The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-10-18
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They denounce trusts on the stump: 1
would not promise as much as they did be-
cause / was hampered by the fact that l
intend TO make my words good. L intended
TO make my performances and my prom
ises square. We put through In New YORK
the franchise tax bill. under which two
hundred millions of corporate property,
street railway and similar franchises were
added TO the assessment rolls. The result
is that within the past six years or he
publican rule in New York the tax rate has
been lower than for forty years.
CROKER AND HILL.
o the other hand we have in New York
Mr.. Croker. Mr.. Croker denounces trusts.
and he is one Of the biggest stockholders
in the ice trust. Mr.. Croker's rival in his
support of Mr.. Bryan is David b. Hill.
He is against trusts in his public capacity,
but in his private capacity he is the re-
tanned counsel of the big corporations in
the effort to break down the franchise tax
law. Now, gentlemen, the first thing you
want is sincerity-is making what you say
on the stump good off that stump, and a
tor of oratory does not count so much as a
pound of performance. L tell you what We
have done and L ask you to compare it with
what our opponents talked about and did
hot do
Cleveland just compare conditions four
years ago and now. / was speaking with a
railroad man this morning. He told me
that four years ago he was lucky If he
could get $50 a month. Now he can't keep
his Job unless he makes $50. Applause. I
A little while ago Mr.. Bryan said that he
put the man before the dollar and not the
dollar before the man. Four years ago he
had the man so far in front of the dollar
that he could not get hold of it. What we
have been doing is to put the man and the
dollar together and let the man decide
whether the dollar should be in front or
behind.
Mr.. Bryan prophesied four years ago with
what has happened since. He said il we did
not rave free silver we would lave four
years more of hard times; the w~ageworker
would stand idle and the business man fail
in business; that mortgages would go up,
and the Other day. when he was asked how
he accounted for our prosperity he said 1t
was not due to the Republican party, but
TO Providence. Well, gentlemen, / am per-
fectly willing to admit that thers has been
a fusion between Providence and the Re-
publican party. IApplause.1 Tine Democ-
racy has fused with about everything else.
lApplause.l 1t has no. connected with
Providence because it is not headed that
way. IApplause.J L don't wonder that in
the days of the Organized Democracy that
the Democrats who stood for the principles
OF Jefferson and Jackson should stand with
us. for Jefferson believed in an honest
ballot and Jefferson said that Democracy
meant hard money, expansion and the
honor OF the flag. tApplause.1 Old Hickory
had his failings, but the man would have
had a hard time with him who tried to get
him TO lie down before Aguinaldo. Zap
plause.J
II appeal to you, men of Ohio, who sent
so many of your sons i'm the old days of
the civil war, 1 appeal to the younger men
in the name of the memories of those vet
Grams who proved their worth in the days
that tried mems souls. Let us see to IL
that we do not disgrace their record. |
call lDOn Won TO do YOUR mart now at the
threshold of the new century, to proclaim
cnce for all in the face of the nations of
mankind that where once the American
flag has been hoisted in honor it shall not
be hauled down i'm dishannr lCheers ]