The Portland daily press., 1900-08-30

reSbf On the shoulders OF MIR. Bryan.
II you were right, MIR. Bryan in the rat
itioation OF the treaty how can you now
criticize the administration The greatest
question of all Is the election of McKin-
ley whose return to the White House
means four more years of full dinner
pals, prosperity, patriotism ana con-
tinuance of existing conditions,
Senator Fairban ks was loudly APP
plauded at the conclusion of his brief
speech.
Congressman Foss was the last speaker.
He said that out IN Illinois they had an
interest in Maine. In 1860 Abraham Lin
coin, the greatest son OF Illinois. was
nominated for the Presidency and
Names great SON. Hannibal Hamlen,
was by his side IN that campaign. And
again when your matchless son, James
q. Blaine (applause) was a candidate for
the Presidency Illinoiss beloved son.
John A. Logan was by his side. Gap
plause) In the Democratic platform you
viii read that the Democratic party reasr
serts it's ia 18th in the Declaration of Inde-.
pendenoe. Out in Nebraska the other day
Mr.. Bryan said ''The Republican party
doesn't assert its faith in the Declaration
of Independence. No Mr.. Bryan. thank
God, the Republican party doesn't have to
do that. I m glad that the Democratic
| party is catching up with the middle OF
the procession and that they are going
to begin the new century right In this
Democratic platform you will find that
they are s'holdfng with the Supreme
court" But their holding with the SUI
preme court this year does not Offset
their denunciatIon Of the Supreme court
four years ago. Thank God they have
advanced on another great issue and
this year are holding with the Supreme
court. 50
In 1896 in that cross of gold speech
Bryan said that ssthe silver issue is the
paramount ISSUE 10 say we have an
other paramount issue, Mr.. Bryan Is
very solicitious about the brown men over
in the Philippines but he ism t worrying
much about the black race down South.
Yes IN one sense we are imperialists for
we have the grandest empire in the world
with every man an emperor of 1t.
Talk about Imperialism, Why Mr.
Bryan four years ago your party was try
ing to boost Queen Lii into the throne Of
the Hawaiian islands. DID Jefferson ask
the consent OF the governed when he
bought louisiana Did Mr. Bryan's
patron saint ask the consent of the gov
erned Of that territory? No, he took it
without asking the consent of the gov
erned. The FIorIdas came Go US in the
same way. Under Democratic admins
tration we took foreign state, Texas,
without the consent of the governed, You
callsus land grabbers, Mr.. Bryan, but
look up the records of the Democratic
party. All but one OF the annexations of
territory have been made under Demo
cratic administrations. Why in 1910 you
tried to get Cuba and threatened to
go to war to get it. Who are the land
graDbers2 In 1854 President Pierce drew
up a treaty to annex Hawaii to this coun-
try You win find that the land grabbers
have been the Democratic party,
Then you hear q good deal about greed I
and commercIaIism. The American peo-
pie are natural born traders Is there
anything wrong about greedy CONNER
eialism? Let us look into Democratic his
tory. Thomas Jefferson annexed Louis
/ 4
great many people lived up above Louis
lana along the Mississippi and we had to
have q right OF deposit on the Gulf of
Mexico for them. jefferson wanted to
buy the island of Orleans of Napoleon. |
He said that il he couldn't buy this is
land from France he would make an a1li-
ance with England If It was necessary to
get it. Napoleon wouldn'U sell this IS
land alone but we had to take all of
Louisiana to get it. Jefferson did this
for the benefit of trade, He did it IN the
spirit of what Mr.. Bryan calls greedy
commerciasism.
Bryan does not lead the Democratic
party. It is the popuHstic, auarchistic,
pugiIst1c. anything You like, party. The
new Democracy is not the Democracy of
the old days and if Jefferson could be
called today he wouldn't recognize the |
Democracy of today. Jefferson was the
first President to stop the coinage Of the
silver dollar. He found the only way to
yoke up these two metals was to take
the old staid horse of gold and hitch up
beside him the frolic king horse of silver
and these two steeds have driven the
onaE10b Oh uab4OLoA pLoS1SSS along Uuo
great highway.
There Isn't a single proposition In that
Democratic platform which Thomas
jefferson would recognize 1fhe were back
here today
In Jefferson's time they had standing
army. 1t was one soldier for every 1910 |
people England has a soldier for every
175 men. In 1898 before the Spanish war
we had one soldier for every $500 people. |
AIilitarism they talk about, Thank God
we have ten thousand of soldiers In the
city of Pekin. (Applause.) There was
time when we might have feared