The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-08-16

Iy Mentioned in Connection With
the Nominations to Be Made-Ac-
tiOn of the Convention Depends
Entirely Upon which Wing of
the Party Is in Control of 1t.
DES MONIES, To-, Aug. 15.-This city
is full of Democrats tonight to attend the
state convention and listen to William ].
Bryan, Gen. w. B. Weaver and others ex-
pound the gospel of IS to l, anti-imperiaI-
ism and antitrust views Two great
meetings were held this evening. the
main one at the Auditorium, where Will
liam J. Bryan spoke to 5000 people, and
the other at the Tabernacle, where Gen.
Weaver held forth for an hour, until Mr..
Bryan came from the first meeting.
Some $1,000 persons congregated at the
Tabernacle and the two buildings were
not great enough to accommodate the
throng.
Concerning the action of the Democrat
ic convention, which meets tomorrow
morning, but little can be said with ac-
curacy. The friends of the various candi-
dates for the nomination for governor
have been hard at work all day, and to-
casted. Cato Sells. who will be temporary
chairman and deliver the main conven-
ton speech, is the candidate of the con-
servative element, and Rev. S. H. Bashor
of Waterloo, the candidate of the radical
silver element. In case the convention is
unable to choose between them on the
first few ballots there is talk of former
Congressman Fred White as a compro-
mi of Of
City, and Mayor Baker, of Davenport,
may also be considered
For lieutenant governor the names of
B. P Hoist, of Boone, and Ed K Stall,
of Mount Pleasant, are mentioned and
Hoist is also mentioned as candidate for
superintendent of public instruction.
For railway commissioner and supreme
judge no names have as yet been men
toned
The action of the convention on plat
form and nominations depends entirely on
which wing of the party, radical or con-
serVative, is in control.
MR.. BRYAN's SPEECH
William Jer pings Bryan spoke for two
hours at the auditorium tonight to an
audience cf 4,5C0 people. The house was
crowded and the audience, which includ-
cd practically all the delegates to the
Democratic convention to be held tomCr-
row, took every opportunity to applaud
Mr.. Bryan first reviewed the record of
the Republican party, accusing it of put
ting the dollar above the man. He then
took up thL silver question, saying pros
perltY Gid rot set in until six months
after the election, when the Kiondif1e
gold mines began TO be heard from The
Republicans who claim that times are
better because the balance of trade is in
favor Of the United States, give away
their own position, and admit the Demo-
cratic view that the quantitive character
Of money is correct rhe fnanciers of
England control the English government
through England, the rest of Europe, and,
through Europe, the United States.
The 6,50G000 Democratic voters of the
Democratic party in 1886 were for silver
The 100000 Republican voters were for a
platform which calle1 for international
bimetal'ism. Only the Palmer and Buck
ner voters were for the gold standard
less than one per cent-yet now the
Iowa Republican platform goes a step
farther and is mainly for gold alone
Moreover, the Republicans threaten to re-
tire the greerbacks, though they have
never been before the people on that
issue.
The speaker next went after the trusts.
but said if the Democratic party neg
lected the silver question to attend to
trusts it would rightly forfeit the conf
dence of the people. The money trust
the travelling men were fighting the in
dustrial trusts now but sorry they had
not seen the logic of events in 1885, and
helped to ngnt the money trust The
men who make trust speeches and ap-
plaud them are bankers. a new danger
Of the trusts has just been developed
When trust gets control of all the
factories in a given line and the hands
in one factory strike, the trust will close
that one establishment and make its
dc 1+ Ia otI ~,
at that place are starved to the point
of working for any wages offered, the
factory will be reopened, and a lockout
to reduce wages will be inaugIlrated at
another factory.
Mr.. Bryan closed his speech bv a
lengthy discussion of Imperialism The
difference he said between a republic and
an empire is this: A republic needs an
army of 25,00O for 7O,OOOOO0 people An
empire needs four times that large an
army when 100000 population is added
This suits the young men who get fat
jobs in the army, but not the people
who pay the money needed to maintain
the soldiers in the Philippines Mr..
Bryan gave figures TO show that Eng
land and other nations do not colonize
rapidly, and said that with twenty peo-
pie to the square mile in America and
sixty to the mile in the Philippines there
is no opportunity there. Even If we
succeed in killing off all the natives, you
cannot get young Americans to go there
they prefer to live in Iowa and Ne
braska. The profit will not equal the
cost and the profit viii not go to the
right people, but to investment syndi-
Gates Even if any man is willing to
trade for pottage and does not have a
taste for birthright, he had better in
vestigate the pottage. AS the Tagals
are largely Christians, and ou1 native
allies are largely Nohammedan, we
ought to ask the sultan to help us sub
due the Christian insurgents.
This government ought to make dec
laration of good intentions toward the
Philippines, as it did toward Cuba. The
president ought to have done so, or if
he did not have the power should have
asked congress for it. Now he might
SAN a special session to ask for the pow
er. Cleveland called special session
to repeal the Sherman act, and McAin-
ley called one. A special session now
would cost much money but not nearly
SO much as the continuance of the war
SILENCE ON SILVER.
Late tonight the sentiment seems to be
In savor of Sells for governor and silence
m the silver question, except in so far