Evening star., 1900-10-09
Mr.. BRYAN AT QUINCY
Democratic Candidate Has a Large
Early Morning Audience.
BE RAISES A PERSONAL QUESTION
Denies Authorship of an Article in
Omaha Paper.
r ALKS TO RMER S

QUINCY, ILL.,, October 9.-All the MEM
bers of the Bryan party were sleeping
soundIy this morning when, a. $50 O'Clock,
the train pulled into this city. They were
not however, permitted to continue their
slumbers long, owing to the calls of the
CT owd for Bryan and the beating on the
windows. Mr.. Bryan hastily 'denned his
clothes, drank cup of coffee and was es-
corted to a carriage for the long drive to
Washington Park, where, notwithstanding
the early hour, there was a thrOng of
waiting people, many of whom had been
standing in the chilly air since daylight.
Mr.. Bryan spoke on the general issues of
the campaign, saying that so large crowd
at so early an hour of the day indicated
that the people were interested in them
selves rather than in him. In this con-
nection he said:
LAS I pass along the street and as / look
into the faces of some of the careworn wo-
men who never get chance to take a
summer vacation at some pleasant water
ing place, l wonder how the husbands and
sons of these women can find it in their
hearts TO support the policies which are
today amassing great wealth in the hands
of few people with rapidity never
known before in the history of the world.
I wonder how it is that men who are not
interested in getting their hands into other
peoples pockets, but merely in keeping
other peoples hands out of their own
pockets can support the republican ticket
while today the republican party denies the
principle Of equal rights to all and special
privileges to none and makes this a gov
ernment of the syndicates,s by the syndi-
Gates and for the syndicates
Republican Party, Evasive.
'"The republican party is not prepared to
defend It's policy on any question. When you
challenge it to defend itself 1t talks pros
perity to the farmer and a full dinner pail
to the laboring man, and that is all it has
to say. If the republican party were to at
tempt to show in what respect 1t has
brought prosperity to the farmer 1t would
fail But republican said the other day
that the republican party was IN partner
ship with the Almighty. The republican
party claims to be a silent partner with
Jehovah. but the trouble is that instead of
being the silent partner the republican
party makes all the noise and Jehovah is
the way the republicans talk you would
imagine that the republican party was re-
sponsible for a large crop when you have
a large crop. and IL the crop fails 1t was a
warning to you never TO desert the republi-
can party"
Mr. Bryan referred to an editorial on the
pension question which appeared in an
Omaha newspaper with which he was for
ial referred to was printed long before he
was connected with the paper, Yet doubt
not" he said, that every old soldier will
receive letter in which 1t will be stated
that l am the author of the editorial
Il have already received one shouted
an old soldier in the crowd
"I am not surprised" said Mr.. Bryan. Il
know that they have misrepresented every
thing that could be misrepresented. To-
day they have not the least hope Of carry
ing this election unless they have a bigger
campaign fund than they have ever had
before, and they can ceerce every voter
that can be coerced.'
He paid especial attention to the farm
ers, saying that even though there had
been advance In the price of some farm
products. the Increase in price of articles
of consumption had been so much greater
to far more than neutralize the advance
in farm commodities
why Don't They Buy Land.
Taking up the statement that money
from this country is being loaned in Eu-
rope, he asked: "Why don't they buy
American lands instead of sending their
surplus money abroad?" and then replied
to his own question by saying that the only
reply that could be made was that the re-
publican policy was reducing values. A
private individual could not put his money
in manufacturing enterprise for fear that
his concern would be sold to q trust and
that he would be squeezed out. He de-
clared that it is his desire to destroy all
private monopoly because he does not want
to see the doors Of opportunity closed
against the boys of the country.
Give the boy a chance" he said: give
him opportunity to exert his own indus
try and his own ability, and he will make
his way, for we have the best boys in the
world
Mr.. Bryan asserted that the republican
party had completely changed front upon
the question Of a large standing army.
Formerly that party was wont to boast of
it's confidence in the volunteer soldiers but
this was no longer true. 1t was, he de-
clared, no excuse for saying that We want
a strong government in the sense that
we need a big army, and then exclaimed,
ooh, my countrymen, II you want strong
government let your government be strong
in the affections OF the people. and not in
the number of muskets you have"
Mr.. Bryan closed with a plea against
imperialism" Speaking Of the Porto
Rican bill, he said:
THE principle involved in that measure
Is as dangerous and as damnable as. has
ever been exercised by any tyrant in the
worlds history