The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-10-26

Hinton, W. Va. October 22.-The line
OF the Chesapeake railroad traversing
the picturesque valleys of Big Kama
VIVA and New rivers was the scene of
Mr. Bryan's campaign today. Speech
7es were made at Huntington, Hurri-
cane, St Adams, Charleston, Browns
town, East Bank, Montgomery, Sewell,
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 surrounding
country. There were especially fine
crowds at Huntington, Charleston and
Hinton, people coming into those towns
from all adjacent regions.
The n notable feature of the day
was Mr. Bryan's repeated reference
TO the race question His line of travel
today was further south than he had
gone before and further than he will
again 60, and there were quite a num-
Der of colOred people scattered through
the crowds at all the stopping places.
Mr.. Bryan evidently noted their pres
ence and took occasion to address por-
tons 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
IN IC lOuCLlCu upOI lLlS QueSllOIl
was at st. Adams. There he said:
When we complain that the repub-
llcans are applying in the Philippine
islands doctrines that deprive people
OF the right to govern themselves the
argument that a republican makes is
that some of the southern states have
adopted amendments requiring an edu-
-%catiOnal qualification for voting. 1
wish to submit this question to the
republicans. Do they approve of what
is being done in the south or do they
oppose it? If they oppose it, why do
they propose worse things in Porto
Rico and in the Philippine islands than
have been proposed in the south?
Read the qualifications adopted by
your own administration for voting in
Porto Rico and you will find that they
have an educational 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 Philippine
islands, they are going on the theory
that the brown peOpl there have no
right to a voice in their govern ment
and When a republican tells a black
man in this country that he ought to
vote the republican ticket, / want the
black man to ask him this question:
If a brown man in the Philippine is
lands has no right to a voice in his
government, what about the black
MANI
And 1 want to ask VIA black man
can stand on his own right to a voice
in his own government if he votes the
republican ticket and denies to the
people in other lands a right to a voice
in their government. And if the re-
pubIicanS tell the colored 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 vote for him, but the modern
leaders OF the republican party have
had more from the cOlOred man than
they have given to him..
Il want the Filipino to have his own
flag and his own government and to
work out his own destiny, and L want
this nation to stand by him and say to
the world: hands off: let this repub-
lie live"
Mr.. Bryan reverted to the race QueS-
ton in his speech al Charleston. There
he said:
Forty years ago the republicans said
that a black man should not sell for
81 900. but now they Will buy brown
men by the job lot for $3.50 a piece.
They a a generation g that the
Declaration of independence applied to
a black man. Now they say it does
not apply to a brown man. 1t cost us
hundreds of thousands of lives and
undred of millions of money to take
out of the declaration of independence
the exception clause that excluded the
black man."
In his discussion at Huntington OF
the question of government by in
junction. Mr.. Bryan quoted an extract
from an article written for The Review
of Reviews by Governor Roosevelt, in
September 1896, and continued:
You laboring men who are opposed
to government by injunction can here
find out what opinion the republican
party has of you as stated by the man
who now represents the republican
party as it's candidate"
Mr.. Bryan then quoted Governor
Roosevelt as writing:
1.-The men who object to what they
style government by injunction are
as regards the essential principles, IL
hearty sympathy with their remote
skin clad ancestors who lived in caves
fought one another with stone axe.
and ate the mammoth and woolly rhi
nOceros."