The Topeka state journal., 1900-10-12
LassOes Bryan's Book and Drag
1t Around.
INDIANAPOLIS CROWD.
The Largest That He Has Yet
Encountered.
Streets Lined With People For
Nearly a Mile.

night one of the greatest receptions ever
extended in this city to a candidate for
political honors. From the crossing at
Southeastern avenue up East Washing
ton street. three-quarters of a mile dis
tant, to the court house, where he spoke
to an immense audience, he was enthus-
iastically cheered. The sidewalks and
thoroughfares were crowded with
mass Of enthusiastic humanity, through
which the triumphaI procession march
ed with difficulty.
The candidate for vice president bow
ed continually to the multitude and
shook hands with men and women who
gathered around his carriage.
The court house grounds and the
streets surrounding it were congested
with thrOng which greeted the COVER
nor's arrival with storm of cheers, and
as he alghted at the court house en-
trance cannon doomed saluteS
The evening was devoted to a parade
which was more than two hours passing
the reviewing stand in front of the
court house. The line Of march was
crowded and decorated prOfuSely. At the
conclusion Of the parade the governor
was escorted to the DenniSOn hotel. In
his speech at the court house, Governor
Roosevelt said:
4 feel in this campaign less as if it
were an ordinary partisan contest than
if it We're a crusade for all that we hold
dear in the institutions of the land We
love so we'll. feel that we have a right
matter what their party affiliations have
been in the past, to stand with us, for
we stand for the honor and interest of
the whole country and l am glad in
deed to be introduced by Captain Eng
lish a Democrat who believes in what
We're once the old Democratic doctrines
of hard money, expansion and the hon
or OF the flag. That is what Jackson,
Andrew Jackson, fought for and lived
for and he would turn in his grave if
some of these modern Organized Demo-
Gratis walked over it. 1 appeal to you
first from the standpoint OF the mater
ial interests of the country. / appeal to
you to keep the good things we have got
and not throw them away in -lere folly.
I want no better campaign argu-
ment than can be made out of the
speeches of Mr.. Bryan himself four years
ago If you read the Old Testament you
will find that false prophets had a bad
time in those days, but nowadays they
nominate them for president on the
Democratic ticket. This is an interest
ing book Gaking up a book. 1t is the
best campaign book for the Republican
party I know of. It is called The First
Battle and it was written by Mr.. Bry-
an, and if you will turn to page 81 you
will see the speeches he made here in
Indianapolis four years ago. AS gen
orally happened, he could not resist pro-
phesying, and he said:
Gold is arrogant and tyrannicaland
it deserts any nation in time of war
We have had the Spanish war and gold
this / should commend to the few gold
Democrats who now want to come back
and join hinl-he said: We have begun
War on the gold standard, and we shall
not let up on it until there is not a sin
gle friend of gold left in the country
The war has gone on for four years, and
so far from the desired result having
happened as Mr.. Bryan wished he him
self now, when he gets into certain
communities, COOS as mildly as a suck
ing dove on the currency issue We are
fortunate in having an issue which does
not wear thin in any part of the coun-
try. We are for the gold standard, here
in New York and in Denver-every-
where
a Voice-''In Victor?"
Mr.. Roosevelt-''Yes in Victor Once
more we are for the cause of law and
order-of orderly liberty under the law
everywhere.
This you will find on page 5s2 of Mr..
Bryan's book: Only a few of our people
will be able to wear shoes under the gold
standard And then he goes on: AS
it Is with shoes, SO it is with clothes
THAT is actually what Mr. Bryan said
four years ago. And, gentlemen, he ran
pretty close yesterday, when he stated
that he wanted a change in the party
that had control of the government so
as to allow every body to go to the sea-
side Now, gentlemen, think of having
to meet an argument advanced bya can
dlUaIe Tor the presidency OF that type.
Gentlemen, you have met it your
selves; you have been laughing about it,
and I shall leave it at that.
Now, gentlemen, I think that if YOU
will look at all of the prophecies of Mr..
Bryan you cannot help voting right 1
ask for nothing but a study Of what he
said, and comparison of what has act
ually happened.
He said that unless we had free sill
yer the wage Garner would stand idle
and he has had more work than ever
before He said that failures in the
business world would increase and thev
have been but one-tenth as numerous.
He said that the farmer would lose the
market for his crops. and he has had a
greater market than ever before. He
said that the savings deposits would go
down, and they have gone up 25 per cent
He said that mortgages would go up,
but they went down 40 per cent
Not one little thing towards uDroot-
ing those things we know as trusts will
ever be done by indiscriminate legisla-
ton The only way to get at them-the
only way to accomplish anything with
them-is to start to work resolutely and
cool headedly with the determination to
cut out the cancer but not to kill the
patient
Our opponents became ashamed of
the issues they had raised four years
ago. They champion them still but they
don't dare argue about them, and they
sought to make a new issue, and that
issue is the dishonor of the American
flag. And already they realize that their
choice of a paramount issue was unfor-
tunate; that the people stand loyal now
as they stood loyal when. in 1864 Repub-
hcans and Democrats stood shoulder to
shoulder and upheld Abe Lincoln. And
alerady they are shifting their issues.
already they recognize what a hollow
sham it is to talk about imperialism. and
now they are doing that worst of evil
deeds in a republic-preaching the doc
trine of envy, Of class hatred. striving
to stir up brother against brother, Sec
ton against section, class against class
Woe to the man who breaches such a
doctrine to our people
Woe to the man who appeals to and