The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-09-14
W. J. BRYAN IN Ohio
HE LAUDs TOM JOHNSON TO THE
SKIES.
STRIPES FOR MILLIoNAiRES
WHAT HE WOULD HAVE DONE IL
ELECTED.


pointment OF Attorney General
and Then Run the Omce-''ThOu
Shalt Not Steal on a Small Scale"
Now the Republican Command
ment-Meat Trust May Make Pco-
pie Think in Their Stomachs III
They Do Not Think in Their
Heads.
Toledo, O., Sept. 13.-William ].
Bryan this evening addressed an audi
ence of 1900 people in the tent in
which Mayor Johnson of Cleveland Is
| making his speeches during the fall
campaign. Mr.. Bryan came in this
afternoon and will make but one addi-
tional speech during the campaign. He
was brought here through the efforts of
Mr.. Johnson.
MIR. Johnson in his speech spoke of
Mr. Bryan as the distinguished orator
and peerless Democratic leader.
| Mr.. Bryan was received with tu-
multuous applause when he was in
troduced by 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 a later date in the campaign,
he would not have been present. He
said that in every heart there Is
sense of human justice, and he be-
lieved the appeals of Mr.. Bigelow and
Mr.. Johnson, who had preceded him,
| would be needed. He said he Won
| dered if there was a laboring man In
the city, and state who would not vote
the Democratic ticket on account of
! the tax reforms promised in the plat
form of the Democratic party. If the
| laboring man refuses to give his vote
| to the party that believes in the just
1 taxation of the millionaire, he Is not
| capable of protecting the interests of
| his family. The workingman must
! protect his home and family through
his vote and his influence.
Speaking of Hon. Tom Johnson, Mr..
Bryan said:
''How fortunate it lis for this state
| to have man like Mr.. johnson, who
| is SO strong, so courageous, and who
has the ability to carry on this bat
tie against the organized wealth, and
4 who can challenge them on every plat
form as he has Tonight. If 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
| representatives of the steel trust, when
| he himself was a steel manufacturer,
and it would have been to his own in
| terests to have had tariff placed on
| steel which would have permitted him
| to make a much greater profit than
| he was making, yet Mr.. johnson stood
| by the people and by his constituents
| 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 betterment of their fellow
men this country would be considerably
better off,"
They say you are incapable of home
/ rule here in Ohio, and if you have a bit
| of American manhood about you, you
will resent the insult. Mr.. Bryan be-
| lieved that the cities should own and
| operate all franchises, but If this Is not
possible, he favored short franchises
| and thought people should be permit
| ted to express themselves 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 MfIIionaries.
| In discussing national politics. Mr..
| Bryan said If he had been elected he
would have put stripes on the Million
aires, who rob the people by unlawful
| combinations, and that the trusts
| could not have dictated the
appointment of an attorney gem
eral and they could not nave
run the attorney general. The
/ President Sho11I6 ha r1rocac11tinO tho
| trusts, instead of taking his speak
] ing tours. There was time when
/ Mr. Hanna said there We're no trusts,
! but now all admitted that there are
| trusts. We have injunctions pending
against one of them. But IL that
! was some man who had vio-
lated the laws by selling whisky,
! tice and locked up If 1t would
have been necessary to send the entire
4 militia after him. The Republicans had
amended the eighth commandment
| thus, Thou shalt not steal on small
scale" The criminal provisions Of the
antitrust laws would. if enforced.
break up the meat trust. He thought
! the meat trust might be a good thing,
! because it made people think in their
| stonachs if they did not in their heads
! The Republican party is not in DO.
| sition to destroy the trusts, notwith-
| standing the fact that Senator Lodge
/ has declared that there are 95 bad
trusts to 5 good ones.
The Miners Dinner Pail.
Mr.. Bryan discussed the tariff ques-
ton and took up the question of the
dinner pail in the coal mining dis
! tricts Of Pennsylvania. He said
that the full dinner pail had been
a very effective argument in the cam
paign, but that it was not working
| out very we'll with the miners. They
were actually working at reduced
wages in that their living expenses
had advanced to such an extent and
their wages had not been advanced.
MIR. Bryan said times would never be
good until the head of the family was
making enough money 10 keep his boys
and girls In school.
Mr.. Bryan touched upon the Phil
ippine question lightly and demanded
that they be given the same liberty we
enjoy.
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