The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-14
PEOPLE GO TO SLEEP.
Special Interests Never Sleep, Bryan
Tells Cincinnati Crowd.

Cincinnati, Sept 14.=Introduced by
Mayor z. J. Dempsey, and speaking
from stand erected over the diamond
of the Cincinnati ball park, w. ".
Bryan last night addressed an inn
nense audience, which occupied all
the seats in the grand stand and sew
era1 thousand additional chairs. Mr..
Bryan arrived from Louisville at noon,
and spent the afternoon receiving call
ers. His speech was largely an ar
raignment of political bosses and
municipal corruption.
He maintained that more people in
every community did not steal because
OF their cOnsciences than for fear of
the law. Conditions are growing bet
ter and an appeal to the consciences Of
people will bring response He
thought 1t safe to say that Philadelphia
mad been the Wickedest city in the
country When he heard that some
preachers were going to pray for
Ph1ladelphia's mayor, he thought they
were praying for the wrong man. as
they should pray for the citizens who
chose the mayor. However, the senti-
ment aroused by them aroused the
mayor who called a wicked city coun-
ell to account.
Il am feeling so good over this re-
cepton, that 1 am going to tell you
that Cincinnati was second to phila-
The boss and his henchman, the fran
The bass and his henchman, the fran
chlse grabher, the selling of votes,
subsidized newspapers. councilmen
enbezzlng public authority=these
you had and good people seemed in
despair And yet you did elect an
honest mayor"
Nj Bryan then expressed the fear
that the people would go to sleep.
thinking they needed to do no more
Special interests never sleep while the
people are often hard to waken," he
said. IF people did not sleep at night.
there would be no burglaries, and If
clpizens did not sleep, there would be
no dishonest government
He appealed for the citizen to hold
/ up the hands of the man elected to en-
force the law.
Tell him you enlisted for the war -
he said. In Ohio bossism still pre-
walls.
For ten years the Republican party
has been in undisputed control of the
national government, and their papers
| believe that in the Republican party
! there is only one man who has any
/ chance of election.
1.-THE hopes of the Republican party
hang on one man. declared the
speaker, because that man has been
carrying out Democratic platform. .
He spoke of the president as a imam
/ of war and IRON" and yet having as
his greatest glory that he brought
about peace between Russia and
Japan.
Enforcement of the laws against the
! trusts, Mr.. Bryan said, was being un-
dertaken. He had himself said ten
years ago that the big criminals should
| be put in the penitentiary. The Re-
/ publican leaders had amended the
commandment to make it read, Thou
shalt not steal-on a. small scale''
By enforcing law only against the
little criminals the Republican party
had created more anarchists than all
others together. you can not settle
the trust question until you abolish
| private monopoly" he said. "If you
attempt to regulate the trusts, you
will find that the trusts run the regu-
| lators."
At the conclusion of his address. Mr.
Bryan was driven to the Midland hotel
| and Immediately retired for the night