The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-10-16
BRYAN WINDS UP TEDDY.
Republican Bill Making Large Army Perman-
emit Defeated by Democrats

Akron, Ohio, Oct. IA memorable
day in the Bryan campaign in Ohio closed
here tonight with q monster meeting, but
large as it was, it fell considerably be-
hind the meeting at Mansfield which was
the last important stopping place before
reaching this city.
Mansfield was said to nave contained
twice as many people as had ever before
been gathered at the place to hear a po-
litical speech, the surrounding country for
thirty Or forty miles around being we'll
represented.
En- his Mansfield speech Mr.. Bryan took
occasion to respond to one Of the points
in Governor ROOseVelt'S reply to one of
Mr.. Bryan's speeches. Mr.. Bryan said:
''When this campaign first opened the
| Republican candidate for Vice-President
| made a speech at Detroit in which he
said: Who is afraid CT this army? He
had four soldiers stand up before the aud
fence and he told the audience that the
soldiers bore the same proportion to that
audience that the standing army of 100, 900
bore to the population Of the United
| StateS.I His answer to the charge that
we had a large army was, Who is afraid?'
But, my friends, that is not what he is
saying now. Within a week that same
| candidate for Vice-President, that mill
tant member of the Republican ticket has
become frightened himself and a few days
ago he stated that we would not have had
that army but for the war in the Phil
ippine Islands. Why are they now trying
to explain it or excuse it, when the fact
is, and l called attention to it at once,
| that the President asked for the army
two months before there was a war in the
Philippine Islands.
But now there is another defense. The
candidate for Vice-President says that
every intel'ig~ MT observer knew that there
would be trouble in the Philippines if the
treaty was confirmed. Why, is it possible
that when the President entered upon his
colonial policy he knew there would be
trouble in the Philippine Island? What
becomes of the argument that there would
be no trouble there if it was not for the
J people in this country who make speeches
against Imperialism? In his retreat he
has become so scared that he has hidden
behind a bill introduced by a Democratic
Senator. Let me read you the text:
The bill for the temporary increase
which Mr.. Bryan apparently seeks to
persuade his hearers is a permanent in
crease was introduced by Senator Cock
rell, of Missouri, a Democratic supporter
of Mr.. Bryan and the bulk of the patriotic
! democrats III DOlU HOUSES VOIou 1OI II.
My friends, that is a different bill.
The President asked for an army of 1OO,-
900 and a Republican House of Represen-
tatives passed the bill, making the army
100, 900 as the President asked and when
that Republican House did it the treaty
had been signed with Spain and there was
not an arm raised against this nation any
where. What was that bill introduced by
Senator Cockrel1? 1t was q substitute for
the permanent army bill. 1t was the
Democratic proposition which was pre-
scented to offset the proposition made by
the Republican President. I want you
to know that the Vice-Presidentia1 con-
didate of the Republican party, instead OF
defending the Republican measure making
a permanent increase of the army to 100,-
coo, tries to hide behind Democratic meas
ures which made it only a temporary in
crease. That bill of Senator Cockrell's
was supported by the Democrats and the
Populists and the Silver Republicans of
the Senate, and but for that opposition
we would today have an army Of 1O0, 600
permanently in this country. But our
people defeated the Republican bill and
Senator Cockrell's bill became a law. 1t
was a substitute which the Republicans
had to accept in that Senate. But that
substitute expires next year and a Re-
publican paper, the Chicago Tribune, has
announced within a week that Secretary
Root would ask the next Congress to
make the army Of 100, 900 a permanent ar
my. Now, let the Republicans defend
their large army. They cannot do it.
No Republican will dare to do it; and
i yet if you vote the Republican ticket you
will approve of the army, and if the Re-
] publican party wins you will have a large