The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-10-27
AN OVATION AT PATERSON
A Great Meeting and Much Enthus.
iasm at Dover.
NEWARK GIVES A BRILLIANT WELCOME
AT Hoboken Five Hundred Germans Sereaade
Mr.. Bryan With Songs Of the FatherIand.
The Incident One of the Pleasant
est of His Trip.
(By the Associated Press.)

New York, Oct. 26.-Wm. J. Bryan to-
day concluded his campaign tour of the
State of New Jersey. The day was a sue
cessful one in that the crowds which he
addressed were both attentive and of
fair size, but the majority of them were
neither as large nor as demonstrative as
those of New York Today was given up
to section of Jersey which is populated
largely by people who do business in
New York City, and the people at the
various towns at which stops were made
said that in view of the absence of so
many of their townsmen the attendance
was excellent.
The tour was made over the Delaware
and Lackawanna Railroad, the most dis
tant point touched being Dover, forty
miles south of New York The other
towns at which speeches were made were
Hoboken, Harrison, Orange, Summit,
Morristown BoonSton, Paterson, Belle
vile, and Newark, three speeches being
made at the latter place. In reality Mr..
Bryan's Thursday work extended into to-
day, for he did not retire this morn
ing until 2 o'clock, and one of the pleas
antest occasion of last night was the
first of the series. When he reached
his hotel in Hoboken, after his carriage
tour of the city he found about 500 Ger
man citizens awaiting his arrival. They
insisted upon rendering him a serenade,
and sang several songs of the Fatherland
in way that delighted the Presidential
candidate, Notwithstanding he is unfa-
miliar with the language in which the
songs are written. Mr.. Bryan referred
frequently today in private conversations
TO this episode, showing that his appre-
citation of it was very strong. At the
conclusion of his series of meetings in
Newark tonight Mr.. Bryan expressed
himself as highly gratified with the Jer-
sey campaign.
BRYAN'S SPEECH AT DOVER.
Mr.. Bryan made the longest stop of
the day at Dover, forty miles out of New
York. He spoke at that place for about
an hour and addressed a large crowd,
which listened to him attentively not
withstanding a light rain was falling at
the time he spoke. He referred in his
speech to criticism of himself to the eff
feet that he made charges for his cam
paign speeches. On this subject he said:
According to the Republicans my farm
is not my only source of income. They
say that | am so avaricious that when
am a candidate for President | will not
make a speech unless | am paid several
hundred dollars They also say that /
am so ambitious that | would spend
all | have to be President. 1t is hard
to reconcile the two stories If you
arc interested in knowing the facts, / can
tell you that | have been able to make
living under a Democratic administra-
tion and / think / shall be able to make
better living under a Republican adj
ministration than most of the Republi-
cans who will be responsible for the
administration, but | want to tell you
that every dollar that ] have made in
the last four years has been made out of
the voluntary payment by people for what
they bought and wanted. | need not tell
you that | receive no money for campaign
speeches If the people pay any money
when | have meeting, it is to meet
the expenses of the meeting. In some
cases the people have paid the expenses
OF the train on which / travel as it
goes from town to town. If any Repub-
lican complains of that you tell him that
man who rides on a train must either
get pass over the railroad or pay his
fare, and would rather the people would
pay for the train and leave me inde-
pendent, than have the railroad company
furnish it, and then own me after the
election"
Mr.. Bryan dwelt at some length in his
Dover speech on the trust question and
in referring to the Standard Oil company
said that that company is. through its
power as a monopoly, extorting money
enough from the people at large to pay
annual dividends amounting to $4,000
099 upon an original capital of $100, ,000,-
00G
Mr. BRYAN referred to the fact that
Dover had supplied a company of volun-
teers for the Cuban war and said in this
81 never learned to love the volunteer
contact with him in the Spanish war. |
believe the nation can rest upon the vol
unteers. found down in Florida regi-
ment from this State. | got acquainted
with the New Jersey boys at that time
and / believe you had company from
this town. | remember them, because
whenever | went into their camp they
joined in threG cheers"
There were evidently a number of ex
soldiers in tie crowd, and they again