The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-09
Calls His Party to Arms in OPP,
position to Trusts
And in Favor of GOvernm emit
Ownership of Railroads.
TED DOLLARS,
He Says Were Responsible For
McKinley's Election
And Money Power Sits Supreme
in the White House.

Omaha. Neb., Jan. e.-What the MEM
bers of the Jacksonian club. of this city.
assert was the most successful banquet
ever held here took place in celebration
Of Jackson Day, in the dining room of
the Paxton hotel, which could barely
accommodate those in attendance.
Democrats from all parts of the state
were present, and with them many lead
ing Populists, including all the state Of
ficials. Ex-Governor Altgeld, of Hi
nois; ex-Vice President Stevenson, of
Illinois, and Congressman Sulzer, Of
New York, as the guests of honor, made
the principal addresses.
Mr.. AItgeld had as his subject. 1.-THE
Situation" He said, in part:
Look about you! Nearly all of the
wealth of this land is passing into
few hands, and not one of these hands
favorable to the freedom of the citizen.
Every great industrial, commercial,
mining or transportation enterprise is
passing into the hands first of corpora
lions, and then by further conSolida-
ton into the hands of trusts, which thus
have an absolute monOpoly-a monopoly
which can arbitrarily, fix prices, fix
wages and regulate output-a monopoly
which has no soul and whose chief pur-
pose is to plumber the public. The mon
opolist and the speculator prosper, but
: the masses wither. Men of moderate
fortunes and of fair incomes, who were
the bulwark of the republic, are slowly
but surely being wiped out. We are be-
ing reduced to two classes; in the first
stage these will be known as the very
rich and the moderately poor, and in
the second stage as the masters and
the slaves We have established a mon
eyed aristocracy and are now fasten ming
a yoke on posterity. A standing army
is to be enthroned and bayonet argu-
ment is to govern.
1.-The money power sits supreme in the
White House and makes laws at the
capital Courts of justice are its minis
ters and legislatures are it's lackeys. 1t
silenceS the preacher in his pulpit, the
editor at his desk and the professor in
his lecture room.
but the infallible finger of it's grow
ing insolence shows that the hour of it's
destruction is near. Remember that
10000 votes properly distributed in 1896
would have elected Mr.. Bryan. The pat
riotic intelligence of the land is already
with US. Deduct from Mr.. Mckinley
the negro vote and he is lost; deduct
the ignorant city slum votes which he
got and he is lost. Deduct the vote pur-
chased with Hanna'S Doodle and he is
lost. Deduct the false returns made by
corrupt election judges and he is lost.
He was elected by tainted dollars, and
his future must rest on them. The ele-
mentS of corruption are his mainstay
and nothing can stand long on a rotten
foundation.
During the political and partisan peace
ident Of the United ted States e Went ' to the
Chicago university for the purpose of be
him the parchment Prof: A. X. Parker,
who made the presentation speech. said
sovereignty of the people leads precari-
GUS existence in the mouths of men who
not stopped to consider that it is only a
sPecious form of the ancient blasphemy
moment mon ts and Reject. The pre e Of
the United States, standing under the
cepts a proffered honor, which IS coupled
with the declaration that the doctrine of
blasphemy, and he utters not one word of
protest, but by his silence and his accept
Coming down. to the financial question.
Mr.; Altgeld declared that the gold stand
ard, has never drawn an honest breath or
taken an honest step in this country, and
us mus FAR SHOWS IT'S Ten1aity ana
;. What about 16 to I? Well. my. frieds,
1t is not in our power to change this; 1t is
Impossible imp to get anything along any other
dissoives 80 be sure fhe the this is
not SO; put we have to deal with fearful.
the great parties deno1nced the s'i gold
standard and demanded the free coinage
the question would be settled in a week
but instead the gold standard got more
.corruptly controlling the government and
manipulating congress. Open the ques-
in century. To drop the ratio is to
betray the cause We are for the old
undo a great crime, because it will make
prosperity possible, because we cannot
succeed in any other way and because the
suggestions for a change come only from
Mr.. Altgeld denounced the ''maudlin talk
of an Anglo-American alliance and de-
clared for government ownership of rail-
roads, telegraphs and telephones
Mr. Altgeld, was the only one of the
speakers who made any reference to free
coinage and he only briefly. The subject
did not receive much attention from any
of the speakers. The two or three refer
q rat ito
candidate in 1900 each created great en-
thusiasm. A letter from Mr.. Bryan .ex-
pressing regret at his inability to be pres
ent was heartily cheered when read.
Mr.. Bryan's letter of regret said:,
We are passing through a struggle
similar to that which the national bank
forced upon the Democratic party in the
days of Jackson, and the contest must
end now, as 1t ended then, unless our peo-
pie have lost interest in their own well
fare: The increasing brood of trusts, led
the others, will soon make representative
government a farce, if they continue to
furnish campaign contributions to elect
officials, and then secure indemnity from
THE new questions, militariSm and i'm
perialism, have been thrust upon the
country as result of the war, but they
can soon be removed from the arena of
JEFFERSON and jackson, and solved in ac-
cordance with Democratic principles
Those who propose independence them
Those Who propose fndependenceo Them them.
their cause deny the necessity for an in
crease in the permanent military estab-
policy who have lost faith in self govern
ment; let those turn to force who discard