The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-08-27
WHAT BRYAN DID.



Mr. Bryan knows that he worked for
the ratification of the treaty which gave
to the United States the Philippine
islands," said ex-senator Thomas E. Boyd,
of Noblesville. last night. 'and he acts the
part of a dishonest man when he goes
around over the country delivering his an
ti-imperialistic speech and quoting Lincoln
in support of his false theories. / ran
across an interesting paragraph in the
proceedings of the Chicago convention of
1864 the other day. In that convention
Mr.. Stambaugh. of Ohio, said that if he
were called upon to elect between the mig
ger and disunion and separation he would
choose the latter. [Storm of cheers.l Bay
onets and cannon, and above all negro
emancipation, said Mr.. ~Stambaugh, could
not conquer a permanent peace. One
reason given by Mr.. Stambaugh why the
Democrats should support the conventions
candidate was that hell might be searched
over without finding a worse President
than Abraham Lincoln"
I'm this same convention of 1864" con-
tinued Mr.. Boyd, 1.-THE Democrats adopted
a set of resolutions reciting that. After
four years of failure to restore the Union
by the experiment of war. during which,
under the pretense of military necessity
or war, power higher than the Constitu-
ton itself has been disregarded in every
part, and public liberty and private right
alike have been trodden down and the ma
terial prosperity of the country essentially
impaired. Justice, humanity and the pub
lie welfare demand that immediate efforts
be made for a cessation of hostilities.
with a view to an ultimate convention of
all the States or other peaceable means,
to- the end that at the earliest practicable
moment peace may be restored on the basis
of the federal union of the States In a
speech which he made In support of these
resolutions on the floor of the convention,
Mr.. J. j. Van Allen, of New York, said
that war Is disunion: that 1T can never
produce peace; that 1t was impossible TO
subjugate eight millions of people and ii
ought not to be done If 1t could: that it
would require another government TO do II.
Mr.. Van Allen appealed for a platform
that should be clear upon this issue, saying
II was the only one the Democrats could
stand upon, the only platform which could
take them out of the difficulties which be-
set them. Mr.. Van Allen said he would
not fight in that war Qhe civil war;. but,
if necessary to assert the principles of the
Constitution, he was a fighting man. He
declared that Democracy's great mistake
was in failing to resist the war in its very
beginning and that the party would re-
lIdCt ~ otCpo aA1 AAAeAAA I'LL A"A
Van Allen further said he would not have
a candidate with the smell of war upon
his garments.
"I have in my possession" said Mr..
Boyd, dozens of platforms of county
Democratic conventions in Indiana in past
years. In some of these Lincoln is de-
nounced as a man of inhuman and deviliSh
character and a disgrace to the age we
live in They say that Mr.. Lincoln's act
i'm liberating the slaves of the South should
bring down upon his head the contempt OF
all mankind and consign him to well-mer-
tied oblivion and eternal infamy. They de-
nounced Grant as the old dog of Galena,
saying that his teeth were gone. etc. Yet
these same patriots do now style them
selves Bryan Democrats and have the as
surance to cite Lincoln in supper of their
positions. Mr.. Bryan processes great So
licitude about this country governing any
body or any people without their consent,
yet / have not heard of him raising his
voice against the DISTINGUISHING of the
negroes of North Carolina"