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


the national honor, and doubt upon the
national credit, then patriots must act to
gether, and there can be only. one side.
then partisanship and party obligations are
ia allegiance while the intelligence and pa
triotism OF the nation are protecting lis
liberty. saving It's life or upholdng its
experience and the lamp CT history
ONE HEAD AND TWO TAILS.
Mr.. Depew then briefly reviewed the
tion of the different political parties from
ls4S down through the civil war, showing
how men put country before party when a
crisis arose, and said:
I'm this crisis, when the national honor,
and all that relates to the business, the
employment and the prosperity of the
country is at stake, the Republican party
welcomes with open arms the assistance of
| patriotic Democrats who care more for
their country than for an organization.
| which has been temporarily seized by the
tumutuous and evanescent forces of revo-
! luton, Of communism. of anarchy and of
4 Reputation. While we are fighting the
| platform which means all of these. we find
| that upon it is placed ticket with one
! head and two tails one tail wagging to fool
| the wage Garner in the East and the other
| wagging to delude the farmer in the West
| and in the South. 1t was Abraham Lin
com conn., VINO no " Wisely @ Us saiG ts d Oh can 1921 los M all the
| pie all the time. but you can't fool all the
| people all the time
| Two millions OF men marched to the
front and half million of them laid down
their lives to stamp out sectionalism and
/ make these United States a united country
| This effort to array one section against an
other by an appeal TO prejudice and ignor-
ance will be stamped out not by bullets
| but by ballots; Will be stamped out, not by
| two millions Of men in arms. but by the
| knowledge that each section has of the
other by the feeling that we are one peo-
| pie and that our grea atness is in our one
| ness, which will move to the polls a ma
| Jestic army of 100000 voters
There are no classes, thank God. in this
country. There are no places of power or
wealth to which the humblest boy may not
! aspire. Every President since Washington
has come from the ranks and all pros
| porous buSineSSS men are of the people and
| have climbed from the bottom. The pre-
tense that one hundred thousand bankers
the 100000 voting places influencing or con-
trolling the vote of 100000 voters that
| there have been in prior presidential or con-
| greSsional elections. is an assumption more
| monstrous than the destruction of this
earth by having swung around ii the at
mospheric tail Of a flying comet.
! of confidence the confidence man. evil
| IDENTIFY meaning that the gold standard was
| a confidence man. and the free coinage of
| silver at 16 TO l industrial and financial
| prosperity and happiness. The gold conf
dence man. who has been governing this
country since .o the var. n; has paid off most mos
| doubled the mileage of our railways and
| telegraphs and nearly doubled the number
| OF our states ana furn1Sned homes ana en-
| ployment for 100000 of people to live bet
| ter than 80 100000 did before; has created
the new South, has advanced wages and
| decreased the cost of living.
| And what has the free-cona ge-of-silver
| confidence man done simply by the prom
ise of what he will do? Let the distressed
| farmer and the unemployed millions of the
| United States answer at the ballot box.
Lack of confidence has destroyed the pur-
fon fhasng IN power of the country the destrge &C.
market; the ruin Of its market has left the
farmers product unstable his hands.
| What the farmer wants is not more COIN
age, but more customers; what the wage
! Garner wants is to exchange his labor for
the best dollar in the world and the oppor-
| lar with his labor
RAILWAY MEN WANT BEST MONEY.
Every day receive marked copies of
Populistic papers attacking me as one of
the enemies Of saanlIind because of my
presidency of the New York Central Rail-
raod and of my clients as a lawyer. Their
candidates for President and Vice President
both started in life as / did, with no other
capital than education and a profession.
We all three hustled for clients. for in
| come and careers That the business of
one is reputed to yield larger returns than
| that OF the other two Is not regarded by
law as either a reproach or q misfortune
Ihere are $1,000 of us on the pay roll of
that company. AMI We neither want to re-
ceive money worth half as much as that
we get nor 10 be compelled to pay for the
necessities of life twice as much as we
I'm debate which Mr.. Brvan had a fau
| months before his nomination upon the sill
yer question with Mr.. Rosewater the able.
| editor of the Omaha Bee, Mr. BRYAN cited
the prosperity OF Mexico as proof OF the hen
| ehtS of the free coinage of silver | asked
a railway official of one of the Mexican
company L received it this morning /
nnd that the pay of locomotive engineers.
nremen, switchmen. yardmen. conductors,
prakemen and skilled mechanics in the
shops averages somewhat less than the
same service received on the New York
Central, but that those employed are paid
invariably in the Mexican silver dollar
which makes their wages one-half of the
wages on the New York Central He sends
these employees must buy for the support
of themselves and their families. and I
lind that those are higher than they are i'm
the State of New York. So much for the
skilled labor on the railroads. But the track
men on the Mexican railroads receive Is
cents day In cities and 80 cents a day along
in Mexican silver. that means that they
receive Sll2 cents in cities and 10 cents a
My Bryan is loudly calling for our in
dependence from Europe: independence
from borrowing its. money for developing
our enterprises and employing our labor
| which would mean also Independence from
the vast trade which is carried on between
| Europe and the United States. We cannot
IL
US and be isolated from the world but we
go to silver basis and then establish our
! relations with China and the Orient. Ten
| nyson has said: Better fifty wears of
| Europe than a cycle OF Cathay' Better ten
| years of vigorous, healthy, progressive ac-
| tivity than a country of paralysis Better
| Chief Justice Russell with magnificent
message of peace and international friend
| ship and commerce than Ii Hung Chang
and cheap Chinese labor"
LIKE CASSABIANCA
Mr.. Depew said the proposed financial
legislation was contrary to the teaching OF
the great leaders from Washington to the
present day, and he then added:
My Bryan is fond of talking about dv.
ing in the last ditch and standing in the
forefront and making comparisons with dis.
tlnguished characters in history Unless
reason and patriotism have gone from the
American people, after election he will
stand in our history the Casa blanca o.,
American politics.
rudiate the relation that the President OF
the United States is the hired man Of the
people He holds his place for four wears
as the representative of the people Durinc
that time he possesses more power than
any ruler in the world except the auto
crat of all the Russias. He keeps tho
country disturbed or at rest He NAV be
it. He can create infinite distrust by tbs
measures he suggests or the quarreis which
he provokes with foreign countries Tho
equivalent for this high office goes almost
as far as the principles behind the candi.
dates. While Mr.. Bryan was practicins
law. before he entered Congress- Major Nc
kinley was serving the people in that body
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