Iron County register., 1899-08-31
STICK TO BRYAN
Nebraska Democrats Stand by the
Silver Leader.
Democratic Sentiments Uttered b1
Temporary Chairman w. H. Tomp
son Before the State Conven-
ton at Omaha.

In his speech before the democratic
/ state convention at Omaha on Tuesday,
August q, Temporary Chairman ". H.
Tompson said:
| I'm the coming battle of 1850 we will re-
/ affirm the platform of 1886 and renominate
| the same leader of democracy. We will be
/ true to the pledge of our fathers. We will.
as loyal sons reared to reverence their
{ teachings, swear anew eternal allegiance
and fidelity TO the Declaration OF Independ-
/ ence, worship its every line and maintain
! its every precept. sacred as the memories
/ of our heroes dead and loyal as the patriots
/ living. To tear therefrom one of its sacred
/ principles is to invite the beginning OF an
! endless ruin and decay
| Party, party, what sins have been COM
| mitted for the perpetuity thereof in the
/ years gone by, but il was left to the nine
: teenth century republican to announce
| from the rostrun and through the press
/ that this nation has outgrown the prin-
/ ciples enunciated in this sacred declara-
I ton Yet the distance is only from mar
! tyred Lincoln to the webbing policy of the
| present administration Who will pull
/ down the flag? No man or nation But
( every patriot. every believer in the Declara-
ton of independence should join in lifting
II up into the sunlight OF its own beauty.
and let every star and every stripe glitter
with truth resplendent- Peace upon earth
and good viii unto men. If 10 be { son or
America is to be nobIer than to have been
a son of Rome, then Americas sons must be
kept out of the Roman business If by greed
and conquest Rome fell, then we should
heed that lesson
I'VE should treat the Filipino with the
frankness that becometh a great nation.
and with the charity inspired by a VIC
torfouS army, as if sitting in the presidents
mansion, and not as a member of board of
trade. Do you say I am wrong? Then let
the returning heroes answer. I appeal 20
the lips of the living and the writings OF the
dead, who knew and know. If no man is
good enough to govern another without his
consent by and with what authority IS our
president acting? If the reason for not an
nouncing a policy IS because congress is
not in session, why does not the president
make more calls for congress, as provided
in the constitution, and less calls for arms
and soldiers. not strictly in accordance
with the constitution? Are we to decry
Russian czar and welcome an American
usurper? Or is he too afraid of having
congress on his hands, and thereby to ig-
more the constitution and to deprive the
people Through their agents, the members OF
congress). of right to order what shall and
what shall not be done? Does the president
fear what all know-that Imperialism and
militarism are Siamese twins and that each
is, and must be. stranger to a republican
form Of government?
However much we may feel for the op-
pressed elsewhere, we to-day plead for our
own institutions, for the home and the fire.
side Tear down the flag? No, but let it not
be the emblem of oppression
What Cleveland tried TO do by way OF
running or rather running, the finance OF
the country Mckinley is trying by way of
war and colonization 10 ruin and under
mine the established policy Of our govern
ment: each attempted not to advise con- .
gress. but TO run congress. or arbitrarily
do without il. The one caused the wreck OF
the democratic party, the other is causing,
and will cause, the wreck and ruin of the
republican party. Each has polluted our
politics with officials and appointees-
The commission or one wrong. like the
obtaining of one luxury, demands another.
Once imperialism is adopted, this demands
and must have as its support mil.tar:sm:
and those once obtained must have eonfed-
crates. and in order to have them we must
have an alliance with some other nation,
and our most natural alliance is with Eng
land. So here we have the annual Ameri-
can alliance And gain we turn away from
the teachings OF all our history from WASH
ington 20 Mckinley. Democracy. ever true
to the teachings of its founders, an
SwerS no.
1.-THE trust under Mckinley has OUT
stripped all rivals and to-day stands with
gun in hand, the drum ma jor OF his prosper
ity- The gun is to ward off the laborer
seeking the employment he lost by the abb
sorpment of the establishment of his en-
ployer. and 10 amuse the travelling man
while he reads his no longer wanted
we hear the question asked as to what
you are going TO do about trusts I would
remove from them first the fostering care
OF the government. They are. TO great
extent, in this country al least, the direct
offspring of a protective tariff and the gold
standard. The protective tariff makes the i
way easy and the gold standard makes it, !
in numerous cases. a business necessity. /
would first remove the protection on every
article, and when trust without competi-
tion was formed on any article of necessity /
Vr0f 7szy2@ ION 1-Sy,o
with imprisonment, nd not a small crime, |
as the punishment. and provide for the gov !
ernment taking charge of the cargo and
winding up its affairs. With plenty of
money in the hands of the people new en-
terprises will spring up instantly and busi- =
ness will move as it should move.
IF the interstate commerce commission
cannot regulate transporta ton. would as
sist them by providing for the extension of .
the drainage canal 10 the Mississippi: by ,
canal shorten the trip through the lakes,
and assume absolute control of and con-
struct a ship canal across the Isthmus of
Panama. and then throw open the water
carrying trade to all and any who wish to i
engage therein.
Instead of foolirg away our money in :
the far-off Philippines, if it is land we want
I would spend the millions in constructing
reservoirs in the western states
with the S20. 900, coo spent in that invest
ment for an option on war these western
plains and valleys would wave with their
golden harvest as fields never waved be-
fore.
"A law should be enacted providing for
board of arbitration between capital and
Ia Dor that would and could arbitrate and
thus stop the destruction of property loss
of lives, stagnation of business, and. worse
than all. loss of respect for our laws and in .
sttutions. Compel an equitable adjust
ment of differences.
You ask what the leading issue of 1900
will be- My answer is, good old-fashioned
democracy all along the line, and our new
Andrew Jackson leading the fight into
every state in the union Let every soldier |
enlisted in our new cause select sC- h guns |
from the many as may be best adapt ID to |
its use: then aim at the enemy and not at !
our own people. The war is not ended: ii
las just begun"