The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-07-06

and unlimited coinage of the money
metals of the constitution, the gold, that
polished the winged sandals of Hermes
and the silver that glitters in the bow OF
Diana
Instead of a panic breeding, credit
currency, controlled by the bank trust,
he must offer government paper con-
trolled- by the people,
He must be able to distinguish be-
tween Democratic expansion and Re-
publican Imperialism. The first is a
natural growth by the addition of con-
tiguOuS American territory, into every
foot of which is carried the Constftu-
ton, the flag and the decalogue, and
over the shoulders of every inhabitant
of the added territory is thrown a pur-
pie robe of sovereign citizenship. 1t is
a growth that has added eighteen stars
to the field of blue in the Banner of the
Free to symbolic the states that have
been carved from territory, annexed to
the domain of this nation, by the wis
dom and craftsmanship of the Democra-
tic party; this is an expansion that is
bounded on the north by the COnStitu-
ton OF the United States, on the east
by the Monroe doctrine, on the south by
the Declaration of independence, and
on the west by the Ten Commandments.
How different this from the bandit
policy of the republican imperialism,
with it's standing army and bayonet
rule of conquered provinces; its govern
ment of sullen subjects against their
will, by force and fraud; its denial to
them of the protection of either the con-
stitutiOn or the commandment, which
says: "Thou shalt not Steal"-a policy
that would send our Uncle Sam off his
American range with a cowboy hat, a
rope and a branding iron, to rustic and
brand-over all the loose islands of the
Orient, while hypocritically chanting the
long-meter doxology.
Democratic skies are tinged with a,
roster hue today than when we met in
convention four years ago. Then a f1nan-
ciaI cataclYSm had spread over the
country, and, although it's every induc-
ing cause was easily traced to the errors
and follieS of the republican party, yet
we were in power when it came, and
We're wrongly held responsible for the
wreck of shattered fortunes which fol-
lowed in it's wake. Torn asunder by
dissensions within and disasters with
out, our party faced a gloomy and fore
bOding future, which seemed to augur
its dissolution. The problem then was
to select a standard bearer bold enough
to cover the rear of a retreat and save
the party from destruction, If not from
defeat.
while discord, with her flaming torch,
confused the cOunSelS there from out
the Sunset Realm champion came and
babe defiance to the oncoming host.
With the strength of youth, and the
wisdom of age, with knightly mien and
natchlesS speech, he lowered above mis-
peers and all who saw him then with
one accord did hail him Chief and
gave our party's banner to his hand.
Slowly despair gave way to hope; con-
fidence took the place where timorouS
fear had been: the broken, shattered
columns formed again, and behind him,
singing, came six million five hundred
thousand valiant men to that unequal
fight.
And the story of how well he fought,
how fear4essly he fell, and how dearly
the enemy's victory was bought, has
all gone out into history now.
Back from his first battle he came.
fIefI h11f her Of
rights of man. Conscious of the rect1-
tude of his purpose and cheered by the
belief that no issue is ever settled until
it is settled right he cheerfully acqul-
esced in the result of that campaign,
and gir'ded his loins for the next great
contest between the dollar and the man.
For four years he has waged an un-
ceasing warfare against the peoples
enemy; four years he has held up the
party's standard, and his voice has
cheered the hosts of democracy in every
state and territory. When the trusts
began to increase under the protection
of a republican administration he was
the first to point out the danger and
prescribe a remedy.
when the alaFumS of a war for hu-
mainly reused the heroic spirit of our
land, he offered his sword to his coun-
try's cause on the day that war was
declared.
ton departing from the ancient land
marks of our institutions, in its en-
chanted dream of empire and militar-
ism he was the first to raise a warn
ing voice, and resigning his commission
on the day the treaty of peace was sign
ed, he threw himself into the contest for
the rescue of the republic.
Realizing that imperialism like the |
tabled Artaeus was born of earth. and |
that contended with upon the selfish |
worldly plane of greed and gold, it was
of giant strength; and if thrown down |
would rise again refreshed from contact |
with it's mother element, he, like the |
mighty Hercules, raised it above the |
sordid sphere from which it's strength |
was drawn and on a plane of lofty pat |
riOtism he strangled it.
with the issues now clearly drawn, |
no doubt remains as to the name of our |
candidate. On that question we are |
Democracy
Already worthy allies differing from |
us rather in name than faith, have |
shouted for our gallant leader again, |
and every state and territory has in /
it's delegates to this convention |
to vote for him here. So it only re- !
mains for Nebraska to pronounce the |
name that has been Numbered forth |
from the foot of Bunker HILL and echo |
ed back from the Sierras sunset slope, |
and that reverberates among the pine /
clad snoW-capped hills of the north, and |
rises up from the slumbering flower /
scented savannahs of the south: and |
that name is the name of William Jen- |
ningS Bryan, her best loved son."