Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-01-19
OUR CANDIDATE IN 1900
JACKSON DAY IN CHICAGO.
Extacts from the Speech of W.
Bryan on that Occasion.


Extacts from the Speech of W. ]
Bryan on that Occasion.
He Defines the Meaning of Democracy.
He said: GA democracy is a gov.
eminent in which the people rule"
In other words, it is government
such as Lincoln described: "A gov
eminent of the people, by the people
and for the people, and democrat
in the broadcast sense is one who be-
lieves in this form of government.
when l say believe in this form
of government, l mean actual, sim
cere, 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
people to govern themselves and the
right of the American people to legis-
late for themselves upon all questions
regardless of the wishes of those who
live in other lands. In technical
sense democracy is outlined and de-
fined by the democratic party.
MAJORITY SHOULD RULE,
The right to party organization be-
longs to the majority and the right
to the party name must also belong
to the majority. "There should be
no difficulty in understanding the re-
lations which should exist between
the democrats who remained in the
party and those persons who went
out of the party. A party is defined
as an association of persons who
agree upon an important question or
questions and who unite to give effect
to their ideas. The money question
became the paramount issue of the
day; the democrats in convention
took position upon the question
and made a gallant fight in defense
of the platform adopted. If the
money question was now considered
settled another issue could be taken
up and 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
election advocate it now. The elect
ion has decided the presidency for
four years and it has determined the
complexion of congress for two years,
but it has not overthrow the con-
victions of those who believe that
the gold standard is conspiracy
against the welfare of the producing
masses nor has it changed the con-
victions of thase who believe that
trusts must be abolished and corpora
tions made to obey the law.
NO COMPROMISE POSSIBLE.
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.
In my opinion there should be no
compromise of the issues involved in
the late campaign, and no terms
short of absolute surrender offered
those who have deserted us. If any
democrat becomes convinced that
the gold standard is necessary, or be-
comes a defender of trusts, he can
leave the party and join the boiling
democrats or the republicans. If any
boiling democrat sees the error OF
his way, ond is willing to endorse the
Chicago platform and labor with
those who seek to carry it into effect
we will welcome such q democrat
back into the fold.
WORK OLE NATIONAL BANKS.
1--WE are engaged now in just sucf
contest as that through which
Andrew Jackson passed, and we d.
we'll on this occasion to take en-
couragement from his devotion to
the cause of the people. He gained
his greatest silver victory in his fgh
against the national bank. We have
the same fight on hand today. TIL,
national bank is seeking to force ,
retirement of the greenoack, ant
then monopolize the issue of pape
money. The republicans, during th
campaign just closed, avoided thi
subject and refused to declare them
selves either for or against the re
tirement of the greenbacks. Blu
when they come to apply their idea
to. legislation they must disclose thei
views.
INABILITY TO REALIZE.
Zone bank announced as the caus
of it's failure, inability to realize upo
assets. This notice was confession
OF the argument made during tn
campaign 10y the advocates of fire
coinage. We have all along insiste
that the gold standard was destroy
ing the value of assets. With none,
rising in value and property fallin,
in value, hard times must continue
That this is not due to local causes i
evident from the fact that the sam,
complaint comes from other nations