The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-10-16
He Makes Telling Speeches at York
town and Muncie and Lays Bare
the Democracy's Pretentions
NECESSITY OF A RIGHT START
FORMER DEMOCRAT IMPREsSES III
ON FIRST VOTERS.
Union ID. Hunt I'm Washington County
District Campaign
Lively Meeting mt Sullivan.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.

Senator Fairbanks to Delaware county, to-
day, was one to be appreciated by Re-
publicans. his reception being on a plane
with those rendered the most distinguished
speakers who have yet visited this section.
There were fully 5000 people at the first
meeting, this afternoon, in Yorktown, and
tonight, at the courthouse in Muncie. a
thousand or more were unable to gain ad-
mission to the hall. At Yorktown, this
afternoon, Senator Fairbanks in part, said.
not being at his best because of a weak
voice:
THE pleasure is indeed mine of meeting
so many of the men and women of the
county of Delaware this afternoon. There
Is something in the very air to-day that
makes us feel better than we did four
years ago. something that has put into us
more hope. And the reason is that since
1896 the Republican party has been In
charge of the national administration and
the policies of this country. And Is there
a loyal man throughout the country who
does not propose that we shall have four
years more of it? [Cheers.1
MY friends We are come to the parting
Of the ways. Country people know what
that means better than others. / was a
country boy, just like the splendid boys
who called upon me to-day was much
touched by their greeting. / don't know
what you do to-day, but when 1 was a
country boy we used to call ourselves 'clod-
OKBCAo nat "a SAOtAlOPDCA 10 otaltA
to me to-day than the title Of United States
senator.
I'm our national affairs we have come
TO the parting of the roads to-day. But,
fortunately, we have sign-posts to guide
Us at the crossroads now. Here is one:
Free silver, free trade. national dis
honor, Organism.
"And here is the other: Protective tariff,
gold standard, national honor. William Nc
Kinley.
There is no need for us to go astray
here. We know the road to take. We
know what the future way is by knowl-
edge of the years through which We have
pursued the Mckinley road onward and
upward, and who would to-day take the
other downward gath? ICheers1
I'm 1896 Mr.. b yam said we could have
no prosperity unless we had the free COIN
age of silver at Is to /: that the gold stand
ard was inimical to the interests of the
country and especially cruel to the farmer
and the workingman, and that If We had
free coinage the farmer would be better
able to pay his debts. Fortunately, We are
a thinking people and we always a to
put to the test all opinions and theories
presented to us.
THE FALSE PROPHET.
Have your theories come true. Mr..
Bryan? No., Why, don't you farmers all
know to what Mr.. Bryan proposed to lead
you then? Fortunately he was a false
prophet then. Is he a better prophet to-
lay? ICries of NOT If we had turned
over to him in 90 the great interests of
the United States it would have been a
great error, but it would not have been as
great an error then as ii would be to-day.
We have reached, during the past three
years, a height of national prosperity, and
4 now we would have much farther to fall.
The great body of our workingmen have
now employment. Even Democratic news
papers are filled with want advertisements
FOR workingmen. The farmers are more
prosperous than they were in SO. TIL best
man ! ever knew was a farmer. GMr. Fair
banks's father was a farmer OF pioneer
days.l Farmers are thinking men: they
think first and act after. When the farm
ers make up their minds. then they act.
They thought in SO, and felt no fear in sup
porting Mr.. Mckinley. they will reindorse
him and his administration in this year, 1
nave no doubt. lCheers.]
When the new Congress met in 1897 its
members set about framing a tariff law.
The Dingley law was drafted. and in all
it's preparation, down to its conclusion and
enactment, Congress had the constant and
active assistance of the President.
What was the effect? 1t was almost
magical. Old enterprises were reopened
and new enterprises were established. Mil
lions of idle men became employed at In
creased wages; or, at least, at increased
hours. lCheers.l
'They say that the Republican party has
fostered trusts anu they are inimical TO
the public interests of the United States.
| his 4 > Il 1dlSt lSSuc, II SdIle Is IIQDtI-
ialism. intended to brighten people into
forgetting what the real issue is. This is,
not a partisan queStion-this of trusts; 1t
is a great economic question. The Repub-
lican party is the only party which has
done anything for the regulation of the
trust evil. 1t passed the interstate-com-
merce law and the Sherman antitrust
law, those two great children of the Re-
publican genius in craftsmanship, for the
| regulation of the monopolies. In the last
session of Congress a measure was intro
duced looking to the regulation of trusts.
1t was a constitutional amendment TO vest
in the Congress of the United States full
power over the trusts in all the States.
The measure received almost the full vote
of the Republicans. but 1t takes a two
thirds vote to pass a constitutional amend
ment, and the Republicans had not the req
uisite two-thirds vote.
And 1 may say it never will have 1t in
the House of Representatives till Mr..
| Bryan and his party read the Declaration
of independence in Mississippi and the two
| Carolinas as they do in a Kansas City con-
vention. Loud and prolonged cheering.1
1.-THE Republican party has done all that
can be done in legislation against trusts.
What has Mr.. Bryan done? What did Mr..
Bryan do when he had the power to do
something liz the House OF Representa-
| tives? He did nothing whatever to pro-
mote the measures of which he is so earn
est an advocate now. ICheers.1
Il was up in Plymouth recently and I
found one of its factories closed. 1 asked
why and was told the trusts had closed il.
/ know the owners of that factory, and l
asked one of them how ii was. He said to
me: 1t was our capital that was invested
In that factory. We had a right to do with
it as we pleased. We sold Ii. We took the
money and we bought land north of town,
where we are building for another industry
i'm which we will employ as many men as
we employed In the one closed
us this a political question? No; ii Is a
great economic question. The Republican
party, in its Philadelphia convention,
passed a resolution against the trusts. Can
IL be that the Republican party is false to
the interests of the people? ICries OF .No.l
GREATEST TRUST OF ALL.
ct have found the greatest trust in the
country to-day. 1t Is the combination of
Populists. Democrats and Bryanites. As a
factory closer not only and nothing can
hold a candle 10 the Democratic party.
ICheers.l In 1896. I'm the great cities. ii
caused innumerable factories TO close and
banks and trust companies also went down
to destruction. Talk about the Republican
party closing factoriesi Why, we've more
factories in the last four years than the
Democratic party closed before that. and
that is saying a great deal. / ask you, Mr..
Bryan, If that Is not the literal truth? We
built these factories on the foundation of
popular confidence. which is better and
sounder than ali the nostrums of the Dem
ocratic party.
Let us see who Mr.. Bryan is. Is he such
a man as you would trust the fortunes of