The Portland daily press., 1900-10-06
Talked Of Trusts Most
Of the Time.
At lone Place Paramount Issue"
Had Hearing.

indianapolis, Ind, October 5.-W. J..
Bryan began his days campaign at No
blesviIle, Ind. He arrived at nine
O'Clock and spoke from stand near the
depot for fifteen minutes TO a large audi
ence. Mr.. Bryan rapidly stated the
Democratic position on all the Issues Of
the campaign. He referred to the money
question, saying that If any Republican
should assert that the money question is
more important than Imperialism, DEM
oorats should reply that important as are
the finances they are only secondary when
compared with the question OF the form
OF government.
Instead of concerning themselves about
the parity Of citizenship, the Republicans
had insisted upon discussing the parity
of the dollars. He again accused the Re-
publican party Of not knowing OF any
trust except the ice trust and said that
they should give some attention to the
Standard Oil trust, which, he said, 'is
supporting their ticket, while you are
paying an increased price for oil.'
In conclusion, he asserted that because
of party prejudice, the Republicans dare
not raise their voices against anything
Tor which the party is responsible.
At Arcadia, ten minute talk was
made.
At Upton, Mr.. Bryan was introduced
by j. W. Kern, Democratic candidate for
Governor, who presented him as 'tne
next President Mr.. Bryan said in re-
sponse:
II am glad to be introduced to you by
the next Governor of Indiana; for what
ever may become of my chance in this
race, do not think there is much doubt
about Indiana
Mr.. Bryan discussed the trust question
and said the Republicans gained power
in 1896 by trust contributions.
''The Republican party needs more
money now than 1t did then,'' he said,
land it could not get IL il it did not
stand In with the trusts
Explaining the difference between ex-
pansion and Imperialism, Mr.. Bryan
said:
''We expand when we take in land for
settlement to be built UP into States we
expand when we take in people who want
to come in and whom we want. We be-
lieve that expan sion is like marriage ;
both sides ought to agree to it. We do
not believe in expansion carried On with
an army we do not believe in bringing
people in by force and then denying them
the right of full citizenship. You will
hear Republicans say that the war with
the Philippines is similar to the civil
war; There is this difference; that when
the South was held In the Union they
were to be citizens and not subjects when
the war was over. You want to bring
the Filipinos in and make them subjects
and not citizens. We fought then for the
adoption of a constitutional amendment
that provided that no man could own a
slave and yet before the Philippine war
is ended you have the Sulu treaty which
recognizes slavery
EIwood was the next stop The audi
ence covered an immense plot OF ground
near the depot and Mr.. Bryan gave prac-
tically all OF the thirty minutes speech
to the trust question. He declared that
no employer has right to vote his en-
ploye.
Anderson, Ind, October 5.-The
meeting which closed here at ten O'Clock
tonight was the last OF a series of re-
markably large political demonstrations
made in connection with the appearance
in Indiana of Hon. w. J. Bryan, the
Democratic candidate. Mr.. Bryan
left Indianapolis early this morning
and during one day, almost ~circled the
city OF Indianapolis, visiting no fewer
than nine counties ana making an even
dozen speeches.
Trusts formed the subject Of most of
the speeches of the day but at Rich
mond, Mr.. Bryan devoted all his time to
imperialism.