
At the Populist meeting in the after
noon while Davis was speaking the Re-
publicans scattered hand bills bearing
Springfield. Mo. September 20, 1898, in
which he lauded the Republican party.
MIR. PRUDENTIAL SPEAKS.
In his speech at the park Mr.. Breiden-
thai said: The greatest menace to our
Republican form of government is the
intense partisanship of the people, but
man should have opinions. The most
dangerous man is the one without opin-
ions.
In 1896 the Republican platform de-
elared for bimetal1ism and when we said
you wanted to destroy greenbacks you
laughed at us. You won in 1896 on mis-
representation and If you had said you
would depart from the declarations of
your platform you would not have won.
The secretary of the treasury recon-
mended the passage of a law more in
famous than any before suggested Gage
asked to have law passed establishing
branch banks without a dollar. 1t meant
the establishment of banks all over the
country. 11dt IS a part OF your unanclal
system and if Mckinley is elected the
passage of that law will be part of
the work Of the next congress- do not
mean little banks like we have in Kan
sas when I refer to national banks but
the great financial institutions in New
York Rockefeller who controls the
Standard Oil trust and is gaining control
of the gas and output owns controlling
interests in eight banks in New York
and nine trust companies. He controls