Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-10-16
A TELLING SPEECH.
PROF MILLER GIVES SOME REA
SONS FOR!HIS FAITH.
His Party having Left him, he Fol-
lows Ihe PrOmpttmgs of Patriot
ism and Arrays himself with the
People.

ism ana Arrays himself with th'
People.
Delivered al Little Rock, Sept. 26, and reportet
| by Mrs. =. +. Barr.
| Mr.. Chairman and Ladies' and Gen
tlemen: Another great political cam
paign is on, and upon one hand we
see campaign OF education and econ
omy-the silver forces; upon the 9th
er hand we see campaign OF extrava
gance and abuse-the gold standard
Upon the one hand we see campaign
that means free thought, free speech
free press and free coinage; upon the
other nand we see campaign of in.
timidation, a campaign of protection
of private interests, pillage of the pro-
fits OF labor by trusts and combina.
tions and the pauperism of the masses.
| In a country like ours when great
questions come up for settlement we
have a right to demand of our leaders
the fullest expression of their convic-
tions. But We see to-day the leader
of the once great Republican party as
silent as the tomb upon the great
political questions, pending his nomi-
nation, and to-day he is engaged in
tearing down and denouncing as re-
pudiatioa and dishonor rhe very things
which he defended and for which he
fought with voice and vote for more
than twenty years - William Nc
X kinley. On the other hand, we see
that intrepid statesman, that dauntless
defender of the rights of man fighting
the combined powers of gold and greed
w. J. Bryan.
Having been a Republican, you
have a right to demand of me an ex-
planation of why l left the party. II
| have no good reason for leaving the
party, then / should not have left it.
If l had good reasons for leaving, my
reasons may be good reasons why you
should leave, if you are still with them.
REASONS FOR THE FAITH HELD.
During the past thirty years this en-.
tire western country, comprising more
than twenty of the greatest States in
the Union, has practically been q gift
to the American people. We have re-
ceived the land by homesteads, pre-
emptions, timber claims, desert claims
and donations to our railroads. Our
people have discovered hundreds and
tn housands OF gold, silver, lead and cop
per mines, thousands and thousands Of
acres of iron and cosl-fields, and they
have all been a gift of the people. We
did not have to buy them, and yet, my
friends, during the thirty years or more
of Republican administration and pro-
tective tariff, having received coun-
try as a gift we have not been able to
keepit. Twenty-seven OF our railroads
in the hands Of receivers; tens OF thou
sands of farms mortgaged and homes
lost by thousands. Our States, our
towns, our counties and our cities in
debt and beyond the legal require.
ments. Now, gentlemen, if We cannot
take this great and glorious country.
the cream of the earth under Republi-
can rule and make living out of it,
what will our children do who have to
buy it That is business PROPOSE
ton for you to consider. Your boy
will have to buy it and he will never
get it; he will be wsge-worker very
little above the slave or serf, if he has
to continue under the present condi-
tions. There is no other way for him
unless We elect William ]. Bryan.
Tremendous applause. Investigate
this for yourselves and you will come
to the same conclusions that / have.
that whatever prosperity We have had
under protective tariff, was not by pro
tective tariff, but in spite OF it. lap
plause.l
INTRMPERATE ZEAL OF THE GOLDBUG.
At the opening of this campaign, a
very unfortunate thing took place.
Those who were supporting the gold
standard in the Republican party have
found it necessary, in tho absence OF
argument, to hurl at the great produc
ing classes of this country Anarchy |!
Reputation! Dishonor" Who are
the men who shout anarchy? They
are the same class of men who for the
past three years have used the treasu
ry notes and greenbacks to withdraw
gold from the Treasury and who are
and have been using every art known
to the gamblers profession to wreck
the credit OF this country, [Applause]
and failing in their nefariOus scheme,
they have turned and shout Anar-
chy |" at the honest weslth-producers
Who are the men who are called anar-
chists? It is the great wealth-produc-
ing classes, you and all the rest of the
workers and producers OF wealth in
this country who have taken the bar
rem plains and great forests of the
West and reduced them from the bar
barous condition of thirty or forty
years ago 10 the splendid civilization
of to-day. The same class of men who
have built the railroads, dug canals,
built the towns and opened up the
country and produced every dollar Of
wealth in time Of peace and protected
it in time OF war. They are the men
that these stock-gamblers call anar-
chists! Applause
TRIBUTE TO TELLER.
We are told that it is the same old
Republican party, the party of Lin
coin, Grant, Blaine and Logan, and
they say, "Why should we desert it p
We read in history of how that gallant
commander, Commodore Perry, upon
the 10Th OF September made the flag
of Great Britain come down. We also
read in history how he who had fought
many battles and won many victories
upon his old flagship, was compelled
in the midst of that great fight to
leave the ship and as he saw the hull
pierced by British bullets and the
masts swept from the deck, he was
compelled to seek another ship upon
which he might continue the battle to
victory. So we see now parallel OF
that case. In st. Louis when that