Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-06-09

Bryan and Champ Clark-Make Predictions as
to the Issues Which Will Be Fought Out Next
Year.
There was large Democratic gath
ering at st. Louis last week which was
attended by party leaders from all
sections of the county. Bryan and
Champ Clark of Missouri were the
chief speakers and both excited great
enthusiasm.
The Hon. Champ Clark said in part
Having rendered the platform OF
1896 an accomplished fact, it is emf
nently meet and proper that at this
early date, Missouri, exercising her
Democratic primacy, should proclaim
in no uncertain tone the unyielding
principles OF Democracy
"Stated generally in single SEN
tenee, these principles may be con-
densed as follows: Equal rights for
all; special privileges for nome or in a
still bricfer form. More money and
less taxes
ITO be more specific, in 1900 We
will express 'the unyielding principles
OF Democracy in this wise:
First-We will not only reaffirm,
but re-adopt the Chicago platform of
1896, word for word, syllable by sylla-
BILE, abating neither jot nor title OF
that second declaration of independ.
ence.
Second-We will put into our
platform as strong an antitrust plank
as the American language can make
the American language, mark you,
not the English-which will restore to
every citizen of the republic the in
alienable right to earn his bread by
the sweat of his face, which will guar
antee to every laborer the enjoyment
of all his wages, which will once
more make possible the competi-
tion which was supposed to be the
life of trade until the Republican
party created a countless band OF
trusts, which are sucking the life
blood of the great body of the people.
In my judgment, the best way for
Congress to smash the trusts is to
place upon the free list all things
used or made or sold by the trusts.
Then let both Congress and State leg
islatures make it penitentiary ofiense
to form, conduct or to be interested in
a trust and these excrescences will be
Topped from the body polite.
"Third-we will declare emphatic
ally and unequivocally in favor of the
observation of the Monroe doctrine in
all its vigor and against the criminal
idiocy of corrupting and destroying
our institutions by making American
citizens out of ten million heather
Malays under the equator.
Fourth-We will declare in unmis.
taxable language that we will put q
sudden stop to the wicked and wanton
waste Of the peoples money-which,
as evidenced by the recklessness of the
fifty-fifth Congress, amounts to prac-
tical confiscation.
Fifth We will proclaim our ever
lasting hostility to government by the
sword and government by injunction,
both of which are being foisted upon
the country for the benefit and at the
behest OF the trusts and jobbers Of
every degree.
ain the impending campaign, he
that is not for us is against us. There
can be no shuffling, no double.dealing,
no riding OF two horses, going in oppo-
site directions, no foraging between
lines.
"The American people deserve to be
treated honestly, fairly, candidly and
courageously. They demand and are
entitled to have a declaration OF polit.
ical faith about which there is nc
double meaning, no faltering in a
double sense, no equivocation, nc
Good Lord, good devil clap.trap-a
declaration so plain that even the
dullest may comprehend it and so
thoroughly Democratic that all honest
men can stand upon it. They want
no victories that are not triumphs ol
principle, and they do not propose
that the fruits of another victory shall
! turn to ashes upon their lips. Above
all, they don't want any more politi.
cal pigs in pokes. They will gel
what they want.
"The platform that had outlined
will give lovers of freedom and good
government everywhere hearts of oak
"Upon that platform we will place
man who is platform within him.
self, whose name, l am happy to state
is execrated by every monopolist in
America and loved by every patriot
between the two oceans-and land him
in the White House-the foremost
statesman OF our age-William Jen.
nings Bryan of Nebraska, and of the
United States at large.
"When he sits in the chair at Wash.
ington and wears the mantle of Jeffer.
son, there will be another Andrew
Jackson come to judgement.
ain time of peace he is a civilian; in
times of of war he is soldier; at all
times he is the ideal citizen and pa.
triot.