Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-09-15
-FOUR HUNDRED BRYAN WANTS
GIVEN YOLLEY MORE JOHNSON
In Ohio Campaign Speech
He Says If There Were
More of His Kind
PIutocracy Would die.

TOLEDO, O., Sept. 13.-William Jen-
nings Bryan this evening addressed an
audience Of 1900 people in the tent in
which Mayor Johnson, of Cleveland, is
making his speeches during the fall cam
paign. Mr.. Bryan came in this afternoon
and will make but one additional speech
during the campaign. He was brought
here through the efforts of Mr. Johnson.
Mr.. Johnson, in his speech, spoke Of
Mr.. Bryan as 1.-THE distinguished orator
and peerless Democratic leader"
Mr.. Bryan was received with tumultu-
Gus applause when he was introduced py
the chairman. He made apologies for the
condition of his voice and said that but
for the interest in the campaign in Ohio
and the fact that he would not be able
to return to the state at later date in
the campaign, he would not have been
present. He said that in every heart
there is a sense of human justice, and he
believed the appeals of Mr.. Bigelow and
Mr.. Johnson who had preceded him
would be needed. He said he wondered
if there was a laboring man in the city
and state who would not vote the Demo-
cratic ticket on account of the tax re-
forms promised in the platform or the
Democratic party. If the laboring man
refuses to give his vote TO the party that
believed in the Just taxation of the mill
llonaire he is not capable of protecting
the interests of his family. The working
man must protect his home and family
through his vote and his influence.
johnson Blessing.
Speaking of Mr.. johnson, Mr.. Bryan
said:
''How fortunate 1t is for this state to
have a man like Mr.. johnson, who is so
strong, so courageous, and who has the
ability to carry on this battle against the
organized wealth and who can challenge
them on every platform as he has tonight
II we had such men as he in every state,
within five years plutocracy would be
driven into the Atlantic ocean"
Mr.. Bryan recalled the fight OF Mr..
Johnson in congress ten years ago, When
he so courageously fought the representa-
tives of the steel trust, when he himself
was a steel manufacturer and it would
have been to his own interest to have had
a tariff placed on steel which would have
permitted him to make much greater
profit than he was making, yet Mr. Jonn-
son stood by the people and by his consult
uents and fought the steel magnates
against his own interests.
''If we had more men," said Mr. Bryan
who would quit making money In middle
life and devote their time to the better
ment of their fellow men this country
would be considerably better on.
"They say you are incapable OF home
rule here in Ohio, and II you have e bit
of American manhood about you, you Will
resent the insult. He believed, he said,
that the cities should own and operate all
franchises, but If this is not possible he
favored short franchises and he thought
people should be permitted to express
about these franchises. He
was sorry Mr.. Hanna had advocated the
perpetual franchises for he thought he
had sins enough to account for.
Stripes for MiIIionaires.
In discussing national politics. Mr..
Bryan said that if he had been elected he
would have put stripes on the milhonaires
who Cypress the people, and that the
trusts could not have dictated the ap-
pointment of an encouragement and they
could not have run the encouragement
1.-THE president should be prosecuting the
trusts instead Of taking his speaking tours.
There was a time when Mr.. Hanna said
there was no trusts, but now all admitted
that there were trusts. We have injunc-
lions pending against one of them. But
If that was some man who had violated
the laws by selling whiskey, he declared
he would be brought to justice and locked
up If it would have been necessary to
send the entire militia after him. The
Republicans had amended the command
ment thus: Thou shalt not steal on
small scale
The criminal provisions Of the antitrust
meat trust. He thought the meat trust
might be a good thing, because it made
people think in their stomachs If they did
not in their heads.
1.-The Republican party is not in a po-
sition to Destroy the trusts, notwithstand-
ing the fact that Senator Lodge had de-
clared that there were 50 bad trusts to
five good ones"
Mr.. Bryan discussed the tariff question
and took up the question of the dinner
pail in the coal mining districts of Penn
sylvania. He said that the full dinner
pail had been a very effective argument in
the campaign, but that 1t was not work
ing out very well with the miners. He
said they were actually working at re-
duced wages in that that their living
had advanced to such an extent
and their wages had not been advanced.
He said times would never be good until
the head of the family was making
enough money to keep his boys and girls
in school. Mr.. Bryan also touched on the
Philippine question lightly and demanded
that they be given the same liberty we