The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-08-24
BRYAN AGAIN NOTIFIED.

Topeka, Aug. 23.-The official pro-
gram of the notification of the nomi-
nation of William J. Bryan by the
Peoples party and the Monetary league
as their candidate for the presidency,
began with Bryan's arrival, via
Atchison, Kas., this morning. The
committee met Bryan at the depot and
and escorted him to the National hotel
where reception was given. After
lunch, Mr.. Bryan was taken to the
quarters of the Bryan and Biedenthal
club and there he met the officials of
the Monetary league, city officials and
Fusion candidates.
The Populist notification ceremonies
began at 3 o'clock on the state house
grounds. Chief Justice Doster, of
Kansas, made the first address Thomas
NJ. Patterson, of Colorado, chairman Of
the notification committee, followed and
Mr.. Bryan then took the stand for his
speech. A reception on the statehouse
grounds followed the meeting.
MIR. BRYAN'S ADDRESS.
Topeka, Kansas, Aug. 22.-In his ad-
dress accepting the Populist nomination
for president, William Jennings Bryan
said, in part:
Mr.. Chairman and Members of the
Notification Committee:
In accepting the presidential nomina-
tion which you tender on behalf of the
Populist party, desire to give emphatic
recognition to the educational work
done by your party The Populist party
as an organization and the Farmers
Alliance and the labor organizations
from which they sprung, have done
much 20 arouse the people to a study
Of economic and industrial questions.
Believing, as do, that truth grows,
not in seclusion but in the open field,
and that 1t thrives best in the sunlight
of full and free debate, I have conf
dence that the discussion which your
party has compelled will aid in reach
ing that true solution of pending prob
lens toward which all honest citizens
aim.
/ desire also to express my deep ap-
probation of the libe-..lity Of opinion
and devotion to principle which have
lead the members of your party to enter
the ranks of another party in the selec-
tion Of candidate.
| Populists and Silver Republicans take
the side of the people in their contest
against greed, and agree in the ap-
plication of Jeffersonian principles to
the question Immediately before us.
The Republican party, however,
while claiming credit for the increase
in circulation, makes no permanent
provision for an adequate supply Of
standard money. 1t denies the neces-
sity for more real money, while 1t per-
mits national banks to expnad the
volume of paper promises to pay money.
II the Populsts felt justified in op-
posing the Republican party when it
sought to conceal it's gold standard
tendencies under the mask of interna-
tional bi-metallism, the opposition
should be more pronounced in proper
tion as the Republican party more
openly espouses gold monometallism.
In 1896 the reform forces charged the
Republican party with intending to re-
tire the greenbacks. This charge, de-
MED at the time, has been confessed by
the financial bill. 1t is true that the
Populists believe in an irredeemable
greenback, while the Democrats believe
in a greenback redeemable in coin, but
the vital question at this time, so far
as paper money is concerned, Is whether
government or banks shall issue it.
The Republican party is now commit
ted to a currency system which neces-
states a perpetual debt, while the
Populist finds himself in agreement
with the Democrats, who believe in
paying off the national debt as rapidly
as possible.
Democrats and Populists agree that
Chinese and other Oriental labor should
be excluded from the United States.
Democrats and Populists desire to SO
enlarge the scope of the interstate COM
merce act, as to enable the commission
to protect both persons and places from
discrimination and the public at large
from excessive railroad rates.
The Populists approve the demand set
forth in the Democratic platform for a
labor bureau, with a cabinet officer
at it's head. Such an official would keep
the administration in close touch with
the wage earning portion Of the
population and go far toward securing
such remedial legislation as the toilers
need.
In 1896 the Populists united with the
Democrats in opposing the trusts, al-
though the question at that time ap-
peared like cloud scarcely larger than