The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-05-15

Oh soIiie IulT paTlty, anu 10 NY HIHu,
Mr.. Chairman, every intelligent bimet-
| allist who wants silver re-established
ON II parity with gold, will find his re-
lief in the Republican party, and not
at the hands of Mr.. Bryan. Uong and
continued applause)
'Fellow citizens, when any man,
whatever may be his position, sees fit
through the columns of a vile yellow
journal, to-day. when our Republican
| convention meets. to state that no man
can he II bimetallist and be a Repub-
| lican, he either states that which he
knows TO be unqualiiiedly false, or
| else he does not know what he is talk
ing about; and If such person, who
ever he may be. will sweep in front of
his own doorstep-if he knows where
his house is-we will sweep in front
of ours. (Prolonged applauseD But at
| this time the distribution of brains in
| this country has been upon n pretty
fair basis and we all have some of
them. God Almighty has not, up to
this time, endowed any one man with
qualities more able than anybody else,
or better able to stand and criticise his
neighbor, than another. and | do not
| believe the man has yet seen daylight
who knows more than the great polit-
ical party which at present dominates
this country. (Applause)
Il am n bimetallist. and every man
and woman in this audience is bi-
metallist, and we are bimetallists and
Republicans. Great applause,)
MY friends. say to you, the enemy.
| the bitter enemy of bimetallism, which
means the equal use at parity of both
gold and silver. is the man, or the set
of men. who, when they know 1t cant
| be brought about, WHEN they know
their efforts We're futile and useless,
seek to drag down this great question
through the degrading planks of the
! Chicago platform. and seek TO impose
| upon this country free silver at IL to
/. and to drive the gold out of it. If
we ever get bimetallism. it will come
when the countries of Europe believe
| that the decent men who have got
| something mt stake in the country be
! sides long hair, want il. daughter
and applause)
That brings me. Mr.. Chairman and
ladies and gentlemen, to the great
| question which has occupied the time
and the ability and the patriotism of
| this administration.
| When the casualty In the harbor of
| Havana made war inevitable, no man
| ever stood with such courage and forti-
| tudc against the declaration of HOSTILE
]
made such great efforts to secure Il
| peaceful way out of our difficulties.
| When the war came. no man ever rose
to the question as did President Me
kinlcy. CApplause.l
Il desire to say now. that to me. as
an American citizen. 1t Is incompre-
| hensible that men who have the well
| fare of their country ut heart, drag
down its interests and seek to make
the questions growing out of the war,
party questions and not American
questions. The great issues before the
parties are the questions growing out
| of tlh. war.
The silver question at the East is
oblitcrated and forgotten. Paper after
| paper. III the East you pick il up.
AID loaGer after leader OF the Demo
cratic hosts. ut the East. will ell you
/ that the country is safe now because
| the Republicans have passed a cur
rcncy bill. and Bryan can do no harm,
and therefore the great question before
the parties Is anti-eNpansion. II is on
ly out here. and in Nebraska. that you
hear anything about the silver ques-
ton. Uaughtcr1
Here you hear that in the East they
are burning up with anxiety for Ii TO
I, by the United States alone. Why,
Mr.. Chairman. there is not Bryanitc
that can 90 east of the Mississippi
/ river and get II decent hearing If he
talks for silvcr-they will boot him off
the stage. There is not a Democrat
that dare raise his voice in its behalf
but with an idea possibly that Colorado
Bryanites do not read eastern journals,
they tell you out here that the contest
is one for silver. and expansion is n
| dead issue. Go East and you will see
! that all that Is left is expansion, among
Il few pessimists who want our country
to limit itself to its own borders and
| give up the legitimate conquests of the
war. You come here, where no man
dare to be an anti-eNpansionst in the
face of Colorado opinion. ana they will
tell you thnt silver alone is the issue.
Well, Mr.. Chairman, when the war
closed and we sent our commissioners
of peace to Paris. men composed of
members of both political parties,
want to recall to your attention the fact
that there was not an individual in
all these six of any political party, who
did not insist that it was our duty to
keep the Philippines. and If that COM
mission had reported in favor of Civ
ing up the Phi 'ppine islands or Of
| maintaining only coaling station
there. you would find the leading plank
of the Bryanite party to-day a denun-
citation of the Republca party because
it didn't keep those islands. Great ap-
plausc) And when we went into the
war and declared Cuba was, and by
right ought to be. free and independ-
cnt. we recall the fact that an almost
united Democracy voted against it, 1t
was Republican votes that made that
declaration. We expressly declared we
had no desire TO occupy the island bur
| they voted against it because we did
! not declare them at that time free and
/ independent, and to-day there is not
IL Democrat in either house of Congress