The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-09-06
At TIE Field Of ANT|ETAM
BRYAN TRYING TO GET WEST VIR-
GINA IN THE DEMOCRATIC
COLUMN
TWO SPEECHES YESTERDAY

IWU SEEECdE0 ES1EhUAx
ShepherdstOwn and Keyser Heard
the Candidate, Who Afterward
Returned to Deer Par,
Maryland.
DEER PARK, Md, Sept. 5.-Mr. Bryan
doubled on his tracks today, and tonight
finds himself enjoying the refreshn g
breezes of the summit of the Alleghenies.
He began the day in Jefferson county, the
easternmost county of West Virg MIA, and
since leaving the tri-state gathering at
Morgans Grove, in that country, he has
been working constantly westward. He
made only two speeches during the day,
first at Morgan's Grove, near Shepherds
town, w. ". and the second at Keyser.
AT both places the crowds greeted the
national candidate with enthusiasm, and
both speeches were vigorously applauded
as point after point was made. There
were large audiences at both meetings,
but that of the grove was exceptional in
size, the people having come not only
from West Virginia, but from Maryland
and Pennsylvania to hear the speech
while they attended the fair. There were,
Tor instance, several hundred men in the
procession wearing anti-imperialiSt''
badges, who were from Hagestown, Md.
There were also several other marching
clubs in line.
Mr.. Bryan spent the night on the spe-
cial train. Previous to going to the
entire party of partisans and newspaper
men, numbering thirty or more persons,
took breakfast at the historic country
place known as Bellevue, and owned by
Mrs. Shepherd. This place faces Ant etam
battlefield across the Potomac, and it is
in many ways an interesting spot. Here
Mr.. Bryan met many of the local leaders,
and spent two hours most enjoyably be-
bore beginning the more serious business
of the day.
w L. WILSON FOR BRYAN
A letter was read at the meeting from
Hon. w. L. Wilson, ex-postmaster gen
eral, strongly indorsing Mr.. Bryan, and
saying that only sickness prevented his
attendance upon the meeting. Col r. P.
George R. Vending, who, after read
ing Mr.. Wilson's letter, in turn introduce
ed Mr.. Bryan. He laid stress upon the
fact that Mr.. Wilson had been a member
Of Mr. Clevelands cab net. In his letter,
Mr.. Wilson emphasized his opposition to
a colonial or imperialistic policy, saying
he had early taken this position. Mr..
Vending, who had opposed Mr.. Bryan
in 1886, made q brief speech, himself Wig
orously attacking the Republicans, and
pledging to Mr.. Bryan his support this
campaign. He said he had known Mr..
Bryan from his boyhood, and that all
the money in Wall street could not buy
him.
Mr.. Bryan was received with deafening
applause After this had subsidized, he
launched Immediately upon his speech.
He began by referring to Mr.. Wilson in
most complimentary terms
Mr.. Bryan expressed his pleasure at be-
ing able to address an assemblage of
farmers. He wanted to known how any
farmer could be Republican. 1t was
easy to understand how the head of a
trust or any army contractor could be a
member of that party, he said but as for
the farmers they were not trying to get
their hands into other pockets and to
keep other hands out of their pockets.
However prosperous other classes might
be, the farmer was not a sharer of that
prosperity. Here Mr.. Bryan related the
current reports concerning his oat crop,
claiming that the eXaggeration in this
matter was specimen of fallacious re-
ports in the East concerning the pros
porous condition of the agricultural
classes.
They always exaggerate the possibili-
ties of good crop, and never take into
consideration the likelihood of q good
CROP he said, "and after the farmer
has taken these chances he passes be-
tween the bulls and bears of Wall street.
The bulls horn him, the bears butt him
and when he is through with them he
has to meet the gold bug. The crop Is
made the occasion for praising the Re-
publican party" he continued, while a
bad crop is taken as a punishment for
voting the Democratic ticket. The claim
Is almost made that the Republican party
can govern the rainfall, but this cannot be
true, for, If 1t were, there would be a
monopoly of rain, the price would go up
FARMER NEEDS MORE MONEY.
Mr.. Bryan then took up the discussion
of the financial question, showing that
more money was especially necessary to
the farmer.
Mr.. Bryan said: what does the Re
publican party do to help the farmer7
what he has TO sell? You are told now
that you have more money than you had
in 1896. l want you to read the speeches
made in 1896 and see whether the Repub-
Hcan party promised any more money
You, cannot find in Republican speech
Of 1896 promise of more money The
Republicans said then that it did not
matter whether we had much money or
a little, just SO it was good. They dis
puted the quantity theory of money, and
you cannot find where any Republican
said in 1896 that we had an insufficient
amount of currency and promised that
the Republican party would bring more
money. Yet today the Republican party
boasts of the increase in the volume of
money. Republican farmers, do you be-
lieve that times are better than they
were, and that we have more money than
We had, and do you believe that there
is any connection between better times
and more money. If you do, 1 want you
to remember that in 1896 we told you
that more money made better times, and
we tried to secure you more money, not
temporarily, but permanently, for the
American people. The increased produc-
ton Of gold has been help We wanted
more gold and silver. The quantitive
theory Of money has been established and
the Republican party today does not dare
to brag of an increased quantity OF
money, and at the same time they say
that the quantitive theory of money is
incorrect, We got money because of a
large crop in this country and famine
in Europe. Did the Republican party
make large crop in this country? Did
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