The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-07-27
BRYAN'S ADDRESS TO THE
COHORTS.
rrom nc Man md Breele.

From the Mail and Breeze.
aye call me chief and We do well to
caIl one chief who for four long years
has been the whole push so far as the
Democratic andlPop parties in the
United States are concerned.
e'If there be any man among you
who thinks for minute that he can
wag his jaw with me let him stand
forth, and if.I am not able to make
him look like thirty cents by compar-
'ison with me then will no longer
proclaim myself the great tribune of
she people.
''Aye, if there he any two among
you who think you are in it with me in
a game of shoot mouth, you may
tackle me turn about, and if do not
do both of you two best out of three l
will consent that my name shall no
longer be called William Jenning
Bryan, but that henceforth l shall be
known as William Jyans Brennig,
even as | was mistakenly called by
shat fresh butfervent convert, Webster
Davis.
''Four years ago there were COM
paratively few people who knew me
outside ofmy own township, but now
there is no place where the man with
fhe phonograph sets up in business
and gathers two or three together in
order that he may work them for their
soin, that you connot hear my cross
OF gold speech squeaked out through
rubber tube for the small sum of
nickle.
For four years l have gone up
and down the land repeating that same
speech with few minor variations
and have managed to do quite we'll,
thank you, in financial way, and
at the same time have managed TO live
at the top of the heap.
There are those who imagine that
1t is no snap to be the advocate of the
people, but | have found that it beats
practicing law before justices of the
peace by considerable.
"Before | struck this lay that | am
now working as a professional cham
pion of the plain, common people |
VAS having tolerably hard scratching
10 make both ends meet. There was
a threatened hiatus between the extrem-
tiles that bothered me considerably,
but since!I have become the rampant
champion of the plain common people
against the money sharks | have had
no trouble that way. | have accum-
NIated houses and lands and during
lhe brief intervals which allow for
JWSt for my weary jaw, | employ my
hands in clipping the coupons from
she government bonds that | have
laid by for rainy day that may come
when my faithful jaw will be paralyzed.
~ have been told that it was inn
possible to fool the people all the etime,
hat have worked part of 'em to
queens taste now for four years and |
DO not see that they are nearer onto
me than they were when | commenced
on my present graft.
''I said that / was the whole push
and il there be one among you
Vho thinks differently let him stand
forth and will read the record until
his dull ears will ring with the con-
Eincing testimony.
s'When the convention met at Kansas
CITY the ma jority of the delegates wan
sgd 10 carry the declaration for free
and unlimited coinage of silver at the
satio Of l6 to down to the packing
house and turn it over to the plant
shat manufactures fertilizers but did
she majority have its way? In the
classic language of some immortal
poet, whose name ! do not at this
moment recall, mot much Mary Ann
''When said the word did not the
rpposition to l6 to | tuck their tails
E&e mutton staying dogs and raise
b2iafr servile shouts at my bidding?
&Did not the bald-headed man from