The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-04-13
BRYAN ANSWERS REED.
Ex-speaker, In a Letter, criti-
cises the Nebraskan.
BOTH EXPLAIN THEIR SPEECHES.

Democratic Caucus Unanimously Adopt
Resolution Favoring Repeal OF State
i bank Tax-RepOrt on Condition of Win
ter Wheat-PresidentiaI Nominations
COnnrmed-WOIcott Burned In Emgy.
WASHINGTON, April fin the house
bills were passed for the protection of
game in the Yellowstone park and for
the punishment of crime in the park by
the extension of the law and jurisdiction
of the Wyoming United States district
court to it's territory: to grant chief
justices in the territories power to ap-
point commissioners to take proof of
land cases.
The house then went into committee
of the whole and resumed consideration
of the postofice appropriation bill.
An amendment, providing that all
publications purporting to be issued Pc
riodically to subscribers, but which are
really books or parts of books, to be
subject to the rates provided for third
class matter when transmitted through
tbs mails, was adopted. The fight
against the appropriation of 1885, for
special mail facilities on the trunk line
from Springfield, Mass. via New York
and Washington, to Atlanta and New
Orleans has begun.
Bryan Replies to Reeds Letter.
In the course of the debate which fol-
lowed Mr.. Bryan (Neb.) took the floor,
and Ostensibly speaking on the amend
ment, made a reply to the recently
published letter of Mr.. Reed to Mr.. q. L.
B. Vaughan of Hutchinson, Kan, in
which he criticized Mr.. Bryan for using
in his speech made in Denver an extract
from one of his (Reed's) Boston tariff
speeches. In that letter Mr.. Reed COM
planned that the extract taken from its
contents conveyed a wrong impression.
| Mr.. Bryan stated that the extract he
used had not been taken from its con-
tents; that he had used all of the pub
lished report of the speech. Moreover,
he stated, that Mr.. Reeds letter of ex-
| PLANTATION was written deliberately and
reiterated practically the idea contained
in the speech from which he had quoted.
He proceeded to characterize the
speech as an appeal to sectionalism; an
appeal to the selfishness of New England.
While Mr.. Reed told the west that all
the states were equally interested in the
preservation Of the protected tariff, he
told Massachusetts, that she was more in
tereeted. This was a remarkable utter
ance from the leader OF the Republican
party. He called attention to the dis
crepancy in Mr.. Reeds letter. He spoke
of his reference to the Wilson bill in this
speech, where, as matter of fact, the
| Wilson bill was not reported until
month after the speech was delivered.
| He had called attention to Mr.. Reeds
letter because he wanted the country to
know that Mr.. Reed, while he stood up
for protection for the whole country in
the halls of congress, in Massachusetts,
he held up the question Ignorance of
the south" and the ''rapacious west"
add pleaded for special privileges for
New England. Democratic applause.]
Reed Listened AttentiveIy.
Mr.. Reed listened to Mr.. Bryan atten-
lively. When he had finished Mr.. Reed
arose. THE incident was of little con-
sequence he said: ats only signif-
canoe was that Mr.. Bryan had taken
what he had said in Boston and put it
forth in Denver as Reeds positive dec
laration, that the passage of the Wilson
bill would result in building up western
manufacturers to the destruction of
those in the east. He was unwilling
that this mistaken impression should go
abroad until rectifed. He found that
the newspapers of the west, in the midst
of the ruins of the Democratic party,
needed some startling lie to come and go
on. No man here would have placed
wrong construction on his speech. Every
one knew when it was delivered, al
though the bill had not been reported,
that free raw materials were to be used
to appease New England.
''There was no doubt that the course
of the empire would continue to move
westward, but it should move westward
without carrying in It's wake ruin of the
consumer as well as the manufacturer.
The destruction of the manufacturers
would be the destruction of the manu-
featuring plants. Millions untold would
be lost and when rebuilt they would go
west If this process went on naturally
it would be to the advantage of the
whole people. The Republican doctrine
of protection believed in no class as In
the doctrine of the Wilson bill. 1t be-
lieved that the American people should
do the work" Without acting on the
amendment the committee arose and
house adjourned.
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