Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-20
BRYAN IN ONO.
hands.

nv in the conditions that e~nVironed the
democratic meeting in G~reenville' ohlo'
Yesterday. 1t was the occasion of Mi.
Bryan's first speech in that state. Inc
DISTINGUISHED gentleman was introduced
by John r.. Mclean, the multi-million-
aire promoter of trusts and capitalistic
combines. who is now running for gov
ernor on the democratic ticket. Then Mr..
Bryan said:
Under 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 expenses OF the
government according to his ability and
in proportion to the benefits derived from
the protection of the government. l be-
lieve in protecting the struggling poor.
These being the sentiments of John r.
| Mclean. the multi-millionaire Bryan's
! remarks were loudly applauded. If Nc
! Lean is elected governor of Ohio he will
! collector will make him pungle up his
due proportion of the Expenses of the
| government" The speaker followed his
| defense of the poor man with an appeal
to the voters to stand by their multi-mil-
lionaire candidate for governor, in order
to save the country from the aggressions
of the rich.
Then he sailed into the trusts and
combines of capital. of which Mclean is
a promoter and beneficiary, winding up
his assault upon these pests to use his
Kentucky designation, with a glowing
| tribute to the life and character of John
r. Mclean. To pull the teeth of the
trusts it was necessary for his hearers
to vote for the multi-millionaire candi-
date for governor of Ohio!
There was so much of farce-comedy in
the situation that the public will readily
embellished his speech. Evidently in
spired by his surroundings, the colonel
finally drifted into the ant~i-expansion
question:, giving birth to such ford
flights of chaste oratory as the f%ollowing:
dare the republican party to defend
the title by purchase of 10. 900, 900 of men.
They claim the right to be in the Philip
pines by right of purchase, and that, too,
after paying a less price for human be-
ings than we pay for hogs.
AS the republican party has purchased
no Filipinos, not even Mr.. Bryan's pur-
chasable friend Aguinaldo, the point to
; the foregoing should rave been accom-
! .a~:al ~, - Ia 80, yyh,,, tho oolopa1
says he pays more for his hogs thar the
government paid for the Filipinos, hi
doubtless tells the truth, for he has some
: very expensive hogs among the eastern
democrats lately coaxed into his politica
I pen. -
{ If the democrats intend to construe TIL,
purchase of the Philippine islands from
Spain as the buying of it's inhabitants a
: 50 per head, then the same rule must b.
e applied to the democratic party in tn,
: Louisiana purchase. Did the democrac,
I pay SO much per head for the red In
dams of the great northwest and south
when the vast area of country embrace
in the Louisiana purchase was secure
by this government? If the republica,
e party is guilty of a, crime in the purchas
Of the Philippines, the. democratic part
: was guilty of a greater one, under tn
d direct sanction and approval of the car
10 onized leaders of that political organiza
ton.
&c Why worship the founders of the dem
%ocratic party, why ben the politics
. knee in alteration of it's historic leader
. when they committed the awful offend
. of buying millions of redskins at so niue
apiece and then killing them off withou
- realizing on the investment? To max
his logic work, Bryan is compelled
= follow the usual course OF democrat
speakers-avoid the past history of h
party as he would the plague.
-
Chamberlain has made it clear that e,
ID erv effort was MT forth RI pracarya naa,