The age-herald., 1900-09-28
BRYAN SPEAKS TO NEBRASKA FARMERS Democratic Candidate Was Cor
 dially Received. REFERS TO HIS DAT CROP Says the President is Merely Hired Man Touches Up the Trusts,
 Imperialism and Mill
 itarism
REFERS TO HIS OAT CROP

Omaha, Neb., September H.-Mr. Bryan made the first stop of the day at Papillion, the county seat of Sarpy County. In order to make the point in time for the meeting MT. Bryan left the Rock Island train at Richfeld and drove five miles across the country. The county is strongly Demo- cratic and the national candidate was cor dally received. He contended that the policies promised by the Democratic party were in the interest of the people through out, while those of the Republicans were antagonistic to the public welfare. Espec- ially, he contended, was the Democratic plan of government in the interest of the farmer.
 T am going to suggest a question" he said, and I want the Republicans here to think about it, and ask themselves why any person in Sarpy County should vote the Republican ticket. This is an agricul- tural community. Most of your people live farms, and those of you who do not live on the farm live on the farmers, that you come in contact with the soil finally. Those who do not till the soil are getting their living out of those who do. I would like to have the farmers answer to their own satisfaction why any farmer should vote the Republican ticket and if farmer cannot find a reason, how can any man who lives in the town and makes his living out of the farmer array him against their interest?'
 He repeated his argument that the Pres- ident is merely a hired man, saying:
 President q Hired Man
 Tn 1896 I made a speech and incidently suggested that the President is just a hired man; that he had little longer term than the average hired man and got better wages than most hired men, but that he was nothing but a hired man. A New York paper criticised me severely and said l was dragging the office of President down to the level of a hired man. What is a President, Congressman, a Governor, ex- cept hired man? The people get togeth- CT, make laws and frame a constitution and provide that certain offices shall be created and filled by election, and when election comes the various parties present their candidates. What do these candidates say: We are willing to be hired by the public will accept the salary provided by law and discharge the duties of the office
 What oath does a man take when he IS elected? He holds up his hands and swears before God that he will perform the duties of that hired man to the best of his apllty But my friends, 1t takes two par ues to make contract. The candidate oHers himself, but the people have to hire hlm You ought to be as careful in the selection of your public servants as YOU are In the selection of your hired man. Sup- pose you hired man to put in oats and he put in corn. You would not hire him again. You would require a man to culti- Vate your land as you wanted it cultivated
 NOW, my friends, you have had a Re- publican administration for four years and now you are to decide whether you are going to re-employ the President You have had Republican Congressman in thls district, and now you to decide whether you are going to re-empoy him. You have had State officers and vou are going to decide whether you are going to re-employ them. You are to decide whether you are going to re-employ Senator Allen or some other man, as we think, Demo- crat, whether you are going to employ two men to enforce the doctrines for which the fusion forces stand, or whether you will employ some Republican Senator to legis- late tor the corporations while he is in the senate, and act as attorney for the Stand ard Oil Company while the Senate Is not in session.
 MT. Bryan asserted that the Republican party has no plan that looks po the benefit of the great struggling masses of the coun- try.
 "The Republicans tell you," he said "of the prosperity which they have brought to the farmers"
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 He went on to say that he had been A victim Of the exaggerated reports of the farmers prosperity, and then told the story relative to his oats crop as printed in a New York paper Continuing, he said
 The Republican party assumes that it brings everything good and refuses to take the responsibility for anything bad. It claims the blessings that are given to us by the Almighty and shirks the responsi- bilty for everything that Hanna brings us.'
 Mir. Bryan said that the Republicans had been inconsistent with their dealings in connection with the money question and has placed themselves on record as favor ing the retirement of the greenbacks and the substitution of the bank note In showing the difference between the indi- vidual note and the bank note he said:
 Whenever private individual issues his note he issues 1t for the purpose of obtain ing money and pays interest as long as he has the money; the national bank issues its note as money and draws interest on the notes while they are outstanding. When you can obtain interest on your notes instead of paying interest you will be as good as the banks.
 'The Republican party has increased the tax upon the farmers and the laboring men, and the business men in this coun- try and reduced the tax upon national bank circulation. You compelled to pay more taxes than you did in 1896 but the national banks have had their taxes reduced and pay less on the bank circua- ton than they did in 1896. The Republ- can party is looking after the interest of aggregate wealth and ignoring the rights of the plain people of this country"
 Speaking of the trusts, MT. Bryan refer red to the meeting at Nebraska City, say ing:
 T was in Nebraska City last night. They