Omaha daily bee., 1899-11-05

Enthusinstic ond Entertaining Re-
publican Meeting is Held Mt
GrueniE's Hall.

| One OF the most intensely interesting
meetings OF the campaign was held in
| Gruenig's hall at Twenty fourth street and
Ames avenue Saturday night under the
auspices of the Sixth Ward Republican club
Charles Grafton presided. The principal
address was made by Hon. Edward Rose
water who was given the closest attention
| throughout a speech of much power and
filled with facts for voters.
MIR. Rosewater began by saying there
| was an old adage attributed to Abraham
Lincoln that you could fool all of the people
| some OF the time and some OF the people
all Of the time, but could not fool all of the
people all of the time. This, he said was
applicable to the present campaign. "Three
years ago hundreds of men were standing
| on the street corners talking, buzzing and
discussing the financial situation. At that
time there were nearly, IL not quite, 1000, ,O00
idle men in the United States who were in
terested in the financial remedy movement.
| Then 1t was stated by Bryan and his follow
ers that no prosperity could come until
the mlnts were open; but now we see the
mills running day and night and the mlnts
have not been opened. Three years ago
the opposition prophesied disaster, but they
were false prophets and the people can be
trusted to leave their advice alone.
I'm the present campaign continued the
speaker, 81 have been surprised and amused
to find there are but two candidates-Wil-
liam Jennings Bryan and Edward Rosewater
You would think by reading the opposition
papers we were the candidates and that
Bryan was candidate for supreme Judge in
stead of Hocomb. Bryan goes travelling
over the etate in special trains and ahead
of him are sent bills like those used by Bar
nun on which he had printed Wait for
me-
The great masses of the people do their
own thinking and will not be misled by Mr.
Bryan. He stood up in congress and advo-
Gated free trade, stating positively there
could be no permanent prosperity without
it. But his theory has been shown to be
absolutely false. He said no tin plate could
ever be manufactured in this country and
at the present time there are over 40, 600
men employed in its manufacture.
,, "Mr Bryan says the protective tariff i5
the mother of trusts. Well, why did he
I, not strangle the old mother when he had
) the opportunity in congress? He had abun-
dant opportunity to introduce bills, but he
: never raised his voice in protest against
the encroachment of truste The reason
may have been that he was linked in some
manner with them at that time and his
connection with the Missouri Pacific rail
way as attorney at Lincoln may have had
something to do with his silence.
again many people have supposed Bryan
3 to be in sympathy with labor, but he never
did anything to show It, During the great
e strike in Chicago he never uttered one word
J of sympathy or encouragement to the labor
ing men, although he was in congress at
the time. He never lent any aid to Debs
when he was in the midst of the troubles
3 among strikers. He lodged every time.
: Men are what they do, not what they pro-
fess; what they act, not what they talk.
"He does not talk so much about gov
; ernment by Injunction now as he did Per-
haps he has been shown by our mutual
friend, Judge Scott. just how much gov
erning can be done by Injunction. He is
perambulatng the state, asking the people
to vote for him as though he were the
savior of the race and had the only bread
, of salvation.
; 'All his silver theories have been ex-
ploded and his wild ideas have been fatty
j, contradicted by facts. He goes about the
country trying to make people believe they
= are hypnotized and the prosperity they en-
Joy Is but a dream. His remedies for the
! cure Of the trust evil are simply nostrums,
. not practicable In fact he does not want
any cure. He wants calamity, SO he can
always pose as savior with cure for the
a evils
D "Mr. Bryan worked hard for the ratifica-
l tion of the treaty with Spain. This treaty
Y as he we'll knew, meant the annexation of
> the islands to the United States. He says
:. he knew it was a bad thing, but worked for
Y it in order to get peace. Now he is con-
t demning the president for upholding the
e terms of the treaty and protecting the lives
t and property of people this country is under
e bounden duty to care for. He camors for a
protectorate and is against militarism. TIC
20 have a protectorate there must be an army
o to keep order in the islands"
g The speaker took UP the record OF Silas
Holcomb, candidate for supreme judge, and
told of the BARLEY bond negligence, of his
connection with the penitentiary scandal
when the state paid three or four times as
n much for some old machinery and truck as
it was worth, and of his broken promises
and acts without compassion for the un'
fortunate, as shown by his neglect to show
d clemency in worthy cases. He said Judge
g Reese had no need of eulogy as his recore
n was we'll known, he having served the peo
: ple in the capacity of supreme justice al
II ably as any man who ever occupied the higf
g position.
Irving G. Baright, candidate for clerk o
e the district court, made short talk full
u good hard hits and sound common sense III
70 recalled a. conversation in which his op
e ponent, Broadwell had asked that there be M
o mud singing. The opposition had dom
II nothing else and he did not think Broad
, well had kept faith in the premises F. ID
' Bryant, candidate for treasurer, also spok
y for few minutes on the issues before tn
10 people. Bryce Crawford Of the Fifth ward
70 candidate for justice OF the peace
~ called the attention of the audience
- to the fact that the ticket wa
long and the tailenders desired vote
>, as we'll as those at the top. r. Pratt
~ member of the club. was called to the from
y, at the close OF the meeting and discussed tn
= issues of the day ably The hall was hlle
N with men and those who have attended tn
~ fall meetings say there has not been
more interesting one held this year, nor on
ia where better attention was given or NOR
l., good accomplished
~ Baker Answers Scott.
70 Judge Baker spoke at the Tekamah oper
ie house Wednesday evening. The Burt Count