The age-herald., 1900-10-13
Democratic Candidate InVades
 Presidents Home State. MEETINGS WELL ATTENDED
Many Incidents Occurred During the DaY-Attempted Interruption at Portsmouth, Which Was Quick
 ly Taken Advantage Of.

Portsmouth, O., October 12.-Mr. Bryan concluded the first day of his Ohio cam paign in this city tonight He was met at the depot by a torchlght procession and escorted to square where he spoke from a platform. The meeting was by far the largest of the day and 1t was thoroughly enthusiastic.
 The Republicans also had a torchlight procession in the city tonight with speeches in a public hall by Senator Spooner and Hon. w. D. Bynum. As a consequence the city was full of red fire and of political enthusiasm. The lines of march of the conflict.
 A majority of the meetings during the day were not so largely attended nor so demonstrative as those of the Indiana and Illinois tour of last week, though rain threatened during the greater part of the day.
 When MT. Bryan was introduced at Springfield, where he had one of the best crowds of the day, some one shouted: "Hurrah for the farmer President
 The exclamation attracted MT. Bryans attention and he said: q do not want to be elected under false pretenses, I am not a farmer, I agriculturalist; you know the difference between them. A farmer is man who makes his money on the farm and spends it in town, while an agriculturalist Is a man who makes his money in town and spends it on the farm"
 This defiEation of the farmer pleased the audience and all listened attentively to his speech throughout. At this point Mr. Bryan devoted his principal attention to trusts and his arguments were along the usual lines
 Probably the most interesting feature of the meeting at Dayton was the fact that out of a hundred vice presidents of the meeting twentyfour were Germans who either as Republicans or gold Democrats opposed MT. Bryan's election four years ago. One of them was an ex-Mayor of the city.
 The Soldiers Interest
 As to the claim that the interests of tho soldiers were safest in the care of the Re publican party, MT. Bryan said:
 "The soldier is in more danger if his in- terests are left to men who stand at the head of great monopolies than he is if he leaves his interests to those who belong to the common people. l will go further than that. I will say that the welfare of the Unaon soldier and his pension are safer in the hands of a Confederate soldier than in the hands of great monopoly, for the Confederate soldier knows some thing about tDe sacrifices of war, while the heads of syndicates only know war as an oppor tunity for the accumulation of great for tunes out of the peoples sufferings. But, my friends, the Republican insults the sol dler when he assumes that the soldier Is not a citizen as well as a pensioner. He insults the soldier when he assumes that a soldier has no interest except in the amount of his monthly or quarterly pen- sion. The soldier is a citizen. He was soldier during the war when he was willing to risk his life in the nations defense. If he willing to fight to have one Re- public instead of two, he will be willing to vote now to keep that one Republic from becoming an Empire. Ii he was willing to fight then in order to wipe out of the Dec laration of Independence an exceptional clause that excluded the black man, he will be willing to vote now to keep another exceptional clause from being put into the declaration excluding the brown man. The soldier who did not believe that ;sS black man ought to be sold for thousand dollars will not be in favor of buying Bilpinos in
 
 Interest in the Election
 MT. Bryan defined his feelings about his own election, saying
 T am more interested in the result of tI.ls election a citizen than I am as { candidate. l am more as a father than as a candidate. l can live better under a Republican administration than most of the Republicans who vote for the administra~ ton. If I can make half as much as the I nal ka criticising the admins tration than you Re- publicans can make under it. If my farm prospers as well as the Republicans say, 1 can live on my farm and 1 would not need office."
 He quoted Mir Mckinley and Mr. Roose- welt on trusts and said:
 But why speak of what the President says. Why speak of what the candidate for the Vice Presidency says, when 1 can quote you authority from headquarters? MT. Hanna says there are no trusts. Do you think that the Republican party is going to destroy the trusts? When cleo ton day approaches the trust magnate says: Well, we will wait and see how you vote before we will tell you whether we will give you your daily bread or not Do you believe that it Is safe to have that condition in this country? Is 1t safe to make it possible for the great monopolies so to control the laboring men that they can threaten them with idleness and starva- tion if they do not vote the Republican ticket? Suppose man has spent a life time learning some particular industry and there is but one man in the nation to whom he can apply for employment if the industry Is shut and a monopoly estab- lished? Then if he Is turned off he loses the benefits of his skill"
 Discussing his plans to give indepen- dence to the Filipino as an independent re- public, Mr. Bryan said:
 Do you think we are going to have diff