The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-04-03

sault in concert Whenever the leaders
say flop Qaughter), and they have said
flop on several questions ana II mas Dee n
interesting to see the Republicans try to
turn over gracefully and land on the
new platform. daughter and applause1
Abraham Lincoln signed the first m
come tax bill. and I provided not merely
for an income tax, but for graded IN
come tax, the heaviest percentage TO De
collected on the largest Incomes ana YET,
in the year 1894. when the Democratic
party was supporting, not a graded, but
plain income tax, the Republicans voted
against the bill; there they had 70 mop on
that question Abraham Lincoln signed
the bill that provided for greenbacks, and
yet today the Republican party Is trying
to retire that greenback, and Republicans
who favored that greenback and admitted
that the greenback saved the nation, have
to turn a sOmersault now and oppose the
greenback in the interest of national
bank trust (Applause)
The Republican party for years adyo-
Gated bimetallism. In the year ISIS the Re
publican national convention denounced
Grover Cleveland for trying TO demone-
tie silver; that was the Republican con-
vention in 1855 and In 1891 Mr.. Mckinley
(appiause), then in congress"
CA voice-"Hurrah for McKinleyPO
CAnother voice-"Hurrahi Three cheers
for Mckinley! Cheers and cries Of Yes;
yesnD
CAnother voice-"Hurrah for Bryant and
applause)
Now, my friends, you just leave me
alone and | will take care of the Mckin-
ley men in this audience. l want to say
to them that none Of them need be afraid
to speak out in meeting They will not
embarass me by asking questions or hur-
raining.
"fn 1891 Mr. Mckinley made speech at
Toledo. o., In which he denounced Grover
Cleveland He said that Grover Cleveland
was trying to discriminate against
one OF the money metals; he said that Mr..
scarcer, and therefore dearer-money the
master and all things else the servant and
when Mr.. Mckinley denounced Grover
Cleveland for trying to make money the
master and al things else the servant, Re-
publicans like my friend over there hall
loaed 'Hurrah for Mckinley: hurrah for
the man who had the courage to denounce
Grover Cleveland for trying TO make mon
ey the master and all things else the
servant
And then Mr. Mckinley became presi-
dent, and then he did the same thing that
Cleveland did. and then the Republicans
like my friend over there shouted 'Hurrah
for Mckinley They said Hurrah for a
man who has the courage to follow in
the footsteps of Grover Cleveland and
make money the master Applause) And
there is no better evidence of the flop
ping that / told you about tnan the gem
tleman back there who can holloa as
loudly for the one side as for the other;
he can holloa as loudly for Mckinley when
he denounced Grover Cleveland as he can
holloa for Mckinley when he becomes the
follower Of Grover Cleveland and does ex-
actly what Grover Cleveland did. Now. IL
there are any others that want to give
me an object lesson l have another flop or
two ready for them.
"a voice-"Hurrah for Bryan" APP
plauseD
Three years ago every Republican was
denounclng the trusts; today you cannot
get Republican speaker to denounce the
trusts and give you remedy for It. why?
Because under three years of Republican
rule more trusts have been created than
were created in all the previous history of
the country. tApplause)
And the nearest thing that you can get
to a Republican denunciation of the trust
today Is that there are good trusts and
bad trusts, and when a Republican gets
far enough along To divide good trusts
from bad trusts he spends so much time
warning you not to hurt the good trusts
that he does not have any time to de-
stroy the bad ones Uaughter.) And the
Republicans who three years ago were de-
nouncing the trusts as bad, a : now com
PEELED TO turn somersaults and defend those
same trusts good