Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-22
ROUSlNG FIRST WARD RALLY
Biggest and Best Meeting that Has Marked
the Campaigns Progress,
SPEECHES BY WHARTON AND RosEwATER
Former Devotcs Ills Time to National
Issues and Latter to Efforts of n
Disappointed Aspirnnt for Of
flce to Create Dissatisfaction.

Inc most largely attended ana enthusiastic
political meeting Of the current campaign
was held last night at National ball, corner
OF Thirteenth and William streets, where
campaign issues were discussed from a re-
publican standpoint to the demonstratiye
satisfaction OF some $50 voters OF the First
and Second wards /. S. Hascall presided
and first introduced Hon. Lee Estelle, can
didate for district judge.
Mr.. Estelle disavowei any intention to
make a speech, but took occasion to urge
republicans to vote the straight ticket this
fall in order that the word may go on to
Washington and President Mckinley that
Nebraska endorsed his administration and
that the electoral vote in 1900 may be cast
for Mckinley, who, as president, has been
second only to Lincoln.
John c. Wharton drew a sharp contrast
between the prevailing conditions of the
country and those when he last addressed
the club, three years ago. Then the voters
had nothing to do but sit around dry
goods boxes and talk politics, but today it Is
different. Laboring men, and even women.
are employed and it is often impossible to
secure servants woman acquaintance OF
his had gone to an agency to engage a serv-
ant, but the agent declined to accept her
advance money, claiming that 1t would be
useless, as 1t would be impossible to secure
lHt utSlItu servant IN SIX months. ThN
reason assigned by the agent was that all
of the factories had started up and the
young women were securing employment by
reason of the increased demand for help.
The railroads are unable to handle the traf-
hc, their tracks are strung with moving
trains and the employees are worked over
time.
Change from Three Years Ago.
10 ion,
years ago, Mr. Wharton recounted
how Bryan had beguiled his audiences
by calling for a gold dollar, and
finding none, had declared that money
was scarce and that they were voting for
Pierpont Morgan and the syndicates Mr.
Wharton declared that he had stayed with
the republican party, not because he wanted
any office, but because he wanted prosper
ity. Bryan declared that If Mckinley we're
elected money would be scarce and interest
would be doubled The other day in a pop.
ulst paper up in Burt county he had noticed
an advertisement, money to loan at pei
cent" Three years ago it had loaned al
and per cent.
Speaking of the cry that the acts OF the
president in regard to the Philippines are
unconstitutional, Mr. Wharton showed how
old this cry was among democrats and with
what little avail it had proven to them
1Ie detailed the history of the republican
party for unvarying patriotism. James Blu
chanan, the last democratic president bu
one, was unable to find anything in the
constitution denying the right of state
to withdraw from the union. The repub
lican party found the colors trailing in the
dust. 1t took them UP and triumphant!
planted them on the pinnacle of honor 1
do fph for ho
. of 100000 slaves The democrats then
as now, declared the war failure and de-
manded that it should cease.
Bryan a False Prophet.
'Then came the free trade contention
and the first speech Bryan ever made tha
brought him any prominence was in favo
of it. We got the Wilson bill and yol
know the result. Do you want any mor
of it? Then they said the disaster we sus
tanned from it was because We didn't hav
free silver. The republican party said
was because under free trade the factorie
were not in operation, wherefore the labor
Ing man could not find employment and thu
be enabled to buy the products OF the farm
Then we got Mckinley and the protectiv
tariff. Is there a laborng man in tn
house who can't find employment now? w
gave the laboring man dollar as good a
Pierpont Morgan's, everything has gon
up and now they are crying for cheape
things again"
Speaking of the trusts, Mr. Wharton sal
that Bryan, while in congress, did nothin
to discourage them, that the first law eve
passed against trusts was a republican meas
ure and that the home of nearly all of ther
is in the good old democratic state OF Me-
Jersey He believed the republican part
can be trusted to regulate the trusts to tn
same satisfaction of the people as it ha
given in the regulation of the money ques
ton.
Turning to the democratic cry Of imperial
ism, the speaker detailed the steps leadin
upto the treaty of Paris by which the Phi
ippues became the property of the Unite
States, showing that Allen and Bryan, wit
many other democrats and populists, ha
favored it's ratification. Continuing he sait
Before the FilipinoS knew what this goN
ernment proposed to do in their case the
began shooting at the stars and stripe