The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-08-05
THE ISSUES DISCUSSED
REPUBLICAN DAY OBSERVED AT
BETHANY PARK.
Representative Watson and Candi-
dates for state Omces Heard
Acton Park Services.

Yesterday was Republican day at Beth
any Park and number OF political orators
discussed the situation of the day. The
usual lecture was given by DR.. Jabez Hall
at O'Clock, and there were no other ex-
ercises until IL o'clock, when the people
were invited into the pavilion to listen
10 a discussion of politics. Judge G. W.
Grubbs, of Martinsvilie, was chairman of
the meeting.
In a few happy remarks Judge Grubbs
spoke of Republican days always being
good Republican days mean good times
and prosperity generally. The speaker said
that all voters are stockholders in a big
corporation. These stockholders meet
every four years to elect manager. They
are now taking the preliminary steps to-
ward appointing manager for another
four years. The voters will inquire into the
honesty and capacity of the men whose
names are mentioned for this place, just
as the members of any corporation do.
Judge Grubbs conceded the personal hon
esty OF both Mckinley and Bryan, but he
said he could not concede the political hon
esty Of Mr.. Bryan. man who for four
years has been busy in attempting to ar
ray class against class and labor against
capital, is not politically honest, the
speaker commended. A man possessing his
power of oratory and his boundless am
bition would be a dangerous man to place
In charge of the affairs of the government,
and all the more dangerous If he be sim
cere in his convictions. Judge Grubbs
spoke of President McKinleys high char
acter and his conservatism. He said that
Bryan had never made prophecy that had
come true. The history of the country
shows all of his prophecies to be false.
c. +. REMY TALKS.
Charles +. Remy, candidate for re-elec-
ton to the office of reporter of the SUI
preme Court, followed Judge Grubbs. He
recalled that in 1896 when the country was
in the midst of great panic the Demo-
gratis abandoned the old issue of tariff
reform and came forward with the new
remedy of free silver. This year, however,
the party has nothing to say of tariff re-
form and very little of free silver. The
speaker declared that there are no imper-
ialists in this country. He asserted that
this government should hold Porto Rico,
Hawaii and the Philippines for the good
that can be done for the people of those
islands. and incidentally this country will
be benefited by additional markets ac-
quired. In 1896, Mr.. Remy said, the Repub-
llcan battle cry was open the mills" This
year it will be keep the mills open, and
this can only be done by the Republican
plan of maintaining the gold standard of
value and by seeking and maintaining
broader markets.
In the afternoon Attorney General Tay-
lor and Representative James L. Watson
made short speeches. In the course of his
remarks Mr.. Taylor spoke of the glory
of Lincoln and Grant and read what the
r.fx .Ir1rrf
Grant who they feared would be elected
and inaugurated President. They pre-
dIcted II such came about that I'VE Will
meet as subjected and conquered people
amid the ruins of liberty and the scattered
fragments of the Constitution" The at
torney general talked of the outrages in the
South where the negroes are prevented
from voting and declared that but for this
fear Of the shotgun and the red shirt
Bryan would have no more show of being
elected to the presidency than Eugene V.
Debs.
REPRESENTATIvE WATSON HEARD.
In his remarks Representative Watson
went into some of the past history of Will
liam j. Bryan by reading extracts from
his book entitled 1.-THE First Battle One
of them was account of meeting for
women held by Mr.. Bryan in Minneapolis
during the campaign of 1896. AT this meet
ing he said: 1.-The gold standard means
dearer money; dearer money means
cheaper property; cheaper property means
harder times; harder times means more
people out of work; more people out OF
work means more people destitute more
people destitute means more people deS-
perate; more people desperate means more
crime" AT a meeting held in Iowa Mr..
Bryan said: Some of the laws of finance
Il may say all the great laws of finance
are as certain in their operations and as
irresistible in their force as the law of
gravitation. If you throw stone into the
air you know that it will come down.
Why? Because it is drawn toward the CEN
ter of the earth. The law upon which we
gravitation. If we have a gold standard,
prices are as certain TO fall as the stone
which we throw into the air."
Mr. Watson read the following proph-
ecy made by Mr.. Bryan in 1896 to show
how widely the silverite missed in his
forecasting: Mr.. Bryan said: IF Will
liam Mckinley is elected and put in power
for the next four years, wages will de-
crease, hard times will come upon us and
down, the price of gold Will go up, mort
cages will be foreclosed by the money
lenders and sharks, the factories and mills
will close; We will export no goods but
will import from foreign countries all the
goods we will use. Want and misery will
be with us. Remember what 1 say
Above the platform hung portraits of
Sherman, Grant. Harrison, Mckinley.
Roosevelt, Lincoln, Morton, Garfield Sher-
idan and W. Il. Durbin. The Muncie quar-
tet. which gave concert at Bethany Park
songs, led by Harry d. Tutewiler, of this
city.