The age-herald., 1900-10-02
MT. Bryan Passed a Busy Day
 in Minnesota.
BEGAN AT WEST SUPERIOR
Ended With Brilliant Effort Before an Immense Audience in St. Paul Acknowledged Presentation
 from a Colored Man

 Superior beginning before a. m. He then crossed the St. Croix river to Duluth and starting with an hour speech there he made speeches at eight other places, on the way which, with the speech at Duluth and Superior and those made tonight In this city, makes twelve speeches for the day Four of the speeches averaged an hour the others fifteen minutes each, making about six hours of speechmaking for the day. He was accompanied throughout the day by Gov. Lind Cictor Lawson, chair man of the State Populist committee; Hon. Escorset, secretary of the national Silver Republican committe; Mayor Gray of Min neapolis, Mayor. Hugo of Duluth, National Committeeman O'Brien and the Democratic State candidates. The train was decorated with the national colors, and the special car bore the inscription:
 "The Republic, no Empire" Equal rights to all"
 The attendance at the West Superior, Duluth, Saltwater St. Paul and Minneap- oils meetings was large, but owing to the sparsity Of population, the other crowds were comparatively small.
 This Is the sixteenth anniversary of MT. Bryans marriage, and by a strange co-in- cldence the twenty-first anniversary of Governor Linds marriage They celebrated with a dinner.
 At Hinkley Mir. Bryan made the third stop of the day. This is the point which years ago was destroyed by forest fires, with 300 of It's population, but it has been so built up that there is no longer evidence of the fearful visitation
 MT. Bryan, at Pine City, predicted at the coming election many Republicans would initiate Governor Lind's example and come over to the Democratic party.
 Republican Misdeeds
 At Rush City he said that during the present administration the Republican party had done things that were far worse than the widest prophecy could have pre- dicted of them in 1896. One of these deeds was the increase of the army and another the toleration of the trusts. He said the annexation of the Philippines could not be defended upon any basis, not even on the basis of self interest. If one-tenth of the money spent in acquiring and controll- ing the Filipinos should be expended in reclaiming the arid lands of the West he was sure the return would be a greater sum than would be secured from the Phil lppines for thousand years. Hence the acquisition of the territory could not even be defended on the ground that it pays.
 The North Branch people were given a ten minutes talk, largely devoted to the trusts.
 MT. Bryan spoke from a stand erected on 
 the levee at Saltwater, and the levee was lined with people. A large steamboat on the St. Choix river was also covered with people as were several railroad locomo- uVes, freight cars and car sheds in the vicinity.
 MT Bryan spoke for about an hour dis cussing most of the issues of the cam paign. The Republicans were, he said. spending more time in defending good trusts than in denounein2 bad ones.
 r. Inc Dl,i1 question at Saltwater as at other places, declaring that the Republicans had no pol ley on that question, while the Democrats mad policy that was we'll defined.
 Speech at St. Taul
 The auditorium in which MT. Bryan spoke here tonight was crowded to the very dome. It is said to hold 5000 people. Before pro- ceeding with his speech MT. Bryan was presented with life of Abraham Lincoln by F. l.. McGhee, a colored man, on behalf Of the Colored Mans League. Responding 10 this presentation, MT. Bryan said:
 T thank you for this life of Lincoln which you have given me, and I appreciate the complimentary words employed by MT. Me- Ghee in presenting it. To your race the name Of Lincoln is sacred one, and you may well reverence it. But Lincoln was the friend Of every man, both white and black, He Is among the immortals, and his name will be forever linked with the name of
 
 His philosophy was deep enough to reach down to the Fundamental parts of govern ment; his sympathies were broad enough to embrace all mankind; his vision was clear enough to look beyond the civil war and behold a reunited country, in which there would be no sectional lines, and in which all the people would vie with each other in the effort to add to the greatness and to the glory of their common inheri- tance.
 If Lincoln were alive he would be the recipient of your devotion but you have announced your abandonment of the Re- publican party. You have learned that the negroes position does not depend on the friendship of any particular party, but upon intellectual development and moral worth of the individual. I congratulate you upon the advancement made by your people, and am glad to know that so many of them are determined to study public questions and vote according to their convictions.
 "The Republican party has long regarded them as a political chattel but certainly you have repaid the present Republican leaders for all they have done for you and your race. So far as legislation is con- cerned you have been the victims of the same vicious policy which has injured the white man. More. of your race are en- gagged in the production of cotton than in any other industry and yet the cotton growers are not receiving any benefit from high tariff when they sell their cotton, suffering imposition of high tariff duties when they buy. u!
 "The colored man as rule, is neither money lender, nor a holder of fixed in- vestments and therefore does not profit by the gold standard. He Is not stockholder in private monopolies but when the trust passes through the land, even the blood of Lincoln sprinkled upon the door posts of the colored mans humble home,, would not protect him from extortion.
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 'When Lincoln lived he wanted to en- courage the production of both gold and silver; now the Republicans have no use for silver. He signed the law that created the greenback, he affixed his signature to an income tax bill, and the Republican party Is opposed to the income tax. He was a believer in the citizen soldier; now tn Republican party stands for a. large standing army and the imperial policy Lincoln wanted the Declaration of 1nde- pendence applied to the black man, while the present leaders of the Republican marty are unwilling to applY 1t to a brown