, 1898-10-27

questions. II we elect a congress, hav-
ing as we then will in the next con-
gress, a republican senate. a republic
can house. all the opposition this win
ter will rise to the patriotic standard.
and will unquest!onably join with us
in assisting us in the legislation that
we would have the power in the next
congress to enact. But you know, and
I know, that If we elect a democratic
house Of representatives, 1t will stand
to antagonize every measur proposed
by the administration: it will be max
ing its battle ground for the next presi-
Dental election; and the result will be
it has happened before-that there
will be no legislation on the great ques-
lions for two more years. and much,
very much. that we already seem to
have gained, will be lost to us. I
therefore say to you today that the is
sue Is not partisan or political. The
issue Is not free silver, or more money,
or anything else; 1t is a patriotic issue.
We have got in opposition to the
republican party, a party with a plat
form that they do not advocate on the
stump: Joined together through no
unity of principles. but with a unity OF
purpose Of getting into power and d.
viding the offices by lot. Have they
got a patriotic policy in this country
!, today? Are they attempting to uplift
= this land before the nations Of the
, world today? Are they standing by
3 our president, who has won these vic.
p tories today? Why. only last week,
: passed a free silver headquarters
in Omaha and l saw a great swelled ny
frog in the window. I stopped and
I asked the man in chage what he was
doing with the frog there. He said:
q "that is the new emblem OF the party
!, "Why. how is that?" We'll" he said
: "you see the frog has a green back ant
4 a silver belly. and he is SO full OF wind
, that he don't know which way tc
Jump" daughter and applause.) They
I are simply opposing the progress Of
this nation, and the carrying out Of
y the great war policy of our president
Does anybody doubt that this has beer
an American year for the welfare o.
the American people? Can any mar
. doubt that this has been Gods year
Can any man doubt that providence
\, has set us on a new pathway to human
advancement and human glory? Car
any man doubt that the great Creator
. has given aid to the sympathetic ant
enlightened people OF the United States
the welfare OF other nations and d
other peoples. suffering and in bond.
y age? l cannot doubt it. I cannot SC
believe. Do you know what this yeal
, means to the people OF the United
States?
, Two weeks ago l opened the Ohio
campaign at the capital city OF the
, state. in Columbus. A gentleman on
the platform shook me by the hand
and said: You were here a year ago.
was startled; a year ago? Why, II
seemed to me as If it had been ten, and
stopped and said eosmy heart, only
. a year ago-only a year ago, my hear
only a year ago, my c%ountrymen;'
and yet, in that n veal has been
created more human advancement
\ more uplifting and ennobling Of hu-
manity than in any quarter Of a cen.
, fury since the beginning Of time; fol
;, in this one year there has been added
, a great eliminating document that will
stand for all time; the final guarantee
!, of the Utmost liberty to all mankind
Four great written documents stand in
history for the rights OF man. First
that wonderful magma charta wrested
by the sturdy barons Of Runnymede
from the unwilling signature of roy
atty. that first great bulwark OF human
safety set up against tine absolute rule
of kings. But that first great docu-
ment was incomplete: for while 1t pro.
tscted the barons and the lords and the
higher classes from the absolute rule
, OF the king, it yet left the great mass
of the common people as they were be-
fore, absolutely subject to the will, not
, only OF the king. but Of the noble and
: OF the peer. Down along the centuries
: growing out Of this great magma charta
: commenced the inspiration Of mankind
FOR the true liberty hat they were just
beginning to see in the future: and the
American declaration Of independence
was the next great written document