The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-10-17
A DOLLAR
MARK PARTY.
W. j. Bryan Pays His Respects
to the Republicans.
MAKES REPLY TO A CHARGE.
Says Demsgogy Now Means to BE Friend
of the People as Against the
Wealthy Inconsistency
of the President.

Sioux City, Oct. 14.-Wiliam Jennings
Bryan arrived here from Lemars at IL
o'clock last night, held a levee at the
Mondamin hotel between and 9:45
o'clock and left at 10 o'clock for Ida
Grove, Mapleton and Carroll, where he
made great speech. After condemn
ing the Mckinley foreign policy and the
Philippine war he said:
THE American people have never con-
fronted graver questions than those that
confront them today. God has bestow-
ed mighty blessings on us, and therefore
He will require much OF us in return.
Our nation is like a city on q hill. It is
seen of ALL and it's conflicts are watched
by the world. The one fundamental
principle that will apply to all questions
now before us iF this: Al men are
created equal Need 1 apologize for
quoting the declaration of independ-
ence? 1t seems under a cloud now, dur
ing Republican administration, but in
another year it will come forth again as
a shining light.
II am willing to drop every policy that
violates that doctrine. Are you? If not
you put party above country and pat
riotism. The Republican party once up
held this principle, but it has wandered
- S''' 'N' Gill NtlilNi a utIlldBOBue, ana
If it is demagoguery to be friend of the
people, 1 am demagogue. Lincoln was
a common man himself, and the greatest
friend the common people ever had.
| THE statesman is now the man who
listens to the pulsations of the pocket
book; he who strives to hear the beating
of the heart is demagogue. Once Lin
coin and the Republicans feared capital
and wealth. Today the dollar mark is
visible on every Republican policy.
Mark Hanna declares the English gov
ernment as good as this, and other Re-
publicans follow in his footsteps
| Lincoln favored an income tax; now
his party is against it. Forced into op-
position by the corporations and trusts
which support it, it has even changed on
the money question. Today they say
the gold standard must be maintained.
In 1883 they denounced Cleveland for
trying to demonetize silver. In 1896
they voted to rid themselves of the gold
standard and stood for international
bimetallism. Mckinley even sent COM
missioners to Europe, but the money
changers wanted it, and carried the day.
Mckinley made as strong a bimetallic
speech as I ever made, in 1891, and today
his attitude is the opposite.
"Republicanism means now a policy
that makes money master, and every
party man shouts for it, and a president
who follows in Cleveland's footsteps
makes it so. The party is an associa-
tion of athletes who can turn somer-
saults whenever the bosses say FLOP
We expect to follow the fight for the
right kind of money. We also intend to
combat the effort to make money mas
ter through the trust. Republicanism
has fOstered more trusts in two years
than ever existed before. The Repub-
licans defend trusts and classify them
as good and bad. Since they have fos-
tered them they must defend them in the
next campaign. In your own state how
tenderly the Republican platform deals
with it. Every trust is a corporation.
A corporation is a creation of the law.
Man made the law and can repeal it.
Against imperialism l propose an
American plan. Let us say to the Fill
pinos: We've driven the Spaniards
out. Stand up and be free Let US
give them the same assurance we gave
the Cubans. Would it be humiliatng to
do this? Never can it be humiliating to
follow the principles that lie at the
foundation of our great national struct-
ure"