Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-10-23
CANDIDATE W.J. BRYAN
AMONG MINE WORKERS
IN kANANHA VALLEY.
HIS INITIAL ADDRESS IN THE SEC.
OND WEST VIRGINIA CAM
PAIGy MADE
WITH RAIN POURING DOWN.
BUT THE PEOPLE WANTED TO
HEAR HIM AND BRAVED THE
DAMPNESS.
FINE MEETINGS UP THE VALLEY
TIMELY REMARKS TO MINERS ON
THE GOVERNMENT BY IN
JUNCTION.

HINTON, W. Va, October 22.-The
line of the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad
traversing the picturesque valleys of
the Big Kanawha and New rivers, was
the scene of Mr.. Bryan's campaign to-
day. Speeches were made at Hunting
ton, Hurricane, st. Adams, Charleston,
Brownston, East Bank, Montgomery,
SeweH, Thurmond, and Hinton. The
size of the audiences varied, but all OF
them were large in proportion to the
population of the towns and of the sur
rounding country. There were espe-
cially fine crowds at Huntington, Char
lesion and Hinton, people coming into
those towns from all the adjacent re-
gions.
The one notable feature of the day was
Mr.. Bryan's repeated reference to the
race question. His line of travel to-
day was further south tnan he had
gone before, and further than he will go
and there were quite number of color
ed people scattered through the crowds
at all the stopping places. Mr. Bryan
evidently noted their presence, and
took occasion to address, portions of his
speeches especially to them, appealing
to them to do justice by the FilipinOS
as they would have justice done by
themselves. The first point at which
he touched upon this question was at
st. Adams. There he said:
When we complain that the Repub-
licans are applying in the Philippine
ic-1o liz r.f
the right to govern themselves the ar
gument that Republican makes is
that some of the Southern States have
adopted amendments requiring an edu
cational qualification for voting.
want to submit this question to the
Republicans: DO they approve of what
is being done IN the South or do they
oppose it? If ,Aey oppose it, why do
they propose worse things in Porto
Rico and to the Philippine islands than
have been presented in the South? Read
the qualifications adopted by your own
administration for voting in Porto Rico
and you will find they have an educa-
tional qualification there that depriveS
SO per cent of the black men of voting
age of the right to vote; not only this,
but they deprive them of the protection
of the Constitution of the United States,
In the Pnilir zine islands, they are go
ing on the theory that the brown peo-
pie there have no right to voice in
their government; and when a Repub
lican tells a black man in this country
that he ought to vote the Republican
ticket l want the black man to ask him
this question: If a brown man in the
Philippine Islands has no right to a
voice in this Government, what about
the black MANI And l want to ask what
black man can stand on his own right
to a voice in his own government if
he votes the Republican ticket and de-
MES to the people in other islands a
right to a voice in their government?
And if the Republicans tell the col
ored man that he is under obligations
to the Republican party, let the colored
man reply that he has paid his debt
of gratitude. If Lincoln were here the
colored man might work for him, but
the modern leaders of the Republican
party have had more from the colored
man than they have ever given to him.
The colored man has bestowed Presi-
denotes upon the Republican party and
received janitorships in return. l want
the colored men before they vote the
Republican ticket to know that the
policy of the Republican party is to
send few white men to the Philip
pine islands and hold those white men
in authority over 80 per cent. of the
population, which will be brown, and
this is to be done by a standing army.
Instead of using the race question as
a reason why we should annex the
Philippine islands, let the race question
be warning to us not to bring into
this country class of people who are
not to share in the full destiny of our
nation. l want the Filipino to have
his own flag and his own government
and to work out his destiny, and l
want this nation to stand by him and
say to the world, Hands off, let this
republic live
Mr.. Bryan reverted to the race ques-
ton in his speech at Charleston. There
he said:
"Forty years ago the Republicans
said that black man should not sell
for thousand dollars, but now they
will buy brown by the job lot for two
dollars and half apiece They said
a generation ago that the declaration
OF independence applies to a black
man. Now they say it does not apply
to brown man. 1t cost us hundreds of
thousands of lives and hundreds of mil
lions of money to take out of the
Declaration of Independence the excep-
ton clause that excluded the black
man. Now shall we wage a war of
conquest to write in the Declaration
Of independence another exception
clause excluding the brown man?
mo. our progress has been upward
up to this time. Let it not be backward
from now on. Do not dare to deny to
any people IN foreign lands the right
that you claim yourselves, for if you
clare a right TO your government the
Filipino has right to his and if you
deny him the right to his own govern
ment. you will not long have a right
to yours"
Mr.. Bryan also referred to the race
question in other speeches during the
day.
In his Charleston speech Mr.. Bryan
spoke OF the other issues aside from
the race question involved in the cam
paign. He charged the Republican