The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-10-05
Mr.. Bryan's Address.

bryan SpOhe dS loHoWS'
Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: ] am
here not because am needed but because
want to be. Not because you need inc, but
because ] am glad to meet you. 1t Is not nec'
essary that I should speak TO you. for you
have already listened to enough to convince any
who was not convinced, and one follows me to-
night who will convince any who may still be
without the fold. You have heard the speech
from my distinguished colleague on the ticket,
who disputes the saying Of Nestor when he com.
planned that the Gods did not give all things
to man at the same time; that the gods
withheld the vigor of youth when they gave the
wisdom Of age. l think YOU will agree with
ME that my colleague is able to combine both
vigcr oil youth with the wisdom OF age.
But / appreciate the work done and to be
done by this association Of Democratic clubs,
and appreciate the energy, the enthusiasm and
the ability displayed by Mr.. Hearst, the presi.
dent OF this association. I believe in these
clubs. We need them. We need clubs far more
than the Republicans need clubs. In fact, my
friends, the work Of Democracy, being work
for the people, must be done by the people.
Machinery is not sufficient when we have but
machinery alone to win Democratic fight. VIC
need these clubs to aid in the work and to
supplement the efforts Of Our national state and
local organizations. We need the clubs to help
us collect money to carry on our campaign. The
Republican party can get its money from the
corporations. which pllnder the people between
campaigns in return for the money contributed
during campaigns
We cannot 90 to a trust and ask it TO help
us because we do not expect to be helped.
We know that every speech made by Demo.
crat against these trusts makes it easier for
their party to raise campaign fund, YOU un.
derstand that We need these clubs to help us
collect money to carry on the campaign
The Republican party does not collect money
for its national campaign from one Republican
out OF hundred and when the election is over
90 out Of 100 Republicans have nothing to say
about the running OF the government.
We expect that the administration will be
conducted in behalf OF the great mass of the
American people and we have the right to call
Oh them to help with their money rs well as
their votes to win this fight which is their
fight and not our fight We need the clubs to
help circulate literature. If every member Of
the clubs will pick out some acquaintance and
find out what he is thinking about, prepare to
meet his argument, supply him with literature
and work for his conversion, the members of
these clubs will be astonished to find how much
can be done.
We need the clubs to help get the votes ont
on election day. Out in our state we sometimes
arrange to have volunteers who will 60 out and
husking corn to spare the time to vote, the
volunteer husks in his place until he goes and
votes. We need these clubs to help get the
vote out, and then we need these clubs to help
get the vote counted and to prevent fraud after
it is cast. glory in the work done thus far.
The meeting of these delegates here is an indica-
tion OF the interest taken in this work, and l
beg you to spend every possible moment between
now and election in securing victory for those
r,yip nj xrht hn1i in, md fnr
cause which you have so earnestly espouscd.
Cockran's Speech.
The concluding session Of the con-
vention, of which Hon. Bourke Cochran
was the speaker of the evening, wit
messed densely packed hall and ram
pant enthusiasm.
Mr.. Cochran devoted his speech to
the question of Imperialism, discussing
it in a similar manner to that of his
recent address in Chicago. In conclu-
sion. he said:
IF congress has the right to erect
in any territory newly acquired what
ever form Of government it pleases,
we may have the president of the
United States exercising more multi
farious duties than Poo Bah, the hero
of Gilbert and Sullivans opera bouffe.
He may be constitutional monarch in
Canada, captain general in Mexico,
pro- consul in South America, Son of
heaven in China; I know-not-what
elsewhere, for the son of heaven is the
usual title of the emperor in the Chi
nese kingdom.
IF congress can establish an extra
constitutional power in the Philippine
islands and govern as it pleases. it
can establish fifty different kinds of
power in just as many different places
as it can seize by the use Of brute force
and might
At 1910. O'Clock the convention ad-
journed until tomorrow.