The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-15
OPENED BY BRYAN
Democratic Campaign in Ohio
Formally Inaugurated
By the Presidential Candidate
at Columbus.
THOUSANDS HEAR HIM.
Says Republicans Referring to
Full Dinner Pail
Assume That Lab0ring Men Are
All Stomach.


meeting in the afternoon at Goodale
park and in the evening at the Goodale
auditorium The Democratic presicen-
tiaI candidate, W J. Bryan, made
speeches at both meetings and there was
a large attendance Of Democratic lead
ers from all parts of the state Previous
to the afternoon meeting Mr.. Bryan was
rendered q reception at the Great South
ern hotel. and he was escorted to the
park by a number Of state marching
clubs, including the Duckworth club, OF
Cincinnati
Mr.. Bryan spoke for an hour and a
quarter. His audience numbered many
thousands Of people and they gave close
attentiOn,aS well as frequent cheers the
speech was a general review of the po-
HticaI situation, and it was evidently
intended to set a pace for the campaign
in Ohio. He began with a reference TO
local conditions, touching briefly near
the outset upon the stand taken in be-
half of the Democracy by Mayor Jones,
of Toledo, and then launched into ma
tiOna1 affairs, declaring that he believed
the Democratic ticket was entitled to
the electoral vote Of Ohio Mr. Bryan
said:
the party stands, there is every reason
why the people of this state should sup
port our ticket, and if any feel like being
restrained by matter of state pride you
should remember that you have had
any reasona BILE want and then, one term
is long enough if man does what he
ought to- and, If he does not, it is too
long.
Referring to the announcement of
Mayor Jones, Mr.. Bryan said:
4 found as I approached the state
that we have had the support of man
in this state above all other men who
sticks for the laboring interests OF the
state, Mayor Jones, Of Toledo Great
applause and cheers). There is no man
laboring man than Mayor Jones He
does not support the ticket because he
advocates everything that do nor be-
cause advocate everything that he
does But he believes that the success Of
the Democratic party, or of the princi-
pies of this campaign, viii do more for
the laboring man than can be done by
the success of the Republican party and
its principles in this state.
Il do not know whether Mayor Jones
agrees with me on the silver question or
not do not know whether he is an ad-
vocate Of the gold standard or not But
do know that he would rather see the
golden rule put into operation in our in
ternational policy than TO have a gold
standard in the country (ApplaUse)-
Declaring that the Democratic party
had taken no backward step, Mr.. Bryan
said:
The Democratic party stands today
for the principles that drew together g.
100000 of voters in 1886, but it adds to
its platform to cover new questions
Referring to the full dinner pail Mr..
Bryan predicted that 1t would not last
through the campaign In the first
place. he said, the Republican who
meets every argument made by the Ia
boring man with full dinner pail, in
suits the laboring man, because he as
sumes that the laboT1ng man is all
stomach
My friends, If the Republican party
wants to make its full dinner pail argu-
ment, let it go into the anthracite coal
regions. where the operatives get less
than $3.50 a year This mornings paper.
this mornings Republican paper, con-
talns the statement that the wages paid
to miners viii in some instances average
less than $3.50 a year Why, my friends.
that will not give the laboring man one
full dinner pail day, and he ought to
have three" (Applause)-
Mr. Bryan undertook to point out in
consistencies in the Republican party
saying that that party had changed |
front on almost every important issue
that had been before the country in re-
cent years. The party had changed its |
position on not only the silver question, |
but on greenbaeks, the national debt. |
etc He said the presidents letter had |
only a few sentences on the trust ques- |
ton
7 see in the newspapers" he said, |
that originally this message contained /
$1,000 words. but that it was cut down |
TO 1900 I suppose he added, that the |
other 1000 were on the trust question, |
but were cut out"
E1G continued, II the ftepuDllcan party /
should destroy the trusts. it was prob |
able that they would cut off the prin- |
cipaI source OF their campaign fund
Mr. Bryan commended that the tendency /
OF the Republican party was toward the I
rapid and permanent increase Of the /
standing army
He argued that the American people l
had not declared for imperialism and |
that there was no warrant for the in I
crease of the army.
He went at length into the Philippine /
question, contending that the United 4
pelago or its people, and declaring that /
the Filipino should be treated Just as 4
the Cubans are treated
The president says that nobody wants /
Imperialism, said Mr. Bryan, again re- Il
ferrfng to Mr.. McKinley's letter, and /
added:
I'VE are not talking the future. but l
OF the past We point you to the Porto 1
Rican bill, a thing that is, and we
charge that the Porto Rican bill can not Il
exist, except upon an imperialistic the
Ory OF government We are not looking
to the future but TO the present What i
does that bill assert? It asserts that a
president, elected by the people OF this /
country holding office under the con-
stitution. is not bound by the constitu-
ton
1T is built upon the theory that a
congress, created by the constitution. is
not restrained by that constitution when
the bill deals with the people Of Porto
Rico. Ny friends, if that is true OF the
people OF Porto Rico IL may be true of
challenge you to find in all the history
Of the world a power exercised by a
tyrant or despot more arbitrary than the
power asserted by the Porto Rican BILL
Great applause-)
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