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The Commoner
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Mr. Bryan in Ohio
' From tho Cincinnati Enquirer, Oct. 23.
Welcomed by a throng of men that filled all
Music Hall except a few seats in tho gallery last
night, William Jennings Bryan espoused the
cause of prohibition with the same eloquence
and fervor that he has displayed on previous
visits to Cincinnati. There were only six wo
men in the house who exerted enough influence
to overcome the rule "for men only" and get
past the doors. .Exclusion of women was a bit
of camouflage intended to attract an audience of
voters, as Mr. Bryan never says anything in pub
lic or private that would offend tho most re
fined taste. t
The Nebraskan came to Cincinnati from Day
ton to make the second speech of his whirlwind
tour of Ohio in behalf of the "drys." He did
not reach the Taall until nearly 9 o'clock. Pend
ing his arrival, the audience listened to music
by the Caledonian bagpipers and speeches by
Cincinnatians.
Dr. I. D. Jones, Walnut Hills, physician, pre
sided. In his prayer Rev. Calvin E. Miller, pas
tor of Walnut Hills Congregational church, be
sought divine aid in the war and the success of
the liberty loan. John R. Sage, vice-president
of the Union Central Life Insurance Company;
R. A. Colter, coal merchant; Dr. S. P. Kramer
and Dr. S. A. Probst were the others from this
city who spoke.
Dr. Kramer opposed the new city charter as
being fiamed for the benefit of the "booze ele
ment." Former Mayor James A. Rice, Canton,
Ohio, made the leading address before the ap
pearance of Mr. Bryan. He predicted success
for prohibition.
When Colonel Bryan advanced to the front of
the stage, which was filled with men of more or
less prominence, he was greeted with cheers. Ho
was introduced by Rev. William McKibbln, pres
ident of Lane Seminary, as "one of our great
est Americans, who always has stood for the peo
ple and what he believed to be right."
Mr. Bryan was in good voice and excellent hu
mor. He was evidently pleased by the size of
the gathering and the fact that it was made up
entirely of voters, wlio he tried to convince that
they should vote for prohibition November 6.
As has been done in all his addresses recently,
Mr. Bryan devoted several minutes to a discus
sion of the duty of citizens toward the govern
ment in the war.
"We ought to be willing to do our part and
stand as one man behind our President and con
gress," said Mr. Bryan amid loud applause.
"This is the bdst government the world ever has
known so good that the oppressed and dissat
isfied of every land on earth have come to maKe
it their home. Before this war there might have
been a difference of opinion, but when congress
declared war the time for discussion ended and
the duty ofthe citizen began."
Mr. Bryan commended the varlbus organiza
tions, Buch as the Y. M .C. A. and Knights of
Columbus, and urged they bo given the heartiest
support. He' also spoke strongly in favor of the
liberty bond issue and urged every citizen to
buy according to his means.
AT CANTON
A Canton, O., dispatch, dated Oct. 24, says:
Denied permission to urge state-wide prohibition
at a liberty loan meeting in Memorial hall here
today, William Jennings Bryan went to the First
Christian church nearby and in a combination
temperance and liberty loan speech scored the
liquor men for so "terrorizing" Canton as to pre
vent a public building from being used for a pro
hibition speech.
"Thia is the only place where the liquor inter
ests have been able to so terrorize the town as
to prevent a public building to be used for a pro
hibition speech," he said in his address at tho
church. '
"I was not willing to bo denied to1 speak on
prohibition in this city, for I know of no other
city in the state where you need prohibition
talked to you more than you do in Canton," he
said.
. Mr. Bryan, who is touring Ohio In the interest
of state-wide prohibition, received word at Zanes
ville early today that he would not be permitted
to talk prohibition in his Canton speech which
?n7SarfaBcment 8 i0 navo been delivered
lX?lallpat aiIberty ,oan avenue
desLatfn? ,Prr8 2nt mi' proclamation
rrlrtValun ?QCT?itiTy of stato Immediately tele
graphed ahead and made quick arrangements for
a .combined prohibition and liberty low Speech
address,; W ftCter th8 ZEo
bonds onlv Snrty l0an raCCti,,e on th0 rty
ponds only. However, when ho arrived in Can-
SwnSttnd,tha,t thG 1Iberty an meeting had
tZ r?rvand nly the ,no addresa was de.
efforl to i?f accomP,ayJnE Mr. Bryan made an
effort to get a permit for him to deliver a street
S? ai?S?H Y !t WaS Le.apnod that Btreet addr ses
of all kinds are prohibited in Canton
MJj Bryan elivered one of the strongest pro
hibition speeches of his Ohio campaign in this
city. He declared that oven tho wets would not
license men to spread cholera among hogs be
cause of the value of pork. He likened liquor to
hog cholera and urged his hearers to place hu
mans on a par with hogs and vote Ohio dry at
the November election.
