Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1900-07-19
What Senator Tellner Designated VIII
liam J. Bryan-liis Strength
With the People.
Nominated For the Presidency by an
Associate of Abraham
Lincoln,
Platform of the Abraham Lincoln
Republicans -Bimetalism and
Anti-ImperiaIism.

In nominating Bryan at Kansas
City, for president, on the silver re-
publican ticket, Senator Teller, the
friend and associate of Abraham Lin
coin, said:
"Bryan led in '96 a forlorn hope.
HE came out of the contest stronger
than when he went in. In congress
he had the confidence Of the people
more than any other man, and stands
today higher in the hearts of the peo-
ple."
Senator Teller said that in Bryan's
leading and maintaining the fight of
1896 there was no such example OF
courage since Lincoln's fight OF 1860.
He spoke of Bryan's experience as a
campaigner when he entered the fight
and the fear that many had that he
would be undone by his experience,
and that as Lincoln had in a similar
, campaign unhorsed his opponents, SO
Bryan had done. No one, he said,
could point to a mistake that Bryan
had made in this campaign.
"Bryan,' he exclaimed, ''comes
nearer being the Abraham Lincoln OF
today than any other man. They
knew in congress that what he said he
meant, and that it was the same now:
and when he said the other day that
there should be no deviation from the
principles in which he believed or he
would not be the candidate, the whole
country knew that he meant it,
'sHe is patriot and an American, !"
exclaimed the speaker, "and l. place
in nomination not as democrat, but
) as patriot, William Jennings Bryan. F"
The convention of silver republicans
had large picture of Lincoln on the
stage and the delegates wore badges
with Lincoln's portrait on them. The
atmosphere of the proceeding breathed
Of the early republican spirit and re-
minded the delegates of the first con-
yentions of the party where liberty
equality and just compensation Tor
honest labor for every citizen or the
republic, was demanded by the Lead
ers. The convention takes it's aim
and inspiration from the first leaders
of the republican party, Lincoln,
Grant, Blaine and many others, rather
than from the present set OF managers
who get their directions from Mark
g Hanna the apologist Of the American
trusts.
In the Illinois delegation alone there
we're thirteen old soldiers and poll of
the delegation showed that over 100
old soldiers were included.
While first choice of the delegates for
vice president was Chas. A. Towne OF
Minnesota the convention, not without
some objections, nominated Stevenson
of III. the democratic nominee, us be-
ing, under all circumstances for the
best interests of all concerned.
The proceeding of the convention
we're the most interesting in character.
Inc OeCldEIUlOIl VI llluCPCl"SASS VIVA
read, and the many references OF the
old document that apply to the policy
of the present administration were
apparant at once as they were read to
men who had not given the document
a serious thought for years, as each
reference to the demands of the colon
lists for better treatment from the i'm
perjal designs Of King George and the
British rulers was read, it was recog-
nized as apt and pertinent to the very
things now being discussed, and such
recognition was greeted with cheers.
After the declaration had been read
one delegate ironically moved that 1t
be specifically stated that the refer
ences in the declaration to antl-lm-
perialism, applied to the English
rulers of 1776, and not to the present
administration.
Platform of the Silver Republican Nat
iOnal Convention.
We, the silver republican party, in