The age-herald., 1900-10-18
COLONEL BRYAN IN ROOSRYELT'S STATE Spoke to Large Crowds at 2eV-
 eraI Towns. TWO MEETINGS AT ALBANY The Great Meetings of the Trip Were Held at Troy Overflow Held
 Discussed Leading
 Issues.

Issues.
 | Albany, N. Y, October H.-William J.
 Bryan ran around two sides of a triangle 1 today from Hudson to Albany, inclusive,
 and probably spoke to as cosmopolitan a | lot of people as he has ever addressed dur | ing the campaign. At Hudson he spoke to | gathering of business people of all
 classes; at Troy to the capacity of an | opera house and with overflow meet
 ing of collar factory and laundry employees; 1 at Mechanicsville, to railroad people; at ! Cohoes, to the mass of the employees of the | cotton and wooden mills and at Albany to two immense meetings, one in the opera house and one outside composed of the best element of the city. During his speech making MT Bryan was accompanied by the chairman of the State Committee, Frank Campbell; Judge c. N. Bulger of Oswego, ex-Senator Edward Murphy, ex- Mayor Francis Malloy of Troy, Mayor Samuel M. Jones of Toledo and J. J. De- fancy of New York. Messrs. Bulger, De-
 laney and Jones alternated in the speaking
 with Mir Bryan assisting, especially at
 
 The great meetings of this trip were held
 at Troy the home of ex-Senator Murphy,
 and Albany the home of ex-senator Hill.
 MT. Hill is absent in the West. At both
 Troy and Albany the meetings were phe-
 nomenally large and enthusiastic, immense
 oyerflows being held to accommodate those
 who desired either to see or hear MT.
 Bryan.
 New Qcestions Touched
 During this traverse of the two sides of
 the triangle Mr. Bryan alluded 10 many
 things which he has not mentioned at many
 other places during the campaign.
 At Hudson he said: "I believe that Mex leo is far better off because we took our flag down from the capitol when the Mex ican war was over and brought it back to the RIO Grande. I think Mexico is better today and we are better than if we had
 held carpet bag government in place there by means of bayonets, and I think that self-government in Mexco-half Span ish and half Indian-has developed the people more and has brought them furth CT than would have been the case had we l held them under our dominion: and if you | doubt it, look at Mexico and compare Mex l ico with India. Under thirty years of self government Mexico has made more pro gress than India has made in one hundred and fifty years, oppressed by an Anglo Saxon soldlery. They only have 100000 En- glish in India out of 300. GOO and it takes an army Of 70,000 British soldiers to take care of the British population, and it takes a native army of 140,G00 to help the British
 army of 70, O,000 in it's work of protection" At Troy he said T know that you are a persevering people, for in this town you gave me a majority four years ago and your zeal seems to have lasted for four years. l am glad to come among you; am glad to defend in your presence the principles for which our party stands. The Republican party has changed it's ideas and it's ideals in the last quarter of a cen tury. I renember reading a letter from a Abraham Lincoln to the Republicans of Boston who were celebrating Jeffersons s birthday Do you remember whether the Republicans of this community have cele- brated Jefferson's birthday lately? Have they had any bancuets in his honor under Republican auspices in recent years? I | think not not in any part of the country; and yet my friends, in 1856 when the Re- l publican party was organized, it's platform l appealed to all those who wanted to carry l the government back to the principles of 1 Washington and Jefferson. Today the Re- l publican party meets to celebrate the birth 1 day, not of Jefferson, but of Hamilton, Jeffersons great political opponent Bryan's Cohoes Speech
 At Cohoes, MT. Bryan said:
 "I recall trip here only three years ago,
 and I remember your cordial greeting at that time, and I was much impressed by the falls that have been of so much value 10 your industries I have been sorry to hear i that water has been scarce in the Mohawk, and I suppose that if the Republicans can claim credit for the abundance of rain in 1 the west, that 1t is responsible for the lack ] of water here Certainly it Is poor rule that does not work both ways, and if a. | farmer ought to vote the Republican '1et | because he got rain, you ought to vote the 1 Democratic ticket because you did not get | any here.
 We will soon find the army here demand l Ing the punishment of innocent men as the i army in France demanded the punishment of Dreyfus, a man so innocent that the PESsident felt that he must pardon him as
 sc3n as - was convicted, because of the
 outraged sense of justice expressed i throughout the world.'
 He paid a high tribute to Lafayette and | his services to the American colonies in | their war for freedom and spoke of the gift | of the statue of liberty in New York har-
 bor from the people of the French Repub- 1 lie, and asked: Shall we take that statue l down and send 1t back to France and tell 1 the people of France that we are not in l the liberty business any more? Shall we ! send over to England and get statue of 1 William the Conqueror and place it in New l York harbor to indicate the change that has taken place In our nations ideas?" 1 The theatre was filled to repletion and a 1 large overflow on the outside commanded l MT. Bryan's attention. MT. Bryans voice | showed palpabe signs of wear He said | in part:
 | q remember in 1S96 your Republican
 State Convention adopted a platform some- ] thing like this: We demand that this gov l ernment shall be conducted by business
 men, on business principles and in the l interest of the business interests of the 1 country or words to that effect. But tho | trouble is that the men who talk that way | so limit the definition of a business man
 that very few are included. Is the farmer
 business man? Well, think not He
 does work That is all he does. He com