The Republican journal., 1896-11-19

"Theres no place like home'' So sang Billy
Bryan Nov. 3D.
prosperity, protection, Mckinley
Hanna likes it. So do We.
brooks Gold Club Mckinley, 11O; Bryan, TO-
"Howd'y, Seth. Allus glad TO Sc YER
Sound money"
"Protection; more work; more wages.
"Honest dollar and chance to earn it,
"The integrity of the nation must be preserved.
"Patriotism, protection, prosperity.
"Hurrah for Mckinley
More mills and factories open instead of more
mints.'
"What will Bryan do now?
whats the matter with HANNAH?
| The procession started promptly at the
hour named, 7.3O, and marched over the
route as laid out by the committee, with but
one change. The procession was greeted all
along the route by display of red fire,
rockets. Roman candles and other fireworks.
The houses of many Republicans and sound
, money Democrats We're heartily cheered by
, the procession.
} The route was up Church street to the
residence of Hon. c. B. Hazeltine; counter
march down High street to the southerly
junction of Church street; up Church street
to Custom House square; up Main to Cedar
over Cedar to Franklin; down Franklin to
Court; over Court to Grove; up Grove to
Cedar; over Cedar to Main up Main to Con-
gress: over Congress to the home of Hon.
Seth l.. Milliken.
A large crowd followed the procession and
others had congregated at the residence of
Mr. Milliken to listen to the anticipated ad-
dress from our eloquent Congressman. In
g, rl,,l Tod fha tor
surrounding the house and the speaker, that
those in the street below found difficulty in
hearing him, although his remarks were dis
tinctly audible some distance away. Mr..
| Milliken spoke as follows:
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: You could
never call on me when your presence would
be more welcome. Be assured that l re-
joce with you and enter into full FELLOWSHIP
with you IN celebrating the great victory
which the lovers of American institutions and
the friends of American prosperity achieved
at the polls ON the third day OF this month.
Never since the surrender of the rebel
armies at AppomattoX and the final over
throw of the great Southern rebellion, have
we had greater cause to reJOlce, ana give
vent to our gladness than now.
We often ask ourselves what would have
taken place had our armies been finally de-
feated in that great conflict, and we shudder
at the thought of the inevitable, conse-
quences. We may well ask ourselves to-
night, what would have been the conse-
quences to our Government and to the peo-
pies welfare had the nti-American and
anarchistic principles of the Chicago plat
| form been endorsed, and Mr.. Bryan, with
the communistlc crowd which supported and
controlled him. been given control of the
government. We cannot but feel that we
have most fortunately escaped great
calamity. The programme OF our opponents
had more of mischief in store for the
nation than has ever been announced
in most any unpatrotic and revolutionary
pronouncements, at any time or anyW here
| in the past. The French revolution, which
deluged great country in the blood OF its
citizens, was preceded by nothing more COM
/ munistic and threatening to society than
was contained III the platform upon which
Mr.. Bryan was nominated, and which he
besought us to endorse by electlng him to the
chief miglstracy of the country.
All that has caused the depression, the
great losses and suffering in our country
during the last three and half years was
declared for i'll that platform and champion
ed by Mr.. Bryan in his campaign speeches.
The doctrine of free trade, of which we
have been already too long eating the bitter
fruit, We We're to be treated to for another
four years, with its treasury deficits, its nee
essary borrowing by the Government to pay
| its running expenses, its pro5tratlon OF all
| our industries, its forced ldleneSS OF our
workingmen, it's melting away of the peo-
pies accumulations, its crushing OF private
| and public enterprises, Its inevitable wide
| spread ruin and distress. Our markets
were still to be surrendered to the foreigner
and our own manufacturers and producers
We're to be driven from them. Ihe anti
American tariff which was enacted IN the
| Wilson Bill was to be continued or made
even worse than it is, anG we We're to pur-
sue an economic policy which should EN-
ploy other than our own people to do our
work and develop the resources OF coun-
tries beyond the sea rather than our own
Almost if not quite everything which could
blast our prosperity proposed IN the
| BRYAN platform and Bryan's utterances. So
far as it could affect American interests it
seemed to be the complete work OF skilled
total depravity.
We were to adopt financial scheme
which has been tried many times and al
ways with the most disastrous results, a
scheme which obtains now in countries only
the most backward in progress, the most
unenlightened, the poorest, and where the
people have the least of life's comforts and
opportunities. We We're to disassoclate
ourselves with the great, thrifty, progress
sive nations of the earth and enter financial
ly into relations with those which have the
least and know the least.
We were to halve the wages of labor and
the savings of the poor, the pensions OF the
soldier and the earnings of the industrious.
We were to make war upon all corpora
tions and place the great channels OF COM
munication, travel and traffic in irretriev-
able bankruptcy. We were to alarm our
creditors both at home and abroad and
cause them to force the debtors to immedl-
ate payment or insolvency. By an unwlse
and badly conceived plan of increasing the
metallic currency of the country, we We're
to drive more than half of it out of circula-
tion and cause the severest contraction ever
known, with consequences of disaster be-
yond our power to comprehend, and we
We're to so dishonor the nation in the eyes of
mankind by reputation as would cause to
blush with shame every self-respecting man
and woman in tie land.
We We're to encroach upon the liberties
of the people by abridgng the right of max
ing private contracts. We were to declare
the national government OFF, as they say at
the races that is, we We're to practically
abolish it by depriving it of the power to en-
force its laws in its States; for government
which has no power to enforce its authority
has no authority, and without authority it
cannot govern, it cannot be government.
The Supreme Court OF the United States,
which is our last resort for protection to all
that we have of property liberty and life,
was to be packed by adding new Judges
who shall be the mere creatures of Mr..
Bryan's party, so that the decisions of that
great tribunal should be subject to the die
tations of political faction and one OF the
coordinate branches of the Government,th the