The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-10-19
He Fires His Smooth Bore from the
Rear of n Palace Car, but Fails to
Bag Single Octopus.
TRIES TO SCARE HIS HEARERS
BY PREDICTING DIRE RESULTS IF
TRUSTS GET HOLD OF THEM.
Locomotive browns His Voice at One
Point and Small Boys Hiss Him
at Another-Poster Warnings.


State to-day. travelling halfway across 1t
from east to west. He began his journey
at Albany and reached here late this after
noon. From here he made run north
ward to the southern shore of Lake On
tario and made a speech of half an hours
duration at Oswego. returning to this city
to speak tonight The other points at
which he spoke during the day were Schen-
ectady, Amsterdam, Fonda, Johnstown,
Gloversville, Fort Plain. Little Falls, Her
kimer, Ilion. Frankfort, Utica, Rome.
Oneida, Canastota, Chittenango and De-
witt. In comparatively few places was
there marked enthusiasm. There was, how
ever, close attention in every instance. and
In no case was there any interruption
worthy of note. The Oswego meeting was
best attended and in other respects the
most notable of the day.
The first stop Of the special train this
morning after leaving Albany was at
Schenectady, where the Edison general
electric works are located. In his speech
Mr.. Bryan said:
''You have here a large laboring class
/ want to ask the iaboring men whether
they believe it is good to have great
industry dominated by one man or group
of men? Suppose a laboring man spent
ten, fifteen or twenty years in acquiring
skill in an occupation-is il wise to have
of one man? What will the skilled laborer
do If the terms provided for his labor are
not satisfactory? He will submit to them
under monopoly. Why? Because there Is
from that one place he has to commence
life over again, and all his experience will
be of no avail. If you have a number of
large electrical plants. genius and skill
nd al W yyil "A
manager is not willing to pay you what
your services are worth you can go to an
other manager and get what your services
are worth, because competition VIII COM
pei each man to get the best brain and the
best work possible. But when you have
but one manager you have to take the
terms he gives you and the wages ne Us
willing to give you, because, If you turn
your back on that institution, you go out
to idleness and starvation. Can any labor
ing man believe monopoly Is good
thing?"
PUFFED TOO LOUD.
While Mr.. Bryan was speaking rail-
road engine pulled along back of him, COM
polling him to suspend his speech for a
minute or two. He referred to the circum-
stance, saying: ut is hard to speak out
doors under the most favorable circum-
stances, and / do not know OF anything
more unfavorable than to have a railroad
against you when you are speaking, or If
you are running for office" Mr.. Bryan
was applauded at the close.
At Amsterdam Mr.. Bryan spoke from
the rear of his train, and the people COW
cred all the adjacent railroad tracks and
freight cars. His speech was appeal
to Republicans to investigate the Demo-
cratic side of the political situation, and
he argued that, if he had been elected
| prec nf M
had conducted himself toward the trusts
and the army question as the President
has done, Republicans would not have con-
doned his conduct.
AT Fonda Mr.. Bryan addressed his speech
to the farmers. saying that the main rea-
son urged upon the farmers by the Repub-
lican orators as to why they should vote
the Republican ticket was that they had
q drought by voting any other ticket.
They want you,'' he said, Ito sell your
birthright for a mess of pottage and they
do not want to give you an opportunity to
look at the pottage." Referring to the fact
that there is considerable dairy interest
at Fonda, Mr.. Bryan said that less than
5000 worth of American butter had been
sold in the Philippines last year. and he
asked the dairymen to put those figures
against their proportion of the taxes on
account of the army in the Philippines.
Mr.. Bryan made twenty-minute stops
both at Johnstown and Gloversville. AT
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they did not believe that a man ought to
vote upon a subject in which he had a
personal interest as a member of Congress
or senator, but now We can fill our Con-
gresS and our Senate with railroad presi-
dents and with trust magnates and let
them their business through iegisla-
ton to the neglect of the business of the
rest of the country" He added that he
believed that this accounted for the fact
that we now have government In the In
terest of the syndicates.
DANGER OF A GLOVE TRUST.
In his speech at Gloversville, Mr.. Bryan
referred particularly to the danger of glove
trusts affecting the county of Fulton to a
large degree. In response to inquiries he
said he would destroy trusts by removing
the tariff from all goods which they manu-
facture in order to prevent an increase In
prices at home, and so they could not sell
goods abroad in competition with foreign
manufacturers. He ignored queries regard
ing silver. He said that he would. II elected.
Immediately give independence to the ma
tives of the Philippine islands and then
protect them from outside interference.
The crowd which greeted Mr.. Bryan was
composed of several thousand people, but
there was no marked enthusiasm. The can
didate asserted that the crowd would have
been larger II the manufacturers of the
city had not prevented their emplcs as
from leaving their work in order to scar
him.
Some boys Kissed Mr.. Bryan and there
were queries about the ice trust and free
silver. Mr.. Bryan declared that the Repub-
lican party was placing the campaign
upon a lower level than any previous cam
paign had ever been placed upon, because
1t was appealing to the stomach entirely
and ignoring all the higher instincts of the
race.
In the early part of his speech Mr.. Bryan
persons were sitting and he said: II am
afraid they are on a Republican platform
and Ii Is breaking down." Noting some OF
the interruptions he said: From some re-
marks made in this audience l am afraid
there are some people here who never will
have an objection TO the trust unless they
themselves become its victims
Some one in the audience interrupted
Mr.. Bryan with an inquiry about the ice
trust. Mr.. Bryan made his usual reply TO
the effect that all the directors of that trust
are Republicans and the suppression of IL
Is in the hands of the Governor OF the
State.
At Fort Plain Mr. Bryan was warmly
greeted. AT most of his stopping PLACES
to-day Mr.. Bryan was confronted by large
and conspicuously posted bills warming the
people against him. These bills announced
in large red letters, Bryan Is here" and
then gave extracts from his speeches made
in 1886 and last September and then add
ing: This means national dishcnor and
industrial collapse. A vote for Bryan is a
vote for low wages no wages. Bread
riots and souphouses. Hard times"
Mr.. Bryan reached Little Falls. the center
OF large knitting interest. at noon. He
spoke there from a stand erected along
SIDE one OF the local factories and talked