The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1896-10-16
Hypocrisy Of Those Who Profess
to Fear the Laws Will Not
Be Enforced.
M'KINLEY is SILENT.
The Republican Candidate Has Net O
! Word to Say Against tho Trusts.
for They Own Him.
1dr. Bryan, on the Other Hand, DeclAxoA
That, If Elected, He Will Use All the
Power of the Law, and, II Neo.
essary, Ask for More Law
to Suppress Then.

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Mr.Bryan and Maj. Mckinley are maxi !
ing speeches daily to crowds of people,
mr.. Bryan discusses every issue in-
volved in the campaign in the most de
rect and unequivocal manner. He
does hot quibble and he evades nothing.
He is especially outspoken in opposi-
tion to and denunciation of the trusts,
syndicates and combinations formed
ito throttle legitimate business and ex-
act unreasonable profits from the peo-
pie.
Maj. Mckinley, on the other hand,
deals largely in generalities and mean
ingless platitudes, and seems all the
time to be trying to talk without say
hng anything. He uses words chiefly
to conceal his ideas, if, indeed, he has
ideas. He is direct and explicit in
nothing. He is especially silent and
evasive on the subject of trusts, syndi!
Gates and combinations, and doesn't
even seem to know that such things
exist. His silence in regard to them
can mean nothing else than his in
dorsement Of them, if not, indeed, their
absolute ownership of him. If Nc
Kinley should be elected, every trust
and syndicate and ring and combina-
ton in restraint of trade in all the land
could go to Washington and demand OF
him it's compensation for electing him
in additional privileges and profits at
the expense of the people, and they
would not be slow in going, either.
In striking contrast of this position
of entire subserviency to those special
interests that need the strong curb of
the law was Mr.. Bryan's severe de-
nunciation of the trusts in his recent
speech in Tammany hall. Mr.. Bryan
hogan his remarks with a reference to
the charge recently made in a speech
by ex-Presdent Harrison that the
democratic national platform is mem
ace to the government, and followed
that with his denunciation of the
trusts. He said:
.'NIy friends, cali your attention to the
fact that Ex-President Harrison asserts
that our platform places the government
in danger. If that were true, we might
well turn from the discussion of any other
question to consider wherein it menaces
the continuation of constitutional govern
ment. and there is nothing in the Chicago
platform that menaces constitutional gov
ernment. There Is nothing i'll the Chicago
platform that would make the executive
. OF tho United States feeble in enforcing all
tho laws of the nation or feeble in defend
Ing the constitution Of the nation; and
i there is nothing in that platform that as
sails the Integrity questions the honesty
\ Of tho supreme court of the United Statea
or of any one state. (Applause)
d II challenge you to read that platform
& and find in that platform a single sen
N Nence that justifies the lang suase USED %
the ex-president.
'-Our criticism Of the supreme court Il
II mot as severe as the criticism and the plat
form upon which Abraham Lincoln wa
4 elected in 1860 The language that hav
fused in regard to the supreme court haa
not been as severe as the language uset
/ by Abraham Lincoln, both before his elec
tion and after his election to the presi
Idenoy. (Applause.] There is nothing II
our platform concerning the invasion o
the state by federal troops: that appear
IN force and is emphasized in the platform
of 1860 upon which Mr.. Lincoln was elect
ed. There Is nothing that has been sal
lin the platform or by its candidate tina
justifes the charge that the democrati
party is assailing constitutional govern
ment or interfering with the preservation
of law and order. [Applause.]
II shall go further than that. If M,
Harrison wants to raise tho question of tn
Il survival of our government, am willing t.
meet him on that proposition. (Applause.
'My friends, in so far as the republican
and former democrats [hisses] have crit
dcised my election as menace to law an
1 |order I want to say to you that their fea
lis not that as executive I will be la
lin the enforcement of law; their fear
81 that as an executive I would mot respec
H persons. [Applause.]
N t.Who is 1T that is SO afraid the law VII
Ma mot be enforced? (Cries of "Hanna!
SS@ 'sHanna!" and applause) Those who ar
gE most fearful that there will be lax en-
So Iforcement Of the law are the very person
s#a who would suffer most If the laws wer
I enforced (ApplauseD
8 '"Those persons who are afraid that la
will be violated with impunity are tt