The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-08-28

CrOkers and Tweeds that Tammany
has produced have not corrupted the
public conscience and polluted the
franchise a thousanth part as much as
fusion has done.
Fusion, while it's real purpose is con-
cealed, is unauthorized hypocrisy I
honor Democrat who believes in his
party. L have respect for a PopuliSt
who is honest in his faith as 1 admire
Republican who believes in Republi-
can principles But when 1 find a Pop
ulist, a Democrat or a Republican who.
disregarding principles. is willing to
prostitute his party for the sake OF
office, I despise him IS I deSpise any
man who would trifie with the most
holy right of freemen-the ballot.
Bryan is as certain to destroy the
Democratic party as the Populist lead
ers have wrecked that party by fusion.
Fusion is as certain to fail in its pur-
pose as that there is virtue in virtue
in the country.
Mr.. Bryan exclaimed that the Re
publican party was exalting the dollar
above the man and gave as his special
reason for this statement that the gov
eminent would draft the citizens to
fight for the country, but could not
draft the pOcketbooks to pay the bills
What he meant is certainly not clear"
Mr. Burton told of the disaster that
was to follow McKinley's election
From all that could be fairly gath
cred from Mr. Bryan's speech yester-
day" Burton continued, he attri bu-
ted our prosperity wholly to the dis
covery of gold in Alaska, helped a little
by a famine in India. He cannot see
that the corn crop of his own state will
give the people of that state more mon
ey than the Klondike will furnish to
the world in five years; that the eggs
in this country give US more money
than the klondike- He fails to under
stand that the great common people or
this country own and control the cur
rency of the country; that it is theirs
and in time Of panic they lock it up,
=
know that the bankers loan not their
own money so much as other peoples
He has not learned that the rich men
own property rather than money and
interest bearing securities and that
the money used to buy securities is
largely the money of the middle and
even poorer classes.
After cropping around for a good half
hour on the money question, saying sub
stantially nothing except to protest that
trade jr7sf trI,s4s II rcci1rrsl - m.
that there were trusts while Mr. Bryan
was in congress and what did he do to
suppress them? VIII some one of his ad-
mirers tell me what measure Mr.. Bryan
ever offered against trusts2''
Mr.. Burton claimed that no trusts had
been organized in the United States in the
There have been organized large aggre-
cations of capital called trusts he said.
"but in every case it has been the organi-
cation of a single corporation that has
proceeded to buy out other corporations,
in ioaS gwen ven line of trade or ind1stry %
organizations of these aggregafons have
remained within the law
Regarding Mr.. Burton's talk on imper-
ialism, Mr.. Burton said:
Mr.. Bryan's speech was bitter. vim
dictive arraignment of the government for
attempting to suppress the Tagal rebellion
He had not one word to say for the en-
courag cement of our soldiers in the Phillip
pines. He never alluded to them, but his
whole talk was of Aguinaldo and his fol-
lowers who were right and we were.
wrong. I say when Agufnaldo attacked
our soldiers the islands belonged 70 MS.
Mr.. Bryans position is that our soldiers
in the Philippines are lighting in an un-
holy cause ana that .Aguinaido IS nghtng
for liberty. To Mr.. Bryan I plt the
statement of Company D of the famous
Twentieth Kansas. made Decoration
day:
of humanity
After hearing Bryan yesterday 7 am
not surprised that Aguinaldo last month
appealed to his followers to hold out. that
they have SyInpa taizers in this country. I
quote his exact language:
90 Some states of the American union
have arisen in our favor Especially IS the
Democratic party convinced that both VIC
tors and vanquished viii lose precious
lives
who is giving aid and comfort to this
rebel? answer, William J. Bryan