The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-04-08
THE SUBSIDIZED PRESS.
BRYAN's AFTERNOON SPEECH.
1T Was a Brief One-Other Speakers
Discuss War.

The crowd began to arrive for the after
noon meeting rather early, but at the hour
for beginning business the hall was not yet
full, in spite of the fact that Bryan was
promised an attraction.
AT the opening of the session the first
speaker introduced was DR.. II. S. Taylor
of Chicago. This gentleman paid more at
tention to the Cuban matter than to the
cause of silver at the outset.
He said it was fitting that sympathy
should come from this country, as our own
historical traditions were kindred to the ex-
perience of the Cubans. Cuba has always
been, and always will be, SO long as Spanish
rule is allowed, merely a COW to be MIXED
systematically, a creature on which Spain
caa support her decaying fortunes. Her
experience at the hands of Spain has been,
step by step, poverty, bonded Indebtedness
from which she received no benefit bust
ness stagnation, WretchednesS and degrada-
ton. The burdens of the Cubans have been
stupendous, and the speaker ventured the
assertion that during the seven revolutions
that the Cubans have been engaged in they
had suffered less from Spanish bayonets
than from Spanish bonds.
He then went into the discussion of social
and financial conditions of the present day.
He reviewed the cotton mill workers
troubles in New England and the more re-
cent carpenters strike saying that the
Republican party had not been true to it's
trust, and had not, as it promised opened
up the manufactures of the country. The
main reason for it all was he said, the in
fuence of Mark Hanna, whom lie desig-
mated as 1.-THE unofficial member of the
Cabinet who lodges in the White House"
right to dictate the Republican policy In
speaking OF a prominent man in politics, he
said he asked him point blank whether
President Mckinley intended to avenge the
death of the victims of the Maine disaster.
The politician very solemnly said he was
unable to answer the question until he
could communicate. with Mark Hanna and
Tom Reed"
He stigmatized the position occupied by
Senator Hanna as disgraceful to the Amer
lean people, holding up the relative position
of the President toward him as that of
Oliver Twist toward Bill Sykes.
He repudiated the authority of Mr.. Hanna
in making the statement that there won't
be no Spanish war"
He said Mckinley had been rechristened
and his new name was webbing WILLIE
He had, he said, wobbled from a bimetallic
stand to a single gold standard. President
McKinley's war policy was held up to ridi-
Guile as hesitating shrinking and impossible.
HannaS influence was so strong, he said,
that he had with great presumption sent
out last sunday requests to the clergy OF
war. He closed his remarks by speaking of
the birth of the new Democracy which
broke away from ali traditions and customs
of the party and became a pure Democracy.
A FREE-SII.VER REPUBLICAN.
Charles A. Towne, of Minnesota, the
chairman of the national silver Republican
committee, was then introduced amid great
applause. He congratulated the cause of
bimetallism in opening, because of tho pres
ence of the representatives, of SO many par
ties gathered under it's banners.
He pronounced glowing tribute TO the
position of Indianapolis as political CEN
ter and home of public characters OF ma
tional Importance. This city has been, he
said. the political scene OF farce and a
conspiracy The farce was. he said, the NOM
tnation of the impossible ticket. Palmer and
Buckner, and the conspiracy was the at