Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-31
MANY CLUBS OF ONE MIND
Young Mems Republican Club, Uni
versity students and Union Vet
ernns I'm Joint Session.

LINCOLN Oct. 30.-(Special Telegram.)-
One OF the largest audiences that ever gath
cred In Lincoln assembled at the oliver thea
ter here tonight to hear the addresses Of
Major Warner OF Kansas City and
Charles j. Greene OF Omaha. At
no political meeting held here this
year has there been so much enthusiasm
manifested. The Young Mems republican
club, under whose auspices the meeting was
held the University Reese club, over 200
strong, and the Union Veterans Republican
club marched to the opera house from their
organization headquarters and with the bal
ance OF the audience filled the big opera
house, capable Of seating over 1000 people,
clear to the roof. At every mention OF Nc
Kinley's name or his policy the immense
gathering of people Joined in applause and
whenever Judge Reese was referred to cheers
and college yells were given.
Elmer Spencer of the Young Mems Re-
publican club presided and after stirring
vocal selection by the Nebraska State quar-
tet, Major Warner was introduced. He
was greeted with tremendous applause,
which broke out frequently during the
course Of his speech, the text Of which was:
"By Their Fruits, Shall Ye Know Them"
Going back to 1892, the speaker told Of the
arguments advanced by the democrats, who
waged their campaign on the tariff issue. 1t
was in that year that Bryan in Nebraska
and democrats in other states told the peo-
pie that they had been robbed by the rob-
ber tariff and that their only salvation was
to repeal the Mckinley bill and elect a
democrat as president. They asked for a
change and they got it. lis there demo-
crat populist or free silver republican who
wants another such change in this coun-
try?' asked the speaker. Some one in the
audience answered mo" and thunderous
cheering followed.
"Thcy repealed the Mckinley act and there
came as result panics and business fail
ures such as were never before known in
this country. Then we elected our COM
| rade that Christian statesman and .5talwart
American, William Mckinley (applause) and
/. there came another change. The factories
are now doing more work than ever before.
Abraham Lincoln summed up the tariff
question pretty well when he said: L don't
know much about the tariff, but 1 do know
as an American that If l buy steel rail
| from an English manufacturer, the English
man has the money and 1 have the rail, but
l buy steel rail from an American man
/ ufacturer. the American laborer has the
money and I've got the rail-
In closing Warner devoted some time tt
| the expansion question, approving the pol.
| icy OF the president. He quoted from Sen
| ator Aliens speech in the senate and com
pared his utterances there with his cam
, paign speeches.
Charles J.. Greene of Omaha opened with
clear exposition Of the Philippine question
and spoke OF the arrayal on one hand of thu
republican party and irreconcilable element
en- the other. The proposition Is, h
thought, whether the people are ready t.
turn the republican party out of power be
cause it is in favor of suppressing an in
surrection in the Philippine ielands. Fl
devoted some time TO the question of trust
and maintained that such combinations o
capital often benefit the community. TIL
republican party is the party to regulat
them, he said, for when it says regulate
means regulation, and when the democrati
party says regulate it means destruction.