Show I TALKS TO WORKINGMEN Bryan JSpeaksto Employees of PackingHouses VISITS ARMOURDALE KANSAS I During Yesterday tho Democratic Lender Spoke at Fort Scott Pleas anton La Cygne Paola and Olathe and Last Night He Addressed n Big Audience in Shelly Park KanSas I Kan-sas City Mo Several Addresses ALd I I Were Along the Same Line ns Others Delivered During Campaign I I I A Kansas City Mo Sept IS Armour dale the center 6 tho packinghouse I and stockyards Interest of Kansas City I turned out a great crowd tonight to I hear William J Bryan whu spoke In Shawnee park lie arrived in Kansas City at 530 and was driven across the river to the meeting place arriving at i 615 The employees of the various establishments es-tablishments In the neighborhood had already ceased labor and large numbers of them had gathered In the park despite I de-spite the threatening sky and even n slight falUof rain i The worklngmen gave the closest attention Tonight Mr Bryan sp ku In a huge circus tent In Shelly park in the heart of this city On the way r from Fort Scot to Kansas Kan-sas City Mr Bryan m ule several brief speeches from the r il platform of his car the mosi noteworthy of these being f I at Pleasanton La Cygnc Paola and I I Olalhe I Mr Bryans speech at Armourdale was addressed entirely to the labor element ele-ment of which his audlencee was compos com-pos Hl IIesaid In part I we talk to the Republicans about I the important Issues of this campaign I thty meet our argument with one answer an-swer and that Is I the full dinner pal I If we ask the Republicans why for three and u half yearsthey have failed Ito I-to give to the laboring man protection from government by injunction the only answer is that the laboring man has a I full dinner pal and ho ought not to object to government by injunction If the dinner pail Is ull I APPEALS TO LABORING MAN The full dinner pall Is satisfactory to the stomach but my friends It Is the I animal and not the man that complains lilly when It Is hungry and goes to sleep when It Is full 1 want to appeal to something n the laboring man besides his uppetUe I wanl to ask the laboring labor-ing man If he Is content to live and die I with nothing more than n full dinner pall Mayor Jones of Toledo well described de-scribed U l when ho said that the la boreralways had a full dinner pal In I slavery days that the slave had plenty I to cat because he could not work If he I did not huvcplenty to cat lie said that the slaveowner had a selfish interest < In-terest In giving to the slave a full dinner din-ner pall and plenty to cat and weal Man Is of a threefold nature He not only has his body but he has his brain and he has hls heart also and the laboring man needs more than three meals a day He needs shortened hours ofIaboro enable him to give some In tn 11 fnlh 1 1 1 U I U LV OLlHU development What has the Republican party done to shorten the hours of toll When the eighthour law went before the Senate the Republican Senate did not have time to pass It but the Republican Senate Sen-ate had plenty of time to pas a financial finan-cial bill that gave the national banku I the control of the paper money of the country The Republican party has had J plenty plen-ty of time to legislate l when it wanted I to legislate but where is the bill that I protects tho laboring man from the fear of the Injunction We are opposed to i government by Injunction I In our platform we ask for a labor bureau with a Cabinet officer at Its head What does the Republican party ask for Why a department of commerce com-merce and industry ELECTION SENATORS I We also ask for the election of Senators Sena-tors by the people You cannot get any remedial legislation until your bill passes the Senate as well as the House Under the present method of electing Senators the corporations have more Influence In the selection of 1 Senator than they should have and the common man the ordinary voter has less influence influ-ence than he should have Wo want an income tax The Republican Re-publican party Is not willing that we should have an Income tax which would give to the laboring man some relief from the burden of taxation taxaton You laboring men ought to consider the question of taxation and these other oth-er questions but the only reply you get to all those thing Is i the full dinner I pal Whenever any Republican holds up before you the fulldinnerpail argument ar-gument ask him what he thinks of the I anthracite coal region Ask him what he thinks of less than 1 a day which is i received by the men who are mining anthracite coal less than 1 a day the year around Under those circumstances I circum-stances what chance Is there for tho I laboring man to Improve his condition What chance for him to raise his family fam-ily and to give his children a higher place than he has enjoyed What chance Is them for that development Intellectually and for that recreation and for those things that are necessary to the laboring man as well as to anyone any-one else Great applause But the full dinner pall will not last this canijialgn The Republican party hasgotO meet these questions and cannot l entice the laboring man Into the imperialistic trap by putting t little cheese in the trap NIGHT MEETING The night meeting In this city which was addressed by Mr Bryan was held In n big threeringed circus tent which covered several 1 thousand people l Mr Bryan did not appear until ten minutes pant 3Heivas received with deafening deafen-ing cheers and the applause did not subsIde for several minutes He spoke with evident effort his voice being quite hoarse as a 1 result of the severe campaigning of the past few days The apoecli was upon general lines and did not develop many new points Much attention wan given the Philippines Philip-pines A shrillvoiced person In the audience asked Mr Bryan why he had advocated tho ratification of the Spanish Span-ish treaty to which question he replied ANSWERS A QUESTION I will toll you my friend why I wanted it ratified I wanted the treaty ratified because I wanted the Spanluh war cloned1 I wanted the volunteers brought home and I wanted to take from the Republican party the war expanses ex-panses and I wanted to gic to the FIllplnoK ourselves that which could I I have been procured from Spain for them I His reply brought out demonstrations of approval and leers at the expense of his Interlocutor with cries of Nov will you be good Mr Bryan closed I about 2Q45 He will leave early tomorrow tomor-row morning for Leavenworth Kan going from that point to Atchison and thence to 81 Joe |