Show BRYAN DOWN iN EGYPT Nebraskan Makes a Tour of Southern Illinois STARTS FROM HIS OLD HOME From 7 Oclock Tcsterdny Morning Until His Special Train Left Alton nt Midnight Last Night Ho Delivered De-livered Fourteen Speeches Occupying Occupy-ing Six Hours Time At Every Station He Was Greeted by Enthusiastic Enthu-siastic Crowds At East St Louis Brynn and Roosevelt Passed i I St Louis Oct SThnt particular I portion oC flhInQ1s known us Egypt was pretty thoroughly canvassed by William J Bryan today The principal cities of eleven oC the southern counties I of the State and three of the Congressional Congres-sional districts were visited and large audiences addressed at the various stoppInG places Fourteen addresses werG made from 7 oclock In the mornIng morn-Ing when the first speech at Salem was delivered until the train carrying Sir Bryan and his party pulled out oC Alton at nearly midnight The addresses have ranged from ten minutes to an hour In length and six hours would be a conservative estimate of the amount of time consumed by Sir Bryan In actual ac-tual talk Southern Illinois was Intensely ont thusiastic on-t At every meeting the candidate candi-date was greeted with hearty demonstrations demon-strations of affection and his remarks were applauded and cheered everywhere every-where At one place there was a disposition dis-position on the part orn few boys to cheer his opponent but there were no attempts to Interfere with his remarks being heard At East SL Louis Mr Bryan and Gov Roosevelt crossed each other As Gov Roosevelt had a meeting there Mr Bryan Bry-an passed through and went on to Alton A UNIQUE SPECTACLE East St Louis afforded a unique npcctacle when the Bryan train arrived ar-rived There was no general Information Informa-tion in that city concerning the time that Mr Bryan was to reach there hut announcement had been made that Gov Roosevelt should speak there at S clock When Mr Bryan arrived at a quarter post S the Roosevelt train had not reached thc city and as n consequence many of those who came to hear him went to greet Bryan The people rushed after the Bryan car a It was being switched about yelling madly for him and demanding speech When the car came to l standstill there was a general rush for the platform plat-form where Mr Bryan stood with renewed re-newed demands for a speech This demand Mr Bryan declined to respond to beyond explaining why he could not speak lie said MUST DECIDE THEMSELVES The Republican candidate for tho VicePresidency Is announced to speak I I here tonight I Is his night and I do not wish to Interfere In any way with his meeting No political party has any chance before tho people unless Us speakers can have an opportunity to present the Issues from their party standpoint I have had my chance here you have heard me I want you now to listen to the other side and when you have heard from that side as you have from ours I want you to decWc between us as to what your duty tso SHOOK HANDS WITH PEOPLE The crowd cheered the brief speech lustily and then demanded n handshake hand-shake Mr Bryan gasped as many outstretched hands as he could reach and then told the crowd to hold up their hands and that he would shake with them all at once A thousand hands went up and Mr Bryan waved his hand to them There was also n bib crowd at Granite city between East St Louis and Alton and Mr Bryan talked to them for about five minutes on the general Issues of the day dayAt At East SL Louis Mr Bryans daughter Miss Ruth who is lIng l-ing school near there Joined him and went to Alton with him SPEAKS IN HIS OLD HOME William T Bryan began the week with n speech In Salem 1 his native home and yas given n warm reception He talked about an hoar near the courthouse in which his father had held court from 18CO to 1S72 and In which ho himself had made his first political speech twenty years ago Mr Bryan was Introduced by Judge William Pren Uas of Chicago and among other things told thIngs toldI I 1 am glad to be among the people with whom I lived I I wanted to declare de-clare myself n great man this Is the last place I would come to make such a declaration because you have known me from my boyhood but if j any one wanted to declare that I wa a bad man I would want him to make the declaration here rather than any place elseMIUINLEYS I elselI NLEYS PICTURE SHOWN II hardly feel llke making a political speech here for this Is a sacred spot to me Here my parents are burled and here I learned the precepts which I have tried to follow I know the people peo-ple here and know how conscientious they are When I see the plcLurp of my opponent In the windows < bf thejfrppub leans 1 know how conscientious thev Just be and how certain they are that my election would be Injurious to the country or they would not exhibit not these pictures on the occasion of my re turn to my boyhood Jibmc luie1 these Republicans I desire tospeak When I return to Salem I Jlnd vacant chairs I find since my last l visit Re i publicans and Democrats have crossed over Into the land where differences In politics do not divide them I wonder If It Is not possible for us so to under stand the Issues that there will be less division here t MAKES THE OLD CHARGES J the election were hell today there Is no doubt would have a majority in the electoral college and on the popu lar vote But the Republicans man agers arc now collecting from the mo nopolies a large campaign fund They will buy every vote that can be bought They will coerce every voto that can be coerced They will Intimidate every la boring man who can bo intimidated A hey will bribe every election judge that can be bribed