The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-10-20
BRYAN TALKS FOR M'LEhN
OPENS THE CAMPAIGN IN GREEN
WILLIE, OHIO.
and What They Were In 1896,
and Continues His Denunciations
of the War In the Philippines.

GREENvILLE. O.. Oct ,s.-Today at
Greenyillt. Darks> county. Mr.. Bryan De-
was an immense crowd. The visiting
party was escorted 70 the courthouse
square. John r. Mclean, the Democratic
Bryan. Mr.. Bryan said
/ am glad TO be in a county which
though Darke in name is bright in poiis-
teal principles. county which gave a
Democratic majority in 1885 Of Loo You
want TO Increase that majority this fall.
cries OF we VIII do that II thsre was
one reason for your voting the Democrat
10 one why you should do so this fall.
There was nothing complained Of in lssS
that cannot be complained Of now. The
Same vicious principles advocated by the
opposition IN 1895 are advanced today IN
this campaign.
The Chicago platform. 10 which you
gave such loyal support IN 1886 is s,tn the
platform Of the Democratic party, ard the
platform of the Onto Democrats again III
dorses that platform. ! believe the planks
Of that platform are stronger today than
when they were written
Mr. Bryan then entered into an elaborate
defense OF the Chicago platform! He con-
tiDGed:
Under the presen, system you make
the poor man pay more and the rich peo-
pie less than their share. l believe every
man should share in the expenses OF the
government according to his ability and
IN proportion 10 the benefits derived from
the protection or the government. j be-
aeve in protecting the struggling poor
Touching the money question he said;
y wonder II any Republican here believes
the gold standard is good and ought. TO
be continued. / want 10 remind him that
among the first things the Republican
president did after his Inauguration was
10 send a commission to Europe TO get
rid Of this good thing. II any Republican
Is in doubt. Il ought 10 De removed ny
this action OF a Republican president. All
doubt should be removed when England
spanked our commission and sent 1t home
My friends. that question is stu unsettled.
and the fight will continue until II is taken
cut Of the hands OF foreign power and
placed in these of 1o.ooo.eo Of free men
Mr. Bryan claimed the Republican party
said some trusts were bad and others
good. DO you want to know what trusts
actually so bad that a Republican conven-
ton IN this state convention run by
Mark Hanna. denounced them. They told
yen there were good trusts and BAD trusts
DO you know the difference between a
good trust and bad trust? good trust
gives literally 20 Republican c1mpalgn
publican party cannot destroy the trusts.
When the attorney general of the Cniie1
States Is asked TO intervene there comes the
biblical injunction remember thy creator
The Republican party vas created By the
trusts
Mr. Bryan denounced the increased regu-
lar army as being call I'd for by the presi
dent TWO months before there was any
war or act OF hostility, wbich he construed
as the basis for change in our national
policy, a change from the simplicity OF a
republic to that of Imperialism He said
Abraham Lincoln had applied the principles
Of the Declare ton OF Independence TO the
black man, while the Republican party Of
today denied tho same principles 20 the
brown man.
Il dare the Republicans to defend the
s ~ Mr. aqFf Bysn Of sy Calm al shs fs
10 be In the Philippines by purchase and
that. too. after paying less price for
human beings than pay for hogs.
Let God choose tetreen this definition
Of The Declaration q In epe dencs ard that
which says al go9ernments derive their
Just powers from the consent of tie gov
Mr., Bryan said that when he first wen,
to Cincinnati In March. 1885; TO advocate
mes, man to lend him assistance and sym
pathy was John Il. Mclean.
Under hi. guidance" said Mr.. Bryan,
Our party In this state polled more votes
prior TO iA1 than We would have done
otherwise ana the only reason We did OF
carry the state In 1896 vas that there were
r rn5Tf votes counted than We or the Jaw
When you vote for him you will register
vote for free silver and help save the cot n
try from imperialism and miltarfsm and
believe you Will scare the Republican party
rendeuce."
Talks In Ceiina.
CELINA. o. oct. ls-Celina was reach
ed on schedule time and the reception was
extremely cordial A gathering of good
proportions greeted the arrival Of the train
in his speech Mr.. Bryan said he challenged
me Republicans TO defend the policy of
measuring human life by the value OF ac-
quirsd territory. He did not believe the
American Qeopie would be willing that one
human being should be sent to death Ia
this way. and he did not believe II every
Filipino were killed tomorrow that you
could get Americans 10 go there and at
tempt 10 exist under tropical sun.
He denounced the preaching that God
had been the fundamentally Of our pres
ence In the Philippines. and said:
When God gets ready 10 speak 10 the
American people He VIII find somebody
else than Mark Hanna as 4 mouthpiece."