The St. Louis Republic., 1900-08-16
Democratic Candidates Make
Addresses at Chicago
Mass Meeting.
Mr.. TOWNE ALSO SPOKE.
Societies Adopted Resolutions
Against Alliance With
Great Britain.
BRYAN WARMLY GREETED.
His Speech Often Interrupted
by Enthusiastic Applause
and Cheers.
BRYAN WARMLY GREETED.

| day at, Sunnyside Park on the occasion OF
| the annual meeting of the United Irish So
cieties of Cook County. The meeting was
presided over by the Reverend F. L. Rey-
nolds and the attendance was large. not
| withstandng stormy weather Mr.. Bry-
ans speech was the first of the series, but
before he was heard the assembly at the
suggestion of Judge NJ. V. Cannon, adopted
an address from which the following is an
| extract:
within the year freedom has received
| desperate blows at the hands of the ma
tons who claim to be welded to Liberty,
| and we regret to say that the foreign pol
| icy of our own American Republic has ex-
| hibited desire the part Of our Gov
| ernment to share In the seizure of terri
| tory which is the distinguishing mark Of
| the nation that throttled Liberty upon this
| continent, burned It's Capitol at Washing
| ton. destroyed Its archives and set the mer-
| ciless Indian savages upon defenseless
| women and children, scalping burning and
| destroying them.
| I'VE are unalterably opposed to any all
| lance, tacit or open, with any European
| monarchy, particularly ours and America 8
| bitter foe, and shall resist in every practical
and legal way the imposition of imperialism
and militarism upon people consecrated to
abiding trust in the good sense and pa
| trotism of the vast body of the American
| people, we commit. as far as we may, the
| fortunes of the Republic of America TO the
| strength and determination of citizens born
F! on American soil and aided by those Sons
from other lands who sought here a refuge
from open tyranny, judicial misconstruction
| and military eXaction."
MIR. Brynns Speech.
| Mr. BRYAN spoke as follows:
Il do not want you to think that my. hap
piness depends upon any public office within
| the gift of the people of this country l
| have higher ambition than to be Presi-
dent Great appiause1
"The man whose happiness depends upon
| what others do for him may be doomed to
| disappointment: but II ones happiness de-
pends upon what he does for others, he
need not be disappointed. Renewed ap-
| plauseD l hope you will credit me with tEe
| ambition that is within the reach of every
| citizen of this land, an ambition which all
can entertain: and which. to my mind: ,5 Is a
| and that is ambition to do what can to
| make this nation so great and so good that
! to be a simple citizen would be greater than
| to be d king in any other land. Great APP
| plauSe.)
Il am not here this afternoon to flatter
your pride by telling you what the. de-
! scendants of Erin have accomplished. am
not going to dwell upon the work of the
! sons of Erin. because 1t would take all the
F.! afternoon and leave me no time to speak of
/ what the daughters of Erin have also done.
| daughter and applause) The work of the
Irishmen in the development of this coun-
| try is too we'll known to need detailed de. de-.
| given to the world the highest examples
{, of oratory: they have been distinguished In
poetsy and IN "sS Ssa IN 6nsmfST and h IN
| have taught the world how to live. and
you have had an Emmett. who taught the
Sdss 6 nae sheua aad be sppfnf
daughter and applauSe)
Eratiate me into ,, 2qr favor by sugIs;esing
If the gentleman knew as much about 1t as
| l do. he would know that Bryan Is the or
bnn1. ann ana oB5en Whn Rtsn Hp
came King he put on the o.. and the
| 'O'Briens' are the descendants Of the King.
while the 'Bryans'' are the common people.
! being a King. Renewed laughter and ap-
| plauseD
MinsIinE of the Races.
| 1.-THE object Of my speech Is practical
one. I want to use this occasion to point
| to a great lesson. L believe the fact thai
| this nation has here the representatives of
| all of the races of Europe gives II pecu-
liar advantage among the nations. The
! fact that the best blood of all the civilized
nations minge here in the development of
the American character enables this , ma.
| of universal history and avoid the dangers
| from which other nations have suffered
Applause1 When problem o b, n1 arises in ,h this
| has been the experience Of others. If We
| knew the history of our own people only We
would not be so well prepared pare, to detect It
| any one does not know the growth Of land
| lordism and its dangers. he has only to ask
an Irishman what landlordsm means. and
he need not read history to find 1t out.
| Great applauseD If any one wants TO
know whether an allen Government is good.
all he has to do is to ask an 1rishlnan 'Ahas
| 10 ipio ie, Of a.
| though the governing power be separated
from the governed only by narrow chan
mel. Applausc)
means and what its burdens are. all you
have to do is to ask German who came
to this country to avoid the miiitarism OF
"And so 1 might go through the various
| experiences of other nations.
The fact that we have here the repre-
| scent danger from afar, and to guard
against their experiences here. miss my
il the Ie9Rs thus g5sI made
grander, more enduring than any cirilizn-
tion which has preceded ours. Great ap-
Lincoln's Words.
Some fear that these clements. brought
in from the world, will not properly mix
here. They are mixing. and will mix. Let
and makes them one We are quoting Abra-
ham Lincoln now more than he is quoted
| by the party which he led TO Its first VIC
tory, and In reading little book recently
prepared by Doctor Taylor and Mr.. Full
wiler a little book that Is simply collec-
| ton of Linclns sayings on political ques-
| tions l ran across a passage which
thought appropriate for this afternoons
meeting He was speaking of the Declara.
ton of Independence. He was speaking OF
those who in the early day. gave to u:
that Declaration. and erected it as h":
con light for all posterity, and after he had
spoken of our ancestors IN thus country ~.
used the words to which l now invite your
attention:
1--WE have besides these men-descend
ants by blood from our ancestors-amone
us. perhaps. half our people who are no,
DESCENDANTS at all of these men. They are
men men who have come from Eurooe-Ger
man, Irish, French and Scandinayian-me
that have come from Europe themselve:
or whose ancestors have come hither anc
settled here, finding themselves our equal:
in all things. If they look back. through
this history to trace their connections will
those days by blood, they find they hav.
none They cannot carry themselves bacl
into that glorious epoch and make them
selves feel that they are part of US; bu
when they look through that old Declara
ton of Independence they find that thos
old men say that We hold these truths t.
be self-evident, that all men are create'
equal" and then they feel that mora
sentiment taught in that day. evidences o