Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-10-18
BRYAN ENTHUSIASM
IN THE EMPIRE STATE
BODIES Ill FOR TEDDY.
A DAY OF HEAVY CAMPAIGNING
CLOSED AT ALBANY LAST
NIGHT
WITH A MONSTER MEETING.
THE THEATRE FILLED TO REPLE-
TON, AND THOUSANDS IN
ABLE TO ENTER.
DEFINITION OF BUSINESS MAN.
REPUBLICANS RESTRICT 1T TO EN-
TIRELY TOO NARROW
CLASS.

ALBANY, N. j., October 17.-Wm.
]. Bryan ran around two sides of
triangle to-day from Hudson to Albany
inclusive and probably spoke to as cos
mopolitan lot of people as he has adj
dressed during the campaign. At Hud-
son he spoke to gathering of bust
ness people of all classes at Troy to
the capacity of an opera house and
with an overflow meeting of a collar
factory and laundry employees; at Me-
chanicsville to railroad people; at Co
hoes to the mass of the employees of
the cotton and wooden mills and at Al
bany to two immense meetings, one
in the opera house and one outside
composed of the best element of the
city. During his speech making Mr..
Bryan was accompanied by Chairman
of the State committee, Frank Camp
bell, Judge C. N Bugler, of Oswego;
ex-senator Edward Murphy, ex-Mayor
Francis Malloy, of Troy; Mayor Sam
uel M. Jones, of Toledo, and ]. ]. De-
laney, of New York Messrs. Bulger,
Delaney and Jones alternated in the
speaking with Mr.. Bryan, assisting par
tiularly at places where there were
overflow meetings The great meetings
of this trip were held at Troy, the
home of ex-senator Murphy and AL
bany. the home Of ex-senator Hill. Mr..
Hill is absent in the west. At both
Troy and Albany the meetings were
phenomenally large and enthusiastic,
immense overfows having to be held
to accommodate those who desired
either to see or hear Mr.. Bryan.
this traverse of the two sides
Ia triangle, Mr.. Bryan alluded to many
things which he has not mentioned at
many other places during the cam
paign.
At Hudson he said:
81 believe that Mexico is far better
off, because we took our flag down from
the capitol when the Mexican war was
over and brought it back to the Rio
Grande l think Mexico is better to-
day, and We are better than if we had
held a carpet bag government in place
there by means of bayonets, and think
that self-government in Mexico, half
Spanish and halfIndian, has developed
the people more and has brought them
further than would have been the case
had we held them under our dominion,
and if you doubt it, look at Mexico and
compare Mexico with India Under
thirty years of elf-government Mex
ico has made more progress than India
has made in on. hundred and fifty
years, oppressed by an Anglo-Saxon
soldiery."
At Cohoes, Mr.. Bryan said:
81 recall trip here only three years
ago and / remember your cordial
greeting at that time and l was much
impressed by the falls that have been
of so much value to your industries.
! have been sorry to hear that water
has been scarce in the Mohawk land l
suppose that if the Republican party
can claim credit for the abundance of
rain in the west that it is responsible
for the lack of water here. Certainly
it is poor rule that does not work
both ways, and if a farmer ought to
vote the Republican ticket because he
got rain, you ought to vote the Demo-
cratic ticket because you did not get
any here"
The Albany meetings were not be-
gun as promptly as some that have
taken place elsewhere, parade keep
ing the assemblages in the street and
theatre waiting. The theatre was filled
to repletion and large overflow on
the outside commanded Mr.. Bryan's
attention. Mr. Bryan's voice showed
palpably signs Of wear. He said in
part:
Il remember in 1896, your Republic
can State convention adopted a plat
form something like this: We demand
that this government shall be conduct
ed on business principles and in the
interests of the country, or words to
that effect. But the trouble is that the
men who talk that way so limit the
definition of business man that very
few are included | believe that every
man who by his muscle or his brain
adds to the greatness, the wealth or
the glory of this nation, is a business
man and / believe that election day is
the most important business day of the
year.
1.-THE Republican party goes on the
theory that society is built from the
top. They say take care OF the we'll to
do and they will take care of those
who are not we'll to do, and when you
tell them of the story OF Lazarus and
Dives, they say: What lucky man
Lazarus was to have Dives near SO he
could get the crumbs that fell from
Dives table.
"A man in your State in 1896 said
that the prosperity OF the laboring man
and farmer depended upon the pros
perity Of theA banker and the business