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

honor of running. Applause and a
voice Keep in the middle of the rOad'')-
Yes, they want him to keep in the
middle of the road I tell you every
body in this city tonight with Republic
can money in his pocket is talking in
the middle of the road "a voice I
thought you were going to keep IN the
middle of the road'').
COUNTRY'S HONOR IN PERIL
Il am sir; I know where it is too. I
know where the middle of the road is
(Applause). will tell you what shall
be may tell you now and may not,
but VIII tell you what would not. 1
would not become an accessory to the
success of the single gold standard up
on the Republican or any other ticket
prolonged applause).
Every man that has distributed
danAaS Doodle from north to south
and from east to west in this country
is joining the honest Republicans and
trying the middle of the road This
convention, my fellow citizens, will fol-
low its deliberate judgment; its cool
judgment and not It's passions. This
is no time for sentiment, and no time
to give way to passion The man who
is moved by passion is always a fail
ufe, always a failure.
a man who is controlled by a clear
intellect and a high sense of duty is
the man who succeeds (Applause.)
This convention will place in nOmina-
ton, l have not the slightest doubt, a
presidential candidate and a vice pres
ldent1al candidate. It is for you to say
whom you want, not for me As your
presiding officer it is my duty to recog-
n1ze the rights of every man of you
with absolute impartiality. (Applause.)
It will be done, my friends, as far as
l am capable of doing it, but let me
appeal to you as one who sees the
homes Of his country imperiled, as one
who sees the homes of the farmer and
the labOring man in this country pass
ing into the hands of landlords, as one
who fOresees the time, not far distant
will be a few landlords in this country
and a great mass of tenant peasantry-.
Let me appeal to you not to suffer any
sentiment to move you contrary to the
interests of your country, your wife,
your children and your God. prolonged
applause)
MUST GET TOGETHER.
Take into account this one thing.an
it is highly important What will be
the effect at the election in November
next if you shall put in the field a third
ticket? That is for you to consider.
That is where you should use your
highest judgment and your greatest
patriotism. Take into account, my fell
low citizens, the fact and weigh it well,
whether we shall unite the forces OF this
country against pIutOcracy or not. Gap
plause) Do you want Mckinley?
CVoiceS, No, nO.D Do you want CIeve-
land? CVO1ces, NOD Do you want two
hundred and sixty-three millions more
of gold bonds in time of peace? (VOice,
NOD Do you want Grover Cleveland
and Mckinley to lock arms and walk
shoulder to shoulder in the interest Of
this money power? (Voice, Yes, that's
just where we want them
Isn't it a little suspicious that Mr..
Carlisle said in a letter to Mr.. Foster
within a day or two that if the Demo
cratic party did not adopt the gold stand
ard he would vote the Repu blican ticket?
Isn't it a little suspicious when you see
Carlisle and John Sherman together
Applause and laughter) Isn't it a lit
tie bit suspicious when you see the
great and good Deacon Dana and Herr
Most together upon the gold question.
applause and laughter) Isn't it a lit
tie bit suspicious, my friends, when his
excellency, Mr. Cleveland. says that on
the result of this convention he will or
will not become q candidate for the
third term?
Isn't it a little bit suspicious when
the chief magistrate of seventy-One
millions of people caused a letter to be
written from the money centers of this
country to the farmers of the south
and west and the northwest, threaten
ing them that if they failed to vote for
the gold standard their supplies would
be taken from them? Are you suspi-
ciOuS of a man who a few years ago
said gold and silver were money of
equal value, and yet who today is the
outspoken champion of a single gold
standard and accepts a presidential
nomination on that kind of platform
Do you want Mckinley and bonds and
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and high taxation (VOices, MOI and
government by injunction? loud
'NOes.O Do you want that, or do you
want an enlarged volume of money
CVOiceS, 'YeSD by the free and unlimit-
ed coinage of silver and gold at the
ratio of IS to /? (Applause.) Do you
want the income tax? mixed cries OF
Yes and MOI Do you want the man
in the chief executive Office to appoint
a few more shysters upon the supreme
bench? CVoices, NOD Do you want
man that is in favor of tightening
the burdens of taxation upon the peo-
pie? Do you want man that is in
favor of government ownership of rail
roads, telegraphs and telephones?
(Cries of 'Yes.O If you were compelled
to take your choice of these two men,
which would you take?
SILVER OR GOLD, WHICH?
Il am not the advocate of Mr.. Bryan
here. "a voice. 1t seems like it, Do
not misunderstood me, fellow citizens,
that I am advocating any choice here
for yoll to make. 1t is for you to make
the choice, and not me If by putting
a third ticket in the field-and this is
one of the questions we must consider
you would defeat free coinage, defeat
a withdrawal of the issue power of ma
tional banks. defeat the government
ownership of railroads, telephones and
teIegraphs: defeat the income tax and
fasten gold monOmetallism and nigh
taxation upon this people for a genera
ton to come, which would you do? CAP
plause.)
1T is your choice to make, not mine.
When go back to the splendid COM
monwealth that has so signally hon
ored ne. beyond my merits and be-
yond ny ability, I want to be able to
say 20 the people that all these good
doctrines which we have preached for
years are now made possible by your
action; I don't want them to say to me
that the Populists of this country have
been advocates OF reforms when they
,Isc-I1sa h1TH hon
the first ray of light appears, when the
people are looking with expectancy and
with anxiety for relief. the party was
not equal to the occasion; it was stupid.
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