The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-04-14
POINTS TO BRYAN.
Carter Harrison Recognizes the
Nebraska Man
As the Leader of the Democrat
ic Party
In A SPEECH MADE
Before the Jefferson Club at
Milwaukee.
Stands by the Chicago Platform
in Its Entirety.

at the Plankinton house last night
which was attended by over 400 guests.
Col. William J. Bryan of Nebraska was
the guest of honor and delivered the
principal address. Delegations of Dem
ocrats were in attendance from many
towns throughout the state and nearly
all the Democrats from the state legis-
lature were present.
Col. Bryan was escorted on an early
train from Chicago by a large delegation
from that city and Mayor Harrison
came later, also with large number of
escorts.
The banquet hall was beautifully dec
grated with the national colors.
Carter H. Harrison of Chicago re-
sponded to Corruption in Politics.
Mr.. Harrison said in part:
1T lies in the power of the young
Democracy of the nation, if it will but
set to work in the first trenches. to
carry forward the crusade of purity in
politics until corruption shall have been
driven from high places, until honesty
shall control in every department of the
municipal, the state and the national
government. StalWart young Democra-
cy need not look for an incentive. The
our national leader. Two years ago
the party made it's fight under a leader
with private life so stainless, with per-
Sonal character so blameleSS, that the
people followed him and follow him
still with such zeal as the crusaders
displayed OF old.
ours is the party of the people. I'm
less we serve the people honestly and
fairly we are fafthless to our trust.
Duty requires US to strike the first blow
at corruption within our own ranks
Let the word go forth that Democracy
will not tolerate q man, no matter how
profuse his professed devotion to the
party creed, who does not place his OBJ
legation to the public above any and
nor a H.
ocracy means anything it means the
honest service of the people No man
can be Democrat whose integrity is
not above suspicion He who seeks
public office for private gain is traitor
to everything for which Democracy
stands and for him there should be no
place within the party ranks. 1t should
be the duty of every true Democrat to
scourge him from the temple of the
party faith.
In 1910 a bitter struggle awaits US.
The old fight must be made again,
fight along the lines laid down in the
platform of the last Democratic con-
Vention for the rights of the plain peo-
pie, fight against corruption and all
its awful menace to the republic, a
fight against the trusts that seek to
make of this nation, founded upon the
theory of the absolute equality of all
men, a serfdom, submissive to the
power and the arrogance of wealth.
fight for everything that will lift the
people higher. a fight against every
onward march of its triumphant des-
tiny. If we remain true to the theory
and the practice of what Democracy
means and stands for, there is no need
to doubt the success of the issues of the
COL. BRYAN's REMARKS.
Col. Bryan spoke on Democracy"
He said in part:
I'VE are now near enough to the next
campaign to be able to form some idea
of the lines along which the contest
will be fought, and I am taking no risk
when L say that those who, in 1896, gave
their allegiance to the Chicago platform
are united today in the determination
that no step taken in 1896 shall be re-
traced. The platform applied to the
conditions then existing, the principles
which had been Democratic from the
beginning of the government. Sugges-
tons that we abandon the money ques-
ton sometimes come from those who
deserted the party in 1896, but those
suggestions are not supported by evil
dence tending to show that the opposi-
ton in 1896 was wrong, but was predl-
Gated upon the theory that the issue
upon which the party once lost can
never be revived, and what seems most
strange this argument is made by those
who have followed different course in
the past.
I'm 1888 Mr.. Cleveland was defeated
on the tariff issue, and yet the tariff
was the main issue in 1892, and Mr..
Cleveland was elected. In 1892 Mr.. Har-
rison was defeated largely on account
of the Mckinley bill, and four years
later the author of the bill was NOM
mated upon the platform reaffirming
the BELIEF in protection and was sue
cessfu1. Thus it is seen that in two
instances recently a losing issue in one
campaign became winning issue in
the next campaign.
Upon the subject of imperialism I
need only add word. The idea of
forctble conquest and of colonization
after the plan adopted by European
countries can not receive the support
of the people of this country, when the
principles involved are clearly under
stood. In 1859 Abraham Lincoln was
invited to attend a Jefferson banquet
given by the Republicans of Boston.
Those whose memories run back to
ante-bellum days remember that the |
Declaration of Independence formed a
large part of Republican speeches in
the early days of the party. 1t was a
Abraham Lincoln ran. That Lincoln
was welded to the fundamental doc
trines set forth in that declaration no
one Will dispute. In expressing regret |
that he could not attend the Boston
banquet, Mr.. Lincoln used these words |
in regard to Jefferson:
All honor to Jefferson; to man
who in the concrete pressure of a strug-
gle for national independence by a sin
gle people had the GOODNESS, foresight |
and capacity to introduce into a merely i
revolutionary document an abstract |
and so to embalm it there that today
and in all coming days it shall be re-
buke and a stumbling block to the har-
bingers of tyranny and oppression
And yet the leaders of the Republican
party are attempting to deny those truths
written for all men and for all time.
They are attempting to repudiate the doc
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