The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-10-24
ACROSS The BAY.
Col. Bryan Opens His Campaign
in Eastern Maryland.
Made Eight Speeches During
the Forenoon.
THE RACE QUESTION
Discussed Wherever He En-
counters COlOred Voters.
Asks Them to Stand by Brown
Men of Philippines.
THE RACE QUESTION

Easton, Nd. Oct. 24.-The Democratic
presidential candidate last night came
down. Chesapeake bay from Baltimore
to the hamlet of Claiborne, on the east
ern shore of Maryland, and this fore
noon he spoke at the towns of st. Mi
chaels, Easton. Preston, Hurlock, Wen
ma, Salisbury and Berlin. He left the
boat at Claiborne and from that point
Travelled by special train.
At St Michaels, the first stopping
place of the day, Mr.. Bryan spoke to a
small number of people who had con-
gregated there. Among those in the
crowd were some colored people, and to
them Mr.. Bryan addressed himself to
some extent Before speaking to the
co1ored people he referred to the ques-
ton of trusts. He again charged that
the Republican party was suggesting
no remedy for the trusts and that the
reason why this was so was that the
Republican campaign contributions
came from the trusts.
On the race question Mr.. Bryan said:
1T is one of the strange things to see
in this campaign that the Republican
party goes to a black man and urges
that man to say by his vote that the
brown man in the Philippine Islands has
not a right to a voice in this govern
ment, and it seems to me that before a
black man votes to diSfranchiSe a brown
man he had better find out upon what
basis his own right stands, for if we
deny to the Filipino the right to gov
ern himself, what right have we to gov
ern ourselves. 1t cost hundreds of thou
sands of lives and millions of money to
give the black man the declaration of
independence and now we are spending
hundreds of thousandS-yes, millions
of dollars and wasting lives to take the
declaration of independence away from
the brown man. Before the black man
f@f }, fy~xr xTrfn hn
ticket he had better look into the mat
ter and find out what the chance Of the
black man is to be when we draw
race line and say that because a, man in
the Philippine islands is brown and
not of our race we will send a carpet
bag government over there and hold that
government by force from him with a
standing army. We believe IN the dec
Iaration of independence, and if we have
race problems to solve here we think 1t
is better to solve them than to go seven
thousand miles away from home to get
another race problem and enter upon It's
solution, not here at home but so far
away from home as the Philippine isl
ands are"
Easton was the scene of a large gath
ering. This is the county seat Of Tai
bot county, an important agricultural
center and here Mr. Bryan addressed
himself especially to the farmers Re
ferring to the trusts, Mr.. Bryan told his
hearers that they were especially dan
gerous to the farming community = on
will find" he said, tthat it will take
great deal of faith for a Republican TO
find any reason for voting the Repubi-
can ticket this fall It is said that faith
is the substance of things hoped LOT
and the evidence of things not seen,
and the Republican faith this year IS
much like that. It is the substance OF
things hoped for and the evidence OF
things not seen
Continuing his discussion of the trusts,
Mr. Bryan asked why it is that the
farmers who vote the Republican ticket
get so little consideration from the Re
publican party. Replying to his own in
ouiry he said: 1T is because they vote
the ticket regardless of what the party
does, while the trust magnates do not
vote the ticket unless 1t suits them and
unless the party does what they want
Therefore the party does all they want
and neglects the farmer.
Mr. Bryan charged the Republican
party with many inconsistencies say
you will find that the Republicans to-
day are hurrahing for things that they
denounced a few years ago. The Repub-
lican party used to stand for bimetal-
Iism and all the Republicans hurrahed
for bimetallisIn. Now it stands for the
gold standard, and they hurrah for the
gold standard They used to hurrah for
the greenbacks, now they hurrah for the
national bank notes They used to hur-
rah for the reduction of the national
debt, now they stand for the bank cur
rency that can only be permanent when
from paying off the debt to making it
permanent, but they hurrah just the
same. They used to hurrah in denuncia-
ton of the trusts, now they say there
are good trusts and bad trusts and that
they cannot tell the difference between
them
TOUCHES ON 16 TO l.
Salisbury, Md, Oct. 24.-In his speech
at Preston, Nd, Mr.. Bryan made refer
ence to the financial question in response
to an inquiry. The question was: How
about 16 to u" Mr.. Bryan said:
IF you want to know about 16 to 1. I
will tell you. Sixteen to one was the
paramount issue in 1885, but the Repub-
licans have done so many mean things
since then that we are kept busy on the
new things. But if a Republican dis
putes the 16 to 1 doctrine, you tell him
that we have a Republican president, a
Republican senate and a Republican
house and they have never attempted to
change the 16 to 1 ratio, and Mr.. McKin-
ley is now coming silver dollars at the
ratio of 16 to 1, without waiting for the
aid or consent of any other nation on
earth Until the Repu ublican party pro-
poses to change the ratio. I object to
their discussing the ratio. When they
propose to change it, we will discuss it
with them
In his Preston speech Mr.. Bryan
charged that all persons contribute to
the trusts. I want to tell you he said
that the trouble with the Republican
party is that it makes all the Republi-
cans contribute to it's campaign fund,
and makes all the Democrats too, not by
coming to each man and asking him for
it. because the Republican party collects
a campaign fund from the corporations,
and then these corporations collect from
YOU and the trouble is that the ccrpor-
ations insist on collecting a great deal
mere from the people than they give
to the party. We would much better con
tribute to the party ourselves than to