The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-28

they are the Cniy ones VINO are interested
in the money question. 1 assert that every
man. woman and child in this Nation is
interested in the money question. and each
one must solve It for himself. and that he
cannot safely delegate the power of choice
fer him TO any other person. (Applause-) :.
Thomas Jefferson said that the art OF
government was the art of being honest
and the years of history reaching back Tor
six thousand years prove 10 us that the
hnanciers are not the only people VINO
know what honesty is. (Applause.) He not
the art of being honest. but he said that
the principles Of right and wrong are cas-
lily discerned and require not the aid or
great questions of government are in their
last analysis simple questions. They re-
solve themselves at last into questions OF
right and wrong and the great common
people are as able TO distinguish right
from wrong as are any other people in this
or any other land. (Applause.)
iiere is a great question. 1t is sub
mitted to the American people for their de-
cision. When people arise to defend BIZ
metallism and when they appeal to the
people to think this question out for them
selves and then TO act as they think best.
these advocates of b!metallism are called
demagogues Be not alarmed nor dismayed
at that term. Remember that in all the
history Of this country there has never
been a statesman whose heart beat in SYM
pathy with the struggling masses who has
not been called a demagogue by those VINO
have opposed him. tApplause) There IL
only one way to escape from being called
a demagogue among the great moneyed
classes. the trusts and corporations. Young
man do you want to know how to keep
from being called a -emagogu / will
give you a certain method. Get in the en-
call all the people Anarchists and you Will
be a statesman among your employers.
Applause)
BE not discouraged. The great common
people of this country are capable of self
government. and they have not in recent
years given clearer testimony of the fact
than fnnx nra vtn this X0ar N ml
of peace. in times of quiet. in times when
there is no great feeling political machinery
controls politics and political machinery is
all right; il is necessary; but In great up
heavals as we AVE this year woe TO the
machine that lies down in the pathway of
the people. (Applause.) Machinery is a
means, not an end: and when they tell you
that you owe certain obligations to the ma
chinery of the party you tell them that the
agent who Is the machinery owes higher
obligations to the people. the sovereigns,
than the SovereignS can owe to the agent.
~(Applause.) IL you offend a machine when
you object to its thwarting the will of the
people how much must the people be
offended when the machine refuses to pur-
sue the work and to perform the duty for
which IL was created.
HE EXPECTED DESCRIPTIONS.
This. my friends. is a year when polit-
ical convictions reach away down into the
heart and we have the lines drawn. We
expected assertions when we made our
DID III DltCH SOInClillI6. VIC COOio
avoided them by getting on both sides of
all questions. ~(Laughter.) But when the
platform began to say what it meant, and
they saw that those behind the platform
meant what it said. then there were some
who found that they were no longer in
sympathy with the Democratic party.
have not one word of criticism for the man
who leaves the Democratic party. if his
.-A 80 ;,rl-,,ont 1oo1 hin, a1cn-
where. j shall be the last man TO deny
him the right to follow those guides. But
| have a right to ask this: That the man
shall give his real reason and not
a pretended reason for the de-
%sertion. (Applause2 If he is prohting
wants that policy continued under Repub-
lican administration. / want him to say
so, and not say that he is leaving his party
in order to save his country; III he is con-
nected with some trust which is sitting the
life out of those who are struggling to en-
gage in business. and he is afraid the Dem
trust, I want him to say that he loves the
trust better than he loves his party. and
rot say that ne is doing 1T for his fellow
man. (ApplauseS Because, l assure you,
that IL those who desert think they car
deceive their neighbors. they will find them
selves woefully mistaken, for before this
campaign closes We will not only know who
has deserted. but we will be able to write
upon the walls of the town the reason why
they have gone TO the Republican party
Nov, my friends, 1 nave talked to you
longer than 1 intended to (cries of Go on
and there are others here 10 speak to you
and / want to beg to remain and listen
to them as patiently as you have listened
to me. All that / can say In parting is
this: That your vote is your own. We
come before you with our policies; we come
before you with our platform; we tell you
what we shall do and how we shall do 1t
if our platform and our ticket succeed and
all that we ask of you is that you who
candidates who stand upon Il can best
! serve your country, protect your rights
| and advance the interests of those
whom you love; that those who believe
that will make our cause their cause. and
that those of you who believe that you can
better serve your country by working with
the opposition, / ask you that you shall be
as free to act with them as We ask you to
be to act with US II your judgments come
our way. That is all that | can ask of
you. and no matter what may be the re-
suit. we shall be content because we have
faith that If the people err one time they
will correct 1T again. We know in the long
run there is no voice so true. no judgme
so unerring as the voice and the Judgment
of the American people, Great applause
| and cheers.)
Bryan's Outdoor Speech.
Congressman William Sulzer, Of New
York. made the closing speech. While h,
was talking Mr.. Bryan was escorted bacl
to the Genesee House, about which PEG