Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-09-28
Mr.. BRYAN IN NEBRASKA.
THIRD CONGRESSIONAL DIS
TRICT.
Speeches at Papilion, Blair, and Da-
kota City-One Hundred and Fifty
Miles by Rail and Nearly Forty
Miles by Carriage During the In
tervaIs Between Speeches.

fervals Between Speeches.
DAKOTA CITY, Neb., September 81
VIM. ]. Bryan arrived here tonight and
addressed a meeting n the Court House
yard. He made three speeches during
the day, travelling almost forty miles
by carriage and $50 miles by rail.
The entire day was devoted to the
Third Congressional district. From Pa
pillion, Mr. Bryan drove to Blair, a dis
lance of thirty miles, making two brief
speeches on the way. The drive con-
sumed more than four hours and it
was almost 4 o'clock when Blair was
reached.
at that point for Dakota City, he had
only little more than half an hour for
his talk. In that time he ran hurried
ly over the principal ISSUES of the cam
paign, giving especial attention to
trusts and imperialism.
He said that apparently Chairman
Hanna and Governor Roosevelt were
not harmonious on the trust question,
for while Mr.. Hanna was declaring that
there were no trusts, the Vice Presiden-
tial candidate was going about the
country making complaints of an ice
trust in his own State.
In his night speech at Dakota City,
Mr.. Bryan gave especial attention to
the trusts, sayingsthat he believed that
there was no such thing as good mon
opoly in private hands. He again re-
ferred to the Presidents letter of ac-
ceptance, saying that the author OF 1t
had manifested far more concern over
the possibility of destroying what he
considered as good trusts than he felt
over the preservation of the bad trusts.
He asserted that the Republican party
did not dare take its full dinner pail
argument into the anthracite coal re-
gionS of Pennsylvania, and declared
that whether man was laboring
man, a farmer or a merchant, he must
see that opportunities are constantly
narrowing under this system.
Discussing the question of imperial
ism, Mr.. Bryan asserted that the same
power that put the Porto Ricans out
side the constitution this year. might
put the people of Nebraska or any
other State outside the pale of the con-
stitution next year.
GiAPILLON, Neb, September 81
Mr. Bryan made the first speech of the
day at this place. He discussed the
issues of the day in a familiar way, adj
vising the people to support the Demo-
cratic ticket as the only course calcu-
lated to promote their interests.
This (Sarpy) county is strongly Dem
ocratic and the national candidate was
cordially received. He contended that
the policies promised by the Democrat
&c party We're in the interest of the peo-
Pile throughout, while those of the Re-
publican party were antagonistic to
the public welfare.
Now, my friends, you havehad Repub-
lican administration for four years ana
you are to decide whether you are
going to re-emplOy the President You
have had Republican Congressman in
this district, and now you are to decide
whether you are going to re-employ
him. You are to decide whether you are
going to re-employ Senator Allen or
whether you will employ some Repub-
ican to legislate for the corporations
while he is in the Senate and act as
attorney for the Standard Oil Company
While the Senate is not in session."
He asserted that the Republican
party has no plan that looks to the
benefit OF the great struggling masses
of this country. The Republicans tell
you, he said, of the prosperity which
they have brought to the farmers.
Mr. Bryan said that the Republicans
had been inconsistent with their decla-
rations in connection with the money
record as favoring the retirement of the
greenback and the substitution of the
banknote.
Continuing, he said:
The Republican party has increased
the tax upon the farmers and the la
boring men and the business men in
this country and reduced the tax upon
national bank circulation You are
compelled to pay more taxes than you
did in 1896, but the national banks
have had their taxes reduced and pay
less on the bank circulation than they
did in 1886. The Republican party is
looking after the interests of aggre-
gate wealth and ignoring the rights of
the plain people of this country"
In regard to the large standing army
issue, he said:
Il have been criticised because L
suggest that they wanted to tax the
people to support an army of 100000
men in idleness, and am accused of
saying that our army is idle. Let me
ask those who desire to critieise that
statement, What does the army do?'
The Republicans say that the Philip
pine war viii soon be over, and what
is the army going to do then? 1t
simply kills people. that is ALL 1t is
better to have an idle army than it is
to have one shedding blood all the
time"