The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-08-22
THEIR PARTY lNSINCERE
It Condemns the Trusts in It's
Platform.
IT AFFORDS THEM ALL POSSIBLE AID
The President Denouncae Forcibs Annexation
as Criminal Aggression. Republicans
Are Now Asked to Support Him tn
Policy Of Criminal Aggression.
CBy the Associated Press


Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 21.-Mr. Bryan adj
dressed a large audience of Saunders
county people at Wahoo, the county seat,
today. The speech was an appeal to Re-
publicans to vote the Democratic ticket.
Giving his reasons for this appeal, Mr..
Bryan said:
81 want to talk to you Republicans, be-
lieving that you are just as anxious to
help your country and help your fellows
by your vote as the Democrat, the Popu-
list and the Silver Republican are.
Now, if you were with US in 1896 there
is no reason why you should be against
us now unless the new questions have
changed your opinion or unless you have
changed your opinion on the old questions.
But l do not believe you can find in this
county any man who voted with us in
1896 and who understood the issues then
before the country who has changed his
mind on those issues and now believes
that the Republican party was right in
1895. l believe you will find many people
who were against us on the old issues,
who are now with us on the new ones,
and will be on the old ones. We had men
question, Republicans who were not will
ing to turn over and vote the Republican
ticket just because the Republican party
had changed it's position on the money
neutrality-suspicious. who were in earnest
in 1883 when they denounced the gold
standard, Republicans who were in earn
est when they advocated bi-metallism in
1892 and therefore they refused to take
the Republican position on the money
question in 1895. And when they got out
of the Republican party and began look
ing at the Republican party from the out
side they found that the same vicious
principles ran through all the Republican
doctrines, and today they are with us,
not only on the silver question, but upon
all the new questions also" (ApplauseO
In this connection Mr.. Bryan referred
at some length ito the financial question,
saying:
1.-THE Republican party is trying today
the same deception that it practiced in
1896 on the money question. The Repub-
Mcan leaders wanted the gold standard in
1896 Just as they want it now, but they
held out before the people the delusion
of international bi-metallism. The Presi-
dent sent q committee of three distin-
suished gentlemen and they were to labor
with the European nations and try to get
those nations to help us. Did they sue
coed? of course they did not. We told
YOU in 1896 that they would not succeed.
You could not expect England to join
with us in restoring bi-metallism. II
man sets his heart on thing and does
not get it he feels soTowful. You can
not find a Republican today that felt sor-
rowful because they did not get interna-
tional bi-metallsm that they promised
TO get in 1896" (Applause.)
Speaking Of trusts he said:
1.-The Republican party is trying today
the very same policy on these other ques-
tions that it tried on the money question
in 1896. They attack the trust question
in their platform and yet you cannot find
a Republican paper and read it without
finding defense of the trusts. The Re-
publican platform denounces the trusts
and Republican editors are spreading be-
fore the public arguments defending the
trusts. Now why is it? 1t is because the
platform is hypocrisy The Republican
party does not intend to destroy the trust
but under the cover of a platform denun-
citation of the trust the Republican lead
ers are trying to cuiet the minds of the
people and make them accept the trust
as good thing,
There are Republicans who were de-
nouncing the trusts until the Republican