The Indianapolis journal., 1896-10-13


the Democratic party feel bound no matter
what their opinions may be, to cast their
platform because he Is the regularly norni-
rated candidate of the regular Democra.
convention. They do not consider IL he Is
fit for the Office; they do not consid r what
lis the character of the views he advances:
they do not tfink whether he is national
or sectional patriotic or anarchistsc: they
do not think whether his platform repre-
stnts the ancient principles of the Dem.c-
racy. The principles are nothing to them
The platform is nothing to them But
It was all regular and in order and there
fore they propose to swallow it. Capplause.,
MY felow-citizens, there were days, as
you know when everybody had to be bled
in the spring and to take large spoonful
Of sulphur and molasses because that was
the regular cleansing medicine that was
always prescribed about that time of the
year; and family after family submitted
to that exhausting torture and that dis
gusting dose because ii would have been
very irregular not to take spring medicine
and and have spring bleeding; And, at last
the people began to see that what was
nasty and painful was bad thing, whether
1t was regular or irregular. (Applause.)
DUTY SOMETIMES TO BOLT
1t is the right of every American TO vote.
1t is sometimes said that it is the duty of
every American to vote. Not so; the vot-
Ing is the right. The duty is to vote ac-
cording to honor. to Judgment and to con-
science. (Applause.) When any man tells
rne that it is his duty to vote with his
party, when any man tells me that be-
cause he has been in the habit of casting a
vote that is called Democratic or called Re-
publican, that he intends to cast a vote
that bears one or the other of those names
for the rest of his life, and that he knows
nothing but the caption on the ticket and
the regularity of the convention--when he
tells me that opinion Is nothing. that prin-
ciple is nothing, that order is nothing. that
is nothing, but regularity is everything I
tell him he is like mercenary soldier who
fights in the ranks of some tyrant who has
Dought him to earn his pay, without know
ms against whom he Is fighting except IS
the tyrant bds-only that these regular
fought their tyrants battle CApplause.)
Fellow-citiZens your chairman has
Well, find the Democratic party likes to
give me that name. am sure have no
objection to it, provided they call me DEM
soon as the Democratic organization calls
on me to vote for anything that / think
wrong or for any, man that think an un..
II involves tearing the Democratic badge
from my breast and breaking the collar
neck. .Applause) All that is just the
glory or this year-this idea of regularity.
1896 that men are finding out that the reg
ular organizations may deceive them: that
IT is only sand on which the house Of reg
live in house built upon the bedrock of
patriotism and honesty and credit in the
Mr.. Bryan stands out the so-called
exponent of Democratic principles. Now I
have heard good deal of Democratic prin-
ciples in my life, and the best thing have
been able to find out about them is that
they are opposed to Republican principles.
and that the definition OF Republican prin-
ciples is the very opposite to Democratic
principles; and / have never been able to
get very clear definition of the two; Now
what have the Democrats been fighting in
the Republican party for so many years?
They have been fighting against class leg
ans. as led by Mr.. Mckinley, because they
were seeking by protective laws TO peneht
one class at the expense or another; .e,al ,- pc
for the benefit of a limited class wnen the
rest of the country would be benefited by
low prices. Class legislation, protectionism.
unnaturally high prices-those are the
charges the Democrats have been bringing
against the Republicans.
BRYAN REPUBLICAN THUNDER.
what does Mr.. Bryan offer? Mr.. Bryan
offers high prices-the very thing the Re-
publicans have advocated as the panacea
for the distress that exists at the present
time. Yet Democrats talk of voting for him
voting for high price man who has
stolen the Republican thunder and made 1t
his (Applause) The Republicans
have favored protection; that Is to say.
the Republicans have favored putting an
unnatural value on certain products by
way of legislation and the Democrats have
opposed them. Mr.. Bryan proposes TO put
an unnatural value upon silver, the produce
Of the mines, by legislation. and yet Demo-
Gratis talk of voting for Mr.. Mryan, with
his excessive protectionism silver going
beyond any Republican protectionism that
we have ever had before (Appause) DEM
Gratis have objected TO Republicans that
their legislation tended to make classes in
the country; that they have striven to give
something to the capitalist at the expense
of the laborer, something to the manufac-
tllrer at the expense of the farmer. Why
we were opposed to that because it was
un-American, because 1t was un-Democrat-
ic, because it was against the Declaration
of Independence, because it against
the principles of our very institution, be-
cause there are not any classes in this
country and man has right 10 pretend
that there are classes. Mr.. Bryan comes
and he raises class against class If the
against the farmer, Mr.. Bryan stands by
the farmer against the manufacturer If
OF wealth, Mr.. Bryan calls to them who
have no wealth and hounds them on to
communistic plunder of their more success
isiation, this ua-Deniocratic legislation, this
un-American legislation that we accused
the Republicans of advocating, Mr.. BryaI,
makes the very standard that he carriea:
and yet Democrats are going to vote for
him and this Republicanism beyond Re-
publicanism and pretend that his class leg
islation Is real Democracy of the Jefferson
ian type. (Applause.)
Mr.. Bryan stands upon a platform OF
which the first plank proposes to alter and
remodel and thoroughly change our money
change In our money system in the teeth
or all other nations in the teeth of all
the wealth. all the enterprise. all tho
order, all the interests of the country to
do it merely by vote of those who say
that they are distressed-in violation. more
over, Of the ancient right of private con-
tract. in violation Of all the principles OF
stability and order on which our country
Is founded. Mr. Bryan declares that there
is distress in the land. He declares that
much of the population Is suffering and
that the Republicans and the sound money
for fc lie
tress. He says. j offer a remedy. The very
fact that l do offer remedy is reason
for your adopting my remedy of silver at
16 to L.
AGITATORS CAUSE DISTRESS.
Mr.. Chairman, there is no such distress
as that Mr.. Bryan speaks of. We are in
hard times, j know that. Business Is in a
difficult position. Men find 1t hard to OBJ
tain work and producers find IL hard TO
sell their product. I know that. But that
Is not the time of that general overwhelm-
Ing distress and suffering that Mr.. Bryan
names. ! have been going through this