Omaha daily bee., 1899-11-05
SWEDISH AMERICANS RALLY
Listen to Eloquent Discussions Of the Issues
by Republicans
BRYAN'S SHIFTING POSITION EXPOSED
His Abandonment of One Principle
After Another ms Each Proved
FnIsc--what He Could DO with
the Philippine Difficulty.

One OF the best republican meetings of
the campaign was held Saturday night in
the Patterson block by the Swedish -Ameri-
can Garfield club. Some excellent speakers
we're present and they were enthusiastically
received by the members of the club, who
are among the most loyal adherents the
party has.
John Steel presided and introduced to his
countrymen II. N Wood. candidate for the
school board MIR. Wood made frank state
ment OF his ideas of what member of the
school board should be, man of Integrity
and considerable business ability and not
hampered by promises or by strings upon
him in the hands of any organization or
corporation. If the republican nominees were
elected he felt sure that they would retire
from Office without leaving behind them the
memory OF jobbery left by some former
members. .t
Henry Ostrom, candidate for county COM
missioner, drew brief contrast between
the conditions which had prevailed previous
TO the last general election and those of to-
day. This year men were too busy even to
register except under the most insistent urg-
ing There was, he said. only one reason for
the change and it had been the mastery ad-
ministration OF President Mckinley.
Harry Bronze made one of the principal
; SpeSCHtb Ol Tue eNtulub. Ile 'hliSu u'bthIiOii
to the fact that foreignborn citizens almost
as rule did more to discharge the duties
OF citizenship faithfully than native Ameri-
cans and while he deplored the negligence
OF the latter he reioiced that the country's
| additions should be of such eminent fitness
| for self government. The Swedish Americans
upon coming to this country sometimes knew
little or nothing of the history of the parties
or the issues they upheld, but it was Gus
tomary among them to set to work at once
| investigating the subject and 1t was this
careful review of the situation that brought
| so many of them into the republican party.
| The speaker declared that 1t was not neces-
sary to go very far back into the history of
| the country to see that the republican party
stood for the most advanced ideas of the
best American citizenship. The present
leader of the democratic, party had changed
| his issues with every campaign. When he
| found that his predictions of 1892 had failed
| to come true and that free trade had wrecked
the industries of the country he laid 1t to
something sew, the scarcity Of money. The
republicans had said that there was money
enough but no business to be done. Which
analysis had proved to be the true one?
| Tardy Policy.
Mr.. Bronze pointed out that although the
democratic speakers had lamented Dewey's
failure to sail away from Manila at once
after the battle, no one in the whole country
had thought of it at the time. On the
contrary the cry was unanimous that troops
should be sent over to complete the. work
The sovereignty of the islands could not
have been transferred to the United States
without the help of the democrats in the
senate and Bryan and Allen knew what the
treaty Of peace meant when they supported
it..
GAS for expansion" concluded the speaker,
at is not an issue in the campaign for the
reason that Bryan himself, IL he were pres
ident tomorrow couldn't withdraw the army
from the Philippines without violating his
oath of Office"
Robert Smith, candidate for the Board OF
Education, made a few remarks and was
followed by John c. Wharton in rousing
eulogy of the work of the present admins
tration.
"Mr. Bryan" said Mr.. Wharton, "is man
Of free principles. His first was free trade,
then he held to free silver, and now it is
free-everything to get into office. In 1892,
when the treasury at Washington was filled
with money accumulated under an era of
unprecedented prosperity, Bryan said This
is pretty good, but there's too much money.
Let us get into office and We will scatter a
little Of it around And didn't they keep
their promise. They scattered it all and
they have been scattering ever since, only
now they scatter words instead of money"
Coming to the question OF Imperialism Mr..
Wharton said that Bryan knew perfectly
we'll that the republican party was not
enslaving four millions of people and he
was sure that the party that had freed eight
millions could be trusted with the welfare
of the Filipinos
Mr. Mullery of the Sixth ward was the
concluding speaker, adding his testimony to
the existence of prosperity and predicting
success for both state and county tickets.