The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-09-16
THOUSANDS CHEER
BRYAN To THE ECHO
Makes a Strong Campaign
Speech at Toledo.
HIS TRIBUTE TO JOHNSON
Had We Many Such Plutocracy Would
Cease to Exist.
HIS TRIBUTE TO JOHNSON
He DISCUSSES THE TARIFF QUESTION
The Full Dinner Pail. Argument is Not Wo:k
ing Out Very Well Now in the Mining
Region, Mr.. Bryan
Declares,
Declares.
(By the Associated Press.)


Toledo, Ohio, Sept, 13.-William j.
Bryan this evening addressed an aud
fence of 4 900 people in the tent in which
Major Johnson, of Cleveland, is making
his speeches in the fall campaign. Mr..
Bryan came in this afternoon and will
make but one additional speech during
ahe campaign. He was brought here
through the efforts of Mr.. Johnson.
Mr.. Johnson in his speech spoke of
Nh. Bryan as the DISTINGUISHED orator
and peerless Democratic leader"
MIR. Bryan was received with tumult-
uous applause when he was introduced
by the chairman. He made apologies
for the condition of his voice and said
ahat but for the interest in the cam
}e}ign 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 q 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
1he Democratic tickle on account of the
tax reforms promised in the platform of
the Democratic party. If the laboring
man refuses to give his vote to the par
ty that believed in the just taxation of
the millionaire he is not capable of pro-
tecting the interests of his family. The
working man must protect his home and
family through his vote and his influence.
Snn- I-ipp IF Tom T0hnc0n Mr. BRYAN
said:
How fortunate it is for this State to
have n 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 chal-
}enge them on every platform 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 represen-
tatiVes of the Steel Trust, when he him
self was a steel manufacturer and it
would nave been TO his own interest to
have had a tariff placed on steel which
woul have permitted him to make q
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 mid
die life and devote their time to the bet
termcnt 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 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 themselves about these fran
Chises. He was sorry Mr.. Hanna had adj
vocated the perpetual franchises, for he
thought he had sins enough to account
for.
in discussing national politics. Mr..
Bryan said that if he had been elected
ne would have put stripes on the million
aires, who rob the people by unlawful
combinations and that the trusts sould
rot have dictated the appointment of an
Attorney General, and they could not have
1un the Attorney General. The President
should be prosecuting the trusts instead
of taking his speaking tours. There was
d time when Mr.. Hanna said there were
no trusts, but now all admitted that
there were trusts. We have injunctions
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 ii would have been necessary to
send the entire militia after him. The
Republicans had amended the command
ment thus: Thou shalt not steal on a
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 be-
cause it made people think in their
Stomachs if they did not in their heads.
The Republican party is not in a posi-
tlon TO destroy the trusts, notwithStand-
ing the fact that Senator Lodge had de-
clared that here were ninety-fve bad
trusts TO five good ones.
MI. Bryan discussed the tariff question
and took IN the question of the dinner
pau IN the coal mining districts of Penn
SylVdnla. He said that the full dinner
paIi had been a very effective argument
IN one campaign, but that it was not
working out very we'll with the miners.