Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1908-10-23
CARRIES WARFARE
INT0 WEST VIRGINIA
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deposition Is the security Vi the DARK
ing system.
Warm Welcome Given.
MASON CITY, W. VA. Oct. 2e.--
Mr.. Bryan got a warm welcom" here
today. He gave a hurried "xpiana'
ton OF the differences In the plat
forms of the two parties and assert
ed that the Republican party. driven
to extremes, was now making ex.
cuSts.
There was not" he said, "a single
policy Of the Republicans that promis-
ed good for those who toll. while
the Democratic party could draw to
It's ranks those OF all classes and all
ages"
On the subject OF panics. h" charg,
"a that the Republicans need not
talk about their panics.
Promises Are Unsubsta initial.
1T" he said, mir. Tai, Is SO soil
citIous about your future why has
not he been as concerned in the past?
II he is so anxious u protect you
from business depression in the fu-
ture. then why did he not protect
you from the business depression
that came on you last fall, like
thief in the nisht?"
The Republicans, he said. have no
plan for the restoration OF prosp RI
ty.
Republicans Rave Lost Labor Vote.
II
Mr.. Bryan in a brief speech here to-
day made reference to the Litter OF
President Roosevelt. published today
in which the President criticised the
position OF Mr.. Bryan and Mr.. Com
psrs on the labor question. The
Democratic candidate was explaining
the things which he said the Repue-
lican platform did not promise to
do. and, touching on the labor ques'
ton. he said:
The Republican platform does nor
promise a reconciliation of labor and
capital. In fact they do recognize
their antogoniJic position on labor OF
has lost them the labor
vote and they realize that so fully,
that they have entered upon the de-
OF the man who stands
at the head of the labor organizations
and are trying to show that he does
not represent the men who elected
him to Office and who have been en-
dorsing the position that he has taken
in this campaign"
Commissioner Of Agriculture.
NASHVILLE. TENN, Oct. 22.-At
the final session OF the Southern
States Commissioners Of Agriculture
and other workers today, DR.. w. p.
Ellenberger Of the United States
Bureau Of Animal Industry read a
paper on the progress made In TICK
in the South. He said
that since the government took charge
of the work in 1906, $4,000 square
miles had been released from quaran-
tine. DR.. r. E. Stallings. Of Georgia.
In q paper on the food and stock fsed
laws, said that before the enactment
CT the pure food laws the South was
literally the dumping ground for adul-
terated food and drugs. but that OF
late the situation has, greatly i'm
proved.
THURMOND, w. VA, Oct. o.
Talking to a big crowd Of miners
here today. Mr.. Bryan plunged INTO
a discussion Of the Democratic plat
form particularly with reference to
the guaranty Of bank deposits and
labor. On the labor question, Mr..
Bryan said that eight years ago the
Republican claim was that the labor
ing man had a full dinner pail.
Bottom Out o; Pa'i.
THAT, my friends" he said, was
the sign, the emblem, the hammer.
saw pictures Of the full dinner pail
wherever I went. but l have not seen
any this year. have Just heard OF
one man who tried to carry dinner
pail in a parade. and that was down
here in this state, and they arrested
him for it."
He ought to have been hung,
shouted q miner.
NO my friends" said Mr.. Bryan,
continuing. "the bottom Is out, the
psil Is empty and the people deceived
eight years ago are embittered by
that disappointment"
How about IS 10 -" asked some
one.
Sixteen to One.
my friend" quickly replied MI.
Bryan, "the chances are is to that
you won't vote the Republican ticket.
They said eight years ago that as
long a. laboring men have full pals
they need not think Now II that Is
q good argument what an amount OF
thinking the laboring man ought to
do now. Yesterday the papers an
nounced tina. the officials Of the New
York Central Railroad had gone ou'
on their car to notify their employees
tina, they could expect . wage redrc
ton II I am elected. but they expect
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