Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-08-16
bryan GIVES HIS CUE
National Democratic Leader Tells
Party in Iowa to Make Silver
Subordinate Issue.
Thinks Foreigner Will Understand
Expansion Better Than
Is to l Problem.
Signifies His Approval Of Sells Can
Weaver Follows Suit
The Populists.
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| Des Moines, Aug. 16.-William Jen-
nings Bryan evinced an ability to climb
into the bandwagon yesterday which
was surprising, even to those who had
| thought they knew best his characteris-
| tics as politician. On four different
occasions yesterday. in party confer
ence and in public address. ne declared
his willingness to lay aside his 16 to
beliefs and to give prominence to other
tissues. This was all that the most ard
ent Sells men had dared to hope, and
| when in a conference with the state
central committee Mr.. Bryan gave full
endorsement to Cato Sells candidacy.
| and approved the plan of the demo-
| cratic management to straddle the
money question, they felt that victory
was already assured
But it was III an address delivered to
the county ctairmen In the afternoon
| that the great national leader declared
sauarely his belief that free silver as
campaign issue is dead. and that to
| win the democrats must look for other
weapons with which to fight. This adj
dress was delivered to the chairmen af-
| ter MIR. Bryan had had long confer
ence with the state management and
had explained to him in full the
| situation In Iowa. In this speech he
| said:
Last time we were defeated by the
votes of the foreign born voters. We
had majority of the native born cit-
zens. The foreigners couldn't Under
| stand the issues. They didn't know
| about the silver question. and we could
| not get literature to them This time
] they will understand better even than
| the native born. They know what a
! standing army means even batter than
! we do. They know what expansion
means. This time thev will be With us.
They know what Imperialism means
| and WIN vote against 1t.
/ We do not need to surrender single
idea of the Chicago platform, Like the
inaugural speech OF J&omas Jefferson,
| II was made for all time But when
new and important issues come up. we
can take them into the family and fight
OH them without apologizing for any
previous fight WA have made
In the hopes OF winning back the gold
/ democratic vote. Bryan is willing to
make the campaign on any issue. but all
| that he and his silver friends may win
| in order TO carry into execution the
same plans which they have held since
the adoption of the platform of 1896. BY
masking behind anti" declarations the
| leaders hope to achieve victory for 16
| to !.
1
completely by the conservative infiuen-
ces in the party, and to a party of geld
democrats on Monday night he an
nounced that he would be willing to
have any old kind of a platform adopt
ed could he but be nominee. He an
| nounced yesterday that he should be
| fully satisfied with a SIMPLE reaffirma-
ton of the Chicago platform. without
any frills of any kind. He announced
at the same time that he was willing
to work for the nomination of Sells,
and that he was willing to act as a
democrat. regardless, just 50 that he
could still be allowed to think of himself
as populist.
But some of the popuists broke last
night from the leadership of Gen.
| Weaver. and after they found that he
=
they had a meeting and decided to hold
the populist convention. called by Gen.
Weaver, but afterwards abandoned af-
ter his selection to deliver an address
In this meeting OF the populists they de-
clared their willingness to abide by
! simple money plank. but as wholly un-
willing to put up With Cato Sells as
gubernatoral nominee. Notice to this
effect was served on the democratic
| leaders, with threat that if Sells were
nominated they would hold separate
| convention and would fight the demo-
Gratis to a finish in the fall campaign.
| Mr.. Bryan's speech at the auditorium
was long one, devoted to the anti
trust, money and imperialism questions.
A large portion of his speech was an ar
gument against expansion. That part of
his speech was given particular atten-
ton, as 1t indicated that Bryan was
willing to make it one of the main is
sues of the campaign, paramount to 16
to 1, II it appeared to be the more pop
ular. On the question of expansion he
said:
What does expansion mean? 1t
means the exploitation of new coun-
try. If this people want to sell their
birthright for d mess of pottage let
them at least investigate the quality OF
the pottage. How much will it cost this
countr to hold 100000 people. speak
ing thirty different languages and liv-
ing in 1000 different islands? Who can
tell? How much will we get back? /
think we can whip the Filipinos into
subjecton-all of them who do not die
in the process. We can not tell how
long it will take. or how often we will
have to repeat the subjugation, or how
much it will cost, but / am enough of
an American to think we can beat any
nation on earth-that we ought to beat.
Little Spain had almost completed the
job of whipping the Filipinos, after hav-
ing been at it only 800 years. She sold
to us quit claim deed-or rather an
option on the fighting. laughter). 1T
is not a question of whether we can
whip the Filipinos or not, but whether
we ought to whip them. do not like to
bring this question down to dollars and
cents, but will 1t pay? 1t will not pay
the right people. i can understand how
men wanting offices in the army de-
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