The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-11-06
Or Sit i'm His Library and Write u
Chapter of His "second Battle"
Telling of His Defeat.
or HIS SPEECHES YESTERDAY
NINETEEN HOURS SPENT IN TALKING
TO NEBRASKA VOTERS.
Same DemagOgic Utterances That
Have Marked All His Addresses
Appeals for Himself.


in his own State. He spoke at Exeter. Fair
mont Harvard, Minden, Holdrege, Wilcox,
Blue Hill, Hastings, Aurora, York and Sew
ard, returned to Lincoln for speech
there at 6 o'clock, and then dashed to
Omaha, where he made seven speeches to-
night.
AS the train drew into Exeter at a.
m, a number of people were drawn up
along the railroad track Mr.. Bryan was
escorted to a public hall near by, where
he made his first speech. The speech was
very little different from Mr. Bryans
speeches to agricultural communities in
other parts of the country. You are about
to VOTE" he said in beginning, "and by
your votes determine what you want in
government and in the way of laws" He
took up the subject of farm mortgages
early in his talk, saying:
''They tell you you have been prosperous
in this State. 1 quote from Mr.. Kent, of
the State Labor Bureau, the statistics that
have been filed with him for the various
counties. and 1 want to show you some
thing of the prosperity that the Repub-
licans are now Boosting of. When Mr..
Roosevelt was here he made a statement
that 40 per cent. of the real estate mort
cages had been paid off under this admin
istration. The fact is that little less than
S2i,OO0,0O0 in real estate mortgages have
been released In excess of those filed, and
you must take out of the $24,O00.OO0 all OF
the property where the property Is turned
over TO the mortgage i'm satisfaction of
the debt. You know that Is very often
the way OF paying a mortgage You simply
turn the property over to the man Who
holds the mortgage. OF the $24, 900 marked
satisfied. less than $40. 000,0 600 that comes
from farm mortgages. But while the mort
cages paid off and released on real estate
are very much less than Mr.. Roosevelt
says. the increase in the chattel mort
cages of this State in the last four years
is very much greater than the decrease in
the real estate mortgages. And II you Will
take the real estate mortgages filed and re-
leased, and the chattel mortgages filed and
released you will find that adding them to-
gether we have now $149, 100000 more in
mortgaged Indebtedness in this State than
we had four years ago, that is, the chattel
mortgages have increased so much more
rapidly than the real estate mortgages
have decreased that the increase is $l49,-
100000 in four years. Bear in mind that
these figures were taken from the statistics
in the Labor Bureau Office. and those are
made up from the sworn statements of
county officials of this State"
TRUSTS DENOUNCED.
On the trust question, Mr.. Bryan said:
IL want you all to vote early, and when
you get up on election morning it will prob
ably be dark, and you will have to light
lamp, and remember that you are using oil
furnished by the Standard Oil Company,
and that the Standard Oil Company is pay
ing this year a dividend of so per cent,
$50 000,0 900 ON 500, 1900 of capital, and the
Standard Oil Company is prospecting un-
der Republican administration. But look
at the prosperity of the Standard Oil Com
pany, while your lamp is burning, and COM
pare it with the prosperity of the farmer.
Then when you get your coffee, remember
that the price of coffee is controlled by
trust. and when you put your sugar in
member that it is controlled by q trust, and
Ii you have crackers, remember that the
National Biscuit Company controls the
price of biscuit. You will find that there
is hardly thing you use that trust does
not control / promise you that if L am
elected every power of the President will
be used to make it impossible for a pri-
vate monopoly to exist in the United
States"
Fifteen-minute stops were made at the
towns of Fairmont and Harvard, and in
both places Mr. Bryan made speeches
along the general lines and to good crowds.
Mr.. Bryan again urged his audience at
Fairmont to vote early 81 want you,
he said, Ito make the majority in this
State as large as possible. because the
other States are going to do so well, and
/ don't want Nebraska 10 be behind"
At Harvard there were a great many
gold badges in the crowd which greeted
Mr.. Bryan, and there were fewer cheers
there than at most places.
At Minden Mr.. Bryan spoke for only ff-
teen minutes, and after declaring that the
full dinner-pail argument of the Repub-
lican party hal been abandoned, he adj
dressed himself to the farmers. of whom
his audience was largely composed, declar-
ing that the Republican party had no pol
icy calculated 10 enhance the agricultural
interest.
At Holdredge Mr. Bryan devoted his at
tention especially to the trusts, but gave
more or less consideration to the subject of
an income tax.
At his speech at Wilcox Mr.. Bryan said.
in response to IN inquiry by introduction
OF himself as the next President of the
United States, that 1t was not the fault Of
the people of Nebraska that he had failed
to become President. but. he added, now
that other States are coming to the rescue
/ hope that Nebraska will not be found
wanting Some one asked him this ques-
ton:
Have they got any law at all for what
| they are doing over tbere?"
Responding, Mr.. Bryan said: mo, sir
No more than Queen Victoria has for what
she does in India. The trouble is that the
Republicans are amending the Constitu-
ton without going through the formalities
provided in the Constitution at ALL"
HAWLEY MISREPRESENTED.
At Hastings, in discussing the Philip.
pines, Mr.. Bryan said: 1.-The Republican
party to-day is doing here just what the
| Tories and the Conservatives of England
are doing over there. We are waging a
war of conquest war in the pursuit of
| trade, and If you will read what was said
| by Senator Hawley in the United States
| Senate you will find that they want an
army in this country to coerce laboring
men, and you will find that Mr.. Hull. the
| chairman of the House military committee,
| in a letter in which he advised and recon-
mended accepting a site for fort near
Des Moines, said: 1T has been the policy
of the department to concentrate the troops
| near the large centers of population, where
many railway lines converge, and allow
them being rapidly transported to points
/ OF threatened disturbances That has been
| the policy of recent years, and yet when
| | said the other day that one purpose OF
| the large army was to coerce laboring men
/ and have the army near large centers To
| suppress strikes, Mr.. Roosevelt said that
\ / was stirring up class prejudice; and yet
| | was using the very language that was
| used by the chairman of the military com
| mittee of the House, Republican from
| Des Moines, Ia, and | was only telling in
the same language what MIR Hawley. as
| senator. stated in the United States Senate
/ "A year ago.
| Mr.. Bryan made brief speeches at the
/ towns of Aurora. York and Seward He
/ also took occasion at each place TO urge
| tie Importance of electing the whole Dem
| ocratic ticket, and of sending a Fusionisi
/ 10 the Senate I'm place of Senator Thurston
Al Aurora he explained that he had spen,
| a great deal of his time during the cam
/ paign outside of the State because he
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