The Bemidji Daily Pioneer

BRYAN TOURING NEBRASKA
Appeals Directly to Farmers and Laboring Men.

Tekamah, Neb., Oct. 14.—In a series of speeches made on the first day of his campaign in Nebraska William J. Bryan appealed directly for the farming and laboring vote on the ground that he is the logical candidate of the producer and wage earner. He opened this line with his first speech at Blair and continued it throughout the day.

The candidate also appealed for votes for the state ticket.

In his remarks at Blair Mr. Bryan said he wished to answer one argument made in the West by Mr. Taft and Republican speakers to the farmers. "They tell the farmers," he said, "that because they have had good crops and good prices they ought to vote the Republican ticket. If you will remember back eight years ago they were talking to the laboring man about the full dinner pail and everywhere you went you saw pictures of the full dinner pail and they told the laboring man that just as long as they had enough to eat they ought not to think." He declared the argument was not being used now because the bottom had dropped out of the pail and it was empty.

He told his hearers that the Democratic party this year was being supported by a larger number of laboring men than for forty years and he said their disappointment has been embittered by the fact that they were deceived eight years ago. But now it is the full farm basket and they are presuming on your ignorance as they did on the laboring man's ignorance and they tell the farmer that because the basket is full he ought not to think.

He ridiculed the Republicans for, as he said, taking credit for good crops, sunshine, fertility of the soil and rains.

"A tax on legitimate business to pay the losses of speculation" is a fair definition of the Democratic proposition to guarantee national bank deposits.