The age-herald., 1900-10-05
Able and Eloquent Defense of
 the PaTys Cause II WAS 4 SPLENDID EFFORT The Republican Policy Torn Into Shreds by Democratic Nominee, Whose
 Words Brought Forth Tue
 multuous Applause.

Indianapolis, October 4-Following Is the text of Mr. Bryans speech, delivered be- fore the National Convention of Demo- cratic Clubs at this afternoons session:
 MT. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: I am here not because 1 am needed (ap- plause and laughter), but because I want to be; not because you need me, but be- cause 1 am glad to meet you. (Renewed appause). You have heard this afternoon from my distinguished colleague on the ticket who disputes the saying of Nestor when he complained that the gods did not give all things to a man at the same time; that the gods withheld the vigor of youth when they gave the wisdom of age. I think you will agree with me that my col league Is able to combine both the vigor of youth and the wisdom of age. (Applause).
 But appreciate the work done and be- ing done by this association of Democratic clubs. and appreciate the energy, the en- thusiasm and the ability displayed by MT. Hearst, the president of this association. (Applause) I believe in these clubs. We need them. We need clubs far more than the Republicans need clubs. In fact. my friends, the work of Democracy, being a work for tue people, must be done by the 
 fcient. We need these clubs to aid in the work and to supplement the efforts of our national, otate and local organizations. We need the clubs to help us collect money to carry on our campaign. The Republican party can get its money from the corpor- ations, which plunder the people between campalgns in return for the money contrib uted during campai- The Repupncan party does not collect money for Us na- tional campaign from one Republican out of hundred, and when the election is over ninety-nine out of one hundred Re- publicans have nothing to say about the running of the government. (Applause) We expect that the administration will be conducted in behalf of the great mass of the American people and we have the right to call upon them to help with their money as well as their votes to win this fight which is their light and not our fight (Ap- plause). We need the clubs to help cir culate literature. If every member of the clubs will pick out some acquaintance and ind out what he is thinking about, prepare to meet his argument, supply him with lt- erature and VOL for his conversion the members of these clubs will be astonished to ind how much can be done. We need the clubs to poll the votes, for we must do by voluntary effort what the Republicans can afford to pay for having done
 We need the clubs to help get the votes out on election day. Out in our State we sometimes arrange to have volunteers who will go out and when they find man who thinks he Is too busy husking corn to spare time to vote the volunteers husk in his place until he goes and votes. We need these clubs to help get the vote out and then we need these clubs to help get the vote counted and to prevent fraud after 1t is cast.
 An Earnest Appeal
 "I beg you to spend every possible mo- ment between now and election day in se- curing victory for those principles which you believe In and for this cause which you have so earnestly espoussd. The Re- publican party Is not prepared to meet the issues of this campaign. The Republican party Is today lodging, running from nearly every issue in the campaign. When they started out they said the money ques- tion was the question of paramount m- portance But, my friends, they found that when man says that the question of money is more important than question of government he at once Arouses suspicion and people begin to wonder whether he thinks dollar Is more important than man. Think of trying to make the money question paramount In this campaign. Why, my friends when the money question was paramount in 1898 we found the Re- pubcans trying to make the tarif the paramount issue. They said let us open the mills Instead of the hints and the first thing they did when they got into power not to reform the currency but to re- form the tariff and give the men who ob- tained the victory a chance to run their hands deeper into the pockets of the people. Now when the questions of the human race and human liberty are at stake the Republicans say that the money question Is the paramount issue. They were afraid in 1896 that we were going to have a 50- cent dollar. Now they have given us an S5 per cent citizen in Porto Rico and they don't dare tell us what per cent of citizen- ship the Filipino Is to have In 1896 they said we could not have a double standard of money. Now that they think we can have a double standard of government, a Republic here and a despotism In the Phil ippines. They said In 1893 that we could not maintain a parity between a white citi- zen and a yellow subject in the Philippine Islands? They find that 1t Is too sordid a doctrine to say that the standard of money you have Is more important than the form of government under which you live.
 And yet, my friends, while they cannot now boast of the supremacy of the money question, they are not prepared to meet the other issues. MT. Hanna says there are no trusts That settles that question. He ought to ask his wife. Every wife knows there is trust. The only trust that any Republican in this country seems to know about is the ice trust, and the Republicans don't know much about that, for if they did they would know that every stockhold- CT was Republican. If they knew more about the Ice trust they would know that its harm was confined to the people of New York, and If they knew that they had a Governor of the State of New York man who would not let any harm come to his people, they would know there would be no ice trust there for the Governor would kill 1t.
 'Why is 1t that no Republican knows anything about the Standard oil trust or the sugar trust or the salt trust or the cracker trust or the window glass trust or the envelope trust or the writing pa- per trust or the trust in the paper that Re- npblfcap editors use to write defense of the ttYht pponf (oreat applauce.) Why