The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-10-06
"NTTCH TINE WAS HE RIGlE?"
QUESTION ASKED REGARDING THE
POLICY OF THE REPUBLICAN
PRESIDENT
PROMISE AND PERFORMANCE
Record of What the Party of I'M
periaIism Has Not Done to Con-
troll the Ever More
Menncfng Trusts.

ANDERSON, Ind, Oct 5-The meeting
which closed here at 10 o'clock tonight
was the last of a series Of political meet
ings in connection with the appearance
of w. J. Bryan. Speeches today were
made by Mr.. Bryan in succession at No
b,esville, Arcadia Upton, Elwood. Alex
andria, Marion, Hartford City, Muncie,
Winchester, Richmond, Newcastle and
Anderson. A majority of these places
are important manufacturing centers.
They are considered Republican in SEN
timent. They, however, gave the Dem
Ocratic candidate a good reception. The
speeches averaged half an hour, al
though the Anderson speech was much
longer.
At Hartford City Mr.. Bryan found his
text for his renarks in some Mckinley
posters conspicuously displayed on
dead wall in the distance. Referring to
these posters. Mr.. Bryan said:
81 see over on the side of that barn a
bill, or a poster, and all that 1 can make
out from here Is that Mckinley was
right. Now the question want to ask
is, Which time was he right You
know, my friends, man who is on both
sides of a question has a great advan-
tage over the man who is on only one
side. The man who gets on both sides
must be right some times, but when was
MIR. Mckinley right-when he denounced
Grover .Cleveland's financial policy, or
was he right when he did the same thing
that MIR Cleveland did? Which time was
he right, in 1896, when he said in his let
Of +ha+
more money, or was he right this year in
his letter of acceptance when he boasted
that we had more money and therefore
ought to be g.ad. Was he right when he
said in his letter of 1896 that he would
keep in circulation all the silver and
paper money then moulded in the circula-
ton, or was he right when he signed the
bill to retire the greenbacks and substi-
tute a national bank note?
MKINLEY'S INCONSISTENCY.
'Was he right when, in. his inaugural
add d-css, he promised to enforce the law
against the trusts, or was he right when
hN did not enforce the law against the
trusts when he promised to do so? Was
he right when he pointed out the evils of
the trust in his inaugural message, or
was he right when he appointed an at
torneyl general from New Je.s the
home of the trusts, and allowed him to
draw his salary without enforcing the
laws entrusted to his keeping? Was
he right when he said in 1897 that forcible
annexation was criminal aggression, and
contrary to our code of morality or was
he right when he sent 65, 600 soldiers 1000
miles away from home to force annexa>
ton upon an unwilling people? Was he
right when he said last December tnat it
was our plain duty to give free trade to
Porto Rico, or was he right when he
asked the members of congress to vote
against giving free trade TO Porto Rico?
1 want you Republicans to take both ar
guments made by your president and
then see what argument you will ac-
cept."
At Muneie, Mr.. Bryan again devoted
the greater share of his attention to the
trusts, and he began by quoting an ex-
tract from the presidents inaugural ad-
dress. He did not reveal the authorship
OF the extract until after he had read, 1t,
saying he wanted to see if the audience
coSs1 guess who had written it. The ex-
tract was as follows:
Immunity should be granted to none
who violate the laws, whether indivtdu-
ais, corporations or communities, and as
the constitution imposes upon the presi-
dent the duty of both its own executive
and OF the statutes enacted in pursuance
OF its provisions, / shall endeavor care
fully to carry them into effect. The
declaration of the party now restored to
power has been in the past that of op-
position to all combinations of capital.
organized trusts or otherwise, to control
arbitrarily the condition of trade among
our citizens, and it has supported such
legislation as will prevent the executi on
Of all schemes to oppress the people by
nndlln PharOac on
unjust rates for the transportation Of
their products to market. This purpose
Will be steadily pursued by both the en-
forcement of the laws now in existence
and the Recommendation and support of
such new statutes as may be necessary
to carry them into effect
Now, my friends" said Mr.. BRYAN.
whose language is that? 1t is from the
inaugural Of President Mckinley want
you to take the promise taken therein
and compare it with the policy pursued in
the administration of the country's af-
fairs. If you'll do that you'll find that
there has been no effort to enforce the
laws Of the country against unlawful
combinations and trusts.
HANNA AND THE TRUSTS.
'-nr. Hanna will tell You mat no trusts
exist, but you all know that they do ex-
ist, and 1t is a fact that during the past
three and half years during the admin
istration of Mr.. Mckinley have organized
more than were ever before organized in
the history Of the country At this point
some one asked about the ice trust and
Mr.. Bryan made his usual reply to the
effect that the directors of the trust were
all Republicans, and its operations were
confined to the state of New York
THAT party he said, will prosecute
a man for stealing. broken-down horse,
but will not prosecute man for a big
theft. 1t has amended the commandment
to make it read, Thou shalt not steal on
small scale, or so as to say if the steal
ing is done in Cuba 1t is all right Qaugh-
ter and cheers. Mr.. Bryan again referred
to the full dinner pail, saying it was only
Republican answer to the complaints of
the laboring men.
ROOSEVELT AT DAVENPORT