The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-02

protecting that corporation all these
years. The Standard Oil company has
a tariff of 120 per cent against its lead
ing competitor, Russia, and Repub-
lican party has not dared to take 1t off.
am glad that Mr.. Rockefeller has in
nocently come out and let the country
know the bargain between him and the
Republican leaders. 1t Is fortunate for
the people.
And then comes Carnegie, who holds
the largest block of steel bonds of any
man in the United States and he says
that my election would be tragedy.
Yes, remembering the tragedy at Home
stead which will never go out of his
mind he thinks that anything is trag-
edy that affects their enormous mon
opolies that are sucking the life blood
out of the nation.
"And Mr. Hartman is for Mr.. Taft
There is not one financial pirate in TINS
country that is not supporting Mr.. Taft.
There is not a commercial Bedou1ne IN
the United States that is not supporting
Mr.. Taft. Some people tell you that
if I am elected 1 can not do anything
that even if / had a Democratic con-
gress, which 1 expect to have, that l
con not do anything. Let me read you
what Secretary Root says about It In
his speech last Saturday he says: Care
full observation of the senate leaves lit
tie doubt that if the people of the coun-
! try were to give their approval to Mr..
| Bryan by electing him president and by
| supportingc him with a Democratl
! house a sufficient number of senators
| elected as Republicans would yield to
| the pressure of the Bryan policies,
| backed by the force Of that popular
| endorsement, to give effect to almost
| any measure which he might propose.
Mr. Bryan has publicly declared that he
expects this and l think his expecta-
ton would be justified
There, my friends, is the state
ment of the secretary of state and he
is right. If 1 have a Democratic
house and am elected president, /
shall call congress together imme-
diately and I shall propose the meas
ures my platform declares for, and
the congress will be pledged to their
support and 1 shall send measure af-
ter measure to that Republican senate
and demand that they yield to the will
of the people expressed at the polls
|; If 1 am elected there will be some
, thing doing in Washington. If an
elected there will be a government fol
four years that responds to the SEN
timent of the people and if that SEN
ate dares to defy the verdict of the
. people rendered at the polls, every
senator whose term expires two years
from now will have fight for his
political life"
At Kansas City.
Kansas City, Mo-, Nov. 2.-William
, j. Bryan is spending the last day OF
the campaign in northeastern Kansas
| delivering speeches on his way home
on special train to Lincoln, Neb.. to
vote.
Mr. Bryan arrived in Kansas City
Mo, at 7:30 this morning on regular
train over the Chicago & Alton from
Chicago. He was met by score OF
: prominent Democrats from Kansas
5 and Missouri with 80 automobiles and
: escorted to Kansas City, Kan, where
the first speech of the day was made
across the intercity viaduct. skirtine
the Missouri river, and as the party
reached the center of that structure
: a chorus of whistles from the packing
: houses and a few small river boats
: greeted the candidate.
, A tremendous crowd had gathered
at the speaking place in Huron place
, and it was with difficulty that Mr.
Bryan was escorted through to the
platform. He reviewed the main is
sues of the campaign and noting {
, large number of workingmen present
declared:
: Tomorrow is labor day and the la.
) boring man has a chance to strike"
( In touching finances, Mr.. Bryan
asked:
/ "Why did not President Roosevelt
and Mr.. Taft get together and post
pone that panic till 1909, so that the,
Y could blame it onto me?'
t The enthusiasm of the crowd wa
unbounded.
? From Kansas City, Kan. Mr.. Bry
: an boarded a special train and started
l rable tour. Stops were scheduled a
2 Leavenworth, Atchison, Hiawatha
) Seneca and Marysville, Kan, befor
: Lincoln is reached. Mr.. Bryan viii
t make his final appeal to voters a
Lincoln tonight.