The Worcester spy., 1899-04-14
WANTS THE OLD ISSUES.
Bryan In His Milwaukee
Speech Calls Them
Good Enough.

Milwaukee, Wis, April 13.-The JEFF
ferson Club of Milwaukee observed the
natal day of the founder of democracy
by a banquet at the Planl1inton to-
night. Col. VIM. J. Bryan of Nebraska
was the guest of honor, and delivered
the principal address. The banquet
hall was beautifully decorated. He
spoke on Democracy"
Ex-senator John L. Mitchell of Wis
consin devoted his entire address to an
eulogy of Thomas jefferson. John f.
Doherty of Lacrosse responded to the
sentiment, "The young democracy;
Thomas L Cleary of Plattsville, on
Party honesty is party duty; Carter
H. Harrison of Chicago responded to
Corruption in politics.; Mayor David
S. Rose of Milwaukee, to Imperial
ISM; Judge Hiram W. Sawyer of
Hartford, on Shall trusts and cor
porations rule?" and George w. Peck,
on "If soldier does not like his ra-
tions, what?"
DR.. Howard S. Taylor of Chicago read
an original poem on Jefferson" Mr..
Bryan said in part:
w e are HOW NEAR EuOuSh " llG
next campaign to be able to form some
idea of the lines along which the con-
test will be fought, and I say that those
who in 1896 gave their allegiance to the
Chicago platform are as united today
in the determination that no step taken
in 1896 shall be retraced. That plat
form applied to the condition then ex-
isting, the principles which had been
democratic from the beginning of the
government. Suggestions that we
abandon the money question sometimes
come from those who deserted the
party in 1896, but those suggestions are
not supported by evidence tending to
show that the position in 1896 was
wrong, but was predicated upon the
theory that the issue upon which the
party once lost can never be revived.
"The test ought to be not whether
the issue has been presented before,
but whether the position taken is
right. If the gold standard was un-
nerited in 1896, it is unmerited now.
"As TO the question of an increased
army. When / was a boy 1 remember
visiting a wheat field which had been
attacked by army worms. 1t occurs to
me that this tendency toward large
army establishment-this new army worm
will prove more destructive to the crops
of the farmer than the army worM with
which the farmers are now familiar.
Upon the SUBJECT OIL lnpeTldllSIH
need only to add a word. The idea of
forcible conquest and Of colonization after
the plan adopted by European countries
cannot receive the support of the people
of this country, when the principles IN.
volved are clearly understood. In 1858
Abraham Lincoln was invited to attend
a Jefferson banquet given by the repub-
licans of Boston.
Expressing a regret that he could not
attend the Boston banquet, Mr.. Lincoln
used these words in regard to Thomas
Jefferson: All honor to Jefferson; to a
man who in the concrete pressure of a
struggle for national independence by q
single people, had the cool forecast and
capacity to introduce into merely revo-
Iutionary document an abstract truth ap-
plicable to all men and all times, and SO
to embalm it there, that today and in all
coming days it shall be rebuke and a
stumbling block to the harbingers of
tyranny and oppression
land vet the leaders of the republican
party are attempting to deny those, truths
written for all men and for al time. me
They are attempting to repudiate the
doctrine of equal rights and of sef-gov-
ernment given US by the forefathers.
Not only are they. initiating the mon
arches of the old world in their policies