The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-18
IN BRYAN'S HONOR.
Mayor GOOdlander of Fort Scott
Gives Breakfast.

Fort Scott, Kan, Sept. 1S.-W. J.
Bryan was the guest of honor at a state
breakfast given by Mayor Goodlander
at the Goodlander hotel at o'clock this
morning An hour later at convention
hall. he began the first of the two
speeches made in this city. The first
speech was comparatively brief, the
meetings at the hall being adjourned to
the public square in order to afford
opportunity to the larger crowd assem-
bled there to hear the candidate. Mr..
Bryan did not arrive in the city until
half past this morning, and he slept
later than usual.
The first meeting was to have begun
at 10 O'Clock, and the hall, which holds
5000 persons, was filled before O'Clock.
It had been expected that the only
speech would be made in the hall, but
there was such q throng of people on
the outside, that it was found necessary
to hold the meeting on the outside in or
der to accommodate them. Mr.. Bryan s
speech at the ha.1 was a brief review of
the issues, and he contented himself
with suggesting points for argument to
his followers. In the park he spoke
from the band stand. His audience there
included number of people from the
Indian Territory and Missouri, as well
as many from the neighboring towns of
this state All stood while Mr.. Bryan
talked and gave. him respectful atten-
ton, and at times the enthusiasm was
intense. Mr. Bryan was espied by the
crowd at the park when a square dis
that and a shout went up which did not
subside until he reached the vicinity of
the stand from which he was to speak.
The crowd was so dense that he found
1t impossible to mount the stand and he
therefore had his carriage stopped in
the midst of the crowd and. ascending
the carriage box, spoke from it.
The full dinner pail' argument of the
Republican orators received his first at
tention, and he commended, as usual, that
the workingman is not content with a
well supplied table.
When the hog is hungry, he squeals,' .
said MI Bryan when he is full, he
goes to sleep. That seems to be the Re-
publican idea of the workingrnan. No
party, he argues had any claim on a
citizen except as a means of promoting
his welfare. and no man was bound to
to the interests of the people. The Re-
publican party had, he asserted mani
Tested no concern for the welfare of the
masses, hence it had forfeited all claim
upon their support
In substantiation of this statement he
instanced what he designated as the Re-
publican partiality for the trusts. which
We're he said, private monopolies, en-
tirely in the interest of the few and op-
posed to the interests of the many. Like
wise the increased army was seized upon
as one OF the facts going to show that
the Republican party was not the party
of the people. Accounting for the in
crease of the size of the army, he said
that perhaps it was intended to meet
such emergencies as that which had
arisen in the anthracite coal regions
The only domestic reason for increasing
the army was to suppress by force that
| discomfort among the people which should
be cured by legislation. Mr.. Bryan again
/ referred to the income tax question, say
| ing:
Republicans there was time when
! your party favored the income tax.
Abraham Lincoln signed the bill that
made the income tax and II was not a
plain income tax but a graded one Now
| when we advocate income tax today, you
call US anarchists. How dare you accuse
| Abraham Lincoln of being an anarchist
| He did just what we are doing today"
He also said Abraham Lincoln signed
| the bill providing for the greenbacks. He
1 believed that this nation should issue its