The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-24

ers recognized gold and silver as mon
/ ey metals Notwithstanding these met
ais had been used for 80 years in this
country before they were demOnetized,
notwithstanding the Republican party
had declared in favor of bimetallism
from time to time, this, the next con-
ventiOn of the Republican party, was
OverTidden and overcome by the influ-
eneeS that control the conditions IN TINS
country We are told We must take
the single gold standard whether we
will or nOt-that we must take 1t with
its enhanced value of 100 per cent
take it with all the evil consequences
of the existing falling prices and thus
enforce idleneSs and misery upon many
of our people.
We are told we must take it because
the holders of American securities must
have their pay in honest money. Who
is the man who represented this great
power? The man who has declared in
favor of bimetallism in congress re
peatedly-thiS modern Napoleon Qaugh-
ter and cheers) whose sole resemblance
to the Napoleon whom we all know
and admire, IS the fact ne wears nat
of a vintage of about a hundred years
ago. applause and laughter-)
This is the man who declares silver
shall no longer be the money of the
constitution. He had already declared
that decentralization would be unjust
and would bring want and misery to
the people. And yet, my fellow citi-
zens, because the presidency was Of
fered him at the hands of this British
and American gold power, he told US
recently that the only honest money
in this country is gold.
DISCUSSES MCKINLEY.
My friends, they say to US that his
nomination was brought about by
feeling that showed itself spontaneous
ly when the convention presented his
name. (Laughter.) They want US to
believe that the people rose up en-
masse and demanded his nomination.
Did the laboring men want his nomi-
nation? They tell US the laborfng men
and bankers agreed on that occasion.
Gaughter.) They tell US that they
agreed with the manufacturers on that
occasion.
They tell US his nomination was a
spontaneous rising clear across the
continent in favor of the Republican
nominee. Why is it? Does any man or
woman in this audience doubt that the
gold gamblers and brokers of Wall
street and of Lombard street and the
high protectionists raised a million dol
lars to secure his nomination? (Cries
OF No, no. and cheers
THE enthusiasm that was shown
here on the occasion, my friends, was
a purchased enthusiasm, such as has
been seen and felt in certain quarters
in this city during the existence OF
this convention. (Cries of 'gOOd.,)
Now, my friends, the great Napoleon
of France. the favored son of Corsica,
who daZzled the world with his mill
tary genius, and who threatened to
change the map of Europe, made two
vital mistakes. He made his first mis-
take when he left the provinces of
France and went south of the Pyrenees
and over the mountains into the pro
vinces of Spain. He made the second
great mistake when he invaded Rus
STA and was driven from Moscow with
his army broken, if not absolutely de-
strOyed. What is to become of this
simulated NapOleOn-Of this Napoleon
of Canton, O.? daughter and ap-
plause.) Now, my fellow citizens. he
has made two mistakes and his party
has made two mistakes that were
greater and more vital than the mis-
takes of the real Napoleon. CAP
when Mr.. Mckinley declared the
only way release could come to the
people of this country was by doubling
the taxes upon the articles that they
consumed, that was a mistake ZAP
plause.) According to the logic of this
modern Napoleon when you are car
rying a burden of 200 pounds, the way
to tighten that burden is to increase it.
daughter and applause) And when
you are paying on an average tax of
81 a head, the way to tighten that bur
den is to decrease the volume of money
and double the volume of taxation.
Applause and laughteT) At that
point. my fellow citizens, the modern
Napoleon has made another mistake.
1t is as vital as the mistake
made by the genuine Napoleon,
when he invaded Moscow. The an
cient-Or rather the genuine-NapOleOn
who challenges admiration nOtWith-
standing his mistakes, made another
mistake that cost him his life. It cost
a crown ana ETanCG-lL cost MIN d
crown and Europe, I might say. That
was the mistake he made at Waterloo
when he met Wellington and the allied
forces. CThiS allusiOn to the allied
forces was easily caught by the audi
ence some of whom repeated it (and
shouted Good "good') Wellington
had fought but few battles up to that
time He was comparatively unknown
to the military world. He was cOmpar-
atively unknown at that time; he had
not dazzled the world with any spec
fo1 Ep71T OF NT1F er.11C hi oh
Scure man who subsequently became
the Iron Duke of England, met and
overthrow the genuine Napoleon who
was baniShed to St. Helena and there
held as a prisoner and his crown and
country destroyed Somewhere in this
land today either in the east or in the
south, or in the north or on the great
plains of the northwest IS to be found
the Wellington who will overcome and
overthrow this modern Napoleon in
November. loud and enthusiastic
cheers.)
PRAISES THE PARTY.
THAT result, gentlemen of this con-
ventiOn, will be an occasion of great
Importance. realize that this party
stands today at the most critical point
it has reached in its history. Shall it
live. shall it continue (Cries of ''yeS').
Shall the great principles of POpu1ism
that are as eternal as the rock of ages
and as ancient as the sun, continue to
eXist2 Shall the great principles that
recognize no distinction between men
and women under just system of
government continue? Shall this great
party in it's national convention be
wiped out of existence, or shall it stand
as the beacon light for the liberty low
ing people all over the face of the
globe?
My fellow citizens it must live. It
will promulgate its platform before to-
morrow night (Applause). 1t Will be
a platform that will embrace the best
Popuistic thought of our country. We
have made mistakes before; they will
be corrected, whether of omission or
commission, and we viii declare to the
world that thai is the f.a1.r,, ,,ranr,