Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1899-10-19
BRYAN SPEAKS
At GATEWAY CITY
Greeted at LeMars Last Night by
Large ard Enthusias-
ii: Crowd.
M1AL ISSUES : Of THE DAY

The Silver Champion Talked OH the
Money Question. Trusts and
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. the
Administrations.
LcMars, Oct. 14.-William Jennings
Bryan arrived in LeAlars from Prim-
CHAR on the 6:35 train last evening.
he was greeted at the depot by
crowd of several hundred persons.
MIR. Bryan was accompanied by Chair
man huffman, of the state central
committee, and c. A. Windle, of OF
tawa, ILL.,, editor of the Gatling Gun.
The party was Immediately driven to
the home of L. i. Wardy, member of
the central committee for this district.
Bryan spoke in a large tent erected
for the occasion, adjoining the union
depot. Long before o'clock the tent
was crowded, there being more than
5000 people present. On the platform
with the members of the Bryan party
were 7. F. Wardy of LeMars; William
Mulvaney of Cherokee, John Eichhorn,
Fred Reichmann and j. F. Kass. of
Remsen; j: {: Collrell, of Kingsley;
Alex Reichmann, j.. L. Hahan, w. A.
Shukins, A. p. Cramer, l. C. Hise, Geo.
+. Pew, II. H. Kahn, Il. /. Hannah and c.
c. Pfeffel of LeMars; N. S. Moore and
NJ. Agnes of Akron, A. II. Wright Of
Neville, and I. p. Murphy of Sioux
City.
I. L. Wardy briefly introduced Mr.
Windle, saying that Mr.. Bryan would
be delayed a few minutes. Mr.. Windle
then spoke briefly on the topics of the
campaign. Mr.. Bryan's entry was
greeted with tremendous cheering.
which lasted several minutes.
T. F. Ward briefly introduced Mr..
century; Mr.; Bryan apologized for his
physical condition and said he regretted
he could not speak as long as he could
tory had graver responsibiiities confront
ed nation lie said all the people Of the
not be hid. He said the declaration Of
solve the. difficult questions. Every DEM
equal .T;,I ,,,,.o u.,.. . .o.,
and signed bill in favor of 1t. The
state platform Of the, republicans is IN
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standard because the money changers 81
the world wanted 1t SO. In speaF'-
trusts. he said the trust creat4@
R stpaton a Monld not Forget
The corporate man furnishes thea. ~
for the republicans, and after election
administration lets the corporation get
their money back from the people.
Opposed to large Stumbling Army
He said In his widest flights condemn
Ing republican president he never
drea%e s that IN; republican president
Ing army of the country He expressed
surprise that people do not realize the
menace Of an enormous standing army
foreign born for Information on the curse
s @ Mho 9ug IL t fd n %s
had too. many citizens Of foreign birth.
but rather that nation composed of
use their enlightment of experience for
the general good. He dwelt on the fact
that this, country must. depend on the
citizen-soldier to fight. who when through
fighting would return to his peaceful as.
sociations.
Imperialism the Issue.
This fall would be the first chance to
vote on imperialism. The president has
try is to own the Philippine Is Islands d He
said, It was sophistry to compare the
Louisiana purchase or the Alaskan
4 When We e bought i tRs p RHiphSs
pire; we were not expanding republic:
the situation was equivalent to the time lime
when George III. said he would give the
&c mav good
ands. he denied that 100000 Of people
could be put on the block and sold for
pswf 6 up Eht lido
Spaniards. He helped us whip the Span
ish. monarch and then we turned around
whipped.
The speaker started in to analyze the
three beads 1nder which he claimed the
it;" second, GODS in it," et third, were
In it." lie wanted want some republican ca. to
races and thirty different languages. He
said It was reduced to commercial
dare not go before the country with the
proposition Of sacrificing SO. many Amer
lean soldiers for so much commerce.
the fight for s2o.OOo,OOo.
From. the religious standpoint he did
religion at the cannon's mouth. and GER
tainly did not believe that the annexa-
ton was vas, as some people claimed by
were prophets. but It was hard to dis
tsnguish between false and true and ne
for one did not believe that Mark Hanna
was the mouthpiece of God on this earth.
In the Transvaal.
In concluding the speaker said that for
the. past hundred years this nation had
trod the path marked out by the declara-
would not diverge from this record To for ali ali
the empires that have fourished and
luded to the trouble in the Transvaal
with England. and said he was in SYM
pathy with the Beers. who were fight
ing. as We're the Filipinos, for self-govern-
dare not utter a word on the subject for
fear of alternating England. and IL they
did the English would reply. What about
the Philippine islands?"
He said we should treat the Filipinos
as we promised to treat the Cubans when
begged the people of Iowa to vote. for
Fred White. farmer and foreign born
citizen, who knew the dangers Of mill
tarism. and in that way express their
condemnation of the administration and
Imperialism, telling them that Iowa never
had n farmer governor or a representa-.
tive of the people.
cheering and the speaker was listened to
most attentively throughout
Temple Amendment Valid.
Des Moines, Ia, Oct 14.-The report.
that the supreme court decision in the
Maine case invalidates the Temple
amendment is incorrect. The decision
in the Maine case was based on the
law ms it stood before the Temple
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