Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1896-10-02

Mr.. Bryan said to ten thousand peo-
pie at Milwaukee:
Since the public officers are elected
to carry out the will of the people, II
Is essential that the public should
know two things. First, for what poll
cies does a candidate stand? Second.
will he carry out those policies IL elect
ed? While there may be things
in platform with which you cannot
agree, and things out of it which you
would like to see in it, it is necessary
that the candidate should believe in
the platform upon which he stands. |
believed in the principles of our plat
FORM long before it was written in Chi
cago.
We have suffered some assertions.
why? Because the paramount issue of
the money question. 1t is easy enough
TO hold party together when a plat
form means nothing, but when any
party stands for great principle, it
must expect some people who do not
believe in it to leave 1t.
My friends, this great money question
has been forced upon the people, not
by the advocate of free coinage, but by
the gold standard people After the
election in 1892, money combine was
formed for the purpose Of repeating the
Sherman law They did not take the
democratic platform and live up to 1t,
but they took one sentence which de-
clared for the repeal of that law and
demanded its repeal They said the
law was make-shift. What is a make
shift? Something that will do until
we get something better. The demo-
cratic platform declared for the repeal
of the Sherman law and the free and
unlimited coinage of gold and silver.
The money interests combined to re-
peal that law and leave nothing in its
place. They claimed gold was going
abroad. Did they stop it? No. They
started an issue to furnish bonds. They
had $o0,000,000 issued, and then had
$5o,0OO,000 more issued, and then en-
tered with the Rothschild contract.
My friends, while the administration
entered into this contract, want to say
that all the leaders of the republican
party were in favor of it.
The republican party did not de-
nounce 1t in their convention. Now I
want to say that it was the most in
famous contract ever entered into by
any nation. That contract employed
certain firms in London and New York
to look after and protect the govern
ment's interest They purchased the
good will of these people. When you
purchase the good will of any person.
1t is because you admit you are in his
hands. am not Willing to admit that
the government must purchase the
good will of anybody. | am not willing
to admit that 70,O0O,00O of people are
permitted to govern themselves by the
aid Of any syndicates, but that they
will govern themselves in spite Of
them.
/ am not surprised that the members
of that syndicate are opposed to the
democratic party. l believe that the
democratic party can get along with
out them. l believe that they ought to
be treated as any other conspirators.
A man said to his sons: Don't go into
the retail business go into the whole
GALE business. That is respectable
This applies to you. If man at
tempts to do the government small
injury, 1t is contemplate. II it is
wholesale injury, 1t is respectable.
Mr. Bryan then told the story of the
successive bond deals and the plan to
again issue bonds to a private syndi-
cate which was defeated, and how,
yhen the bonds were sold in open mar
ket, the president of that syndicate
paid more for them than he paid at
secret sale. Mr.. Bryan continued.
What does it mean? It means that
the people who would pose as the
guardians of the treasury would rob the
people. This fact did not excite the
indignation of the officials of the gov
eminent, and a short while later the
chairman Of that syndicate was present
where an official of the government
was the honored guest at banquet. II
we believe in equality before the law we
cannot make any distinction between
the man who takes 100000 and the
man who takes $500.
Now, they talk of honor of the gov
eminent. / believe that the honor of
the government can be- better maintain
ed by 100000 of the people than by
beginning with a handful of financiers.
The republican party does not denounce
the bond syndicate. The democratic
party does.
The Inevitable "Objeet Lesson"