Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-10-23

Last Week Senator Quarles spoke at
the Opera House from the republican
stand point The house was fairly well
filed, and with an audience such as
does not often great political speaker,
at least half being women and children
The faithful had evidently brought
their families. The speaker did moi
seem a bit afraid of not having time to
say what ae desired to say, He spent
at least two thirds of his time talking
about nothing that is of interest in this
campaign, and toward the close referred
briefly to trusts and Imperialism, but
only to assert that these are not real is
sues but false CUES, devised by the dem
ocratic party in order to hoodwink the
people, and divert their attention from
what he called "the free silver.leprosy. /"
He opened up with an apology to dem
ocrats, saying that if he should use the
term democrat to desigEate the party
now opposed to the republicans, he did
not intend thereby to insult any real
democrat. MIR. Bryan's supporters are
not democrats but popocrats. The
true democrats wer those who approved
of Mr. Cleyeland's policy, and there
fore supported Mckinley in 1896, and
were going to support him for re-elec-
ton now. They are good men and
true, who havel the interests of their
country at heart. The democrats had
control of the government under Cleve-
land and brought ruin upon the coun-
try. The republicans elected McKin-
ley in 1896 and the great panic which
had lasted for three years under Cleve-
land, and which would have lasted for
ever if the democrats bad remained in
power, lasted barely year and q half
after Mckinley was elected, and for the
last two years and half we have had
prosperity and full dinner pail If the
republican party is kept in power we
will never have any panics, but if Bry
an is elected we will have one right
away Trusts? You democrats are no
better on the trust"question than the
republicans are. There were trusts
under Clevelandfs regime, and you did
nothing. There were sixteen bills
introduced in congress in 1888 to regu-
late the trusts and not one of them was
passed. Mr.. Bryan himself introduced
one when he was in congress, and had
it referred to himself, and that was the
last heard of it. Nobody could get a
bill passed against the trusts when
Cleveland was in power. You demo-
Gratis should take the moat out of your
own eyes. You were no betterIwhen
you had Cleveland in the white house
and control of congress, than we are
now. Bryan? He is great man, only
in one thing, talking; he has sixteen
words to one idea. He spoke before
the antitrust convention and proposed
a scheme for dealing with the trusts
and had scarcely ended his speech be-
fore he admitted that his scheme was
no good, and that constitutional
amendment was the only feasible thing.
But when the republicans, at the last
session of congress, took him at his
word, and devised a constitutional
amendment, the democrats defeated it,
as they could, because the republicans
were not two-thirds, and it takes a two
thirds vote to submit an amendment to
the constitution.
Imperialism? What is meant by
thatd If it is anything it is something
that has grown out of the Spanish war.
Mckinley? No. 1t was the democrats
who is responsible for the Spanish war,
aided by some sentimental republicans
in congress. They pressed the presi-