The Topeka state journal., 1908-09-30
RECROSSES IOWA.
Bryan's Progress Toward Home
a Continuous Ovation.
Whole Community Turned Out
Wherever He Stopped.
FIRES AT ROOSEVELT
For His Interference in the
Present Campaign.
Woman Gives Him a Teddy Bear
With a Broken Leg.

Oskaloosa, Ia, Sept. 30.-Assailing the
president, Mr. Taft and the Republi-
can party generally, at every turn, w
]. Bryan on the concluding day of his
present tour is travelling through Iowa,
on his way back to Lincoln. His pro-
gress across the state has been marked
by a series of demonstrations which
were nothing short of ovations. The
entire community at every point where
his train stopped seemed to turn out
to do him honor. In his speeches he
was more vigorous than usual. He
levelled his attacks at the president
for, as he charged, interfering in the
present campaign and falling to rem
edy abuses and on Mr.. Taft, who he
asserted If elected, would be unable to
accomplish any reforms even with a
Republican congress behind him. He
talked at Muscatine, Let's, Columbus
Junction, Washington, West Chester,
Keota, Harper, Sigourney and several
other places en- route here.
At Washington he was presented by
a woman in the crowd with Teddy
bear, one leg of which was broken and
done up in splints. Badly crippled
was the candidates comment.
This veiled reference to the president
set the people to laughing. While
speaking at Harper a bride and groom
got on the train and when he came
back into the car Mr.. Bryan handed
the bride a bouquet which he had re-
ceived and which she bashfully ac-
cepted.
The principal speech of the day VIII
be made late this afternoon at Knox
vile, which is celebrating Home COM
ing week." where three hours stop
will be made.
Speaks at Muscatine.
Muscatine, Ia, Sept. 30.-William J.
a ovation here
as the train bearing him from ROCK
Island pulled into the outskirts of the
city. He was greeted by the footing
of whistles, the waving OF hands from
factory windows and national salute
fired by the Muscatine battery compos-
ed of veterans of the civil war. At the
station people swarrned around his car
and loudly cheered him.
Addressing them briefly. the Demo
cratic candidate scored the Republi-
cans for admitting the existence of
great abuses and then not correcting
them They had ignored the laboring
man. he said, they had kept up high
protective tariff. had failed to prose
cute to any extent the trusts, and were
afraid of publicity of campaign contri-
buttons before election in order to
shield those who had been buying leg
islation by furnishing money to elect
men. to Office. Once. again he denounc-
ed the president for participating in
the campaign ana II any tHinS III even
stronger terms than heretofore.
There is another issue of this cam
paign,' he said. ''and that is whether
1 am running against one man or two
men. I started out to run against Mt
Taft on the ground that they had pick
ed a man big enough and able to de-
fend himself; now L find the president
comes in and takes the lead in this
fight. 1 don't object to it, but 1 do be
Ueve it is a degradation of the office
of president to make that office, which
belongs to all the people, a party as
set in the hands of one party, I insist
that the American people have right
to elect their officials without dicta-
ton from Washington and ask the
president after he has nominated MI
raft to stand aside and let US fight it
out before the American people on our
platforms"