Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-08-02
BRYAN IN CHICAGO.
GREAT THRoNG GREers HIM AT
THE AUDITORIUM.

GREAT THRONG GREETS HIM AT
THE AUDITORIUM.
Cheer Him Loudly ut Entrance and
During His Speech : Leader Talks
Strongly Against Imperialism and
| Trusts.
The old leaders and the old platform
were Reimbursed by the great Democratic
meeting at the Auditorium in Chicago
held under the auspices of the Chicago
platform Democrats. Bryan and Altgeld
were the old leaders whose names and
whose presence evoked tumultuous cheers.
The principles of 1896 were cheered ut
every reference, and equally emphatic
and enthusiastic were the bursts of APP
plause and cheers that greeted every de-
nunciation of the war of conquest in the
| Philippines. These We're the four fea-
lures Of the meeting that stood out boldly
and in even measure seemed to hold the
affection of the 1000 men and women
who thronged the immense interior.
] To Bryan was given welcome the
manifestation of which was limited only
| by the power of human expression. The
audience was singing America" and the
big organ was rolling out its volume Of
music to the rhythm of voices when Mr..
| Bryan stepped upon the stage.s There
was cheer from the stage and the sing
ing was converted into roar of answer
ing cheers. Mr.. Bryan was received with
long-continued applause, the people stand
ing up and cheering for some minutes.
| He said:
1
| Mr. Chairman and Ladies' and Gentlemen:
l am not going to trespas supon your time.
| You have already listened for as long time
| as you are accustomed to attend a meeting,
and 1t would not be proper for me to enter
at any great length upon any of the Ques-
| lions which are now before the public.
| ! am somewhat embarrassed III speaking
| In Chicago, because the advocates of the
| Chicago platform are divided into two kinds
and 1t is not my business to employ the Sc
Il cret service to ascertain what Democrats
4 are firmest believers In the party's creed.
4 All Chicago platform Democrats look alike
| to me-" and my aim Is not to drive out Of
the Democratic party any professed beltey-
/ ers In the Chicago platform, but to SO I'M
press upon all Democrats the Importance of
| the principles ut stake that all local differ
fences will be forgotten In the determination
ito carry this government back to the found
1 atIons laid by the fathers.
When Lincoln was appealing to the people
| of the country In 1855 he gave utterance to
q sentiment that must be the sentiment of
every one who realizes the magnitude OF the
struggle ln which we are engaged. After
| paying tribute to the founders of the
Country and to the. declaration of independ-
ence he used these words:
~ charge you to drop every paltry and In
significant thought for any mans success;
1t is nothing; am nothing; Judge Douglas
| Is nothing; but do not destroy that immortal
emblem Of humanity, the declaration Of
American independence"
So In this country to-day we find some dis
| cusslng persons, some Distressing whether
this man or that man or some other man Is
| the best representative of Democratic doc
drop every paltry thought about any man.
and think only Of the principles enunclated
| by the Democratic party In 1896; principles
| that carry us back to the landmarks of the
| constitution.
We are Interested first In writing plat
| form and we want a platform that fits the
Democratic party, platform written like
the last platform, not by party bosses, but
plause). When we get platform that fits
| the Democratic party 1t will be easy enough
to find In stale and nation candidates who tit
| the platform, but 1t Is the principle above
l the man, and no man Is fit to be leader
| when he Is wanted to lead who is not At to
| be a follower when some one else Is wanted
to lead.
4 In the brief time that shall occupy your
| sitions an argument on three subjects.
need not tell you that the Democratic plat
1 form Of 1876 will be reafiirmed us the first
plank of the Democracy of 1900.
| Occasionally some one talks about getting
on of that platform, but on Investigation
4 1t Is generally found that the man who
wants to get on Of It was never, In fact,
t upon a the platform The people who made
saved the Democratic party In 1895 are still
firm in the faith, and there Is only one plank
~ that platform Of which l shall speak to-
night and that Is the one plank toward
L which most of the Crttintan, Ia nfod
Ready to defend All Flanks.
would defend every plank where every
plank is assailed. But there are some who
| say that If we will Just drop the money ques-
ton we will make 1t easy for those who
left US to come back. The fight In 1895 was
won on the money question. 1t was the
money question expressed In specific rem
cdy that afforded us the means OF dIstln.
gushing the believer In bimetalism from
| the believer In the gold standard
And II they tell you to-day that events
nave yindleated the gold standard you can
answer them. first. that when Mr. McKin-
to get rid of the gold standard he admitted
that we were right In 1896 when we said the
gold standard was not satisfactory.
some OF you may be SO prej1diced that
am SO fair-mnded that l can give him
credit for sincerity when lie appointed three
distinguished men and sent them ali The
way to Europe, to cry out In every market
Il
Of the hole that the gold standard has nut
them into!
Not only eau yon point to the fact that
the commission went to Europe as an evil
dence that the gold standard was not then
satisfactory, but you can point to the fail
ure of the commission to secure Interna-
| tional aid ms an evidence that independent
action Is absolutely necessary to secure snc
| cess
| If they tell you that the discovery of gold,
! IN the klondlke and the Importation of gold
from abrond has given us more money and
made better times you can reply to them
that when they say that they confess the
truth of the Iuantitiye theory Of money
and yon can add that II a little gold from the
| Klond Ike or little gold from Europe Is able
to make n little better times, that II we
| would open the mints to the coinage of sill.
| YER as well us gold and take the money ont
OF our own mountains and have our own
money now and ut al times we could have
a great deal better times, and not depend
| on English gold either from the Klondjke mr.
| from our own exports.
| You can remind them that when we were
i discussing the silver question and our abIl.
ity to maintain the parity they said that be-
cause of IN increasing production of silver
we could not keep the metals together. II
that argument had weight when they made
It we can now say that an Increasing pro-
duction of gold makes 1t easier to keep the
metals together than 1t used to be when
they found fault with US. But this is an
old question and one about which we have
4
There is another question half new and
half old-the trust luestion-that was in
trusts, onto the o.her side, and yet not
enough to make the people understand what
the trust question means. And even now
you will find people who say that the Re-
publican party is doing all that 1t can do
Why, the trust is so bad and SO Indefensi-
bic that even In Ohio In state convention
controlled by Mr.. Hanna they had to adopt
resolution declaring trusts to be bad, and
when that convention condemns the trusts
| who In all the world will dare defend the
trusts? The trust is bad because of the
l monopoly feature. When a few people con-
| troll q product necessary to human existence
then those few control to large extent the
Lives md the happiness of all who produce
those articles, all who work in producing
and all who furnish the raw material used
lin Its manufacture.
| And can we afford to build up in this ma
tlon system by which few shall transmit
wealth from generation to generation, where
| the masses can only hope for clerkshIp
under some trust. and II they say that there
Is no way to stop the trusts. that the Repub-
| Leans are dong all they can; remember that
It is within the power of the president to