The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-05
FOR BRYAN AND Sill YER.



before the unlimited coinage of silver
| and gold at the ratio of 16 to L."
There was loud cheering at this. Ex-
Governor Hogg said democrats in 1900
would denounce trusts, favor the in
come tax, granting of Cuban independ-
ence and the construction and main
tenance of the Nicaraguan canal, and
denounce imperialism and government
by injunction.
with these principles we will go in
to battle confident of victory he de-
clared. But we want the support of
Tammany, the greatest of all local po-
ltical organizations. And above all,
we want to go into the fight under the
leadership of William j. Bryan"
AS Ex-Governor Hogg uttered the
name of Mr.. Bryan the cheering was
deafening and continued. During a
slight lull somebody proposed a cheer
for Van Wyck, but the crowd failed to
take 1t up.
Senator Thomas F. Grady made
stormy attack on the state civil service
commission and upon the examination
questions set by it.
He was followed by ex-Congressman
Caruth of Kentucky, who said in part:
Congressman Caruth.
After speaking of the day then being
celebrated throughout the Union and
the lessons taught by the declaration of
independence Mr. Caruth announced
his allegiance to the principles of that
great document, the charter of Ameri-
can liberty, and sounded a note of
warning against any departure from
the theories of government therein con-
tanned. Proud as he was of the glori-
Gus achievements of our army and
navy, he would think that those victor
les We're dearly purchased if they had
to be paid for by a departure from
al he
Union has been formed and had grown
so great and mighty. He thought the
doctrine of human liberty announced
in the declaration which jefferson wrote
and Adams advocated intended for all
time, and he stood ready to say with
the latter: Sink or swim, live or die,
survive or perish, l am for the declara-
ton. 1t is my living sentiment, and by
the blessing of God shall be my dying
sentiment, independence now and indie
pendence forever"
He announced his adherence to the
theory of the Monroe doctrine and his
opposition to imperialism. In speaking
of the territory acquired under the
treaty of Paris, he expressed regret at
the acquisition of the Philippines, but
trusted that when the flag 1oated in
peace over these possessions, we would
with wise craftsmanship regulate tho
affairs in those far away isles of the
L
taught the blessings of self-govern-
ment and could be entrusted with the
management of their own affairs
Coming down to and speaking of the
issue of the campaign of 1900. Mr..
Caruth said:
The Defeat in 1896.
1895 lives in our rear 1900 is in front
of us. 1t is useless for us to talk of
the causes of the defeat in 1896 We
L. Int ~,
democratic votes than were ever given
to our candidates for president before,
and yet we lost. Everything that hui
| man ingenuity could contrive, every
expedient which desperation could sug-
gest were used in order to corrupt the
franchise and to secure the presidency
of the republic. 1t is not necessary to
particularize, but the 'votingest' people
in the Union seemed to live in Ohio.
where one out of every three of the
| population was voter in 1896, a pro-
portion startling, previously unheard
| of and grossly untrue. Take old Ken
! lucky, my state, which gave Bryan IN
1896 $4,000 votes to $4,000 votes given
| Cleveland in 1892, an increase of AZ, 900,
| and lost it by 2Sl, 900 in 1896. 1t was the
desperate effort on the part of the
| moneyed and corporate powers of this
country to accomplish the defeat of the
will of the people by false clamor and
| 1896 lies in the past, and no regret, re-
pentance or repining can bring it back
| again.
Let us cease to lament for that We
cannot help.
And study help for that which we la
ment.'
1890 is before us, and to that year
we must turn for succor.
The Issues of 1900
1--WE cannot, men of Tammany, ex-
pect $4,000 voters of this country will
ignore the principles for which they
cast their suffrages less than three
short years ago. Although defeat came
to them, democrats over this country
believe, or at least a majority of them
believe. and democracy is but the will
of the majority, that the platform laid
down in Chicago in 1896 states the car
dinal doctrines of the democratic faith
| and on that platform they propose to
fight the battle of 1900. Although you
may not be in thorough accord with the
principles of faith therein enumerated
| these principles are so far better and
so much more preferable to those of
the republican party, that l believe the
| people will rally around our standard
| and carry it to triumphant victory.
The Trusts.
But there is one ISSUE" said Mr..
Oaruth, which has become more per-
| manent in the years that have gone
since 1896 than 1t was when the great
popular convention assembled at Chi
cago and constructed the democratic
platform, and upon that subject we
must speak with no uncertain voice in
1900. The evil of which we complain is
the natural offspring of the miscalled
American policy of the republican
party. The evil is upon us, because, as
nation. we have been false to the prin-
ciples of equality proclaimed in the
declaration of independence. 1t is be-
cause We have not given equal rights
to all men and exclusive privileges to
no man. We fostered manufacturers
and encouraged infant industries un-
til warmed into life and strength they
have turned to strike with their pois-
onous stings the generous bosom which
nourished them. All through a life CO.
extensive with the life of the republic,
democracy has sounded a warning to
the people, yet inch by inch, step by
by step the so-called doctrine of pro-
lection has advanced. Its advocates