They eton il corrupt 1 every count that can be corrupted dont understand how It Is possible for I I the plain eVeryday Republican to close his eyes to what is going on when I he knows that If ho aids these Influ ences to carry the election at this time 1 tho same means can he employed to i carry other elections when electons those who are 5UpWillff thc RcPuMlean I ticket tcketTRUSTS ticket wilt be oPPosed l to the Republican I TRUSTS AND IMPERIALISM Mr Bryan concluded his speech with I a argument on the trust question mil I tarlam and Imperialism After leaving l I Salem hp made tenminute rer avlng tpnmnut speeches at I Mount Vernon and Benton Scso Bcnon At tjcj i places he was received by large cn I thuslnatlo thualnUo audiences His speech were thoMe along delivered the heretofore same general speeche 1nesM At Marlon Mr I Bryan discussed trust question He said In part the i want to call your attention to n clip I L4 ping which I received a few days ago I will read It to you Calnmburt O Sep 2S According to n special from Galllpolls Dr JennlnKB In Gal pols Jcclnl Ids financial report of the Western Mtslh ftcllit Hook Concern of Cincinnati made to tho Ohio conference now meeting at tai llpolle says Lhu vhlto paper trust alono llp whlo han Increased tho prlcb or paper useti by > Uiu Miuliotllsl Episcopal PiibllHtilnifhouso at Cincinnati 410000 In tho paat twelxo Clnclnmll I month This means an Increase oC over Ii I SICOOJO In tin past y f ar for the white pa all lieruMcd I by Limo publishinghouses of aJ thtj churches BUT THE ICE TRUST The special says the report astounded astound-ed the conference added Mr Bryan and that they are talking more about trustaVthan assignments And yet my friends Mr Hanna says there arc no trusts There Is a trust taxing the churches of this country 5100000 n year and the people who subscribe to churches have to pay It You will of course have to subscribe more money or do less church work > v WHAT ABOUT MIXERS Woht about the miners cried a voice I want to say replied Mr Bryan that the miner has to cast In his lot with tile farmer If he wants any protection pro-tection or any justice In legislation tccton The farmer can stand bad laws longer than the miner can for If things get so bad that the farmer cannot buy coal r he can burn corn but when things 16 get so bad that the miner cannot buy corn he cannot eat coal Thc Republican cor Repub-lican party stands today as the defender defend-er of the trusts It stands as the exponent ex-ponent of n largearmy Idea and for a colonial policy 4 WAR IN TRANSVAAL In speaking of the Boer war and the r Republican attitude toward I Mr Bryan Bry-an said Ono hundred and twentyfour i years ago the colonists declared their Independence this year the Queen of I England Issued an order authorizing the Istcd oreor annexation of the South African republics I repub-lics 3uly i 177C saw the birth of a RePublic Re-public July 1 1900 witnessed thc execution exe-cution of an empire and yet the Republican Re-publican party has so changed within the last few years that It stands unmoved un-moved whUethe doctrine selfg6v I eminent is j peing assailed In Africa Can you trust Republicans to preserve liberty here when they are unmoved by attacks upon liberty elsewhere I SPEAKS AT CAIRO At Cairo hIs speech was devoted mainly to trusts although the question of a large standing army and the question I ques-tion of Imperialism cach received some attention at hIs hands Jonesboro was thc next stop and Mr Bryan spoke at trial place for fifteen minutes Murphysboro was reached at 4 415 and a half hours stop made Mr Bryan was taken to the courthouse yard where there was gathered n large and enthusiastic crowd of miners railroad men and tarmers His remarks were directed more to the laboring men than his other speeches of the day At Percy Mr Bryan spoke for ten minutes from a platform erected near the train There were also short speeches at Red Bud and Waterloo A llambeau club met Mr Bryan at Waterloo and escorted him to the stand erected for his accommodation In a nearby grove of fine trees He was presented there by W R Morrison who resides at Waterloo 4 CROWD AT ALTON At Aton Mr Bryan spoke to thousands thou-sands of people His audience was said to be the largest ever assembled In this city The local Democratic leagues among whom was Congressman Congress-man Jett occupied special platform created In front of the courthouse and notwithstanding It was 10 oclock at night before Mr Bryan commenced his speech the crowd stood densely packed in a mass that extended so far out that It was Impossible for those on the outskirts to hear Mr Bryan spoke with his haton and some one yelled Ttake off your hat like Teddy dldi Mr Bryan did not however r comply with this request TORE DOWN FLAG He had scarcely begun speaking when he found that the bunting and flags oh the stand cut off his view of the audience rHc promptly tore downtime down-time obstruction This act was various ly regarded Some one cried dont tear < OWl the flag others tear It down I t Is where It I ought to be taken down Mr Bryan made no reference to these remarks and when he had concluded the dismantling process sufficiently to ajiswer his purpose he went on with his speech Speaking octr1 Republican contention conten-tion of good times Mr Bryan said They tell us that we are loaning money In Eunjpe All you that are loaning money in Europe hold up your hands Not n hand went up and he exclaimed Then It Is they not we who are loaning money abroad Mr Bryan sppke for about three quarters of an hour and at the conclusion con-clusion of the speech returned to St Louis for the night |