The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1899-04-28
BRYAN'S NOTABLE SPEECH
AJEFrERSONIAN WAK-CKY.
iio Fakes Up New and Vltni Issues for tho
Cnmpa', ,n OF 1900 without Dr"rpIng
tho Old.

ut tho J"ifersonian banquet in To-
polka, Kan, concentrating his at
tontion chiefly upon anti monopoly,
anti contradiction and anti-imper.
inliam rather than upon tho silver
question. He unrcsorveG!y affirmed
allegiance 10 the Chicago platform,
but tho greater part Of his address
was de,o oted to new issues. The
following is sscnographic report,
made exclusivcl y for the World, Civ
ing verbatim the important parts of
tho speech:
"The struggle Of 1896 is Il palmer
struggle now than it was then; a
struggle between democracy and
p'utocracy-democracy which world
maintain government Of the pro-
pie, 10y the people and for tho pco.
pie, and plnt0cracy which wo, ld
p'aco the dollar above tho man in
the structure Of our government.
That struggle is becoming clearer
and clearer every day.
"When we enter tho campaign Of
1900 we will have n fighting force
different from that which we had in
1896. We will enter it not only
with tho people we had then, but we
\ will gain recruits every day from
Z tho Republican party, because the
Republicans even are learning what
. Republican principles of modern
times mean. The Republican party
OF today is not the Republican party
Of Abraham Lincoln. The Ropub-
Lean party is toaay disputing every
grr"t principle upon which it relied
in its beginning.
"Today every policy of tho Re.
!. publican party is but the lifting Of
money into II place where it over
shadows human rights. Tho war
with Spain Instead Of strengthening
the Republican party will, in my
Judgment, lend to its defeat.
"Lot me give you a reason for my
f"ith. 1 do not ask you to accept
prophecy or opinion, but to form
your own opinion upon Reason.
When we entered into this war Dem
ocrats knew it would be of tempo.
rary service to the Republican part,
We know that war successfully
carried on would help tho party in
power, but the Democratic party
was great enough to surrender Il
temporary advantage to give free
dom to the people Of Cuba. 7 glory
i" tn" courage of a party that is will
ing to do right even though it knows
that in 50 doing it will bring temp
orary defeat to it,
"This war has in tho first place
settled the old question that grew
out Of the former war. The sons of
Confoderatcs and the sons Of Union
soldiers marched side by side, shar-
ing in tho dangers of the camp and
field, and the strains of Yankee
Doodle,' anil of Dixie havo been
blended forever into My Country
lis Of Thee, Sweet Land of LID.
erlty.'
"rho sky is now cloar. We can
now discuss the questions Of govern
mont without having our patriotism
nssailed. We can now meet and
shtle tho great political and eco
nomic questions which confront our
nation. This war has done somo,
thing else. DO You remember how
Justice Brown in his dissenting
opini IN npon the income tax case
pointed to tho possible danger OF
war? Do yon remember how he
sud: Il fear that in some hour OF
national peru this decision will rise
up to paralyzo the arm of the gov.
ernmentT The hour of poril came
We needed moro revenue and that
decision did riso up to paralyze the
arm Of the government When En-.
gland needs moro money she can
tax the incomes Of her country, but
our Supreme Court erected a lega]
bulwark and left us helpless. When
we needed more revonue we had tt
look around for any old thing to put
II stamp on.
"When wo enter another campaign
the people will do it with a clearer
knowledge. They know that the
Republican party has put tho miser's
dollar above tho blood Of the citizep
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