Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-05-05
OUR CANDIDATE IN 1900
BRYAN at New York.

DUR CANDIDATE IN l9OU
Bryan at New York.
At the recent dollar banquet, Col.
w. j. Bryan said;
The character of a political banquet
is determined not by the cost of it,
but by the sentiments which are
woven into the post. praudial oratory.
We have not one word of hostility to
utter towards those Democrats who
left the Democratic party in 1896. Far
be it from us to criticise any man
whose judgement and conscience led
him out of the Democratic party.
When the Republicans met at st.
Louis some Republicans left the Re-
publican party rather than adapt
themselves to the platform written
out at st. Louis. They organized
distinct party, and they took name
sufficiently different from the Repub-
lican SO that none would mistake the
one for the other. They made bold
and earnest fight, and the Republi-
cans who left the party in 1896 have
neither gone back, nor, standing out
side, have attempted to write the plat
form of the party which they left.
There were Democrats who left us in
1896. They organized a distinct party;
they nominated a ticket and perfect
ed their national organization. But
instead of calling themselves gold
Democrats, SO that they could not be
mistaken for the regular Democrats,
they called themselves national Dem
ocrats, although they did not expect
to carry 8 precinct in the United
States.
1t is compliment to receive pres
idential nomination from any nation
al convention, but / am proud that
my nomination came from a conven-
tion of Democratic citizens. 1t has
vlndicated that platform and every
plank of it is stronger today than it
was when the platform was written.
Those who believe that we should
invite into the Democratic party all
those who cannot share in the pur-
poses and the aspirations of that party
Il cannot speak for others, speak
for myself--are wrong, and say that
would not abstract from it a single
plank to get back any who left. Nor
do l believe we could draw people to
us by cowardice. The day for ambig-
uity has passed. That platform must
mean something, and If you ask me
why it was that in 1896 the hearts of
the people stirred up as they have
not been lately stirred, I will tell you
that it was because the struggling
masses found in that platform an in.
spiration, and aggregated wealth
found in it a menace to every man
who robs his neighbor for his own
benefit. 1t was those who have en-.
trenched themselves behind abuses of
government who objected to that
platform, and we'll they might
object, because that platform
was aimed at every abuse OF
government, and 1 am glad that l
was supported by those who would
have only asked me for just laws. /
am glad that the six million and q
half people who voted for me simply
wanted me to get other peoples hands
out of their pockets and not to get
their hands into other peoples peck.
cts.
The Republican party is putting
the dollar above the man in all legis
lation, and nowhere is it more appar.
ent than in matters of taxation. The
Republican party is not trying to re-
store justice in taxation. The war has
shown that when this government
deals with an individual its power i;
limited. 1t can draft the citizen bui
1T cannot touch the dollar. In the
hour of peril the nation can take the
son from his mother and the husband
from his wife, and stand them up be
fore the enemy's guns, but it dare no
lay its finger upon the wealth of tn,
rich and make them contribute thei
share.
The income tax is stronger than i
was, and 1T is placed upon the shout
ders OF the poor, who have to carr,
the burden, but in the Democratic
party you can say there is one mar
who is willing to pay his share. nv
friends, why should not people be will
ing to bear their share of the burdens
OF government? If in time of wa,
your country needs you, you are will
ing to give life's blood-why deny the
nation its just due in time of peace
1t has been the history of the world
that those who can make much have
been unwilling to share the burdens
OF government and have sought to
use the instruments of government
for private gain, to take from those
who can make less than they can.
500.
DIR. Il. Detchon's Anti Diuretic
May be worth to you more than 500 if you
nave a child who soils bedding from inconten
Envn NNr.