Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1900-10-23
WHAT ABOUT A FLOP
Would You Change Politics
for Good Reas0ns2
ARGUMENT IS ALL ONE WAY
One of the Most Remarkable Speeches
of This Campaign.

Non. Joseph C. Sib!ey, Of Pennsylvania,
nambcr Of Congress and Four Years Ago
Esyan Supporter, Assigns tho Reasons
~ Being Tssay A. Ardent Republican
Ne Is Cooking Af the present dnu frusss
ina To Grander Future-Nationai Mis-
tory Reviewed In Novel Nay.
or the most remarkable speeches
aelivered In any political campaign Is
the speech of Hon. Joseph G.. Sibley,
member OF Congress, at Bradford, Pa
To understand the situation perfectly
II lis necessary to know that until re
GENTLY MIR. Sibley has been lifelong
Democrat. being four years ago men
toned as candidate for vice presi-
dent. lie was elected as a Democrat
to the tifty-sixth Consress from m,
Twenty -sev -i.s!. Pennsylvania district
his term expiring March 4. 1901. To.
day he Is an avowed Republican. an
ardent supporter OF the reelection Of
President Mckinley. and is candi.
date for election TO the Fifty seventh
Congress as Republican. more
notable instance of reversal of party
beliefs and party affiliations is not ~
be found in the history of American
politics. Let Congressman Sibley
speak for himself:
You charge me with changed opln-
ions. This is true. Each day of life
differs from any day preceding. The
man who stands still or hanks back
to the dead past will be left in the
rear. You charge me with being a
topper. Yes. l guess that is so. II a
topper may properly be defined as one
who did not know il all yesterday, IS
wiser today and aims for progress to-
morrow. then l am "A Hopper. Ii Il
topper is one who finds n position of
yesterday untenable today. and posi-
lively wrong tomorrow. who seeks 10
leave the untenable position the occu-
patton of which would stultify his in
telligence. dwarf his conscience and
work an injury to his fellows. then
you may define me as topper. II
looking AT the present and trusting
for grander future. rather than fac
Ing backward 10 fan the smolderins
emhers of the past. constitutes one a
topper. please enumerate me as such.
whenever l see men who have been
working for 81 a day. able to earn 50:
when the man who earned 81 can have
the opportunity to earn 81, Will flop
as often as II may be necessary to help
that condition for that man to con
tinue.
when from 1923 TO 1896 AZ per cent.
Of the wage earners of this country
were unemployed or working on short
hours. and today only three-eighths of
per cent. of the wage earners are I'M
employed. 1 will flop To help keep these
men employed whenever and wherever
II is demanded.
when under free trade tariff bill
its manufactured necessities. and when
under this administration we are man.
ufac:urinG not only for ourselves. but
are supplying the other nations of the
world with the products fabricated by
American hands in American work
shops. you can make fair guess that
I will flop TO fIelp that cause along.
LAST year we sent from our Ameri-
can workshops TO foreign nations
$3.50 600, 600 worth OF manufactured
products: this year Si32. 100000. AMI
with the assured certainty that with
the present policy maintained these
exports will within six years reach
more than $1,000 100000 annuallr.
thereby requiring double the work
shops of the present and affordins
double the present opportunity for
honest labor and honest capital 10
meet with substantial recompense.
viii nop. and flop until l can be righr
side up In line with that policy.
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