Show BRYAN IN MINNESOTA Makes a Dozen Speeches During the Day Dayt t CROWDS GO TO HEAR I SPEAKS SPA OF OP GOOD AND BAD TRUSTS St Paul Oct L Mr Bryan traversed what are known as the Pine Barrens and the Scrub Oak portion of I Minnesota reaching the agricultural i Dart oart of the state north of this cIty during the afternoon He made the first speech of o 0 the day at Vest Superior SUJ Wis beginning before 8 in the I i morning He Immediately crossed cro sed the St Louis river at Duluth and starting I with an hour speech there he made speeches at eight other plates on the I way which together r with the speeches pe ches at Duluth and Superior and those made tonight in m this cit made an I even dozen speeches for the day Four i of the speeches averaged avera e an hour in duration and anti the remaining eight fifteen fit fifteen teen minutes each He was accompanied accompanied l throughout the day by b Governor Undo lAnd The attendance atten ance at all the was large There was a liberal display of small flags at all the meetings of the day but not so many were shown at t the small towns as in the Dakotas This is the sixteenth anniversary of Mr Bryans marriage and the twenty first anniversary of Governor Linds i marriage They celebrated with a Po Poland Poland i iland land water w ter dinner Brief speeches were made at Rush I City and North Branch Speaks Speak On Water AVater Front Mr Ir Bryan spoke from a stand erect erected ed on the levee at Stillwater A large steamboat on the St SL Croix river was covered with people p as were several locomotives freight cars and in the vicinity Mr Bryan spoke here for about an hour discussing at some len th most of the issues of the cam campaign campaign campaign He referred to the campaign ot dt 1896 1396 saying that the members of the he Demo Democratic Democratic Democratic cratic party had been abused to an unlimited extent in that campaign but that notwithstanding this abuse when two years afterwards there was a call to arms it was found that those hose who two years before had been denounced as anarchists were brave men and good soldiers Good and arid Bad Trusts The Republicans were spending more time in defending the good trusts than in denouncing the bad I ones he said The only way of dis distinguishing distinguishing distinguishing a good trust from a bad trust according to the Republican idea is to go to the trust for a campaign contribution if the trust gives liberal liberally ly it is good if it gives stingily it is bad baLL badIn badIn baLLIn In this connection Mr Bryan said saidA saidA A trust Is dangerous to the liberties of the people when it says to its Us employees that it will shut down don until after election for fear of ot the result of I the election yet this mornings paper tells you that the wire trust Is closing down its factories and telling the men I nothing more can be done until after the election because people will not net nOtI send in III orders for fear I will be elect elected elected elected ed Submit to this sort of system and tind anda I a government of the people by the pea peo people peo people pie and for the people will vill be a thing of the past Th Auditorium in which Mr Bryan Brya spoke at St Paul was crowded to the very verdome donut dome It is a large building said to hold people Before proceeding with his speech Mr Bryan was pre presented presented presented with a Life of Abraham Lin Lincoln I coln by F G McGhee a colored man manon manon man manon on behalf of the Colored Mens league |