The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-10-09
BRYAN TALKS TO
DEMOCRATIC CLUBS.
Addressed a Great Audience at
Indianapolis Wednesday.
WAS TENDERED AN OVATION.

WAS TENDEhED AN ONATlON.
Money Question Cannot he Paramount
when Question of Human Liberty
IL At stake-Convention's
Closing Session.
venton of the National Association of
Democratic clubs adjourned at 10:30
, Thursday night, after having heard
William J. Bryan in the afternoon and
the eloquent Bourke Cochran at night.
At both meetings the audience over
flowed the great hall, and packed the
aisles to the point OF suffocation.
The afternoon meeting was addressed
| first by Adlai e. Stevenson, followed by
Mr.. Bryan. AS soon as the Democratic
candidate appeared on the platform there
were wild shouts of greeting, and this
soon developed into a demonstration
which continued for six minutes.
He said in part: "The Republican
| party is not prepared to meet the issues
Of this campaign. The Republican party
today Is lodging, running from nearly
every issue In the campaign. When
they started out they said the money
| question was the question Of paramount
Importance. But, my friends, they
| found that when a man says that a
question Of money Is more important
than a question Of government he at
once arouses suspicion and people begin
to wonder whether he thinks a dollar Is
more important than man. Think Of
trying to make the money question
paramount in this campaign! Why,
my friends, when the money question
was paramount in 1885, we found the
Republicans trying to make out that
the tariff was the paramount Issue.
They said, Let us open the mills instead
of the mlnts,' and the first thing they
did when they got into power was, not
to reform the currency, but to reform
the tariff and give the men who con-
tributed a chance to run their hands
deeper into the pockets Of the people.
QUESTION OF HUMAN LIBERTY.
"Now, when the questions Of the
human race and human liberty are
at stake the Republicans say that the
money question Is the paramount issue.
They were afraid in 1896 that we were
going to have a 50-cent dollar. Now
they have given an IS per cent citizen
in Porto Rico and they don't dare tell
us what percentage Of citizenship the
Filipino Is to have. In 1896 they said
we could not have double standard of
money. Now they think we can have
double standard Of government, re-
public here and a despotism in the
Philippine islands. They said in 1896
!, that we could not maintain a parity
between a white metal and yellow.
How can they maintain a parity be-
tween a white citizen and yellow sub
ject in the Philippine islands?
"And yet, my friends, while they can
not now boast of the supremacy of the
money question, they are not prepared
to meet the other issues. The Republi-
|; can party is not prepared to defend It.
self on the trust question, therefore
, they try to get 1t out of the campaign
, The Republican party Is not prepared
to defend itself on the army question
, They say there Is no question of mill
| tarism and yet an army four times as
great as the standing army of 1896 Is
demanded by the presidents message
of December, 1885,
1.-THE laboring man asks for arbitra-
tion and gets large army; he asks
relief from government by injunction
and gets a large army, he asks protec-
, ton from the black list and his answer
Is large army; he asks for shorter
hours of labor in order that he may have
more time with his family and for the
development of his mind, and his an
swer Is a large army. He asks fol
representation in the presidents cabi.
net In order that labor may be protect.
ed and his answer Is a large army. That
is
THE DOMESTIC REASON
which is not given and yet it is a rea'
son entertained by many. What is the
, reason they give? They say we need Il
/, for our foreign policy, but, my friends
they asked for the army before the
, American people had ever decided upor
a foreign policy that made large army
necessary.
'If you want to understand the rea.
, sons for q large army read the prospec.
tus issued by the Philippine Lumber &
Development company. You will fint
that at the head of the company al
!, president stands Republican member
of congress, who Is chairman of the
army committee of the house Of repre-
, sentatives; and another congressman IL
attorney for the company. and the pros.
|, pectus shows that already valuable tim.
, ber land has been secured; and the pros.
pectus also explains that the labor prob.
lem is easily solved, because there is q
quantity of Chinese labor there that car
be employed at from 80 to rs cents q
day in Mexican money.
1--WE want the American people tc
attend to their own business. We want
them to have their own ideas and stand
. for them. We want this nation to be
among the nations as light and exam
pie, go into a community and I see
some gray haired patriarch whose life
is so upright, whose conduct is so just
that people submit to him their differen-