The News & Observer

CROWDS OUT EARLY
TO GREET MR. BRYAN

The Election Eve Spent in a Nebraskan Tour.

AN ANSWER TO ROOSEVELT

Bryan Shows Heavy Increase in Mortgages in Nebraska.

SIDE OF PICTURE TEDDY DIDN'T REVEAL

At Holdredge Bryan Declares in Answer to Republican Assertions That His Election Will be Followed by Peace in the Philippines.

(By the Associated Press.)

Hastings, Neb., Nov. 5.—Half an hour before dawn W. J. Bryan began the last day of his campaign with the prospect of an eighteen-hour day. When he reached the depot at Lincoln at 5:45 a. m. he found his special train awaiting and fifty or more persons prepared to go on the journey.

Exeter, the first stopping place, sixty-five miles from Lincoln, was reached at 7 o'clock. As the train halted a crowd appeared, notwithstanding the early hour, and Mr. Bryan was hastily escorted to a hall nearby. The hall was filled to overflowing. Mr. Bryan's speech varied little from those to agricultural communities in other parts of the country.

In the course of his remarks he said:

"When Mr. Roosevelt was here he made a statement that 40 per cent of the real estate mortgages in this State had been paid off under this administration. The fact is that a little less than $24,000,000 in real estate mortgages have been released in excess of those filed, and you must take out of the $24,000,000 all of the property where the property is turned over to the mortgagee in satisfaction of the debt. But, while the mortgages paid off and released on real estate are very much less than Mr. Roosevelt says, the increase in the chattel mortgages of this State in the last four years is very much greater than the decrease in the real estate mortgages. And if you will take the real estate mortgages filed and released and the chattel mortgages filed and released, you will find that, adding them together, we have now $149,000,000 more mortgaged indebtedness in this State than we had four years ago; that is, the chattel mortgages have increased so much more rapidly than the real estate mortgages have decreased that the increase is $149,000,000 in four years. Bear in mind, these figures were taken from the statistics in the labor bureau office, and those are made up from the sworn statements of county officials of this State."

BRYAN SAYS HE HAS WON.

Money and Coercion Cannot Win This Year as They Did in 1896.

Lincoln, Neb., Nov. 5.—The fight has been made and won. Money and coercion robbed us of victory in 1896, but I believe they will be powerless to change the result this time. The people are in earnest, and very few can be bought. Our organization is much better than it was in 1896, and therefore there is less danger of frauds. So far attempts at intimidation have been rare this year, where they were very common in 1896, and even where intimidation has been attempted it has angered the employees rather than coerced them.

HOW TO STOP THE WAR

The Filipinos Will Cease Fighting When Liberty is Assured.

(By the Associated Press.)

Holdredge, Neb., Nov. 5.—In his speech here Mr. Bryan discussed trusts and the income tax along his usual lines. He condemned the colonial policy of McKinley, and said in conclusion:

"Our opponents tell us that if I am defeated the war in the Philippines is over, but that it will go on in case I am elected. The fact is that the war will continue if the Republicans carry the election, but the war will cease if we win, for we have promised independence to the Filipinos, and they will quit fighting when they know they are going to get what they are fighting for."

BRYAN SPEAKS AT LINCOLN.

We Have Fought the Campaign Openly and Above Board.

(By the Associated Press.)

Lincoln, Neb., Nov. 5.—With the exception of seven speeches at Omaha tonight Wm. J. Bryan completed his Presidential campaign tour of this State with a speech in this, his home city, at 6 o'clock this evening. He returned here at that time from a twelve hour tour of the interior of the State, and delivered a speech of about thirty minutes' duration to his townspeople.

Mr. Bryan seemed entirely satisfied with the audiences that greeted him at the various points in his own State, which he visited during the day. Many of the places at which he spoke are Republican in sentiment, but in all cases the crowds were large in proportion to population, and in most of them there was a high degree of friendly interest manifested.

Mr. Bryan was met at the depot by a large throng of people upon his arrival here at 6 o'clock tonight from the interior of the State. He spoke from a temporary stand in Postoffice Square, and in the main devoted himself to the general issues of the campaign. The speech was generously applauded and was evidently well received. Mr. Bryan said:

"There is no chairman here to introduce me. Possibly if I were to tell you my name you would recognize me. We are at the close of the campaign. Tomorrow will decide what policies are to be pursued for the next four years, who is to stand at the head of our Federal Government, as well as what is to be the complexion of Congress, the Senate and House of the State. And in this, my last occasion to address the people of my home city, I want to say that no matter what may be the result of tomorrow's election, I shall have no blame to cast upon the people of this community and of this State. I never appear before a Lincoln audience without feeling anew the gratitude which I owe to the good people of this community. No matter what they may do in the future, they cannot undo what they have done in the past, and whether I am elected or not, I think my experience will be of some service to my country, for I have shown that a young man, without a single corporation behind him, can amount to something. But do not think when I say this I say it in a boasting way, for whatever has come to me has not come because of personal merit; it has simply come because I have stood for certain ideas, and the people have been so fond of the ideas that they have taken me, in order to get the ideas.

"We have fought the campaign openly and above board. We have appealed to the conscience and to the judgment of the American people. Our platform is so plain that every one can understand it. You know where the party stands. It has not dodged any issues. It stands on the old questions as it has stood before, and it has added to its platform new planks to cover new issues."

OMAHA THRONGS HEAR BRYAN

He Urges the People to be Early at the Polls.

(By the Associated Press.)

Omaha, Neb., Nov. 5.—Mr. Bryan arrived at Omaha at 8:15 o'clock tonight and began his speech of a series of nine, in South Omaha, at 8:30. His first speech was made in a small hall used as a Democratic headquarters and the hall was packed to the point of suffocation.

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throng with men, women and children, who received the candidate with loud acclaim and applause.
The second meeting was held in the open air in South Omaha, and the Presidential candidate addressed an immense crowd. He again asked his supporters to go early to the polls. He charged the Republicans were deserting the plea of a full dinner pail, with which they had begun the campaign. He took strong ground against the permanent increase of the size of the army and against the acquisition of the Philippines without the consent of the people there. The speech was received with loud applause. After the meeting Mr. Bryan was rushed across the city, where he received another cordial welcome. His speech was devoted almost exclusively to an appeal for attention to the election tomorrow. He told his hearers to go to the polls, if necessary before breakfast and to stay without dinner if they could not get their votes in before.
In one of his speeches Mr. Bryan said:
"Republicans say we are preaching a gospel of hate. I deny it. We are trying to bring people together, but you cannot draw people together unless you have justice as the basis for their friendship.
The last speech of the night and of the campaign was made before the Good Shepherd fair in the Schlitz roof garden, and it did not begin until almost half past twelve.
A married man's idea of a good time is doing the things his wife objects to.

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