The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-20
IT IS STILL UNSETTLED
The Money Question Issea Very
Live Issue.
THE CHICAGO PLATFORM
Defended by Bryan Before an Immense
Crowd in Ohio at the Opening of
the Democratic Campaign
in That State.

Greenville. Ohio, Oct. Ito day at
Greenville, Darke county, Mr.. Bryan
delivered his first address in Ohio.
There was an immense crowd. The
visiting party was escorted to the court
house square. John r. Mclean, the
democratic candidate for governor in
troduced Mr.. Bryan. Mr.. Bryan said:
Il am glad to be in a county which,
though Darke in name, is bright in
political principles, county which
gave a democratic majority in 1896 of
LOO. You want to increase that ma
jority this fall. (Cries of we will do
that.D If there was one reason for
you voting the democratic ticket In
1896, there are 16 reasons to one why
you should do so this fall. There was
nothing complained of in 1896 that
cannot be complained of now. The
same vicious principles advocated by
the opposition in 1896 are advanced to-
day in this campaign.
THE Chicago platform. to which you
gave such loyal support in 1896, is still
the platform of the democratic party
and the platform of the Ohio demo-
Gratis again Endorses that platform
believe the planks of that platform
are stronger to-day than when they
We're written
Mr.. Bryan then entered into an elab-
crate defense of the Chicago platform
He continued:
''U1baer the present system you make
the poor man pay more and the rich
people less than their share. l believe
every man should share in the ex-
penses of the government according to
his ability and in proportion to the
benefits derived from the protection of
the government. I believe in protect
ing the struggling poor
touching the money question, he
said:
wonder If any republican here be-
lieves the gold standard is good and
ought to be continued. If so I want
to remind him that among the first
things the republican precedent did af-
Ter MS inauguration was to send a
commission to Europe to get rid of this
good thing. If any republican is in
doubt, it ought to be removed by this
action of a republican president. All
doubts should be removed when Eng
land spanked our commission and sent
IT home. My friends, that question is
still unsettled and the fight will con-
tinue until it is taken out of the hands
OF foreign power and placed in those
OF TO,O0O,OO0 of free men,
Mr. Bryan claimed the republican
party said some trusts We're bad and
others good
DO you want to know what trusts
are?" asked the speaker. Trusts are
actually SO bad that a republican con
vention in this state-a convention run
by Mark Hanna-denounced them.
They told you there We're good trusts
and bad trusts.
DO you know the difference between
good trust and bad trust? A good
trust gives literally to republican
CAlnDllQn haI
The republican party cannot destroy
the trusts. When the attorney gen
eral of the United States is asked to
intervene there comes the biblical in
junction, Remember thy creator The
republican party was created by the
trusts
Mr.. Bryan denounced the increased
regular army as being called for by the
president two months before there was
any war or act of hostility. which he
construed as the basis for change in
our national policy, a change from the
simplicity of a republic to that of i'm.
perialism. He said Abraham Lincoln
had applied the principles of the decla.
ration of independence to the BLACK
man, while the republican party of to-
day denied the same principles to the
brown man.
Il dare the republicans to defend the
title by purchase of 100000 of men,
continued MI. Bryan. Ihey claim the
right to be in the Philippines by pur-
chase and that, too, after paying a less
price for human beings than we pay for
hogs.
Let God choose between this defini-
ton of the declaration of independence
and that which says all governments
derive their just powers from the con-
sent of the governed"
Mr.. Bryan said that when he first
went to Cincinnati. in March, 1895, tc
advocate the cause of free silver the
first and foremost man to lend him as
sistance and sympathy was John r
Mclean.
Under his guidance said Mr.
Bryan, our party in this state polled
more votes prior to 1896 than we should
have done otherwise. and the only rea-
son We did not carry the state in 1885,
was that there were more votes
counted than We or the law machinery
supposed existed in this state. When
you vote for him you will register a
vote for free silver and help save the
country from Imperialism and militar-
ism, and I believe you will scare the
republican party to the support of the
declaration of independence
Iawtou,s Adyance