Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-11-20

pieces OF the Lincoln B1inetall1C CLUB, the local
Travelling Mems Bryan Club and what was
known during the campaign as the Bryan
Home Guards, Mr. Bryan tonight delivered
his first formal address since the election, sound
ing what is generally accepted as the keynote
of himself and his followers in the campaign
which is to continue for the free and unlimited
coinage of gold and silver. The meeting was
held at the Funk opera house, which was
crowded.
Mr.. Bryan was in fairly good voice, and was
enthusiastically applauded. After referring in
a congratulatory way to the result in Nebraska,
he proceeded with that part of his address
around which centered the most interest, say
ing: "Well, now, want to say word for
the future. We have passed through this cam
paign, and we have been defeated, and | want
you to remember this: that there is not in this
land single advocate of free coinage who is
not willing to abide the decision of the Ameri
can people without complaint. You do not
find among the silver men those who say, as a
distinguished Republican of New York said:
we may not abide by the result am proud
that in our ranks we had men who SO loved
this form of government that, no matter what
the people say, they rule, ard we bow to their
supremacy.
Now want you to take up every question
that concerns our national government, and
every question which concerns your state gov
ernment, every question which concerns your
city government, and make it subject of study,
and let it be known that the people who band
ed themselves together to secure the restoration
of the money of the constitution are not only
going to secure that, but they are going to be
an active, effective, telling force i'll making
government good, from the highest government
in the land down to the lowest in your city or
ward. We build up fighting force, my
friends, which will be invincible. If we can
convince the people that we are in earnest, and
that we are not seeking to contiol legislation
in order to secure some personal advantage at
the expense of others, and that, in our COM
prehension of the needs of the people, we take
into consideration all the people seeking to Sc
cure just, wise legislation, want to say to you,
my friends that We will lay the foundation for
enduring success"
BOB INGERsoII says the election of McKin-
lev is due to ''our foreign friends who have
become residents of this country. Exactly So
If the election had depended upon native born
Americans and the few foreigners who have
become truly Amercanized, Bryan would have
been elected by an overwhelming majority. A
foreigner who has not cast off the yoke of his
&c here heca he
can get little better wages than he can get in
his native land-who knows little or nothing
about Our form of government, and cares less
is a very poor kind of citizen. Upon the ig-
norance of this class of people the Republicans
depended for success, knowing full we'll that if
they depended upon the intelligent independ-
ent, thinking Americans, they would be turned
down. During the campaign, the Republicans
talked glibly about "protection to the Amer-
can Workman" Now that the ele cion is over,
the American workingman is getting taste Of
this "protection." Many of them were told,
the Saturday night before election, that if Nc
Kinley should be elected, they could return to
work on the day following election, but if Bry-
an should win, they need not return. Well
Mckinley was elected, or the couit1nS-lnachlne
worked in his favor and these returned to
work-BUT AT REDUCED WAGES. In a little
while, there will be another cut in wages, and
strikes and lock-outs will ensle. Soldiers will
be called to ''quel the riots" The American
aborer will be turned adrift, to tramp and to
starve, while "our foreign friends will fill the
places made vacant by the deposed Americans,
Before the election, the Republicans and their
Do,.,acrntic ailiec xuatated "a