The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1896-10-16
M'KINlEY IS SILENT.
The Republican Candidate Has Not a
Word to Say Against the
Trusts, for They Own Him.
Mr.. Bryan, on the Other Hand, Dec! ares
That, &c Elected, He Will Use All
The Power of the Law, and, IL
Necessary. Ask for More Law
to Suppress Them.

Mr.. Bryan and Major Mckinley are
making speeches daily to crowds of
people. Mr.. Bryan discusses every is
sue involved in the campaign in the
most direct and unequivocal manner
He does not quibble and he evades
nothing. He is especially outspoken in
opposition to and in denunciation of
the trusts, syndicates and combinations
formcd to throttle legitimate business
and exact unreasonable profits from
the people.
Major Mckinley, on the other hand,
deals largely in generalities and mean
ingless, platitudes, and seems all the
time to be trying to talk without say
ing anything. He uses words chiefly
| to conceaislsis ideas, IL, indeed, he has
| ideas. He is direct and explicit in
nothing. He Is especially silent and
evasive on the subject of trusts, syndi-
Gates and combinations. and doesn't
even seem to know that such things
exist. His silence in regard to them
can mean nothing else than his en-
|
absolute ownership of him. II
Mckinley should be elected, every trust
! and syndicate and ring and combina-
ton in restraint of trade in all the
land could go to Washington and de-
mand Of him it's compensation for
electing him in additional privileges
and profits at the expense of the peo-
| ho in
going, either.
In striking contrast to this position
of entire subserviency to those special
interests that need the strong curb OF
the law was Mr.. Bryan's severe de-
nunciation of the trusts in his recent
speech in Tammany hall. Mr.. Bryan
began his remarks with a reference
to the charge recently made in speech
by ex-President Harrison that the
Democratic national platform is q
menace to the government, and fol
lows that with his denunciation Of thu
trusts. He said:
my friends, I call your attention t
the fact that ex-President Harrison as
serts that our platform places the gov
!. |
we might we'll turn from the discussion
Of any other question to consider
wherein it menaces the continuation o
= constitutional government and there
} nothing In the Chicago platform tina
. menaces constit utional gov ernment. Their
n Is nething In tho Chicago platform tina
would make the executive of tho Unite
States fcebie in enforcing all the laws q
the nation or feeble in defending tho con
stitution OF the nation; and there Is moth
- ing in that platform that assaiis the in
tegrity or questions the honesty of tn
s supreme Court of the United States or o
v any one state. Applause
o Il challenge you to read that plat
: form and find in that platform a singl
Q sentence that justilies the languag
used by the ex-president.
"Our criticism of the supreme cour
Is not as severe as the criticism and tn
= platform upon which Abraham Lincol
IS was elected in 1860. The language tha
e have used in regard to the suprem
i court has not been as severe as tn
language used by Abraham Lincoln
8 both before his election and after hi
election to the presidency. tApplause
There Is nothing in our platform cor
cerning the Invasion of the state
n federal troops; that appears in fore
d and is emphasized in the platform
, 1860 upon which Mr.. Lincoln was cleo
/. ed There Is nothing that has been sal
v in the platform or by its candidate ths
II justifies the charge that the Democra
ic party is assailing constitutional go,
ernment or interfering with the prese
walton OF law and order. lApplause.l ]
ri II shell go further than that II
J. Harrison wa.ts to raise the question
u the survisal o. our government, am will
le inx to NEST hi.n on that pro position. A
s. plause.
- my friends. in SO far as Republican