The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-28
TURN OUT IN rain
Immense Crowds Hear Bryan
at Every Point.
Democrat Candidate Making
Tour of New York.
MANY WORKING MEN
Make the Audience Conspicuous
by Their Presence.
Re publican Party and the Pres.
ident Are Assailed.

Poughkeepsie, N. Y, Oct 2S.-The up
state tour of w. ]. Bryan today, despite
the rain. met immense cheering crowds
conspicuous for the number of work
ing men among them. The Democratic
candidate exhibits surprising vigor
even though it was after o'clock this
morning when he retired and conclud
ed perhaps the hardest day of his cam
paign.
Mr.. Bryan pleaded for support both
for the state and national tickets. The
candidates on the congressional and
state tickets, he told the people, are
bearing the brunt of the fight and are
deserving the suffrage of the people.
I'VE are appealing to the moral sense
of the country he said at Ossining
and other places, in our effort to
purify politics and to secure a dis
closure of the source of campaign
funds that the people may know be-
fore the election what influences are at
work.
He everywhere assailed the Republi-
can party for, as he claims, having no
plan for relief of the financial panic
and business depression.
The Democratic party, he insisted. is
fighting it's battle not merely to dis
tribute a few offices or to win honors
lOT d lew 1AltIl, O0l III bAC AAlCi CoI "a
the people who are crying out for re-
forms.
In his speech here, which was listen
ed to by a great throng, Mr.. Bryan, re-
ferring to the presidents endorsement
of Mr.. Taft, said that 1.-The president
seems to find 1t necessary to endorse
his appointee over and over again. II
an endorsement is good once it should
be enough.
Attention also was called by Mr..
Bryan to the presidents action in the
campaign and he got a mighty out
burst of applause, when he said that in
Europe the king would give the crown
to his son, but in America the presi-
dent can not give the executive chair
to any one. That belongs to the peo-
pie.
Speeches were made at Hastings.
Tarrytown. Ossining, Peekskin. Cod
Sprin- and Fishkill. Others we're sched-
uled at Rhine Cliffe, Hudson. Renns-
salear, Albany, Schenectady and Troy.
Kern and Weaver Together.
Hartford City, Ind, Oct. 2S.-The
special interurban car carrying the
carrying the Democratic vice presiden-
tial nominee, John w. Kern, on his tour
through Indiana from Ft. Wayne, roll
ed into this city early today for IL
minute stop, the first on the days itin-
erary. In spite of the early hour,
o'clock a big crowd had gathered in
the court house square to welcome the
candidate. He spoke from platform
in the open air. The only other speaker
on board was General James B. Weaver
of Colfax Iowa, twice candidate for the
presidency on the Populist ticket.
number of campaigners assigned to
proceed with the nominee to points to
be visited are expected to join the
party on the special later in the day.
Mr. Kern spoke at some length here
on the tariff issue, charging to protec-
ton the growth of monopolies and the
accumulation of great wealth in the
hands of the few. He referred to a
speech made by Senator LaFollette in
the senate last March. in which that
gentleman declared that 100 men con-
troll the commercial and financial des-
tiny of the country and supplemented
that statement by the assertion that Ia
men today have absolute domination OF
all the railroads in the country.
General Weaver spoke on the ques-
ton of publicity of campaign funds and
the physical valuation of railroads
The itinerary for the day provides
for speeches to be made at Bluffton,
Warsaw, Goshen and Elkart. From the
last named city it is expected that the
party will go to Chicago at night, and
then return to Indianapolis.