Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-30
TWO sk1xxINGs FOR BRYAN.

nified eXcoriation was never given than in
the speech of General Lew Wallace ar In
dianapolis last Friday iE reply to the al
legged assertion of Governor Altgeld that II
Mckinley should be elected he would send
troops at the request of Herr Most to
oppress the people. From Alteeld the ora
tor turned to Bryan and for half an hour
scored him as the threatener of American
peace and prosperity and charged him with
appealing to the meanest elements in
human nature, to the hatred, the envy. and
the cupidity of the shiftless the ignorant
and the base. No other candidate for the
presidency, said General Wallace, has re-
vealed himself so sinister, unpatriotic and
traitrous in his words and his purposes.
Scarcely had the echo of General Wal
| laces arraignment died away when ex-
President Harrison arose in Indianapolis to
question of personal privilege and replied
to the charge made in Bryan's Crawfords-
Vile speech that he. Harrison justified the
coercion of laboring men by their en-
| ployers. Again the Transforming young
orator of the Platte received his just de-
serts, and what few remnants of cuticle
had been left clinging to his form by Gem
eral Wallace were deftly removed by Cen
| eraf Harrison.
81 denounce coercion" said General Har-
rison II have always denounced 1t.
| have always proclaimed as American doc
trine that every man should vote according
to the dictates of his own conscience; that
no man should coerce him, and that his
| vote, when cast, should be honestly count
| ed, This gentleman does me wrong when
| he imputes to me any acquiescence in the
suggestion that the vote of any man shall
| be coerced."
Then. taking up Bryan's speech in which
| he advised workingmen to put on Mckinley
buttons and march in Mckinley professions
but to vote on the sly for the Popocrat
| ticket, the orator proceeded as follows:
| "But what of his position? My view OF
the situation Is that If any railroad presi-
dent, if any employer of labor. attempts
| to control the political convictions of any
! employe, he should assert his manhood
then and there and declare to that presi-
dent or employer that he would vote as
he pleased. and that declaration of his will
be supported by everybody.
81 will undertake to defend this principle
everywhere, not only here, but If an in
! stance of this kind is brought to my atten-
ton will pledge myself as citizen and
| lawyer to rebuke it. What shall be said.
however, of the suggestion that Mr.. Bryan
makes? / would have the workingman as
sert his manhood; not only vote as he
| pleases, but wear the button that he
pleases, march in the parade that he
pleases and ask no mans consent.
'I cannot think of qualification that goes
| further than for a man TO coyer his face
with mask and march under a banner
that he declares he has to use to conceal
his face in order to keep his place. That is
not the spirit of a free man, and Mr.. Bryan
greatly undertakes the manhood of the
American workingman when he commends
such a programme as that to him. He
greatly undertakes the sense of fairness
of the American people: for I undertake
to say that If there were one well authen-
ticated instance in the city Of Indianapolis
where the poorest workingman had been
coerced in his convictions, the entire press
of the city, the entire public sentiment of
the city would be felt in condemnation of
the base act. But the advice is to pre-
tend to be something that you are not, in
order to preserve the little stipend of your
daily wages.
81 repeat 1t; I repeat It; that 1t is re-
pugnant to the sense of honor that every
man feels; that it is a degradation to labor
to suggest such a thing. What is it but to
counsel man to act-yes. to speak that
which is untrue; and by what code of NOR
ais is that to be justifed?"
General Harrison then took up the coun-
i hx,I I1r,,o fnot ha "a
publicans had reduced the number of SUI
preme court judges in 1866 for partisan
reasons, and declared that it could not be
given as a precedent, for the reason that
the appointing power was at that minute
about to be made the object of impeach.
ment for treason.
But" continued General Harrison. "car
he justify 1t as principle? Are We to Sc,
| up the doctrine that whenever the su.
| preme court makes a decision that is not
approved by a political convention thai
party shall increase the number of itt
judges or otherwise disturb its orderly con
stitution and administration in order tina
1t may be forced to adopt the DEGREES Of
a convention? Ny countrymen, when thai
time comes we have overturned the fabric
of our political institutions; we have un
settled that secure foundation upon which
We have rested and from which we have
, grown this magnificent and stately edific,
of government which we all now admire
and love.
"Mr. Bryan may say he is as good {
patriot General Lew Wallace. He may
say that he has never said that he would
not enforce the laws of the United States
He does not meet this question until h,
; says: IF the mail trains are obstructed
will open a way for them without askin,
Governor .Altgeld to consent He does no
meet this question until he has said: I
interstate commerce is interrupted / will
restore the free transit of it He does no
meet this question until he has said: 4
a United States marshal is impeded In ex
ecuting his writs I will lend him th
| strength to execute them
> My countrymen, he has not said that
and he will not say it; for his platform 1
y against it."
( BRYAN's WARD MUST DE SAVED.
, While Candidate Bryan is standing on tn