Daily Kennebec journal., 1900-10-18

you to know that they offer it in re-
turn for a surrender of liberty Of the
individual"
At Newburg Mr.. Bryan spoke t.
crowd Of several thousand people and
| his speech was frequently ana loudly
applauded Mi. Bryan charged the
| Republican party with dishonesty in
its dealing with the people and in sup
| port Of this statement cited the at
| titude Of that path toward trusts. He
read an editorial from 4 NeWburg
newspaper concerning The trusts which
! he said was an effort To convince the
| people that the trusts are administer
! ed in their interest. Referring to the
| statement. he said:
The American Steel and Wire Co
| controls so per cent. of the output Of
wire nails and steel wire. and you re-
member that within a year that COM
pany closed down u factories. threw
5000 men out of employment and then
reduced the price Of wire nails and
| barbed Wire in an instant and threw
upon the men who had bought up
stocks of wire nails a heavy loss. 1t
was stated that the man who was re-
|
| more money on the stock market in
| the depression Of price 0f stock than
a man could make in ordinary bust
ness in q life time.
Mr Bryan charged that he Repub-
| l:can party was circulating book pre-
| pared by a man named Weeks. which
| defended the trusts and said: The
| National Publishing CO If New York.
| printed the books. 1t first asked the
trusts t. buy the book and circulate il
It found that the trusts did not Eant
It1 undertake the circulation ~ the book
themselves. q the Publishing Company
| wrcte 4 letter tn the trusts. copy OF
| which is in the hands Of eX-GDV. Stone,
saying: To overcome the difficulty We
have arranged with the Republican ma
| tional committee to have it Distribute
the books in such manner and in such
places as to insure the best results
and Gov. Stone has receipts signed for
the national committee of the Repub
iican party by J. II. Manley for 500
copies Of a Look in defence # trusts.
paid for by the trusts, to be circulate !
BY the Republican committ=e among
the people to convince them that trusts
are good. while the leaders say the Re
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Albany. y. Y. oct. 17.-Presideatial
candidate Wm. J. Bryan ran around
two sides of triangle. today. from
Hudson to Albany. inclusive. At Hud-
son he spoke to a gathering Of bust
ness pro;la l.; at Troy t. the capacity Cf
! an opera house and with an overflow
meeting Of collar factory ana laundry
emp Dyes: at Mechanics -sviIe tp railrOa 4
people at COhaes To the mass Of III
employees Of the cotton and wooden
mills and at Albany To TWO immense
meetings. one i'll the Opera house and
ne outside During this speech max
} ing Mr Bryan was accompanied by
: Chairman Of the State Committed
Frank Campbell. Judge Bulcer If Cs-
: Wego, Ex-senator Edward Murphy Of
: Troy, ex-Mayor Francis Maliuy Of
: Troy. Mayor Samuel II. Jones Of To
T ledo. and ]. j. Delaney of New York
; Messr=. Bulgcr Delaney and Jones al
ternated in the speaking with Nj
I Bryan. assisting him particularly al
Q places where there were overf1oWine
meetings The great meetings Of this
trip were held at Troy, the home Of
Z Ex-senator Murphy. and Albany. tn.
: home Of eX- Senator Hill Mr.. Hill Wa
: unfortunately absent in the West ant
= therefore could not entertain NJ
At Troy and Albany the meetings we!
= phenomenally large ana enthusiastic
- immense overflow meeting being held
g At Hudson, Mr.. Bryan said he be
: lieved that Mexico is better off because
u we took our flag down from the capita
: when the Mexican war was over an,
J. that self government in Mexico. hal
Spanish and half Indian, has develope,
i the people more and has brought then
e further than would have been the cas-
y had we held them under our domin
! ion. He compared Mexico with India
7 Under 50 years Of self government, h