Ho also urged prohibition on patriotic and
moral grounds, prefacing his speech with a
strong plea for woman suffrage
TOE IOWA VOTE
A special dispatch dated Dayton, Ohio, Oct.
22, says: "Bo noc discouraged by tho result of
the vote in Iowa," said William Jennings Bryr:a
in an address here beforo 5,000 people, who con
gregated in the street tonight to listen to tho
great Nebraskan deliver a talk on tho subject
of prohibition.
The Commoner prefaced his address by ex
horting his audience to buy liberty bonds. Re
verting to tho subject of prohibition, Bryan
said:
"According to the face of the returns the wet
majority in Iowa is approximately 700. How
ever, there ire ten times seven hundred people
in Iowa tonight who are deploring their Dpathy.
They believed there was no danger of losing the
heritage they had received as tho result of an
act of tho legislature some time ago, and their
failure to do their duty has meant the forfeiture
of the blessings they have been enjoying."
"BEST SPEECH EVER," BRYAN'S ON
SUFFRAGE
From New York World, Oct. 17, 1917.
In three speeches in this city yesterday Wil
liam Jennings Bryan mixed patriotism with an
appeal for votes for women.
About 200 employees of the Fifth Avenuo
Coach Company lizard him at a noon mooting
at No. 10 East 102d street. Later he spoke at
a luncheon in the Advertising club, and in the
evening at a mass meeting under the auspices
'of the New York State Woman's Suffrage Party
at Durland's riding academy, 6Cth street and
Central Park West.
"The shortest road to peace is the straight
road ahead, standing solidly behind the govern
ment. Any division will tend to prolong tho
war," he said last night. "The more anxiously
ono desires peace, the more loyally should ono
back the President and congress. Our congress,
by an overwhelming vote, has taken us into war.
This is our government, and it has acted, and
the eyes of man have never seen a better gov
ernment than ours."
Mrs. Norman do R. Whitehouse, chairman of
the New York State Woman Suffrage party, in
troduced Mr. and Mrs. Bryan at the evening
meeting. Mr. Bryan was given three cheers and
was generously applauded during his address.
Cries of "This is tho best suffrage speech wo
have ever heard," rang from all parts of tho
house. Seemingly about half of tho 1,500
present waited in line to shake hands with tho
speaker.
"It is presumed," the former secretary of
state said, "that wher. a man has confidence
enough in a woman to give himself to her, that
he ought to have confidence enough in her to
give her tho ballot. The husband turns over
the children to tho wife for intellectual and
moral training, and makes her his financial
partner. Statistics have proved that one-half of
the men who vote do not go beyond the ele
mentary grades in school,, and these grades are
taught by women, so if women know enough to
teach men all that thoy know don't they know
enough to vote?
''When tho great international pcaco plan
aro made woraon's conscience is going to bo
noedod along v.Ith man's Judgmont."
In his tour of Now York stato, Mr. Bryan
addressed largo meetings at Buffalo, on October
18, on behalf of woninn suffrage and tho Lib
erty loan, anJ urged the people to stand bshlnd
President Wilson and tho government in tho
present crlahi. Assocato Ed. J
NATIONAL CAPITAL IS DRY
A Washington dispatch, dated OcU 31, says:
Washington went dry tonight with a mildly hi
larious celebration In which Hallowe'en mtrry
makers contributed most of tho nolso. Some of
tho saloons had closed thHr doors during tho
day, and many othora, including tho bars of sev
eral leading hotels, closed tonight beroro 12
o'clock, the hour fixed by tho law passed by con
gress last winter. Tho law forbids tho manufac
ture, sale or giving away of intoxicating liquor
in the District of Columbia. It also prohibit
drluking In public places, but does not Interfere
with tho bringing in of liquor for personal use.
The suspicion of a great many persona that tho
trouble In Mexico was very greatly ovorplaycd by
the newspaper correspondents has boon vastly
strengthened by tho remarkable "fact that nono
of them has carried a story about battles or rev
olutions thero from tho very day that America
entered upon a stato of war with Germany.
It has been noticed that none of the mon who
use tho cloak of "conscientious objections"
against war to cover the'r desire not to take up
arms against Germany has any conscientious ob
jections to remaining in America and onjoying
tho results o: tho efforts of those who aro will
ing to fight that the nation may remain free to
carry on tho world's greatest experiment in
democracy.
It will be rather dlfilcult to answer tho point
mado by Lieutenant Governor Howard of Ne
braska that tho farmers of tho country are not
open "to consuro, If It bo true that thoy Juiro not
bought as many liberty bonds as other business
men, for the reason that they havo contributed
tho difference between tho $2 prlco for wheat
Imposed by the government and tho $3 that It
would otherwise bo bringing in tho markets of
the world today, a sacrifice no other class has
made.
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