The evening bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1887-1905, 1896-10-10
MKlNLEY IS SILENT.
The Republican Candidate Has Not
Word to Say Against the
Trusts, for They Own Him.
Mr.. Bryan, on the Other Hand, Declares
That, IL Elected, He VIII Use All
The Power of the Law, and, IL
Necessary, Ask for More Law
to Suppress Them.


people. Mr.. Bryan discusses every is
sue involved in the campaign in the
most direct and unequivocal manner
He does not bubble and he evades
nothing. He is especially outspoken in
opposition to and in denunciation OF
the trusts, syndicates and combinations
formed 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 conceal his ideas, if, 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-
dorsement of them, if not, indeed, their
absolute ownership of him. If
Mckinley should be elected, every trust
and syndicate and ring and combina-
ton in restraint of trade in all the
land could so to Washington and de-
mand of him it's compensation for
electing him in additional privileges
and profits at the expense of the peo-
pie, and they would not be slow 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 a speech
by ex-President Harrison that the
Democratic national platform is
menace to the government, and fol-
lows that with his denunciation OF the
trusts. He said:
My friends, / call your attention to
the fact that ex-President Harrison as
serts that our platform places the gov
eminent in danger. If that were true,
we might well turn from the discussion
of any other question to consider.
wherein it menaces the continuation of
constitutional government, and there is
nothing in the Chicago platform that
menaces constitutional government. There
is nething in the Chicago platform that
would make the executive of the United
States feeble in enforcing all the laws OF
the nation feeble in defending the con-
stitution of the nation; and there Is moth
ing in that platform that assaiis the in
tegrity or questions the honesty of the
supreme Court of the United States or of
any one state. Applause.
Il challenge you to read that plat
form and find in that platform a single
used by the ex-president.
"Our criticism of the supreme court
is not as severe as the criticism and the
platform upon which Abraham Lincoln
was elected in 1860. The language that
1 have used in regard to the supreme
court has not been as severe as the
language used by Abraham Lincoln,
both before his election and after his
election to the presidency. [Applause.l
There is nothing in our platform con-
the invasion of the state by
federal troops; that appears in force
and is emphasized in the platform of
1860 upon which Mr.. Lincoln was elect
ed. There is nothing that has been said
In the platform or by it's candidate that
justifes the charge that the Democrat
Ic party is assailing constitutional gov
or interfering with the preser-
walton of law and order. [Applause.]
II shall go further than that. II Mr..
Harrison wants to raise the question OF
the survival of our government, am will
ng to meet him on that proposition. APP.
plause.
my friends, in so far as Republicans
and former Democrats [hisses] have |
criticised my election as a menace to |
law and order, 1 want to say to you |
hat their fear is not that as an execu-
i've 1 will be lax in the enforcement OF |
aw; their fear is that as an executive |
I would not respect persons. lap
1lause.1
who is it that is so afraid that law
will not be enforced? [Cries of Han
la" "Hannal" and applause. Those
Who are most fearful that there will be a
AK enforcement of the law are the very per
ons who would suffer most II the laws
we're enforced. Applause.
Those persons who are afraid that
aw will be violated with impunity are
The ones who have violated the law
with impunity.
at Mr. Harrison wants to raise the
question OF the survival OF our instit uti ons,
will tell him that the great trusts Of this