The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1899-11-10
iR[ PARTY LINCOLN LED.
william ]. Bryan Says it is Not
the Republican Party Of
To-Day.
,alIcIts AND PRINCIPLES SET ASIDE.
u.,.hnscaas Who Would Crash
-. ,.,tr.sion. of the Ffiipin"s
,.r SELF Government should Head
Abraham Linesin'- speech peiiv-
cred ia y>5>-

In. following in from the pen of
william j. Bryan in the New York
Journal:
tAhen. in 1896. the silver republicans
..t.s.J 20 stand upon the 81. Louis
yl..tforrn. they declared that the re
,.hlican party was deserving It's ira
4..irral policy and that they were not
Yelling "a follow the party in its
change upon the money question. They
,.sn-ed out that the republican plat
ann, ~ ls,- denounced Mr.. Cieveland's
attempt Ia demonetize silver end that
,h. republican platform o. 1892 de-
e'sr.,d that the American people. from
tradition and interest. favored bi4net-
,n.ln. They took frequent occasion
~ nuote Mr. McKinley's speech Of 1891
81 lraunciation of Mr. Cleveland at
r,npt 10 make money scarcer and,
therefore. dearer money the master
srd everything else the serSant.' Each
YEAR the departure of the republicans
from the early ideas Of the party be
comes more apparent Lincoln often
referred 10 The plain people and 10
--he common people,, but any one
who thus classifies the people AZ this
time is sure 20 ID. called desragogue
ty The republican leaders.
Wien the republican party wrote its
NATIONAL platform, in 1886. it invited the
CO.. uersttion of all those who were in
favor 81 restoring the action Of the
FEDERAL government 10 tie principles of
Washington and Jefferson" and Lin
coin himself was a great aCInirer of
J.fFerson. In l,Js the republicans of
Boston celebrated the birthday Of
Thomas Jefferson and Lincoln, in his
letter Of regret. paid the following
u4tute TO jefferson:
lincoln. Tribute 60 Jefferson.
All honor TO Jefferson; TO a man
WHO. in the concrete pressure of .
struggle for national Independence by
single people. had the GOODNESS. fore
G. = and capacity 20 introduce into a
merely revolutionary document an alb
sir..1r truth. applicable 70 All men and
s,iiimes. and soto embalmit there that
to-day and in all coming DAYS it shall
o. Z rebuke and stumbling block 10
tie harbingers OF rcappcaring tyranny
and opprs sion
II the beginning of the party's ex-
is-snce the republicans appealed to tine
name and the principles of Jefferson,
hlt al Republican banquets nowaday 5
JeTerson's name is spoken with disre
spect and IIamilton's name and ideas
are exirayagantly lauded-
The significance of this change be-
comes apparent when il is remembered
that Jefferson was the foremost rep
tentative of the democratic idea.
while senator Henry Cabot Lodge, in
his life Of Hamilton. points ont that
tae latter was the representative of the
srsiocratic idea Lodge says:
The republic Of Hamilton was TO
b an aristocratic as distinguished
from a democratic republic. and the
power o. the separate states was TO he
eIeciualiy crippled. The first object
was attained By committing the choice
Of The president and senators. who
were 10 hold Office during good be-
havinr. to a class Of the community quail
irsil 70 vote by a certain amount -
property. The second was secured by
giving 10 the president of the United
States the appointment of the gov
srnors Of the various states who were
~ have veto on all state legislation.
In Is59 Lincoln. in speaking Of the
relation which should exist between
money and humanity, said that the
republican party believed in both the
man and the dollar. but that in case
q conflict il believed in the man be-
fore the dollar. In one of his early
messages 10 congress. Lincoln warned
bis countrymen against the approach
u monarchy. and said that his alarm
was caused by the attempt to place
capital upon an equal footing with. il
NOS above. labor in the structure 81
goscrnment
Now the republican party seeks e
settle every question upon financial
hssis. The dollar mark is plainly
stamped upon every modern republi
can policy. Lincoln signed the oil
which provided for a graded incom'
tax, IN the Fifty-third congress th'
republican party voted against an il
come tax.
Striking Contrasts.
The republican party created th'
gr-ni.nck: now II is planning TO de
s'rcy the grcenl,ack
When the war closed Lincoln begar
y Plan 10 make the payment of tn
national debt easier by increasing tn
volume Of money available for pay
nrni Of debt. In gaymond's Life .
Lincoln" published in 1865. the presi
dents views are set forth Is follows:
Nothing can indicate more clearl
"a e.ation Of mind with which III
PRESIDENT regarded the future of ia
country. now that its safety has bce
assured. than the language he ad
cr.ssed. in a conversation at this into,
view. TO Mr.. CoIfax. who was at thi
ume preparing for n journey overIan
W ne Pacific coast. Said he: Nj
t"iiax, l want you 10 take a mess1g
from me 10 ise miners whom you Wis.