The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-10-20
THE CASE OF Mr.. METCALF
Bryan Makes Some Singing Com
ments on His Menace.
EMPLOYERS DO NOT BUY Employees VOTE
A Law Should be Framed That viii Put an
End Forever TO the Power That is
Wislded by Trusts in
Pnliticc
(By the Associated Press.)

Syracuse, NJ Y, Oct. 19-W. J. Bryan,
the Democratic standard bearer, today
experienced his second encounter of the
campaign with college students. 1t oc-
Cured at Ithaca, and the students were
from the Connell University The Incl
Arbor, Mich, for the reason that the
young men were not so persistent and
did not work in such unison, but there
was one feature of interest which was
not noticeable at Ann Arbor. This was
the participation of young women in the
affair. A hundred or more members of
the opposite sex were stationed at win
dows in the high school just back and
over the stage from which MIR. Bryan
spoke, and they disturbed the proceed
ings to as great an extent as they could
by lowering posters bearing a picture of
President Mckinley so as to attract the
attention of the crowd. The young men
who were below responded to these sig
nols with cries and yells, and they also
asked numerous questions while the
speech was in progress. Evidently, too,
a quite large percentage of the students
were in sympathy with Mr.. Bryan and
some of them shouted Justify fer lim.
when his replies to the questions Of their
fellows were especially to their liking.
Mr.. Bryan was generally voted to have
met the occasion successfully and that
he did so was evidenced by the fact
that the interruptions grew fewer and
farther apart as the speech proceeded
and at last ceased altogether.
The day was rendered interesting by
spirited meeting at Auburn, the home
during his life time, Of Secretary Seward,
and by Mr.. Bryan's pointed reference in
his speech there to the manager of an
important manufacturing enterprise To-
Gated ct that point which he evidently
intended should have greater than local
application. Speeches were also made
during the day at Cortland and Bingham
ton and at several other smaller points.
Tho ---'- --ork closed with a meeting at
Rochester last tonight. The meetings of
the day were generally we'll attended and
those at Ithaca and Binghamton were
especially large. Probably the Bingham
ton meeting was the most enthusiastic
meeting of the day. In all instances eX
cept at the beginning of the ithaca meet
ing close attention was given to the
speeches.
4 PECK AT TARHEELDOM.
1t was evident from the beginning of
the Ithaca meeting that the college stu
dents meant at least to relieve that
meeting from all charges of monotony.
Mr.. Bryan was received there with cheers
and shouts and he was scarcely given an
opportunity to express his appreciation
of the qualification he felt in being able
to speak to the students. when one of
them broke in with the query: "How
about North Carolina?' Mr.. Bryan re-
spOnded to this question by saying:
II will come to that in a moment, but
If you will not hide down there / will
stop now and tell you about it. l will tell
you that if you will examine the condi-
tions prescribed by the administration
for a voter in Porto Rico, you will find
that SO per cent of the colored men of
voting age cannot vote in Porto Rico un-
der this administrations qualifications"
This answer brought forth great ap-
pIause and Mr. Bryan continued:
81 do not want you to hold me respon-
sible for what is done in North Carolina,
while you shirk responsibility for what
your own President has done in Porto
Rico
Mr.. Bryan then expressed a willingness
to answer any question that any student
might want to ask, provided his question
er would stand up and let him see him.
THE CNAT AND THE CAMEL.
He had scarcely begun his discussion
of the trust question when someone made
an inquiry about the Cotton Bale trust
Mr. Bryan replied to the effect that the
cotton bale company owned patent for
baling cotton and that it did not bale
one twentieth OF the cotton produced in
this country.
"And yet" he said, "men who howl
about a patent that does not bale one
twentieth of the cotton will vote for a
party that allows a salt trust to control
ninety-fve per cent of the salt of the
United States. / want to ask whether
the man who worries about the cotton
bale and does not worry about salt is
ignorant or dishonest
Having replied to this inquiry, Mr..
Bryan himself volunteered to take up the
Ice Trust question. He said:
Now | will stop long enough for the
Ice Trust man to ask his question.
want to tell you that every director of
that trust is a Republican. Why don't
you complain about that? / want to tell
YOU that the Governor of the State is
Republican; that the Legislature is Re
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