Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-02-12
ARE LEADERS OF MEN.
BRYAN AND ALTGELO BREATHE
GREAT UTTERANCES.
Some Eloquent Selections from TheU
Recent Speeches In Honor of Another
Great Defender of the Democratic
Party.

90 not WANT 10 SldHu ioi houA
years in the attitude of candidate for
the Presidency. l do not want Jealous
friends to be continually alarmed lest
l should do some thing to ALLEVIATE
some OF those who have given me their
confidence and support. In the past l
have spoken out upon public questions
which in my judgment needed to be
discussed, and l desire to occupy the
same position in the future. When the
next campaign opens it will be time
enough to select candidate suited to
the conditions then existing and mt
for the work then to be done. still
repeat my suggestion that my name
be no longer connected with the names
Of clubs.
The Web-Footed Tribe.
"As we are assembled on this occa-
sion to do honor to the memory of An
drew Jackson we may properly discuss
the relations which should exist be-
tween the democrats who Endorsed the
Chicago platform and the so-called
democrats who aided in the election
of republican president. The demo-
Gratis who controlled the Chicago con-
vention earned their right to the party
organization and to the party name by
whatever rule their claims may be
measured. A democracy is a govern
ment in which the people rule. In other
words, it is a government such as
Lincoln described: "A government of
the people, by the people, and for the
people, and democrat in the broadcast
sense is one who believes in this form
of government. When 1 say believes
in this form Of government, l mean
actual, sincere, heartfelt belief, not a
formal and enforced submission to that
form of government. Measured by this
definition, those who supported the
Chicago platform are democrats, be-
cause they assert the right of the peo-
pie to govern themselves and the right
of the American people to legislate for
themselves upon all questions regard
less of the wishes of those who live in
other lands.
Great Is True Democracy.
"In a technical sense democracy is
outlined and defined by the democratic
party. The democratic party Of the
United States in national convention,
assembled according to custom, adopt
ed a platform which received the sane
ton of nearly two-thirds of a very large
proportion of the democrats of the ma
ton. That convention had a right to
define democracy in party sense, and
we have a right to declare that those
who Endorsed that platform are demo-
Gratis, and that those who refused to
support the platform are not demo-
Gratis.
1T is strange that there should be
any contest over this point. 1t is
strange that those who secured for
their candidate less than l per cent of
the popular vote of the United States
should insist that they are entitled to
be called the real democrats.
Money Question.
"If the money question was now con-
sidered settled another issue could be
taken up and a new alignment made.
But the money question is not settled.
The contest for the restoration of the
money of the constitution will go on
with renewed vigor. The people who
advocated free silver before the cleo
ton advocate it now The election has
decided the presidency for four years,
and it has determined the complexion
of congress for two years, but 1t has
not overthrow the conviction of those
who believe that the gold standard is
a conspiracy against the welfare OF
the producing masses, nor has 1t
changed the convictions of those who
believe that trusts must be abolished
and corporations made to obey the
law.
This campaign has shown the i'm
possibility of keeping bimetallists and
gold standard advocates in the same
political organizations, and it will be a
more difficult task in the future than
It has been this year. To use COM
mon illustration, hen is always dis
turbed If she has in her brood few
ducks which insist upon padding in
the water, while the chickens are con-
tent to scratch upon the land. The
democratic party will in like manner
be ill at ease If it has few web-footed
members who insist upon crossing the
ocean for their ideas while the great
majority of the party are willing to
find their political food upon American
soil.
National Bankers Anarchists,
1--WE have the same fight on hand to-
day. The national bank is seeking to
force a retirement Of the greenback,
and then to monopolize the issue of
paper money. The republicans during
the campaign just closed avoided this
subject and refused to declare them
selves either for or against the retire
ment of the greenbacks. But when
they come to apply their ideas to legis-
htion they must disclose their views.
Mckinley Paramount"
"The fact that Senator Walcott has
been sent abroad by the president-elect
as an ambassador most extraordinary