, 1900-10-08
What II Meant.

"ndt IL Nedft.
Now just go back and think for a
minute of the result of this demo-
cratic support of Mckinley. When the
president reflected how democratic
New York, democratic New Jersey and
democratic Cook county, Illinois, had
given him handsome majorities he de-
'termined that his should not be a par
tisan administration, but that
il should be a patriotic, a bust
ness, an American administration.
And | leave it to your memories to
tell you whether he has fulfilled that
resolve. Think of the democrats whom
he has honored and think of the hon
est and business-likke way in which
he set about to restore prosperity to
this stricken land. Think of these
things and then decide whether Will
lam Mckinley should not be returned
to the presidency by a larger majority
than that the country gave him before.
No Democratic Party.
There IS no democratic party to-
day. Real democrats do not love Bry-
an. They know that he does not rep
resent democracy. They know that
the nearest thing to democratic prin-
ciples they can find is in the republi-
can party. They know hat today the
republican party in e~ndeavoring to
make this country expand and grow
great is advocating the very principles
that made the old democratic party
great in its day. They know that
Thomas jefferson himself. when he
had determined that the Louisiana
territory should be a part of this Coun-
try told old Napoleon hat if the I'm
tied States could not buy this valuable
territory it would take it. Napoleon
decided to sell. And the ground we
are meeting on this evening was &C
quired by the United States in the
very way the United States has &C
quired the Philippines. Talk of ex-
pansion. Why that is good, sound
democratic doctrine and all old-fash-
toned democrats know it. They are
not fooled by Bryan's silly talk-not
fooled a bit"
Clean Cut Illustration.
Mr.. Schoonmaker then discussed the
business aspect of the situation. He
pointed out the fact that every voter
is a shareholder in the great business
concern known as the United States;
that they, the shareholders, are now
about to elect Il general manager for
a term of four years and that good
business sense will prompt them to
choose the man who has already PROV
ed that he al make dividends for the
stockholders. Mckinley proposes to
accomplish this by protecting the bust
ness and the industries of this
try, by keeping the factories open, by
giving the merchants and manufacture
ers markets all over the world for
their goods. Bryan. when asked what
was the trouble with the country said
that the decentralization of silver 20
years before had caused all the trou-
BILE: that silver must be remonetized
at the ratio of 16 to | in order to bring
prosperity to this land. The evil pro-
phecies of Bryan in 1896 were not full
filed. He is making them again now
and the way to render their fultillment
impossible now is to elect the states
man and good business manager, Will
lam Mckinley to another term of the
presidency.
Wyoming Delegation.
Mr.. Schoonmaker at this point in
his speech paid a glowing ribute to
Wyoming's delegation in Washington.
Your delegation in the national
capital" he said, occupies an unique
place and is widely known and great
ly admired. The president always
knows what the Wyoming delegation
is doing. where it can be found, what
it wants. No state in the union is so
well represented in Washington as
Wyoming. And it is a common say
ing that if a man wants a measure
called into prominence the quickest
way to accomplish that is for him to
get the Wyoming delegation to help
him. Take Frank Mondell. | have
watched his work and | know what
kind of a man he is We don't raise
men like Mondell down east. | re-
member when he went into the land
office under Binger Hermann. Cases
in the land office were eighteen
months behind. They had new
err been up to date in the history of
the country. Mondell went in there
and saw hat this state of things was
not right. He vas about the only mar
in any department willing to work af-
ter 4 o'clock in the afternoon. He Set
the clerks to work and himself worked
many a time nearly all night. The
result was that he brought those rec
ords up to date-the first time they
ever had been up to date. That is
Frank Mondell, and l tell you he is
a man to be proud of. You can De as
sured that your interests are taken
care of when he is in Washington"
In the Philippines.