The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-16

terested manner, and he bowed fire.
quently at the calls made on him.
A Tempest of Applause.
In introducing Mr.. Bryan, Chairman
Brown said that Abraham Lincoln had
come out of the West to save the ma
ton and that another man had come
from the West to save the nation. A
perfect tempest of applause from the
men and women broke out. The ap-
plause subsidized, but started afresh
The band struck up, but could scarcely
be heard as it played The Stars and
Stripes Forever"
Hats were thrown up into the air;
women waved their cloaks and hand
kerchiefs. There was a maelstrom of
discord. Bryan RAISED his hand de-
precatingly, but the more he did this
the more the crowd cheered II was a
wild, frantic demonstration. 1t lasted
for at least five minutes.
Mr. Bryan began in a calm, clear
voice and was frequently interrupted
by applause.
ably the largest banquet ever given in
the United States and smoke of those
present as being true to the principles
of democracy as written in democracy's
latest creed" a statement which pro-
voked cries of "bravo." Referring to
the Croker banquet of two nights ago,
Mr.. Bryan said
"A democrat has right to pay what
ever he pleases for a dinner if he has
the money. The character of a poIit-
cal banquet is determined not by the
cost of it, but by the sentiments which
are woven into the post-prandial ora
tory"
Then taking up the political conven-
tons of 1896, Mr. Bryan spoke of the
ba toe,
Those who left the republican party
after the St. Louis convention, he said,
took a name so different from the re-
publican name that no one would mis-
take the one for the other. They made
a bold and earnest fight, and since that
campaign, Mr. Bryan declared, they
have neither gone back, nor. standing
outside, have they attempted to write
the platform of the party which they
left"
AS compared with the action of the
silver republicans, Mr.. Bryan held up
the course of the national democrats"
and said:
No Political Bigamists.
those whose opinions are as antagon-
| istic as the opinions set forth in the
| Chicago platform and the Indianapolis
| platform. All that we ask is that those
who come into the democratic party
| shall be a part of the democratic party.
| We simply insist that man cannot be
a political bigamist. He cannot be
| welded to the name of our party and
| to the principles of some other party.
We simply ask that he shall get a for
| NAL divorce, either from our name or
| from their principles.
Continuing Mr. Bryan declared that
the Chicago platform was written by
| the representatives of the democratic
| party in the most democratic conven-
ton that has been held in quarter OF
a century and that EVERY flank of it is
stronger to-day than it was when the
platform was written"
| He added: '"Those who believe that
we should invite into the democratic
| party all those who cannot share in the
| purpose and the aspirations of that
party-I cannot speak for others.
| speak for mySelf-are wrong, and | say
! that l would not abstract from it a sin
| gle plank to get back every man who
| left it, Nor do | believe that We could
| draw people to us by cowardice. The
day for ambiguity has passed. That
platform means something. and If you
ask me why it was that in the cam
paign Of 1896 the hearts of the people
We're stirred as they have not been late
ly stirred I will tell you that it was
it a menace to every man who robs his
| neighbor for his own benefit
| 1T was those who have intrenched
| themselves by abuses of government
who objected to that platform and
| we'll they might object because that
| platform was aimed at every abuse of
| government and l was glad that l was
supported by those who would have only
asked me for just laws. 1 am glad
! that the six million and a half who
voted for me simply wanted me to get
| other peoples hands out of their peck
| ties (applause) and not to get their
hands into other peoples rockets"
After reviewing the various planks of
the democratic platform of 1896. Mr..
| Bryan spoke briefly of the republican
legislation under the present admins
tration, speaking especially of the wal
revenue legislation, the stamp tax and
| the failure to reach the incomes of the
rich and the corporations. He said:
One of the things stamped is a tele-
| gram. Wherever you want to send q
telegram, you go to the telegraph office
and you find that the republican party
has SO made the law that the telegraph
company can transfer the burden from
its shoulders to yours.
/ THE republican party in all of its
politics. is putting the dollar above the
man, and in that is departing from the
| doctrines of Lincoln, Its founder, for
in 1859 he said the republican party be-
lieves in both the man and the dollar
but in cases of conflict the man before
the dollar.
Can't Touch the Dollar.
THE republican party is putting the
dollar above the man in all it's legiSla
| tion and nowhere is it more appareji
than in matters of taxation. The re-
| publican party is not trying to restore
justice in taxatio The war has shown
that when this government deals Will
in individual its power * un
limited, but when it deals with prop
erty it's power is limited. 1t can dTaf
the citizen, but it cannot touch the dol
lar. In the hour of peril the nation
can take the son from his mother ant
the husband from his wife and stant
them up in front of an enemy's gun
but it dare not lay its finger on the ricf
and make them contribute their share.
Mr.. Bryan discussed the question o
bmetallism at length. repeating we'll